Battle on the High Seas (Online Battle #54)

Hey, what's up guys? It's Oakley, and I'm gonna be playing Napoleon now. We're gonna be doing an online battle This is kind of a change of pace from what you're used to here. You can see my small French fleet so this is gonna be a friendly 1v1 on the high seas and The rules for this basically no rules I just put it on small funds because large naval battles while impressive to look at are very very hard to manage just because the angles of fire the various ships how different ships are supposed to interact and then the different volleys that you Basically to be most efficient you have to micromanage those Anyways with the small funds what you'll see is my opponent decides to opt for two of these 74 gun ships of the line whereas I went for one pretty good ship so that's an 80 gun ship of the line, and then I went for several of these small coronet frigates and So I decided to go for numbers as opposed to quality although I did pretty heavily invest in one of my flagships so my opponent kind of has Two medium ships I have one kind of medium and then three light ships Also, you can see me getting some shots off there with my unit I am out of range But something you can do is you can select your unit and toggle when you fire your broadsides So that's actually very cool because it means you can actually select when you shoot your shots If you time it perfectly you can actually hit your opponent at a distance so that first volley I got off hasn't done any damage, but I think the second one where I'm wheeling about We'll do a bit more damage so we can watch this from this perspective as they fire the cannons sometimes that's effective sometimes it's not let's go ahead and Controls on this are a little gimmicky. Let's go ahead and watch me fire off my shots. Yeah, so right there I do get off a pretty good broadside against my opponent He is yep. He lost a gun so you can see those Shots early on are gonna be pretty important for tipping the scales of the battle because everything Snowballs from here if you can take out a couple of his guns at a distance that means every other engagement He's just we firing less at you Which means you'll probably keep the upper hand in terms of firepower, and that's all these naval battles are My opponents gonna start doing the same thing however. He doesn't get as great a shot. You saw that I turned up Sort of upwind we'll call that In order to avoid getting hit by the majority of shots, and I'm continuing to keep my distance My main goal was this guy would be the mainstay of my attack So get off the large volleys and these guys were supposed to be scavengers kind of like a pack of wolves that would follow behind My opponent so the coronet frigates are pretty highly maneuverable They have a decent amount of guns for the number of ships. They have Or the the size ship they are but they don't have very good range They have to get them up close, and they don't have very good hull strength however What they do have is the profile of the ship is pretty sleek and small so they don't take as many shots So I thought that it was a pretty good trade-off The way naval battles work is a little bit complicated, but it's a lot about timing so being able to strike when your opponent is Reloading or positioning yourself in order to say shoot for instance at his back because then you can get shots off at him He can at you so that's what a lot of the naval combat You know in reality during that time was a lot of wheeling about so initially I started with I deployed as high up Windside as I could in order to have the advantage of sails That actually does it is taking into account in this game when you're sailing with the wind you go much faster Same with turning speeds and radiuses and all that it's all affected by the wind dynamically So that's something you definitely need to take advantage of These three ships were gonna slip around behind my opponent He decided to react by turning his ships about that would have been two versus three of these light ships So I decided to do an about face and now My goal is to try and isolate one of these two dudes so seeing as he has turned this side I'm gonna decide to go straight into the wind with this My French ship of the line here you saw how he got off a valve a volley that wasn't effective That's my cue to straight up charge my opponent. I know he fired off his ball It's gonna be a while for him to reload. That's exactly when you want to charge straight port So I'm charging into the wind getting a lot of speed getting much much closer And then I'm gonna turn around just at the last moment and get off my volley So let's go ahead and watch this up close something about the naval engagements is they're very very epic Especially with these larger ships. Let's watch this broadside boom So getting off some shots at my opponent That definitely rocked his ship, but didn't do too much damage in terms of damage to his guns You can see he's still only down to but in terms of the health. I'm starting to chip away at his base hull Strength and also the details on these ship battles is awesome You have guys climbing up the the rigging All sorts of guys walking the decks you can even go below grounds and see the guns fire very very highly detailed One of the most fun. I think naval engagements ever anyways. Here's my pack of wolves coming in Something you'll notice on the little icons right here is two green bars That's the hull strength of either side of your ship so basically when you're attacking your opponents if one side gets too low you want to turn about and You want to make sure that the other side now starts absorbing fire because if you just present one side the entire battle you're gonna Fail much quick much more quickly Here, I'm splitting this opponent to going up wind one going down wind This guy is so fast that he can get around behind him and this opponent You know he can only face off against one of my coordinated frigates That's the advantage of having so many of these guys is yeah I'll get off some broad shots against me, but now I have shots off directly at his back and over here and That did a pretty good amount of damage But now I'm