I've watched a few videos and read a few forum posts on capturing ships and this was by far and away the clearest and most comprehensive guide. Not any of the other guides I saw mentioned the boarding preparation at all lol. Thanks for the help.
+McLeod Thanks so much! The boarding preparation is, i feel, super important so i'm shocked to hear other tutorials havnt mentioned it. Glad i was able to help you out. :) Thanks for watching.
if you shoot slightly above the ship were you don't see splinters fly off the armor doesn't do anything and you can snipe the crew or fire into the windows in the stern and it sweeps the deck
That was super helpful. I had no idea you could demast a ship! This games combat is really in depth with demasting and even how your shots can do different damages with how the ships angled. I just want to thank you for doing my suggested video! I'm going to go try to capture my first ship today!
+Spartan IV 001 Yeah, the combat is very detailed. for instance, each cannon shot is track by the game and a single shot can penetrate through the hull, kill some crew, ricochet off a cannon and burst through the other side of the ship. Its crazy awesome. Also, hitting an enemies cannon is the best way to start a fire on a ship, and watching one explode when it's magazine catches is pretty amazing. There is alot more going on beneath the surface than one might expect.
Another great video. The demonstration of taking out the mast was especially nice. however, it is not really necessary to de-mast as long as he is slowed down enough.
You can actually damage the crew pretty easily with grape without taking down the armor. The crew hitbox is right above the gunnels on the side of the ship. You can usually clear a trader lynx's decks after a broadside or two.
What i love doing is when my opponent and I are going parallel to each other, I cut right in front of it with the intention of them ramming into my side and breaking their bowsprit, making it go much slower when it does break
Here is a tip for capturing cutter sized ships, no need to remove the armour from the ship, just load up grape shots and fire it into the open deck/side and kill the crew off, after that a free capture WHITOUT the broken minigame :) cheers!.
I hope you keep on posting more helpful vids. Its very good for new players getting started and getting rid of the basic cutter. Hopefully soon for me :) I got one more question off the topic of this vid, but is it worth to start crafting ships from the very beginning or do you guys have any other suggestions how to get started with earning money?
+Litera Patens Thanks for watching, and i certainly do plan on keeping the vids coming :) As for your question, yes...If crafting is something that is going to interest you, the sooner you start working on it the better. Crafting has a seperate XP system, so even if you were the highest rank in the game, you couldnt craft much without levelling it up first. The only problem is gathering the resources to craft....you can capture ships and break them up in port for some parts needed for ship building (also breaking ships gives you a chance to get some rare drops like ship blueprints and crafting notes, which are required to craft the larger more powerful vessels). Or you could save up a bunch of gold and purchase a bunch of raw materials (capturing traders works too as they often carry raw materials) and then start crafting from there. The only problem with capturing alot and breaking ships, is you get more gold and resources out of it, but less XP, sinking ships gives more xp than capturing so it's a balancing act. I'm going to be crafting alot more soon, but first im just trying to rank up for a bit. Crafting takes a bit of getting used to and im no expert at it by any means, havnt done much of it but hope that helps a little.
+AxeManAnt Thanks for the answer! So for me i also decided to rank up first but take the opportunities of capturing traderships as often as possible to create a pile resources in my outpost. Do you have any experience in trading resources? Some told me it is not really time-money efficient compared to missions etc.
I have very little trading experience. Playing Elite dangerous for 6 months killed any desire to do any trading in any game, lol. The economy in Naval action is very bare bones at the minute, so trading isnt very intuitive, and in my experience not too profitable right now. Some people do like it and seem to do ok with it, but mostly it is as you said, it's probably better just to do missions and get involved in battles, than trading. Trying to level up means you need to do alot that already earns you gold anyway, i find that in grinding levels, i am never really short of gold unless i purchase a high level, powerful ship which cost a ton.
Hey, to begin with great video. But do you have any idea what is wrong if u capture a ship in my case a AI ship in a mission. But it doesn't pop up as a vessel so i can't sail it or sell? would be thankfull for awnsers.
