Hg Tips

I don't have a good read on this thread so if you're really looking for tips:

Naval:

angles, gotta keep an angle as often as you can

cannon accuracy, just practice

ladder guarding, do the best you can, don't get
discouraged over it, they get on the boat sometimes

pressure, get 'em nervous

capitalizing on pressure, this is extremely important

water management, gotta get the timing down with practice

capitalizing on water management, they gotta get in trouble before you do, pressure, pressure

keep some distance, people get too close, unless you're super solid at tdm it's not typically a good strat

The more pressure you can apply before and while carrying some water in your boat the overall better chance you have of putting the opponent in a situation where they get in trouble.

This all takes a lot of time and a lot of practice but this is how a non tdmer remains competitive in this environment and in general naval is #1

In combat getting rattled has consequences. Anger, frustration, focusing on the other person/crew in a personal way like your post suggests leads to mistakes and decisions that are outside of what is appropriate and necessary in that moment.

In this environment it's no big thing, we get a new boat and we get to try again

Practice on fleets, practice on bigger boats
just get the reps and don't take combat too serious, take the sentimental serious but not the combat.

There is a lot to combat in general in this game, sometimes you'll have great wins and sometimes you'll lose in silly ways, ain't no thang, we just respawn.

@ott3rman5343 said in Hg Tips:

@WolfManbush ok thats going to be helpful thank you

Are you playing on a crew?

When playing on a crew whether it's family/friends or a group formed in a more random way that is your team. Teams require leadership but everyone plays an important role. There is no blame as the team is working together as cohesive unit.

Crews fall apart all of the time, not because of losing or because of what opponents do but because of blame, taking things out on one another, mistreating members of the crew during/after intense situations. It's a game and a rather silly one at that. Crew morale is far more important than the results of fights that are just grains of sand in overall activity.

In a game environment in general and this one specifically there is nothing worth sacrificing the quality of experience for the crew/a crew member over.

@ott3rman5343 said in Hg Tips:

@wolfmanbush I play solo

Solo fights in general (when experienced) just become who can get the mast/oneball and capitalize quicker and then that leads either to repair simulator or just a sink. There are random things that interfere here like bug management on both sides.

Since HG is something designed around a lot of fights and rewards losses it just makes more sense to take more risks in fights that are pretty close in skill and worry about dragging on fights less.

If you are in a situation where you can record a couple of fights you're welcome to send them to me so I can see what your fights are looking like. No matter someone's skill level the basics are the same and you'll also have strengths in one way or another that can be used to do the best you can with what you're working with. That's all a fight is, just doing the best you can with the fundamentals of naval/combat.