Lonious
Master Mariner
Look again at that shot and pay attention to the bowsprits. It's difficult to be sure as they're obscured by fog or cannon smoke, but either the ships are sailing away from you, meaning the fort is to their left; or they're sailing towards you, straight at the fort. Either would make sense - one way is the same way they were sailing during the bombardment, the other is them closing to land troops after knocking out the fort's guns.
The big ship is sailing across the bay. The small ship in front of it is sailing across the big ship's bow and out of the bay. I suspect there is some artistic licence with that clip, which is not from gameplay as the ship is not a game ship. Precise angling of the ships relative to the island is less important than clearly showing the small ship heading for open sea while the big ship opens its gun ports ready for the assault on the fort. (Or perhaps the big ship originally tries to chase the small one, then the captain realises that (a) he can't catch it and (b) he has a more important target to engage which isn't going anywhere.)
If you pay this sort of attention to films, you'll find a lot of similar errors. In fact, there's been at least one TV series whose entire purpose is to spot the many mistakes in films. Consider this one of them.
True, storywise there was no English ship apart from the Victory and one other ship (probably Danielle's schooner Vertigo). Nathaniel doesn't mention any massive warship fighting off the French in his journal. I suppose I just noticed it because it looked bigger than any ship encountered in the game apart from the Belette, had three (?) gun decks, and was red, so I entertained the possibility that just maybe, the Belette was, in fact, there.
There are still others to find out about these game, these small details. I often like to observe these little things in a story I'm into. For example, who are the skeletons that dot the archipelago at night? At one point, I thought that they're members of the Black Pearl, guarding jungles and caverns just in case there are missing coins there, then found out this wouldn't make sense as they can be killed. By the way, Henry Peat wasn't under the effects of the curse (as you can hurt him), meaning to say he didn't spend the coins, I suppose.
And the group of soldiers Ewan Glover dropped off to Oxbay cave, I wonder if they had to fight those skeletons. "Our troops report undead skeleton warriors who attack any intruders they come across in the cave," they say to the governor.
Why Falaise de Fleur no longer fires on Nathaniel after the colony is recaptured (and when he talks to Virgile Boon), etc.
The animist storyline I could certainly see working excellently in Disney. There could be a whole new film (or comic book) with Jack Sparrow encountering them and their frigate, since fighting supernatural villains is always the plot of PotC films.
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