Yep may aswell change the topic name to captains stories, sailer's stories etc what ever you think is appropriate for this topic and start a new topic where as you said modders would be able to get usefull information on where to try and improve COAS and POTC. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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Cerebus23 Your having some interesting battles, can you post a picture of your ships please? i would like to see what they look like.
My main problem is finding a port which has good gunners, i can find many good sailers and fighters but never good gunners.
I don't know if you've noticed but the enemy will alway's attack any other ships you have with you while keeping there distance from you but at the sametime firing at you as and when they feel like it.
I tend to have one MOW filled with cargo to trade, some rounds on board with enough gun powered to help fend off any ships wanting to try and attack, but because that MOW has all the cargo on board i often tell the captain to sail away and as he does i have noticed everytime the enemy ships will try to follow, the smaller ships tend to be the victors her as most of the time the dumb captain will try to sail into the wind, he needs to go to naval class and learn that sailing into the wind with a MOW isn't the best of strategies.
Anyway, i then had to order the captain to protect me so that he would bring the enemy ships back my way, i set myself up and had loaded the chain shots, i fired broadside after broadside at the enemy ships as they approached, the MOW was moving better but still the enemy ships was faster than her hence the reason i decided to use chain shots on the faster of the ships.
After a few broadsides i watched the sails of one ship full, a quick celebration and back to work this time the rounds was loaded, i would try to sink the ship of the line from where i was and put a huge dent in the enemies offence, my gunning crew not been the best at aiming did manage to weaken the ship of the line before she could try to turn to broadside me, i turned to face the enemy ships and waited for the ship of the line to fire her broad side, i then turned and fired one of my own braod sides turning straight to the other side to fire the second broad side at her, by now a Lugger was getting close so with the wind blowing the right direction (towards the enemy ships) i decided i would board the Lugger and loot her then sink her and then i would capture the ship of the line (which i would later loose along with the MOW trying to destroy a fort) after capturing the ship of the line all that was left was a Gallon which was attacking the AI MOW, i ordered the captain to attack the Gallon and in a short out rage of broad sides the Gallon was sunk ( As i watched her sink i thourght i sould have captured her aswell) Well i need a ship with a big cargo bay now since i only have my own MOW left, thats what you get for attacking a Spanish fort.
:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> yea good idea, tho i don't think the ai captains AI has ever been rock solid in these games, i just not played the old games recently enough to compare side by side. 
