Precisely fox2run. The enemy in a war, is always looking for the new idea to try to see what it does. Poofy bitching because you are out thought just means you are in the wrong game and have not an iota of an idea as to what war is.
There was an earlier whine from someone about ramming. There were ships built in history with the specific job of ramming. A captain of a war ship, will use his ship to ram an enemy. On this occasion, the devs made the terrible mistake of reducing the effect of ramming because a poor boy had his ship sunk from ramming.
The devs must take into full account, the history of the game they are making. The attrition of war should be seriously looked into. I mean, where do the 500+ replacement crew come from in the middle of the ocean after a battle?