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Gameplay / Re: Can someone critique my Galleon setup?

« on: May 20, 2013, 05:00:36 pm »

Top deck crew: Pilot (canister, moonshine, claw, scanner, greased) and Engineer (scanner, mallet, chemical spray, greased)
Bottom deck crew: Gunner (lesmok, charged, heatsink, mallet) and Engineer (extinguisher, scanner, dynabuff, heatsink)

Scanner?
I expect you mean "spanner"

No I actually meant "screwdriver" simple spelling mistake on my part 

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Gameplay / Re: Can someone critique my Galleon setup?

« on: May 20, 2013, 11:14:17 am »

Thanks for the responses. @Sammy, I might try the pipe wrenches and see how that works, also the gatling sounds good but I was just wondering, isn't it easy to flank the galleon and avoid his broadside? I figured harpoon would lessen that weakness. Also, I figured that -30% velocity, 3 shot magazine of heatsink is better than -50% velocity, 1 shot per magazine of incinedary, but that's just my opinion I guess. @N-Sunderland if you could take the trouble to re-write/summarize I would greatly appreciate it but you don't have to @Smollet Thanks for the advice, but about the Moonshine: I like the Moonshine more for the stability than the engine power, as I want to keep my left side pointed at the enemy as long as possible (due to the fact that it gives -10,000% angular stability) also I don't think I'm a good enough pilot to use the tar correctly.

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Gameplay / Can someone critique my Galleon setup?

« on: May 20, 2013, 10:31:18 am »

Me and 4 friends just got the game (like 2 days ago), and we try to play together some I'm rarely with randoms. Anyway I came up with this configuration for my favorite ship:
Stern gun: Gatling
Main deck gun: Harpoon
Left mediums: Manticores
Right mediums: Heavy Flak and Heavy Carronade

Top deck crew: Pilot (canister, moonshine, claw, scanner, greased) and Engineer (scanner, mallet, chemical spray, greased)
Bottom deck crew: Gunner (lesmok, charged, heatsink, mallet) and Engineer (extinguisher, scanner, dynabuff, heatsink)

So basically, the pilot can fix the balloon/man the gatling if need be
The using the harpoon combined with moonshine is basically to stabilize an enemy ship to hit with our left broadside of manticores
The right side is more versatile with the range of the flak and the balloon popping carronade
I figure the gunner can also switch to heatsink on the flak so they explode at close range if need be.

I'm wondering:
-Is the harpoon really worth it, or should I swap for mortar/flak/gatling?
-Should I just go 4 manticores?
-Should I swap the heavy flak for a lumberjack and make the right side maximum balloon popping?
-Do the crew loadouts make sense?

It seems to work pretty well, usually nets a lot of kills and rare deaths, but I think we've been mostly playing against bad players. Thoughts? Advice is much appreciated