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Schooners should "goose wing" when sailing with the wind at their back


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I tried manual sails and found that the Schooners don't actually behave correctly.  When sailing down wind the fore sail should be moved to the opposite side while leaving the aft/main sail where it is.

 

This is called Goose Winging with a schooner.

 

If you attempt this with manual sails the schooner slows down, when in reality you want more sail area being directly hit by wind to move your schooner along.  If you sail like you do in Naval Action the schooner will go slower because the front/fore sail isn't actually catching any wind with the aft/main sail blocking it.

 

I also am willing to believe that the developers at Games Labs might already know this, and haven't yet implemented any sort of sails blocking wind for your other sails.

 

goose_winging.jpg?8aeb84  220px-Shrike-running.jpg

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