New ammunition to help boarding

[Captain Comery]

During the days of complex boarding some ships could either throw or fire grappling hooks at ships to aid in boarding.

Naval action needs a method of long distance boarding so I suggest grappling hooks be an ammo which can pull ships towards you but will only be available with 100% boarding prep.

Or maybe an option saying throw hooks or something.

[SteelSandwich]

to trow hooks is current already in the game, since you pull the other ship closer to you before boarding starts.

Edited August 4, 2015 by SteelSandwich

[maturin]

"Long distance" boarding?

The grappling is already crazy long-distance.

[Captain Comery]

Well it is currently quite hard to avoid being blasted to bits trying to board and we can't board head on, especially in small ships.

[mattebubben]

Well the "problem" with the boarding atm is that the current system is that ships have to travel at less then 5 knots in order to board.

 

They should make it so the speed difference has to be less then 5 knots for example.

 

Since atm if 2 ships are Side to side traveling at 6-10 knots with sides touching you can not board.

 

Even though  both ships are moving at the exact same speeds so the relevant speed differance is non existant.

 

so atm i pretty much have to force ships to slow down by collisions or if they make mistakes turning into the wind.

 

so they should change the system so 2 ships traveling 6-10 knots in the same direction can board while ships traveling opposite directions at 5-10 knots each can not board since the merging speed is to high.

 

but the boarding range itself is not a problem.

[SeaWolf_]

Well the "problem" with the boarding atm is that the current system is that ships have to travel at less then 5 knots in order to board.

 

They should make it so the speed difference has to be less then 5 knots for example.

 

Since atm if 2 ships are Side to side traveling at 6-10 knots with sides touching you can not board.

 

Even though  both ships are moving at the exact same speeds so the relevant speed differance is non existant.

 

so atm i pretty much have to force ships to slow down by collisions or if they make mistakes turning into the wind.

 

so they should change the system so 2 ships traveling 6-10 knots in the same direction can board while ships traveling opposite directions at 5-10 knots each can not board since the merging speed is to high.

 

but the boarding range itself is not a problem.

i agree +1