I don't think many of you understood what I meant by the sloop having armour. Of course it doesn't just shrug cannonballs off, but since it redirects the hole, there's one less hole you can have than the alternative of not having the jail cell there.

Actual pirate fun fact: the sloop was the favored ship of most real pirates. The big ones are famous because they were status symbols of very successful and large pirate crews (who... mostly ended up caught and hanged or decapitated, like Blackbeard was). 90% of pirates and rumrunners were small crews, and small crews used sloops, for many reasons. Sloops are small, ergo, they're cheaper, easy to beach to make emergency repairs (and the beach would not make it worse), and they were incredibly adaptive: they were maneuverable and agile, fast, and could easily overtake and outrun bigger ships, and their bottoms were shallow which allowed them to dominate in shallow warm Caribbean waters and avoid hitting sand bars and coral reefs, which meant you could even take them up larger rivers to raid riverside towns. Smaller crews also meant that you get a bigger share of the loot once everything was said and done and the coin was counted out because there were less people to spread the loot around for.

Although I personally believe that any ship can be the most powerful if given the right crew, the sloops mobility and ease of access to everything makes it my favorite

I noticed that you used the Sea of Thieves ship roadmap. You’ve got my attention, I always wondered what it would be like to sail on a junk battling galleons or a man o’ war with a small army.

What's even funnier is the clowns that try and two player a brig. I was playing in a Galleon with friends when a reaper brig decided it wanted to fuck around. We basically made them trail directly behind us and then I left to board solo and sunk them. They didn't notice me do to the fact that there was too much to do. We didn't even have to fire a cannonball.

The best part about a brig is the fact that it has better maneuverability than the galleon and better fire power than the sloop. Nothing scares me more as a solo/duo sloop player than 2 cannons firing at me at the same time while one guy is still steering and/or patching their ship.

I dunno me and my friends do slay in the brig but I see your points and yes it has lost us some fights due to having only one level XD

One thing you kinda misconstrued, sloop is fastest against wind galleon is fastest with the wind, but the brig is by far the fastest in a cross wind. My buddies always run brig cause there's 3 of us, and use this to run down galleons and sloops all the time. Brig in a cross wind is the fastest moving ship configuration in the game

I don't play Sea of Thieves buuuuuuuut this is some good content.

The brig needs to be reworked to look like it does in the original concept art.

This was recommended to me, and I had no idea it was a Sea of Thieves video. I thought it was a shipost about actual Age of Sail ship classifications. Great insights, though! 👍

Sloop: Handy little roofed outdoor section to fish while waiting out a storm. Brig: Scratch ass waiting forever.

Ive crewed all 3, but as someone who doesn't do much PVP, i lean towards the brig. Considering all wind conditions it offers the best all around speed IMO. Ive yet to get run down by an overzealous sloop or galleon tryin to pillage my hauls. I prefer the brig for my PVE needs. At the end of the day...it comes down to crew skill. An average to subpar sloop crew will get drilled going toe to toe with just about any other ship with an experienced crew. Play to your ships strengths and have fun. Too many ppl obsess over meta on mp games these days

Also one of my favorite things about the sloop, you can look at the map from the place of the turning wheel, you don’t need to run down under deck to look if you still are on course, simply turn around and you can see the map

Okay but if I only have two friends on SoT who want to play, I'm going Brig still and not smelly 3 person Gally.

Yeah, the brig is effectively just a long sloop, which leave it with pretty much the same disadvantages as the sloop but without the advantages. Plus the positioning of everything is just weird (why the hell is the map on the bottom deck's bow?)

Personally, I love you sloop for one main reason, it's small, and fun to navigate as a player, the cannon balls are in a nice space, and it just feels good, the one and only reason I use the brig is because I have 2 other friends that play, and 3 person gallon is almost as stupid as 2 person brig

I really do like the brig, especially with the groups I play with. But the sloop is so amazingly designed. The quick access to cannon balls is so helpful as well as the general sturdiness.

