Sea fight tactic
Besides the trading part, the sea fight is a key game element in Port Royale 2.
The sea fight does not start immediately, it is set to pause mode. Do not hit the space bar, analyse your opponent and prepare yourself. Choose your best fighting ship and equip chain balls ammunition. Adjust your course to use tailwind and sail parallel to your opponent.
The best fighting ship is the Military Corvette because it can not get overtaken by a Ship of the Line (14kn), contrary to the Military Frigate.
Now you can hit the space bar.
The battle begins. As soon as the enemy reaches your range of fire, fire a broadside. You do not have to aim with your mouse, just hit the left mouse button. If you cruise between to enemy ships you will automatically fire two broadsides.
Keep in mind to stay ahead of the foremost enemy ship, else you will have to take some broadsides.
Never use direct tailwind. When you reach the end of the map you have to turn and you would lose a lot of speed because you can not use the tailwind anymore. This would make you an easy target.
Avoid ammunition changes during the fight as they need a lot of time. Do not get too close to the edge of the map. If you sail ahead of it your ship will be considered as escaped, leaving you only 5 seconds to choose a new one. In case you have no other ship marked as fighting ship or you exceed the 5 seconds, the battle is lost.
If your own ship has taken heavy damage you should sail to the edge of the map. Try to inflict as much damage as you can to the enemy ships. Right befor the own ships will sink you have to choose another fighting ship. The heavily damaged ship will escape automatically without any chance for you enemy to attack it again.
Stay in the center of the map with your new ship. The enemy will come for you. It is important to stay in the center of the map as heavily damaged ships will automatically try to escape.
Try to take out the ships one by one. The foremost gets a chain balls broadside and falls back as its maximum speed is reduced. Continue with this until every canvas and mast is destroyed. In the next step you have to reduce the crew with grape shots.
With only ~20 crew members left it is a piece of cake to board an enemy ship - if you have enough crew members left.
In case the enemy convoy consisted of five ships and you have already destroyed two of them, you should try to lure them to the center of the map at all costs. As soon as the third ship was destroyed or captured the other two will try to escape!
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