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Hooray, another sail question! The East India Company was a military force in its own right. It operated a huge number of ships and transported goods in large fleets. Anything small (a lone privateer) didn't have a chance against the merchant vessels as some of them carried as many as 50...

Hi again, Finally a quick post. I think you guys are doing a great job and it probably doesn't really matter which way you go with all the different kinds of ships. You have to fit a snapshot of shipping history into a game that requires stats and images to represent a battle. It is...

Okay. The Dreadnoughts were not the first entirely metal ships or even the first metal battleships. The Japanese defeated Russia in 1901 with a huge metal battleship duel. The key difference at that point was explosive ammunition finally meant that the shells could penetrate the metal hulls...

SoL, Ironclad, Dreadnaught, Battleship were all battle ships. I think they should be in the same upgrade line. Do you think the Age of Sail questions should be settled as a seperate issue to the Civil War era questions? Ironclads would've been slower than SoL, no better in firepower but...

Hi again. Firstly I want to say how much I respect what is happening at this forum. Trying to make things historical is really a completely unique idea in gaming and it is great that players will have the choice to play something historical for once. I have a lot of points to make about...

Hi everyone, I am a Procrastinator's friend who is just a little bit passionate about sailing and especially the great era of sailing naval combat. (note after posting: this is very long to I have highlighted relevant bits) It is hard to start talking about such a broad topic but I will...