in the trailer, why is Napoleon burning a ship of the line?

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

Could this be a message from CA that if you play your cards right, Old Nappie lands in England?

And is that ship HMS Victory? It certainly looks big enough to be her.

I can't wait to take Nelson prisoner.

Vive L' Empereur !

[pansarskott]

I think it shows Napoleon returning from Elba in 1815, but if he burned his ship(s) i dont know. Maybye to show his men that there is no way back..

I dont think its historical...

[Lord of Lost Socks]

It shows Napoelon if he would've succeeded with all his plans. And that ship is HMS Victory. It says so on the ship.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

I don't think the ship is French, I think it's British.

Britain was a sea-power and by burning a ship that size can only mean one thing : Nappie has Landed !

[Maяcel]

if you look closely you´ll see a sign that says, London something miles...
he successfully invaded England

[S-te-Fan]

On the back of the ship there's written "HMS Victory" and when the soldiers pass napoleon you can see "to london 54 miles" or something so it's an alternate history.

[Lord of the Drunk Penguin]

Oh and I noticed that Napoleon looks old in the trailer but not that fat as he aged in real history, this means that those constant victories and epic battles kept him in "shape".

He looks bitter and exhausted though. And his gaze is that of a man who's seen hundreds of thousands of men getting killed , even more men then he saw in real life. I'm not sure that I like this Napoleon very much.

And I imagine it will be difficult as hell to defeat a huge revolutionary France with a humongous Army that only grows larger and larger as it eats away countries, governments and royal dynasties.

And what of the United States? Even if Britain falls to Nappie , there's still the U.S left to conquer.
It looks more and more like a nightmarish World War II scenario that it isn't even funny no more.

[Hobbes]

It's Victory. It's written on the ship.

[General_Meevious]

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Victory


Doesn't look like any other ship I've seen... must be the Victory.

[finian1712]

It was HMS Victory he must have taken England after a scuccesful cross-channel invasion

[MehemtAli_Pasha]

i thought he landed on Britain, burned the ships as a way of telling his soldiers that they either die, or conquer the British island.

[Brain_in_a_vat]

Bloody hell! It says 'Victory' clearly on the stern of the ship!

[Orko]

i thought he landed on Britain, burned the ships as a way of telling his soldiers that they either die, or conquer the British island.

Why would he do that? Warships are expensive and valuable and the French probably need their navy, and he probably wants to go back once he finishes. He's not going to stay there for the rest of his life, you know.

[l33tl4m3r]

The battle of Trafalgar had the HMS Victory helping secure a strategic win that broke the ability of the French to invade Britain; Napolean scrapped the plans to do so after the loss.

I would assume they are hinting that the battle went another way and Britain was invaded.

[MehemtAli_Pasha]

Why would he do that? Warships are expensive and valuable and the French probably need their navy, and he probably wants to go back once he finishes. He's not going to stay there for the rest of his life, you know.

i thought it was then coolest part of the video. it shows how fierce Napoleon is, he either takes the British island, or die tryin it's the whole purpose of that scene really.

it happened before when the Muslim Empire landed Grenada, the Muslim leader burned the ships so that they either conquer the Iberian Peninsula, or not!

[driecken]

Could be old bonay planned to crash the parte, in old mother England.

The burning of the ship could be a message to his men, that its win or die, no retreat.

[I-the-gamer]

Well it's a symbol, but not "conquer or die trying", but "HMS VICTORY? NO VICTORY FOR YOU ENGLAND LOL!"

[l33tl4m3r]

Well, I don't know why burning the British HMS Victory would be a sign of win or die trying;

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He has clearly invaded Britain and seems to be destroying the flagship that was a symbol of the naval power that previously prevented him from invading.

The ships in the background, still afloat, are more likely to be the French fleet, still intact.

[Septimius The Bold]

As has been stated here ad nauseum, that is the Victory (not one of his own) and Nappy has invaded Britain. He would burn the ship as a signal that the British fleet is done for. He can't "recycle " it as it has run aground and thus useless. Think of those beached whales.

[grbo]

What about he didn't "burn it down" himself, but it "simply" got destroyed during the prior sea battle ?