Maybe we should not do it in years, but periods:
1.Buccaneers (1600-1670, mostly galleons and caravels, flutes, the battleships, lineship, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops,xebecs and frigates sometimes brigs, schooners and pinnaces also man o wars, but less frequently)
2.Pirates (1670-1745, mostly brigs and schooners, Indiaman and Amsterdam, frigates, corvettes, pinnaces sometimes a galleon, but only the most modern ones, flutes, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops, xebecs, cutters, frigates, Lineship, but with some more modern rigging, the black-yellow ships (not the black-red, those are really napoleonic) manowars)
3.Navy and privateers (Brigs, schooners, frigates with jibsail, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops, xebecs, cutters, corvettes, warships, lineships, manowars an all napoleonic colourscheme ships.)
4. 'Fantasy' All ships in 1 period.
I think the soldier models should change also, in any case the spanish, after the Buccaneer period no more conquistadores. And no more Musketier outfits in the Navy period. I think the navy outfits can already be used in Pirates era. And after the buccaneer era no more elizabetian outfits.
1.Buccaneers (1600-1670, mostly galleons and caravels, flutes, the battleships, lineship, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops,xebecs and frigates sometimes brigs, schooners and pinnaces also man o wars, but less frequently)
2.Pirates (1670-1745, mostly brigs and schooners, Indiaman and Amsterdam, frigates, corvettes, pinnaces sometimes a galleon, but only the most modern ones, flutes, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops, xebecs, cutters, frigates, Lineship, but with some more modern rigging, the black-yellow ships (not the black-red, those are really napoleonic) manowars)
3.Navy and privateers (Brigs, schooners, frigates with jibsail, luggers, barques, yachts, sloops, xebecs, cutters, corvettes, warships, lineships, manowars an all napoleonic colourscheme ships.)
4. 'Fantasy' All ships in 1 period.
I think the soldier models should change also, in any case the spanish, after the Buccaneer period no more conquistadores. And no more Musketier outfits in the Navy period. I think the navy outfits can already be used in Pirates era. And after the buccaneer era no more elizabetian outfits.