+Krusty McNugget you're welcome, Thanks for watching :)

+McLeod Thanks so much! The boarding preparation is, i feel, super important so i'm shocked to hear other tutorials havnt mentioned it. Glad i was able to help you out. :) Thanks for watching.

+Spartan IV 001 Yeah, the combat is very detailed. for instance, each cannon shot is track by the game and a single shot can penetrate through the hull, kill some crew, ricochet off a cannon and burst through the other side of the ship. Its crazy awesome. Also, hitting an enemies cannon is the best way to start a fire on a ship, and watching one explode when it's magazine catches is pretty amazing. There is alot more going on beneath the surface than one might expect.

+Max Sanders you're welcome, glad they are helping :)

+Gijs Post great to hear! glad the video helped you :) congrats on the brig!

+Taylor Hemmings No problem, glad it helped you :)

I wish it was easier to bord period. the speed is too high

+Cliff Munro thank you. and thanks for watching.

+Max Coomer Hey man! thanks for watching, glad my videos were able to help you! And yeah, i love the hornblower series too, and love the books even more, they are my favourite series of books :) And I Loved Empire: Total war too, sunk a great many hours into that game XD. And sure, I'm playing Pirate atm, what nation are you? if you are playing pirate too, add me to your friend list in-game and we can group up and get some stuff done, :)

Cool Thanks, I am playing as Great Britain, but can look at the pirate group. Can I still keep the same account name when switching?

Yeah, if you want to "join the dark side" as it were, you can keep your exact character, all you need to do is attack a british ship (probably best to attack an npc rather than a player lol) but its a one way ticket, once you become a pirate you cant re-join the brits unless you create a new character.So it's gotta be something you're sure you want to do.

Become a Pirate, the British taxes are too high lol, How do I add you in game and how can you tell which is a NPC?

in the chat bar there is a "people" tab or something similar, then in there there should be a search function, just search my name in there and you should be able to click "add to friends list". And welcome to the Pirate horde ;) i wont be online tonight, however i'll be back on tomorrow, so if youre online then we can sail together and hunt down some tasty prizes :p

+Arthur Chapman Thanks for watching :) 1. Nothing yet, hasn't been implemented 2. no, if a captured trader is carrying too much cargo for your main ship then you must sail it to port or abandon some of the cargo. however, if you send your main ship to outpost and sail the trader, you can teleport back with it. 3. yes you can sell the capped cargo, but sending to chat is merely showing others what you have, not a means of gifting or selling cargo. Hope that helps.

AxeManAnt That sure does! Thank you for your responses and keep up the good work.

+LoudestHoward Thanks! :)

+Brody Davis you can capture ships anywhere

+Litera Patens Thanks for watching, and i certainly do plan on keeping the vids coming :) As for your question, yes...If crafting is something that is going to interest you, the sooner you start working on it the better. Crafting has a seperate XP system, so even if you were the highest rank in the game, you couldnt craft much without levelling it up first. The only problem is gathering the resources to craft....you can capture ships and break them up in port for some parts needed for ship building (also breaking ships gives you a chance to get some rare drops like ship blueprints and crafting notes, which are required to craft the larger more powerful vessels). Or you could save up a bunch of gold and purchase a bunch of raw materials (capturing traders works too as they often carry raw materials) and then start crafting from there. The only problem with capturing alot and breaking ships, is you get more gold and resources out of it, but less XP, sinking ships gives more xp than capturing so it's a balancing act. I'm going to be crafting alot more soon, but first im just trying to rank up for a bit. Crafting takes a bit of getting used to and im no expert at it by any means, havnt done much of it but hope that helps a little.

+AxeManAnt Thanks for the answer! So for me i also decided to rank up first but take the opportunities of capturing traderships as often as possible to create a pile resources in my outpost. Do you have any experience in trading resources? Some told me it is not really time-money efficient compared to missions etc.

I have very little trading experience. Playing Elite dangerous for 6 months killed any desire to do any trading in any game, lol. The economy in Naval action is very bare bones at the minute, so trading isnt very intuitive, and in my experience not too profitable right now. Some people do like it and seem to do ok with it, but mostly it is as you said, it's probably better just to do missions and get involved in battles, than trading. Trying to level up means you need to do alot that already earns you gold anyway, i find that in grinding levels, i am never really short of gold unless i purchase a high level, powerful ship which cost a ton.

+AxeManAnt I see. So it is, "Ahoy my brave sailors gain me victories, gold and honor!" For the swedish crown :)

haha, yes. until you meet the Pirate hordes and we take all your gold and ships ;) lol hope to see you ingame soon :p

+Scrib Jelly Yes. when major updates hit, i will be doing videos covering the changes and bug fixes. :)

+Ghroznak Fk for muskets grenades ans deck guns kills, Bk for kills by melee weapons and Ok for Other kills, like an other ship helping you.

