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Originally Posted by The one who flew
At sea turning is sluggish and strange. Keep turning and the ship does a weird 4 x 90 degree dance instead of a constant turning rate. In battle the sloop became 10 times more nimble/agile. Though maybe that's just some bonus that kicked in since I picked apprentice - but then why isn't that bonus in effect out at sea?
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i can actually only reply to this one of your questions
There are other ships with better turning, you'll just have to switch your "main" around
A sloop is an enlarged rowboat with a sail. It was often used to approach targets against wind. Having some oars, it was much more maneavrable. As you can see, its a small boat, pretty weak, but those characteristics make it good
as historical interest, the name is from the dutch word sloep, which is also the word for a life saving boat
The sloep was often deployed from bigger vessels in the way that helicopters can be deployed from modern battle cruisers. It had better maneuvrability than the "parent" ship, was a smaller target and functioned independently.
its main benefit was that when the dutch were at war with the spanish, the spanish galleons tended to long range heavy batteries, with slow recharge times. Deploying "Sloepen" was basically a Chaff maneuvre, to draw fire, since a galleon could usually only target one sloop at a time. Since the cannons were based high above the waterline for long distance, they couldnt target the fast incoming ships that were skimming the waves
After all, its the dutch that took the treasure fleet
Well, half of it plusminus
the only real question is, why is the sloop a self standing vessel? its coastal only, hardly sea worthy
btw, a modern sloep usually includes a mechanical sail, space to bunk down and an engine. still pretty usefull to pirates no?