Which ship do you prefer and why?

[ongwin]

Brig of war is the ruler of the high seas! It has the best combination of speed, damage control, cannons, crew (300 with hammock), sharp turning etc.... Ever since I captured a brig of war from a named pirate, I never let go of it, because it is really the most balanced and definitely the best ship around!

[Cagekeeper]

I realized on the way home from work that I forgot to enter the sloop. I said to myself, "Oh crap! I forgot the sloop!" Soory all you sloop lovers out there. It was an unintentional ommission on my part. If I could edit the poll to include it, I most certainly would.

[Kensai]

I agree with the Brig fans.
The Brig of War is the best.
I normally used a Large Frigate, but I´m tired the dull way in what she moves upwind. Brig is better, and still you have 32 cannons.

In never used or saw any SOTL...and I´m not in the mood to waist an entire game waiting that the "Opera Diva" decides to show her beatifull ass to me.
I tried one, never again.

[Redback]

SOL gets my vote. Although in a tight fight when you're going up against a very menouverable ship my vote goes to a Sloop of War (full optioned with all the upgrades).

My fleet consists of a SOL, 2 sloop of war, and a Frigate. All with full upgrade.
I've almost converted the entire carribean under the rule of France. only 4 major cities left 2 spanish, 1 English and 1 dutch.

My plan is after converting the entire carribean to France, I'd start the conversion to English, then dutch.

Vive Le France

[headrock]

My vote? You know what ship, and you know why. If you don't, go read a FAQ or something. ()
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[Strange]

I'm all for the Mail Runner and the Royal Sloop (I keep seeming to go back and forth betweet the two). It's a tradeoff between the 2, Mail Runner is faster and better turning, while Royal Sloop holds more men and cannons, and while not as manuverable as the Mail Runner, still manuverable enough.
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[Saranis]

Royal Sloop, SotL, then Mail Runner.
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[Striker]

I am not happy with the performance of the mail runner. I have a fully decked out one right now and it doesn't perform as well as my previous war canoe. I am about ready to capture me another war canoe.
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[Corsair]

1. Ship of the Line
2. Large Frigate
3. Frigate
4. Royal Sloop

After that who cares. The SotL is by far the best ship to have. All by it's lonesome you can carry tons of guns and plenty of other stuff not to mention a few hundred guys.

Yeah pinnaces are hard to hit, but in an SotL (or any upgraded frigate type), who cares? They can withstand TONS of pounding. Fighting a 40-gun galleon? Sail right at her. No big whoop.

SotL sinks ships too easy? 1) Carry fewer cannons. If you lose some, get them off the ship you capture. 2) Switch ammo midfire.

As for speed, very few ships can escape an upgraded SotL. If you choose to engage the enemy ship wisely, about 10% pinnaces might get away.

If you simply MUST go small I like the Royal Sloop. Carries 20 guns with at least enough space for food and upgraded allows for 187 men. Plenty fast and maneuverable too.

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[David983es]

[Fuzzy]

Hell, sloops are deadly with under 100 men as long as you don't drop below 70. The reason I say seventy is that it is hard to haul a valuable ship back to port with only 50 men on your flag ship going against the wind. When I use sloops, the only time I carry more than a hundred men is to attack a town. Around 80 men is easy to keep happy while still being able to hold there own.
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[DrBeast]

Do I even need to add any comment? Just look around in this forum and you'll see tons of things I've said and showed about the war canoe! Fits my game strategy like a glove!
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[fossaman]

I have to pick Mail Runner, and if I can't get one of those, a royal sloop. I don't like the big huge ships(read: anything larger than the royal sloop ) because they slow me down. Sometimes I will use pinnace.
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[Bloody Chuck]

I use an SOTL. My only beef with it is that it's slow upwind, but it's other advantages outweigh the dowside. With triple hammocks, you can fit over 400 crew on an SOTL, which makes it a perfect invasion ship. With 48 guns, there's hardly a ship out there that can sink one before it sinks them, and it'll take more hits than any other ship in the game. One or two barrages from an SOTL is enough to sink most other ships, and a single barrage of chain shot is usually enough to take out ther masts.
A useful tip: if you simply want to take out the ships guns without accidentaly sinking the damned thing, loose the first volley away from the ship, missing it intentionally. Then come about and fire on it before your guns full reload, resulting in a smaller volley that will only damage the ship, not sink it. Of course, this technique requires that you use less crew so that you don't reload too fast. Seems funny, giving advice on how to reload slower, but such is power and majesty of an SOTL.
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