gonna turn about and now we're gonna get basically I have angles of fire all three at once on my opponent So some decent shots there He's gonna try and reform the advantage that he has right now is actually when he can turn like this boom He shoots at both of my guys So I'm gonna try and tuck tail and run with that guy and try and hold anchor with him I'm gonna position here. It's perfect for shooting him in the back However, these guys are gonna take a lot of fire from the heavily armed guys It's this guy the CPO my 80 gunship of the line. I really love this guy He's gonna be doing well to come and clean up, so I'm hoping to isolate him and bring in the big guns quite literally Another thing you can do for naval naval combat that makes it even more exciting is When you select your ships you have three types of shot that you can fire so one is a standard cannonball That you can fire another one is gonna be grape shot So that's gonna be kind of for close quarter range for clearing decks It basically it's like shooting a shotgun across the bow, so it's gonna be basically low range But high damage and the third one you can do is gonna be chained shot and the idea behind that is you have two cannon balls that are gonna be sort of forged together attached with the chain and When that flies around basically you have two balls together attached with the chain the idea is that as it moves through the air It'll rip through some of the rigging destroy various important lines and also tear up the sails So in game you can actually use that to slow down your opponent Get rid of its mobility crush its sails, and it's kind of stuck in the water And it'll allow you to position yourself behind the ship. That's a pretty high level stuff You can try and pull off it takes a lot of micro and this one I was just focused on brute strength of just dealing as much damage And you can see it is doing a lot of damage in terms of the hull. He's already at orange But uh yeah, take a look at this He is doing a lot of firing on both sides of his ship And he's doing everything you can to do an about-face However, there are holes in his vessel and now I'm gonna be coming in here with two of my French ships And I'm turning about to get another fire off Let's go ahead and see what this looks like from down in the ship So some good news Yeah, you see that a broadside looking at the enemy ship There's my captain on the top right looking out at them so all sorts of wheeling maneuvers my opponent right here Boom some of these shots are just incredible. I love the aesthetics of this kind of naval combat I hope it's a period they revisit with the advanced graphics Now we're gonna be entwined in a duel where I keep spinning about but the combined effect of all my troops firing at once Brought him down this ship is gonna be taken out so My strategy seems to be working the increased rate of fire having so many ships Cycling and firing means I can always get shots off at him, and it was just too much I just tore up his decks and now once this ship has been taken out you can see he still has 45 cannons left And 162 men left, but he's effectively neutered so because I have three of these ships even if he takes that one of my ships I don't have kind of all my eggs in one basket for instance. You know 74 guns for example wouldn't be disabled It would only be 32, and I would still have 32 on each of these ships. We're still Viable for for shooting over here. We're gonna continue to get some shots off. Let's go ahead and follow this guy I would likes locking on to him for some reason all right. We'll go ahead and do that just watch my ships sail about and Now I'm gonna be circling on getting ready for the kill, and I'm also putting on some shots against this guy although He is surrendered so he should be done an Additional wrinkle to these games is you can actually stop your ship at any point in time and tell it to repair So that's something I could have made use of is for instance when three of my guys engage I could disengage one of them in repair so for instance this coordinate frigate right here I could stop him and repair him out of combat and that way I just make the most efficient use of all my troops But yeah, this is definitely very epic from the Austrian ship firing in both directions doing everything you can But yeah that broadside I just delivered from the front with my coordinate frigate the angle is such that any shot that misses the front of the bow Is gonna hit the rear? Boom there goes the shot from my main ship. I love that guy. He's looking so sick And this guy over there the ocean is gonna prepare for another broadside, but this guy is not going down without a fight He's able to destroy one of my guys, so he's gonna start routing I was a little fearful given that this guy was low health as well I thought he might route, but you know I knew that my main ship of the line here is still ready to go and he's presenting a Not the best thing in my opinion to do is presenting that side to my ship But he's trying to just tackle my main vessel over there, so I'm gonna reposition this guy Over here look at this. He's trying to turn to meet my radius But I'm traveling a bit with the wind to turn here. This is gonna be devastating This is probably gonna be the last volley delivered from my main ship Just straight up on my opponent So let's watch this as it comes right in boom So definitely the best Spectacular explosion that you can see right there and actually some of these ships if you hit the magazine Storeroom they will actually go ahead and explode in like a radius of this big so those are really cool to see in some of The larger battles that's gonna be it for that's what this one I hope to bring you guys more naval engagements. Hopefully have more people in the game So it's just so much more chaotic and much more epic This is just a taste of it to interest you guys to the combat of how it works And hopefully you know test the waters so to speak in terms of what you guys want to see and if you like this Kind of thing it was I think it went really well and my strategy definitely paid off But there's all sorts of strategies you can try and do anyways see you guys next time. Thanks