Wait for me!

Hoochy Pirate · Powder Monkey Posts: 8 **295 Gold** -

Why is it that when I'm humming along in a fleet of ships, that the brigs are the ones shouting wait for me and slowing me down? The galleons keep up just fine. Trade galleons mind you. I thought galleons were supposed to have problems sailing against the wind but it seems like (as far as a group of ships goes, with a sloop in the lead) galleons keep up pretty well while brigs of war just can't cut it.

Kerosene · Powder Monkey Posts: 20 **306 Gold** -

Each ship has different speeds for different wind directions. Your fleet can only go as fast as the slowest ship in the fleet. Check out the ship guide on the main page. Brigs are very slow going into the wind.

colossus · Swabbie Posts: 68 **900 Gold** -

You should also regularly visit the Shipright to keep all of your ships in good repair if you want to maintain top speed for all of your ships. Wink

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luckybaer66 · Swabbie Posts: 61 **1282 Gold** -

dot hog · Swabbie Posts: 70 **6 Gold** -

"Wait for me!" is exactly the reason I plunder and scuttle. I don't have time to wait on any blasted stragglers, man, I've got colonies to sack, women to woo, pirates to whup.

Kerosene · Powder Monkey Posts: 20 **306 Gold** -

Hoochy Pirate · Powder Monkey Posts: 8 **295 Gold** -

The brig of war I had in my fleet was tip top. And one of the supposed best sailing points of the brig is RIW... into the wind. So why is a big sailed Trade Galleon keeping up with my Royal Sloop while a Brig of War is shouting Wait for me! Wait for me!? I'll try again with the brigs. I thought I had repaired them, but I guess I could have been mistaken.

Sen-Dog · Powder Monkey Posts: 39 **459 Gold** -

Maybe it could be something to do with sail shape, or whether the ship is equipped with oars (as outlined in the pirate-pedia) for sailing into the wind. Just a thought.

Bunnysays · Powder Monkey Posts: 10 **397 Gold** -

In the manual on page 22, it says that your fleet will sail as fast as your present flagship. Unless a ship is damaged I keep it with me and sell it. I assumed it didn't matter what ships you had in your fleet as long as your flagship was ok and was the fastest in whatever wind condition then you would go at that speed.

Corsican · Swabbie Posts: 65 **944 Gold** -

I kinda agree, I've often switched flagships just to sail into the wind faster, I can always switch before a fight. and hey, you can get a pretty penny for a Galleon in good condition. Is this faulty logic?
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LoneEagle013 · Powder Monkey Posts: 2 **48 Gold** -

Did you check the crew number on the ship? Sometimes ships can run real slow when they are undercrewed (below the minimum crew number).

My flagship is a royal sloop, so after stealing two frigates and casualties, sailing home can be quite the challenge. I noticed that once I got more crew at the port and sold one of the frigates, I was moving along just fine.

bryce777 · Gunner Posts: 632 **652 Gold** -

The problem I have with the big ships is they really eat up crew.

To have your fencing go well it is important to have a lot of crew on your flagship and that is hard with a bunch of galleons, but I will usually pick a few ships up, sacka town, change the governor, and sell them off.

Gunn · Powder Monkey Posts: 25 **394 Gold** -

The problem with a fleet is that sometimes your ships get exposed to different wind conditions, due to distance and direction they are traveling in.
In general, keep your ship count to a minimum, unless you are heading for a port to sell some of them off...

Microwavegerbil · Seaman Posts: 220 **3502 Gold** -

I think that whatever ship you have set for the back of a large fleet (4 or more) will always tend to start asking you to wait. I was sailing with a Large Frigate, and had 2 Trade Galleons, 1 Brig, and a Royal Sloop with me. The Royal Sloop was in the back by default and just kept asking me to wait. Maybe this is why your Trade Galleons seemed to keep up, but the much faster Brig was not.

bigchief · Seaman Posts: 137 **5304 Gold** -

I got tired of that happening to me. I use a Royal Sloop, and I was constantly getting that from whatever ships I had in my fleet. The Royal Sloop doesn't have quite enough capacity to handle enough men, and it totally lacks enough cargo space to carry enough food for the men, so I always have an extra boat, or boats, traveling with me. I would usually try to get the faster boats (other sloops, and especially frigates) to follow, but they couldn't keep up. Sometimes the boats were as fast as mine, but when i would steer near a storm to pick up steam, I guess they wouldn't get the effects of the wind, so I would always have to slow back down to let them catch up. In my last game, I ended up capturing an Indian War Canoe. I was going to just sell it the next time I was in port, but I noticed that it always kept up with me, so I kept it. In my current game, I am now attacking the War Canoes when I see them and adding them into my fleet. I rarely ever see the wait for me thing, and never see it if I upgrade them to Cotton Sails. I now have 5 litttle canoes trailing after me. This gives me plenty of room for some extra men, guns, and food, and I only let a big boat travel with me, until I can sell it off, or if I am planing a large invasion.