If a enemy ship has surrendered, you can also send out an officer with a small rudder boat for boarding (like the enemy does if there ships are sinking) instead of the normal maneuvering and boarding with your big ships. This might be quicker, if your ship is in a bad position.

Grapeshot wont do much damage to the crew of a ship if its armour is still intact, you gotta blow a few holes in the red armour bars of the target before grapeshot will be really effective. Atleast that is what i have seen in other videos of this game. Also i think that turning the ships while they are lining up a broadside will drastically reduce accuracy, these cannons are not casemate turrets like in the dreadnaught era :P they are much harder to aim. EDIT: also like someone else mentioned, close combat is a big thing in this time period, bayonets and sword bayonets are vital for getting the upper hand in this situation.

One suggestion Admiral, you may want to buy yourself a few unrated merchant ships (troop transports) for navel landings or land battles. Get the big ones (their expensive but the ones that looks like frigates) if you can afford it, 4 slots for troops (provided you can fit them) and unlike the Small troop ships they actually have guns to defend themselves and provide their own fire support. Fun fact, your land troops (like your navy) have infinite ammo, BUT each unit has a supply (of bullets/cannon balls) and if that supply runs out they take FOREVER to reload. Naturally if you can get them bayonetted or Sword bayonetted muskets it will help them with melee and charges. Also far as ship speed goes, generally speaking the more weight on the ship the slower it is but it will turn better, like wise a lighter ships will go faster but turn worse. So if you want to make your ships go faster, aside from certain upgrades, have less crew or lighter cannons or both. Edit: NM seems the game gave them too you lol.

@jwrockets

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing that ever lands in my navel is lint. :D

Never thought i'd enjoy age of sail ships so much. Keep it up!

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it. Next episode up tomorrow.

@georgeheld1901

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stealth17Gaming yayyy!

From The Depths AND UA-Age of Sail on the same day? Now that's a treat! As for tactics, my advice would be to use the heavy hitters (United States and Chesapeke) with chain shot to take out rigging as much as possible, and have your lighter vessels grapeshot on shorter range to help with boarding Edit: Also, do not forget to crank the crew complement to maximum on ships you want to use for boarding and capturing! Short term you incur a few penalties, but once you start capturing, it very much pays off. Plus it is added defense against enemies trying to board YOU.

Thanks for the new vid stealth! I’m currently down with a stomach bug and I’ve been waiting on this all day!

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Oh that sounds nasty. Hope you'll recover soon!

This series has become my favourite out of all the videos that I watch on yt. Thanks Stealth.

Yes thank you again for another episoode! hope you enjoy it

If you want to board a ship, set full sail and then click on the button left from the sail settings, then your ship will automaticlly set the correct sails to match the speed. Setting full sails first is needed because thats also sets the range for the sails the AI can set, so if the setting is on half sail, the AI can also only set sails from no sails to half sails.

You can send an officer and longboat with crew to board a surrendered ship. It's generally quicker and easier to manage than trying to board, because they can row straight to the target. However, usually it takes more than the minimum crew. Also: They wouldn't have given you a couple of troop ships if you weren't going to have to use them, I don't think. You tend to do a lot of charging when you do land battles, I noticed - in this case, regular fusiliers are slightly better than marines (50 melee vs. 45), and equipping them with bayonets will REALLY help as well.

i have been really enjoying this series, the merchants may be your best boarding craft yet, and they can load small cannons from what i saw

Yes. More sailing and shooting stuff!

Loved the video Stealth17 Gaming! You might want to get some muskets with Bayonets on the Off chance that your troops get attacked by the enemy while making a Beach Landing, I don't need to point out how bad things got for the troops in the First World War's Gallipoli Campaign since most of the later fighting was close quarters combat within the Trenches or even the few nearby villages.

Loving this series!!!

the sign that appears above the boats that looks like three waves is that it is sinking

I try not to backseat game, as this is definitely a lot of work, but Stealth - both last video and this one you had a bit of a tendency to leave ships on half or less sails then wish they could move faster to objectives. For specific example, this video you had the Anthony sailing half speed from about 15min to at least 30 min in. Otherwise, this has been really entertaining and enjoyable! I am honestly tempted to get the game watching you play it. Edit: I subscribed for Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, but this Ultimate Admiral is also really good stuff. Been a lot of fun watching you successfully pirating the pirate ships.

Hi you can do manual target position on enemy ship. Click on your ship then 2 x click on enemy ship and 2 x click on spot where you want to hit and right click to get back.

You can do the main mission first with all your ships and when you finish the main one you can use all your ships for the secondary misión

Been playing the Great Britain campaign and oh my.. let’s just say it’s consuming my life. Just got my first 1st rate SOL today. Been rocking 3rd rate for majority of this campaign that I some how pulled out of my ass to capture. Thank you for recommending this game. Truly has been a frustrating but yet extremely satisfying game to play! FYI if you haven’t noticed the more crew you add and subtract messes with the ships speed and turning.