No one is talking about that golden outro!

BRO WE NEED THE MAN’O’WAR

One thing I’ve found with the sloop is that if you drop a stronghold keg from your crows nest into the water while sailing, the explosion will launch your ship forward without too much damage. I haven’t tried this with Athena or normal kegs, but I assume that it works with a change in your spot on the ship

I think the brig is a perfectly balanced ship. Its definitely a mid class ship. If the brig had 2 lower decks it would be OP!

i love sloopin So easy to pack up and go, hide, escape, sneak up with. It love the cabin bit with the roof and it looks great.

One thing to add on, brigs take in water the fastest as you also mentioned they have no wall protection like the sloop meaning they sink heeps quicker

Hi, I'm the guy who made the screenshot of the guy (my friend Teddy) in the sloop prison cell. I got excited when I saw it in the video. Great job on the video, this is all I wanted to say, cheers!

3:15 best ending

Honestly, I mainly use a brig because I usually have 2 other friends to play with, and up until now, when I’m making this comment, I haven’t thought on 3-peopling a galleon. I should honestly start 3-manning a gally so I can have the advantages of it, while also having an extra spot at the ready at all times. Tomorrow, I wanna give this a shot, since my friends, who’ve been playing the game for, I’d say, a year, have yet to realize the disadvantages of a brig. I usually worked around the bullshit sail by raising it just enough to where I can see. For the rest, though, I can see why a sloop or Gally could be favored. Thank you for making me realize the brig isn’t worth my time! Hopefully Rare revamps the brig, like how they added a bed to a sloop.

Quick and concise. Love the video. I will tend towards picking the brig however because I usually have more than 1 other person I play with online and my friends are oblivious to people tucking on a Galleon. The Brig is plain and flat, and when we're inevitably boarded, the open area makes it harder for our opponents to hide and heal.

I would like to point out that having only one leave under it’s easier to bucket water which is huge

i thought this was an actual essay on why one real physical ship was better than another real physical ship but this is also great

They removed the cage for the sloop

2:04 the galleon is only fastest with the wind when it is directly from the stern or near to it, most other times with the wind the brig is fastest, I agree with everything else here and the fact that the sloop (except with a group of 3 cause 3 man galleon is for stinkers) is better but idk why you ignored that fact

the only reasons I usually run brig is bc I have 2 friends along with me, and one of them is an idiot who needs to be kept in the brig all to much

Brig has a great personality lmao

Excellent video! I never thought of that blindside on the ship and how it could be used for your advantage

Sloop is nice it just makes me dizzy while the brig doesn't, and I don't have enough friends for a galleon lmao

About the wind thing. If the wind is coming in sideways (either side, left or right) and both masts are turned that way, the brig has the highest top speed of any ship, and by a quite noticble margin. Ive caught up to many running reapers and escaped many crews i simply am not skilled enough to fight using this method So many people dont know it exists and will run away and give you wind advantage.

The Vsauce Inter had me dying lol

This is the first video I have seen from you and I thought you were gonna be talking about irl ships but this is arguably better

Don’t even gotta watch the video, I agree entirely.

I agree with all of this. I used to play with two other people and we hated the brig. We preferred playing a man down when only two were online so we could have the sloop.

The sloop is so slow but I'm a solo player who likes sailing through rocks so sloop it is.

I remember watching this vid a couple months ago and it had only 5k views, nice work man

Legit thought you were talking about actual pirate history for a sec at the start 😭 I was even agreeing since generally pirates favored smaller crafts like the sloop! Good video (:

They should make more 1-2 player ship variants. Sloop is the favorite of most, because you often play without friends. I think they could also buff the Brig by making sail management less punishing. I don't say increase its top speed, but increase its medium speed (when sails are not completely aligned to the wind), to potentially give it an advantage in battles, where you don't pay as much attention to sails, and makes it easier to solo with it.

