i have an advice. do not go against gallys, even a cracked crew u cant sink a decent gally. only one cannon cant hit enough for a gally to sink. the only chance of u to win if the gally crew is ass. not in ur case anyway. even if ur cannoner is cracked he wont be able to sink a gally

One thing you gotta do to beat a gally as as sloop: board. If you dont board, you just cant win, its too many people to bucket and patch against 1 cannon to shoot

@@gabrielmachado1197 exactly

Stay away from broadside, try to stay behind them zigzagging, get masts down, get to a point where they have a few holes, patch your ship up, send it in a circle and double board. Fire bombs are extremely effective on galleons.

cursed cannon balls, and even just firebombs and blunderbombs, are your friends. Fire is harder to deal with on a gally, it won't do a ton to hinder a GOOD crew, but it will distract a middling one. Blunderbombs work wonders, though. blunder their cannon line if they have broadside so they can't just alpha you. Blunder the mid deck where the bilge stands to prevent repairs and cause buckets to backsplash. Gallies are hard, if you get into a bad spot with a sloop there's almost no chance of recovering. the key is overwhelming the gally before they can overwhelm you. it isn't in any way a fair fight, so simply trading standard shot is not going to get you a win unless your cannoner is incredible and their whole crew are noobs. edit to add: overwhelming also prevents them from boarding. if they have pressure from damage, fire, dead or overboard crew from blunderbombs, they can't spare the manpower to board you. and if they try, they're going to neglect their own ship and sink

Not as sweaty as I was expecting. Galleon seemed kinda brain dead from the start and the sloop crew looked like dumb & dumber out there

Thank u so much for this capt Latham!! This is a true masterclass

My guess is you can’t win a fight against a galleon where all 4 people know what they do… maybe with curse balls but else I don’t think you have any chance. But it is only my opinion :)

It’s not that serious.

Well angling initially at 1:10 made no sense as they pulled off for no reason the first time, sure… I assume they wanted to get the gally back on the left side, a anchor turn would of been fine here. When they were getting close at 4:20 he actually did the right thing angling here as they were risking getting broadsided going any slower or cutting in too tight… that seems to be what you’re referencing. A big missed opportunity was at 5:55 when they had an opportunity to remain stopped at the galleys bow, he panicked when his teammate died and dropped sail full and risked their broad instead of straightening the wheel out and remaining in place for a moment… and then the cannoneer needed to be flexible to switch roles for that moment and allow the helm to remain in place to put pressure on the broad and dodge shots.. Imo he was honestly bucketing too frequently which caused damage to build up and overwhelm them near the end and prevented an opportunity for them to board themselves, remaining at full speed was initially better for them here, but they needed to get repaired and send the boarder to keep pressure. Raising sails full in their broad without even visually confirming their spin and what the galleon was doing was a major mistake… Panicking at 8:00 to bucket was the biggest mistake here, should have had the cannoneer handle that bucket after the rep, and dropped sails immediately and straightened the wheel for a second there instead, they would have been impossible to hit. That 3 second loss in time and slowly turning back out into their broad is ultimately what got them sunk. Prioritizing his health over the mast catch was another major error. But yeah, ultimately it takes a lot of failures to improve efficiency, knowing this info sometimes isn’t enough due to the inexperience under pressure. Even so, nobody can be perfect. Agreed they didn’t fully check ladders when they heard the splash and were checking unnecessarily way too much. My pro tip is to not ladder guard as much and use blunderbombs to try to knock players off ladder instead, don’t stop spamming until you hear them splash back into the water, and wait a second or so between throws unless they’re very good at catching. I have had tons of 5000+ hour sweats cry at me in frustration because it’s usually impossible to board me without deckshotting. It can be more effective to have them swimming for a merm than trying to secure a kill/risking hit reg. This can allow a cannoneer to remain on the ship and ladder guard with little reason to lose time abandoning the cannon.

Yeah, everyone uploads their best wins only 😂 But skellys and ghosts sink all the time, me and my friend has sunk a ton of them, and also have been sunk a ton of times by them lol But I assure you once you get it, battling against people who don't have the curse will be a piece of cake haha

Brother I have the golden skeleton curse and still sink. Everybody does. This game is way too inconsistent and full of factors out of your control for anyone to be perfect.

maybe the first months yes but now a lot of people have them. At least in my servers

@@sloopernoobs guys i just sunk a solo slooper with the skelly curse in hourglass omg! Thanks for the encouragement

@@K4k1__it’s not too difficult to get it’s important to remember that there are going to be times that you sink you just need to remember that sinking isn’t a big loss

sloop is better than galleon in most aspects, and bro isn’t that good tbh im better and i play on 60fps with controller

True, not fully repairing was a big big mistake

@@sloopernoobsHere’s how you sink a gally. A death spiral can be bad in some cases cuz their massive fire power, what you could’ve done is raised in front of their ship and shot firebombs, then sent one boarder over; and defended your sloop against any oncoming boarders