WHY THE BLANK IS THE GALLEON SO BAD NOW

@badsightbert why ya yelling?

Cry much?

It’s a beast with the wind.
You just need a non-lazy crew that can follow instructions and tack on command.
And when times are slow, you’ve still got 4 cannons on either side to turret with.
She’s exhausting. But with a good crew, she can be unstoppable.

The galleon is for doing world events or supporting your 4 man crew sneaking up on your enemy with a rowboat/swimming.

World events you just turret in place 99% of the time and give the attacker a good 40 cannons.

Never try and chase another ship with a galleon if they spotted you at a distance. Never gonna happen unless it is the most green sloop crew.

Isn't the Galleon still the fastest ship when sailing with the wind or has this been changed in a patch? I haven't been playing since 8 months hence I'm asking.

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@trlalon said in WHY THE BLANK IS THE GALLEON SO BAD NOW:

Isn't the Galleon still the fastest ship when sailing with the wind or has this been changed in a patch? I haven't been playing since 8 months hence I'm asking.

It's only the fastest when sailing directly with the wind. If the wind is going even a little bit to the left or right, then the brigantine is faster.

Here's a simple diagram to show you what I mean:

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✅⬆️🔼⬆️✅
❎↖️🔼↖️❎
❎↗️🔼↗️❎

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Aha, so nothing has changed then apparently. That diagram looks somewhat cute btw lol.

Well you have to understand a few things, Rare is INCREDIBLY good with balancing things like the ships. you are definitely going to give up a few things that a sloop might have just because of the number of players. they do this because you could literally send out more people on the sloop to board and still have 1 person steering, nobody wants to solo steer a gally though so they definently have to balance it out. Therefore solos = 4 man crews.

They obviously don't know how to balance Hit reg tho XD.

@arctroopachedda idk but im not trying to get off topic I was just making a joke lol.

@galactic-geek said in WHY THE BLANK IS THE GALLEON SO BAD NOW:

@kommodoreyenser said:

World events you just turret in place 99% of the time and give the attacker a good 40 cannons.

I want galleons to do this. While they try in futility to rotate their ship into firing position with all 4 of their cannons firing upon my unmanned circling sloop, my crewmate and I are swimming underwater up behind them with 2 kegs that we will strategically release simultaneously both at the front and back of the bottom of their ship from below the waves. Then we'll stealth-board simultaneously from both ladders and kill/distract them long enough to sink them while they are forced to attempt to repair.

Lol this probably works with most galleons. Heck most of them wouldn’t even notice a ship heading their way. I’m too much of a stickler. Checking between waves to make sure there aren’t ships heading toward us or a rowboat/mermaid where it wouldn’t be. As soon as I see a ship in render distance, I position with guns facing them. Think I have pegged a lot of ships trying for keg plays because I hit them way before they think someone can (all that legend of the sea of thieves and LSD cannon practice) I make sure that others always go below as I watch ladders from the wheel deck if we get kegged especially as exterior detonations don’t do nearly as much damage to a galleon.

I think the majority of galleons I ever come across are open crew whereas if I am on a galleon, it is always with well-played friends from AOD. Always seems like a galleon full of triumphant/LSDs.

You're going against the wind, take a chill pill and give it some time

@galactic-geek I liked this. Solution for every problem.