That last DarkSouls meme was good enough for me to suscribe. Thanks for the video.

not to mention the fact that the sloop has everything you need to sail in one area where you only need to walk 2 steps to reach everything from the wheel allowing you partner to fire cannons without having to do other things in between

that's got to be the best outro I've ever seen

Oh dude I wish they would add more ships like a junk ship or man o war

So, here’s how I’m thinking one could easily fix a lot of the brigs issues: 1. Raise the gunwales and make it so that they can take holes so all the damage isn’t going into the hull. 2. Raise the mainsail slightly and maybe compensate you making the foremast closer in height to the main (seriously, it would looks so much better if it didn’t just have the sloop mast copy and pasted to the bow. And yes I know that’s the original location of the crows nest.) 3. Make it the fastest ship in the game, it’s clearly got the hull shape for it. The galleon should not be that fast no matter how many sails it has. They were notorious for being big, slow chonkers as they were widest at the waterline (which is on the model in game). This is good for their roles as cargo ships and to a lesser extent ship of the lines, but terrible for pirating. The only pirate galleon that I can think of was Tom Cutters’ “Devils Reach”, and even then there is a lot of debate about her. Plus, the Reach pretty much just collected illegal taxes near Cape Cod instead of chasing anything down. There is also the Golden Hind, but I don’t count her as she was technically still a military warship iirc and just captured whatever got too close. Tangent over. 3. Move the brig to the bow and have the map table just behind it.

One thing that is problematic with the brig is the fact that all it takes is a single person getting knocked off or one balled for you to imediately turn into a worse sloop. A single person cannot bail and repair a brig efficiently with more than a few holes. Which means if one of you is dead, the other has to come off cannons to help with reps which gives the enemy broadside advantage to just keep pelting you. Meanwhile with a galleon if one of you gets knocked off or one balled, the fact that it has 2 decks means that it won't sink nearly as fast as a brig which means your cannoneers can keep shooting and the helm can keep driving while the bilge keeps the water under control until the flex respawns or mermaids back.

I honestly love the look of the concept brig in the image you show MUCH, MUCH more than what we actually got.

THE ENDING XD

the only thing the brig is good at is being a running reaper

When I saw the title, I was shure I was about to hear about complicated physics of naval engineering and architecture

Never played sea of thieves but this man has convinced me to buy it hope to see you on the seas one day soon.

As a solo slipper, I agree, also, the brig sinks faster than the other two ships

So while I overall agree and totally love my sloop I think theres one valid argument for the brigg besides just actually having a third friend you need to play with. The brigg got 2 Masts while if the sloop gets chainshotted it completely stops with the brigg you more or less got an extra live regarding your mobility. And to those who say "if you hit one mast on the brigg you will be good enough to hit the other one to." Well most people in sea of thieves are not atleast thasts my experience.

Counterpoint: I like big ship, so while your points are valid, i may use bigger ship from time to time. thank you for your time

This game is actually pretty accurate when it comes to a lot of the mechanics involving ships. Even in irl Pirates favored sloops because they were quick, could go in shallower waters, and weren’t as prone to capsizing as other bigger ships like brigs or galleons.

I agree that the sloop is the best ship , nothing is more feared out on the seas then a sloop that knows what it is doing . With there smaller size and that they can turn practically instantly I say the most annoying thing to fight against is a sloop because they can just go around anywhere when your fighting them. While other ships are only better because of cannons and player sizes. When you hit a chain shot on an gallon it’s over and same with brig since it takes a hot minute to fix the masts. I can keep going on saying buffs and debuffs but in the end sloop is very powerful.

the sloop capstan is offcenter tho

This was great i love your sense of humour

That shield six months later is ''amaze''

Always loved the sloop. That being said, I’ve never played in a team with more than two competent crew members

Sloooooooooop just sounds better

Hey bro big fan of yours, I was wondering what you thought of the dark warsmith ship set.

Hey there is a big community of pirates who have a discord and support a sea of thieves podcast and us scalywags really enjoy your content on sea of thieves. So keep up the good work! (Pirates really like this).

