SteelSandwich

Top quality, guaranteed best price as well. Interesting times we find ourselves in, lets see who return to the sea.

A little feedback regarding this flag: It's referred to as the "Admiraal vlag" or Admiral flag, instead of 9 stripes. Besides that, wonderfull job on the Dutch flags!

Sorta like the Sid meiers Pirates did? I rather liked that as well.

You are right in your conclusion that this plays a more prominent role in PvP than it does in PvE. You are also correct in your understanding of what having the wind means. In order to properly explain what having the wind means in an engagement, one has to understand that it gives certain advantages to each side. However, in general, it is considered more of an advantage to the player upwind. If players are presumably using longs in pvp as its the dominant weapon isn't their range the same (I'm aware pen is not)? If so when they turn to shoot, as long as I can meet their turn can't we exchange fire the same regardless of the wind? Assuming we can pen each other of course. Say that you are both sailing beam reach (In your example, you are both sailing West) and you are downwind of your opponent. If you are both stationary you will have 0% heel. However, when you are both sailing, you will have a higher heel %. This in effect means that you can shoot at your opponent with greater ease, since your ship is tilting; therefore your guns are angled up. Your opponent’s ship does the same. Unlike your guns, his are angled downward. He might not be able to get his guns to reach your ship. His shorts would simply fall short. if I'm in front, they have to sail towards me to engage which means they can only shoot when we are in effective range of each other, they cannot force me to a specific side for fear of losing distance, doesn't that mean that if I'm in front I dictate which side I fight on? This is partly an advantage for you. You can try to kite your opponent. Kiting basically means shoot and run until your opponent is no longer able to catch you. This can be done to great effect, especially with a few good broadsides of chain. Your opponent however can dictate the style of the engagement. If he is more than happy to stay at range and you are equipped for boarding, you are going to have a hard time. Or alternatively, he can be equipped for boarding and just trying to rush a boarding combat with you. You can’t decide this part. When fighting in larger groups of players (25v25 in RvR) it comes down to timing your attack right, usually aimed to cut a part of the enemy fleet off. Regarding your third point, I am not sure to what you are trying to say here, so I’ll leave that one be for now. Is having the wind only useful if you are the faster ship? I know the consensus is that speed is king in PVP but if its that important and a player is that good at staying in that pocket why have much Armour at all? And why isn't everyone just attacking and kiting from that sector of the compass? Can a slower ship do anything against a faster ship that can sit back their effectively? It not just useful when you are in a faster ship, but it makes life a lot easier when you are faster. Simply put, if you are slower than an opponent, you can just immobilize you further and start to run circles around you. Eventually they will start to camp your stern and that is something you want to avoid. If you are slower it doesn’t mean that you are by default beaten, that usually boils down to knowing when to call it quits and leave an enemy be. Knowing your sailing profiles does certainly help in disengaging. Disengaging upwind is fairly easy to do and is an advantage of having the wind. Im fairly sure i missed a few points, but this should get you started.

out of curiosity, what armament was carried when the reports where written? If, and im asking since i dont know, those speeds where recorded with 24/18, would it not be the perfect balance to reduce her manouverabilities/sailing characteristics when someone opting for a heavier loadout (32/24)? Faster and lighter armament, slower and heavier armament. Sounds exactly right for 4th configuration in my ears atleast..

Impressive, my lord supreme. Keep it up!

Feel free to organizr another tournament.

I organised loads of trafalgars and people didnt seem to be bored by them. I dont see why na legends would be different.

and within those 5 minutes, you were not able to get a single shot into their sails?

Hold up. Do tell me why a trinc captain is not able to: 1) sail away down wind 2) sail away down wind and fire chain on the go? Even a single chain round removes like 3-4% of that little matchbox, where lies the problem? on a side note, removing mark reward from the basic ship might be a good idea nonetheless, but please lets not blow this one out of proportion and mark it as an exploit. Some people are unable to shake a sterncamper, does that make it an exploit than as well?

To elaborate on what happened here: on logging in SG1 found his warehouse and harbor in the port of Champoton, contoy empty. Ingame name, according to an english speaking friend: Cap Churruca. Playing for the Spanish nation. Flagged for dev review.

Tac did a teaser, here is the confirmation. DAS will return and jump into the breach once more.

looking back at those videos and seeing the names of all our mates we used to play with... Good times with the old guard

2 pages in, i doubt many of whom i speak will ever see it, but here goes nothing. @admin I do consider myself amongst the veterans of this game, therefore very suitable to point out that the game is a multitude of wow-moments. 2 pages in, i doubt many of whom i speak will ever see it, but here goes nothing. Before the days of OW, the first time i partook in a storm battle in ST was magnificent. I remember doing all kind of elaborate engagements, waves making an truelly epic sight. I especially remember putting on some sea shanties and singing along with zeal. Whilst firing the gun batteries non-stop, fighting at impossible odds. Seeing ships appear from the mist, completely changing the nature of the fight. Here's my sole surviving screenshot from ST, there are several vets to recognize^^ Then we arrive at the beginning of the OW, haha, the good ol' times. For those who lived it will remember when i say the thrill of exploring the spawn area was insane. After a while of messing about as a solo player, i started to message some other duchies if they fancied to group up and take on brigs together. Some names here should be recognized by the other vets. Commodore Wesley, Brandon, Bernard, Ben. For whom it may concern, brandon and wesley helped form the foundation of the DAS. I will have forgotten plenty of names, and i do apologize for that! After taking down the first few brigs, we came across a Swedish surprise which we hastily engaged. Never did i experience the raw strength of such a ship, nor have i ever since. With the three of us we were barely able to harass it into submission. Good times. What some might not know, is that plenty of people of the old guard of DAS were casually press ganged into service.^^ Several people were engaged and let live, for them to chose to join our glorious nation and clan. Steel might have been the first of many. I hope you are doing well mate. What comes after that? After a while we met some danish players, Iza, Balticsailer, Dannevirke, and several others. Again sorry for not remembering all names... People might have heard about the trafalgar battles, they likely are not aware that this started with arranged fights between the Dutch and Danes, later joined by the Americans (northern wolves, prater, young, @TommyShelby you silly bastard, and many others) and eventually by the rest of the nations. Whereas north of philipsburg was the initial spot with some crazy fights, plymouth became more practical. I must stress that leading a fleet of 25 ships into battles against some of the best players in the game was the pinical of the game for me until then. The sheer stress and strategy involved was absolutely mind blowing, thrilling and exciting. For those interested, my old YT channel features plenty of these fights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4SQ2U8wpjo2SVFWme7X0iw After the trafalgars, RvR became the challenge. With legends such as bubbles, konali, admiral trump^^, and @Tac (King of the seas, the depths, and the creatures of the blue. Lord of the four kingdoms, protector of the DAS. Conqueror of frenchies, smasher of frogs, father of destruction. He is your lord Supreme) To end it all, i do pride myself on being one of the more experienced PB commanders, having had the honour to serve with loads of the community. Leading over 250 people into battle. Leading the defence of the dutch eastern realm with 150 people against impossible french odds. For those who remember, the defende of Bubbles at Pampatar, the defence of Tac at Cumana, and your truly at Caracas. Plenty of dutchies to thank for their efforts, and plenty of allies as well. Epic times, epic battles. There is so much more i want to say that were part of my wow moments, but this is a brief summary.

The game is set in the age of sail, without using a specific date. Regardless if any date is more historically accurate due to nations/regions. With that in mind it serves no purpose to change the dutch name, since during most of the age of sail they were the dutch republic.