On the stern there are cabins of captain and senior level officers.
As with land battles: killing commanders will drastically lower privates morale.
The crew without officers will be have a go at run away from your ships.
Use normal ammunition when attacking the stern.
it’s possible for you to also have a go at damage enemy rigging.
Sides
Cannons are deployed on both sides of the ship.
Destruction of sides and cannons can be very time consuming.
In a fight one on one (with similar units) toll may be significant.
If you want to destroy sides, use normal ammunition.
After damaging side of the enemy ship, verify if the vessel is not listing on one side.
If you will notice that, it will mean that water is pouring slowly to the opponent ship bunker.
The bow
Doing Crossing the T in front of the enemy bow is a very good action.
The risk of serious losses in your crew is not very high.
More informations about the destruction of rigging is written below.
The rigging
Use chain shots to destroy masts and sails of the enemy ship.
Attack in this way especially when your opponent is sailing with the wind and has set all the sails.
By destroying mats and sails you will cause that the enemy will not be able to move.
Vessel in that condition is a very easy target (even for the weaker units).
When the hostile ship will be immobilized shoot at his stern.
There is a chance that the enemy with partially destroyed rigging will take a stab at run away.
Crew
it’s possible for you to demolish enemy lines with grape shots.
Actually, they have one big disadvantage: very low accuracy.
Use it especially when you want to intercept the enemy vessel.
After each bombardment check how many people left on the enemy ship.
Moment of boarding must be wisely chosen.
The most important thing is that you have to have more people than your enemy.
Special situations
I hope that your shots will always hit the weak points of the enemy ships.
As you may know, sometimes vessels can be carrying barrels filled with gunpowder.
When you hit that kind of barrel , fire can start.
As a matter of fact enemy unit will be ineffective and may sink.
The best is to hit powder stock-room directly.
Hostile vessel will, literally, blow up and will be unable to fight anymore.
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