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Why not give all ships bow and stern chasers? Currently there is a division of beautiful and fun-to-sail ships that are rarely (although a select few will use them) touched for open world PVP because they lack the ever-important bow chasers. Here is a list off the top of my head, I may be missing some: Essex, Belle Poule, Cerberus, Brig, NavyBrig, Mercury, Niagara, Lynx, Privateer, Cutter, Pavel Now, here are the ships without bow chasers that you do see used for open world PVP: Bucentaure, Renommee Why are these two ships used fairly often, and not all the others? I'd say it has to do with their speed (especially Renommee) and firepower (especially Bucentaure). Here is the logic behind giving all ships chasers: 1. ANY ship could have bow and stern chasers in real life. All you need to do is move a gun from your broadside battery. 2. Ships used their chasers to hopefully cut away some important rope or shatter a spar, crippling their opponent and giving them time to escape or catch the prey. 3. In game, running is so common, if you don't have a ship with bow chasers, it can be quite hard to keep an enemy ship tagged (especially if they took advantage of the almost non-existent speed difference in open world and they counter tag you [discussion for another thread though]). Furthermore, if you want to run, you had better have some stern chasers to whittle down your enemy's sails, or hope he gets a bad tag on you. 4. If all ships have at least 2 bow chasers (one for the fore and-aft rigged ships) and 2 stern chasers, then you can stand a fighting chance (up to your skill level to take advantage of that chance) to catch your prey, or escape your enemy. Now, another point: don't give accuracy bonuses to the stern guns. That is dumb, I have said it before, the stern is no more stable on a sailing vessel than the bow, if you don't believe me, watch how the ships in game wiggle their sterns around on the waves. Potential concerns: Some ships (especially the fifth rates), like ________ (Renommee), will be OP with chasers. To this, my response is: "If I catch your ____ in a speed built ship, then I have built my ship properly for the task I was doing with it." Some ships may need a rebalancing, sure, but I think it would be much better to see a plethora of fifth rates gracing the waters of Naval Action, rather than the standard six chasing ships: Trincomalee, Surprise, Frigate, Pirate Frigate, Renommee, Constitution (I guess Indefatigable and Endymion fit in here as well, but without being able to craft nice ones, its hard to find a place for them). What about ships with four chasers on one end? Will we reduce those cannons? NO! Leave them be, the Trinc keeps her lovely four bow chasers and gets two stern chasers in addition I say give it a shot and lets see if we can't have the Belle Poule turn into the poor man's Santa Cecilia, the Cerberus finally have a use, the Essex be the smaller and better-turning Constitution, and finally see the sixth and seventh rates represented a bit more in open world, at least in the shallows. Furthermore, the Bucentaure and Pavel would also finally have the bow chasers they deserve. What does everyone else think?
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