Talk:Ship of the Line

Re the "no less than 30,000 gold pieces. " thing... I have a bonty of 8000 on my head for working for Spanish and repeatedly attacking English ships. It is literally my second day of playing this game, and I saw and captured a ship of the line. I'm just sailing all over trying to upgrade to max now. So, I contest the 30000 thing because it clearly is not true. You can get one at 8000. My save game is the proof. 188.29.85.221 18:05, December 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * I forgot to mention it was an escort for a merchant vessel (I forget which). I didn't really realise what I was doing so I clicked "attack merchant vessel with flagship"... and when the battle started, the ship of the line headed right for my ship and boarded me! I thought it was supposed to be hard to board it ;p the duel was pretty difficult, a lot of my crew died because it took me longer than usual to kill the enemy captain... 188.29.85.221 18:08, December 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * I copy this from the page Ship of the Line - 1600's (I think it is meant to be here):


 * I don't know if I'm doing this right (I clicked the Talk tab, and it took me here), but I just wanted to say that, according to this Wiki, you cannot get a Ship of the Line in the 1600's or 1620's, however I found one just now in the 1600's. Exact details: It was 1613, all 25 ports were controlled by England, and I had just captured an English Large Merchantmen coming from San Juan (a Prosperous English Capital). I was then on my way to Eleuthera when I saw an English Ship of the Line, with the New Warship thing on it, coming out of Tortuga (a Wealthy English Trading Post). So, there's a confirmed sighting that fits the previously-set-forth criteria for seeing a Ship of the Line.


 * November 24, 2013‎  75.92.182.224

I have also found two ships of the line in 1623 (I started my career in 1600). They were both french, I didn't have any bounty on my head with France (but one of 72,000 gp with Spain) and when I captured the first one, France was at war with England and Spain, when I saw the second one, France was at war with all three other countries. At this time, only Maracaibo, Gibraltar and Puerto Príncipe were spanish as I had conquered all the other cities for France. Just before I had conquered Santo Domingo and Santigo and Spain was sending many invasion forces from these cities (I had intercepted a dozen of these at this time).

Proof here: http://hpics.li/0485ae9

90.41.107.202 10:14, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

The info on this article was apparently ripped from the first edition of Headrock's Ship of the Line guide (he's the guy who founded this wiki). The second edition, where he changed some stuff after a lot more experimentation, is extremely rare, so I'm not surprised. There were several errors in the first edition, and sadly they are on this article now too. :/ 93.172.176.15 02:49, June 15, 2014 (UTC)