That ending got me👏👏👏 good video

I was willing to hear you out on why you think but I believe you're wrong and let me explain why. Speed - Most of the time you will not be sailing against or with the wind directly, basically in any direction that isn't head on the brig wins out(which is most of the time btw, source: captain blubbler, falcore, absolute pixel and a few others mentioned this before). Maneuverability - In combat, running only the back sail gives you almost the same movement as a sloop and similar speed. Granted turning still isn't as good and there is more wheel turns but it's completely manageable by one person. I'm the helmsman of my crew and often solo drive it, a good helmsman shouldn't just be sitting there on the wheel expecting callouts. You should be hopping on and off the wheel, checking the map for accurate headings watching for rocks, understanding when to use the captain's curl on the sails for vision and even adjusting sails in combat for you two people on cannons because steadier slower speeds give you more movement AND steady shots from your two cannons. I can't even help much with ONE sail on a galleon but I can easily solo run a brig and it's not too unreasonable for one person to unanchor in a worst case scenario. If vision is your concern then you probably just need to get better at sailing because it's worse on a galleon imo and not *that* much better on a sloop(either way you shouldn't be sitting there doing nothing but holding the wheel anyway) Power - Two cannons and an extra person on a ship where it only takes one person to stay on board repairing/driving(unless you're in a storm) is insanely good. The sloop cannot take a full on direct fight if both broadside each other, it will just loose and the galleon can't spare any extra people for boarding because of the amount of babysitting the ship needs. Sure the galleon has MORE fire power but the amount of times they have people on more than one or two cannons is rare if we're being real, unless it's a one sided fight you'd win on any ship anyway. I think the brig has the power to be the most aggressive, the strongest broadside in hectic situations where repairs and boarding needs to be considered and statistically you'll have the best speed to chase anyone who runs on top of it with all the different angles the wind RNG can come at. HP - This one is a little more debatable but the brig is easily the best ship in terms of bailing out water. It does struggle a bit compared to the sloop for the extra holes it can get on one deck but I think the extra HP does come in handy and sometimes wins out in fights. It's a fair trade off for a ship that is otherwise better in any other way. I wouldn't say the the brig is worse or better in this regard but rather than it has advantages/disadvantages that make it kinda even with sloop/galleon. Sloop is lower hp easier to repair, galleon is higher hp much harder to repair. On a similar note here, others in your comment pointed out that hitting the sloop brig doesn't negate the shot but rather just displaces the hole somewhere else. Mostly something you wouldn't even care or think about, feels kinda like you're just looking for any little point in favour of the sloop if you gotta use something like that because it basically means nothing imo. Not to say you can't easily finesse a brig if you're two chads on a sloop or that sloops auto lose the fight, a lot of it comes down to how you play, defenders advantage and many other tricks but I think in sloop vs brig, the brig has a slight advantage in people and fire power. The sloop's slight advantage in turning isn't that amazing unless you're fighting a much weaker crew. EDIT: You did make me reconsider one thing though. I think as far as noob crews go, the sloop is better. The brig has the most value but you do need a competent and experienced crew or at least a good helmsman to make use of it and get that value. It's much easier to get value out of the sloop and to a lesser extent the galleon for noobs. --- Unrelated note: The best thing about this video is jumping from the crow's nest with a keg to board another ship, creative boarding tips like that are amazing. If this video was JUST that I'd say it'd be a 10/10 ! That's honestly genius.

"Great personality!?" hilarious!

Just paused the vid to comment that I laughed harder than I prolly should’ve when you played the vsauce music lmao good one

A sloop is also better because you can see the map from the wheel deck

I believe a way the devs could implement new ships without drastically changing the game is adding variants to each ship. For example the brig, they can bring in a 3 manned ‘Junk’ that has bow and stern cannons instead of broadside and is fastest in cross winds. Or maybe for the sloop they can add another 2 man ship the ‘flute’, which on spawn has barrels that are stocked with supplies, it isn’t particularly the fastest in any category but it has gunpowder barrels/fire barrels that can be thrown off the back to deter chasers

my only problem with the brig is its really hard to board and drop anchor (against a crew thats slightly more experienced), since the top deck is just a plane which doesn't have that much cover

I tried to drive on a brig and my god I had to leave and run to the front of the mast to check if there's a rock every minute

I would argue it's the best ship in the fleet given my experience with galleon crews.

