Weird Boarding Result

[Michadon]

Hi all.

I have noticed a weird, well bug I suppose, when, playing as the Netherlands, I engaged a Maroccan navy. I tried to board a galley (about 30 men on it and 4 guns on the front) with a 5th rate ship of the line (almost 200 men on it). Having suffered no hits and no casualties I started boarding. And lost. And the Maroccan galley lost not one single sailor. I thought this strange at first but thought it was a one time thing. So, in another battle, I boarded three of those galleys simultaniously with three 5th rates I was shocked to see that it happened again on all three 5th rates!

Has anyone else experienced this, or a similar, bug?

[Unhappy Moose]

If you watch closely while boarding, you will probably notice that your sailors jump to the other ship. You might also notice that half your sailors will miss and jump into the water, while the other half will hit the deck and die instantly as your fifth rate frigate is 5 meters higher than a Maroccan galley. Boarding in ETW is quite broken, I suggest only using it when your ship is smaller than the enemy ship (they climb then in stead of jumping). I think this is fixed in Shogun 2, not sure about NTW. However, it's a bug and it's outside Darth's power I'm afraid.

[Michadon]

I figured as much. They don't jump in the water much, but basically jump themselves to death on the enemy deck. I noticed this (before darthmod even) on ships of equal (or near-equal) high decks, where some sailors also jump and as a result will die upon hitting the deck. The solution is easy though: shoot them to bits from afar (especially easy against galleys). Ah well, too bad it can't be solved.

[Michadon]

New development: I got a weird boarding result again. This time, as Portugal. I boarded an Maratha 5th rate with my Galleon. The Galleon had more men on it. However, I lost. The losing, I can live with, it is the how htat bothers me.

This time I was the one being boarded, so no suicidal sailors this time, jumping to their death. However, this time the enemy jumped onto my ship and massacred the sailors on the galleon, halving their number, and losing about 5 themselves (against a hundred Portugese sailors).

Am I the only one who think this is strange? Are there other who experienced the same situation?

Besides this weird result I also find that the ship which has the 'winning slightly' (or above) situation, always wins when t comes to boarding. Even with less men. I find this odd.

[Leatherneck918]

Boarding DOES NOT WORK RIGHT IN ETW at all.
Just sink the other ships or uses chain shot on the sails. DO NOT BOARD OR LET THE ENEMY BOARD YOU by getting to close to your ship.

[Michadon]

Why is it that it doens't work? I haven't had such weird boarding results in vanilla ETW, well, some, but not as extreme as here.

[Tango12345]

DME ships have larger crews, so more die when these problems occur.

[Michadon]

I see. Well. THe rest of the mod is awesome though, so I think I can live with it.

[KERA_AK]

Dunno if you can make up some personal testes and report back to us For exempel to play custom sea battles and play with unit size on default.. with 3-4 diff ships and then re create it with the X 2x units size or whatever it might be.,.. and take a look on the numbers betwin em.. before and after. I would gladly like to see a test like that Michadon if u may have the time to do so

I havent installed DarthMod Empire yet so i cannot test it my self yet

BR AN.

[Michadon]

I may have some time to do some tests, if I feel like it.

I do have another question though: on what is the 'winning/losing slightly' based? And what affects the morale of units?

[KERA_AK]

I may have some time to do some tests, if I feel like it.

I do have another question though: on what is the 'winning/losing slightly' based? And what affects the morale of units?

Ohhh.. this is something i have never known the day of the release, Just keept my hopes up and prayed lol.

But from a logical point of view, Do we have a General charakter in our fleet in the battle? How much have our ship been beaten and damage? What the crew size... how many are left to fight... The ship crew experiance. Also how many times have it been hit by grasp ammo... long ago or just few sec/min ago?

Who is the enemy ship it self, moral and experiance.. greeny or Vets? Also maybe.. Is there General alive still or is our General /Admiral at sea dead? Any of our ships close by or far away?

This are the few things i been thinking atleast since the release of the game. Vanilla played or mod vice

But the 100% Correct answers and calculations i unforune do not have, I hope some one else talent person would seed some great nice lights on those queastions to us all

Goodnight everyone.

BR AN.