+Ludwig Moloko thanks. Was wondring. Guess F for firearms then :)

+captainandrey Yes, especially after taking down the armor down to zero.

I find a lot near Islamorada, thats where I got my 5 trader brigs

+DrunkenSloth I was part of a fleet that destroyed a brig, lynx and cerberus last night. But they were npcs, if you mean player brigs, then no, i missed the action :( haha

+sagand As you said yourself, Lynx's need demasting,, I de-masted a lynx in this video :p And you're right, generally, if i was capturing a ship, it'd be rare for me to try to de-mast, especailly against small ships like you say, however this was a tutorial and was designed to show people it can be done, and one of the ways in which to do it. However your method is certainly viable and its one of the reasons i love NA so much, there are multiple ways to approach and deal with any circumstance, whether you're fighting to sink or capture.

Im pretty sure chain shot was efficient against masts because when the chain wraps around the mast the balls turn and smash simultaneously into it at such a velocity that would almost surely knock it down

If you're using a smaller ship that is faster and more manoeuvrable, what you want to do is to stay behind the 1st rate at all times and fire broadsides into its stern, making the balls go lengthwise through the entire ship causing a lot of damage, when the HP is low you can start using grape shot to mow down the crew and then board it when it goes down a sufficient ammount

+lexafied3d Pirates, are a little more chaotic than the brits, which is the only other faction i have experience with. But i do feel a little more free as a pirate, i can do whatever i want. As for the community, pirates have been working together alot lately to capture ports, so if you can get in with those guys organising those battles, its alot of fun, but you also have trolls, who attack everyone, since pirates can attack other pirates, but it hasnt been too bad so far. Like everything, it can be good or bad, really depends on your playstyle and preferences :)

I'll give it a go. I know there are a few tricks for the boarding mini game that I didn't cover in this video, but I hadn't heard your method, I'll try it out next time I'm capping a ship, thanks :)

Capturing traders is a great way to earn extra money over simply sinking them. As not only can you sell them in port, you can also sell any cargo they were carrying too. But bear in mind, you gain less XP from capturing atm to outright sinking so if you focus on capturing traders you will gain plenty money, but not much xp.

+AxeManAnt Thanks for that quick answer! Do you have a rough estimate on how much more gold you would make over sinking it? And maybe even how much XP you would sacrifice?

the gold and xp you make per ship kill or capture varies wildly from ship to ship and also depends on your ship. It also matter if you're attacking much bigger ships......If in some impossible scenario you managed to sink a 3rd rate whilst in the cutter, you would gain ungodly amounts of gold and xp. Way more than if you sunk it whilst in a 3rd rate yourself. It's this system that makes predicting gold and xp rewards really tricky as there isnt a concrete number that i can point to. However, an educated guess would be, that you'd probably earn half the XP, but half as much again in gold. However, if you were to focus on levelling for now and getting in a bigger, more poweful ship, engaging in large fleet battles, port battles, and grouping with others against larger fleets and vessels will probably earn you more than just capturing. So you can be flexible. Sorry i couldnt provide more concrete numbers.

+AxeManAnt No, that's great, thank you! So I should probably go for max XP anyway... I believe you mentioned in another video, that grinding missions is best for that? (Haven't bought the game yet, but definitely will, once I have a little more time... Maybe as soon as tonight/tomorrow)

to start off, yeah...grinding missions is the way to go....if you're frugal with your money then you'll find by the time youve ranked up a few times you'll have tons of it anyway....enough to move on to a nice ship anyway. Hope to see you in-game :)

+aryko1 Sounds like it was abit too damaged, even once captured, a ship still takes on water, and it's possible for them to be a lost cause, even if you win. Try not to damage the ship too much, and avoid hitting parts of it that are usually below the waterline. It's all experience though, and I was the same when i started, got a nice privateer capture, and was admiring it before ending the battle, and suddenly it sunk lol. Thanks for watching and im glad this video helped you :)

Thx for the tips and greetings from Germany !

I got two questions : How to rebind keyboard keys and how do you bring up that little map wich shows all the ships in a fight not the minimap . Thx for answering .

+aryko1 Press escape in-game, go to options -- Controls, you can rebind keys there. and do you mean the player list? press "tab" to bring that up :)

Yeah i found it and changes the bindings . Ive seen a big battle and the clanleader was opening a map where u cld see all the enemy ships and yours too and mark them . Thx for answering !

Same problem here... 3 times in a row.

A useless comment.....How informative........

i feel the same about the game but i really want to buy it... i looks so good and fun to play..