Went solo sloop vs 2 brigs in an alliance. Thanks for showing me the places to keg. Pissed off about 6 people that session. Wouldn't have won if they went Gally+Sloop combo.

I've been playing for about a week now and this feels like I'm being radicalized, I mean, I only solo sloop so I completely agree with no frame of reference, but I'll take your word for it. Great video man.

I dont play the game, but these vids really accidentally taught me about sail ships better than many other ytbers, good job

Great video

I just googled Brig to refresh my memory of how the ship is in reality. The Devs must seriously hate reading, or feel a need to tweak everything.

like on any ship the trick with the brig is delegation of duties, with a full crew of 3, you have one pilot, one lookout(keeps and eye out for rocks and enemies on the top deck, manages the anchor and trims sails) and the quartermaster(organizes barrels, coocks food, does non combat repairs, and checks course), ofc some of these duties are done together when possible, but the extra manpower alone goes a long way

I knew the brig was bad to start with but you made me realize so much more

Ones funner, one allows for another friend and less awkward silence's, and I prefer one over the other any day since one Chainshot completely immobilizes me on the other :)

I don’t need reasons to have an incredibly biased opinion

Great for telling me this. I will now invite my 2 friends for a 3 man sloop

I want a ship that I can crew myself if I need to, but also one that has more firepower and can take more of a beating than a Sloop. A Galleon you’re kind of fucked if your crew leaves, but on a Brig it isn’t that big of a deal. I also found that Galleon crews are more disorganized than Brig crews. I plan to eventually get a Galleon when I master soloing a Brig, but I’m not ready yet.

The brig is just faster than the galleon in crosswinds unless your sailing in still waters then the galleon is faster.

I fully agree with Bacxaber. It's hard to sink a sloop that has 2 men on it if they are atleast half competent. Sloop only has 2 holes in the front on each side that are a danger. A brig has what 6 holes on one side and more then double in length (16 holes in total on a brig). I mean people, especially some good streamers have been solo slooping vs any ships and won. It's so easy to scoup water from a sloop. As mentioned here, Galleon does have way more strength then Brig, not just due to 2 more cannons +1 more crew, but you can put 50 holes on it and still no water is filling.

I loved the outro!

If I could 3 man a sloop I wouldn’t hesitate

The brig can also chainshot it's own mast.

My experience with the Brigg was saying "Where are we going, I can't see sh*t" to my crew as I steered

i love how he thought everyone was gonna hate hit for this, but he reached the sloop lovers instead

Welp, I am now forever only fighting with enemies to the left now, unless it's unavoidable. I had never considered the fact that there are fewer potential holes. But when I think about it, almost all the victories against overwhelming odds I've had, the enemies were to my left.

Bro the end tho 3:15

The brig is also worse because every ship has blind spots, basically places where your canons can’t hit, with the sloop the ship is small so shots towards it will hit the back where they basically worthless or miss in the front, and the gallon has the middle deck and 4 cannons means you’ll do insane damage to them causing them to focus on repairs in those blind spots, for a Brig since every shot will put a hole that fills water those blind spots basically as free damage areas and they also act as great places to take down sails and since you only have 2 cannons, you won’t do enough damage to force them to focus on repairs

What is the crows nest kick? Also, what do you recommend if I got 2 other friends who want to play.

I do agree with a lot of your points however, when it comes to bucketing water you can just sit on the stairs of the brig look down pickup water look up and throw the water without moving your character. Another big one for me is it takes much less time to get from the top deck to bottom deck without using the winding staircase of the sloop and the spread out staircase of the galleon.