Trade Galleons are massively over powered. Today in a test battle i lost as an admirals 3rd rate to a pirate galleon. Granted i handled the third rate poorly but still. To be historically accurate Galleons should have their reload times increased dramatically as they were not gunships but boarding platforms. Also pirates should not be able to build a ship that can challenge a Ship of the line head to head. Their are several historical examples of English frigates taking treasure galleons as prizes. Also can anyone clarify what exactly the stats mean i mean a galleon has "370 Firepower" im unsure what that means except that it has more fire power than a 2nd rate SOL but 20 less guns is that fire power per gun like a galleon has bigger guns? which would be accurate since the Spanish had 36pdrs not found in most other navies. However they didn't train their crews to reload they were expected to fire one volley then close and board.