If you want to dis-mast an enemy, you need to manually target one of their masts. Normal cannon shot works best for this, I don't know if either other type can work. The idea is to just smash the mast off with your normal cannon shot. Chain shot just rips holes in the sail, it's more reliable for getting a bit of reduction to enemy sail HP but taking out a mast, while harder, will take out a huge chunk of their sailing ability.

I'm loving this game

If you are going to charge in a land battle you will need a bayonet to do more effect anf I think it also makes more effective when you board ships

Omg my day is made!

... - shock means the function is either temporary disanled or temporary slower in function. Also grapeshot gets more effective the less the side you are shooting at has hp.

Your doing good so far keep it up

Good and vigilant gameplay

There are no Geneva Coventions in this time.

Really enjoyed the video please make more stealth👍

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it. Next episode coming later today.

If you want to strike their mast down you should aim at it with round shot

thx for the nice video :)

You mentioned firing angles and trying to work out what the best angles are for doing damage to the enemy. Typically in this era that will be any sort of raking fire - shooting down the length of the enemy ship from bow to stern or especially stern to bow. These ships were not armoured or angled in the same way as 20th century ships (although yes the bow still has some angles which could deflect things), so raking fire can potentially travel the entire length of the ship, tearing through everything on its way. This makes raking fire potentially murderous, so if you have a chance to cross behind (or in-front) of an enemy and shoot down their length you absolutely should. Likewise, you don't want to turn away and give your rear to a full broadside volley.

Woah! Woah! Stealth what's going on? You chose the wrong nation, you should have went for Britian, the bullies of the sea. The American Navy were like little row boats in comparison to the Royal Navy Sloop-of-war, let alone their 6th rate Frigate, we won't go into the Ship of the line 1st rate, those poor crews of the American Navy would be frozen stiff stuck in the shadow of one. I would say the Spanish isn't a bad option but, *cough* *cough* Battle of Trafalgar *cough* apologies it isn't covid I swear! I suppose choosing Britain would be like easy mode plus. 😉

I think you may have reconsoder buying bayonette rifle cause it really make the difference in land battle when the ennemy charge you

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Oh ok, I'll look into it, thanks.

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stealth17Gaming Yeah to their is 3 versions of some rifles, No bayonettes, bayonetted, and sword bayonettes.

I think that if you want a faster ship in this game, besides using upgrades and modules, you should try to keep the weight of the ship to a minimum. Any additional weight will slow a ship down.

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

That is correct. The less weight the ship has the faster it is, at the cost of turn speed. Like wise a heavy ship is slower but turns better. Generally most modules weigh a few tons, lowering the crew to a reasonable lvl, lighter cannons all contribute to less weight.

Let's be honest here, you are playing the pirate campaign. Every ship is a valid target for capture :P

Geneva Suggestion doesn't exist yet, so feel free for being "creative"

yay!

ffs when he sells the 4th rate ship of the line without even looking at what it is >_

@godlycookie901

3 жыл бұрын

He can just board another one. He seems to be good at that lol

Really want to buy this game and Dreadnoughts based on your playthroughs, but I am not totally sold on the price. Full price for early access kind of dulls my enthusiasm for Dreadnoughts, but I get that it is probably a niche game and they need to make money. Age of Sail is better at $20 USD, but the Barbary pirates is a $14-15 USD and I find myself more interested in this campaign than the American Revolutionary War ones.

More! Mooreee!

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Coming later today

Next pirate mission have two of your ship shoot the enemy from both sides.

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, risk of through-and-throughs is too great.

@Malakin0

3 жыл бұрын

This is a bad idea :P the shots that miss the pirate ship will likely hit the friendly ship on the other side, or even shots that over penetrate the pirate ship will do the same. Not just that but it will allow the pirates to use all their guns against your ships instead of just one side of their ship.

@davidgray3061

3 жыл бұрын

Only reason for saying this is to trying to recreate that one theme from Pirates of the Caribbean 2 I think 🤔

Hey Stealth, I like your videos but can you play or start a series on Naval Action a game made by Gamelabs also? ;)

i am just waiting on the american revolution game they are making

hey stealth im being honest that I rally dobt enjoy watching age of sail. It would be nice if you do some more ICBM. LOVE YOUR CONTENT THOUGH!!!!!!!

@Stealth17Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

That's alright mate, different games for different people.

"it didn't take long to receive a distress call from a convoy of US merchant ships" What? I'm sorry did the US invent radios in 1800? What the bleep does the game mean "receive a distress call"? We talking carrier pigeons?

It hurts so much to watch you send ships on side missions before necessary. I'm glad that won't continue. BTW if you want better cannons go to the research and look for the ones with a gear on it.

28:19 And this has nothing on the *real* age of sail, the 1400s, when there were massive 1,000 ship plus battles that stretched to the horizon

The icons that appear above a ship in combat are hit effects. At 28:48, that icon does not show they are pumping out water, it indicates one of their pumps is damaged. ultimateadmiralageofsail.fandom.com/wiki/Gunnery

If only Games-Labs didn't intentionally torpedo Naval Action....