Im pretty sure chain shot was efficient against masts because when the chain wraps around the mast the balls turn and smash simultaneously into it at such a velocity that would almost surely knock it down
Aim much higher with grape, if you are hitting the people on the open deck you dont even need to bring the side armor down. Even better, grape the ship from the rear. Even rate ships have pretty big weaknesses in the armor in the back and your grape shot will go down the length of the ship killing huge number of crew
+DrunkenSloth I was part of a fleet that destroyed a brig, lynx and cerberus last night. But they were npcs, if you mean player brigs, then no, i missed the action :( haha
demasting target (when you are using small ship) is sort of waste of time. Just blast his armor and grapeshot his crew, get his sails down below 70 to give yourself a bit of speed advantage (chainshot from the front or from the rear when crossing his course works much better than shooting from side) and then just push him against the wind ... sail alongside him and then start turning into him pushing his prow, he'll start to turn to evade and when he turns against the wind you'll be both going slow enough for boarding. It is a lot faster than demasting and it works on everything you can capture with early ships (except for Lynx, that thing is just too fast and maneuverable and can maneuver against the wind without problems, you'd have to demast that)
+sagand As you said yourself, Lynx's need demasting,, I de-masted a lynx in this video :p And you're right, generally, if i was capturing a ship, it'd be rare for me to try to de-mast, especailly against small ships like you say, however this was a tutorial and was designed to show people it can be done, and one of the ways in which to do it. However your method is certainly viable and its one of the reasons i love NA so much, there are multiple ways to approach and deal with any circumstance, whether you're fighting to sink or capture.
where can you find easy traders, I, ve just bought a snow but I have to find money to equip it with guns so I would like to find some easy rewarding prizes for the basic cutter, thanks in advance
Thank you for the video - very helpful - couple questions though - 1.What does sending to Admiralty do? 2. Can you put the captured cargo back on the trader and send it to outpost? 3. Can you sell the captured cargo/is that the same as "send to chat" Thank you in advance!
+Arthur Chapman Thanks for watching :) 1. Nothing yet, hasn't been implemented 2. no, if a captured trader is carrying too much cargo for your main ship then you must sail it to port or abandon some of the cargo. however, if you send your main ship to outpost and sail the trader, you can teleport back with it. 3. yes you can sell the capped cargo, but sending to chat is merely showing others what you have, not a means of gifting or selling cargo. Hope that helps.
Just keep bracing until the enemy braces. Then wait till the last second (or better, 0,5 second, just before the timer runs out) and hit the Attack button. Easy win guaranteed.
I'll give it a go. I know there are a few tricks for the boarding mini game that I didn't cover in this video, but I hadn't heard your method, I'll try it out next time I'm capping a ship, thanks :)
How do you like being a Pirate. How is the pirate to pirate community working out. Currently I'm really tempted to go over to the pirate side but I want to know more about it before I take the plunge.
+lexafied3d Pirates, are a little more chaotic than the brits, which is the only other faction i have experience with. But i do feel a little more free as a pirate, i can do whatever i want. As for the community, pirates have been working together alot lately to capture ports, so if you can get in with those guys organising those battles, its alot of fun, but you also have trolls, who attack everyone, since pirates can attack other pirates, but it hasnt been too bad so far. Like everything, it can be good or bad, really depends on your playstyle and preferences :)
If you're using a smaller ship that is faster and more manoeuvrable, what you want to do is to stay behind the 1st rate at all times and fire broadsides into its stern, making the balls go lengthwise through the entire ship causing a lot of damage, when the HP is low you can start using grape shot to mow down the crew and then board it when it goes down a sufficient ammount
Is it financially viable to capture a ship? I mean, can you sell it after you sent it to port? And how much would you earn from selling the small trader captured in the video? Thanks in advance!
Capturing traders is a great way to earn extra money over simply sinking them. As not only can you sell them in port, you can also sell any cargo they were carrying too. But bear in mind, you gain less XP from capturing atm to outright sinking so if you focus on capturing traders you will gain plenty money, but not much xp.
+AxeManAnt Thanks for that quick answer! Do you have a rough estimate on how much more gold you would make over sinking it? And maybe even how much XP you would sacrifice?
the gold and xp you make per ship kill or capture varies wildly from ship to ship and also depends on your ship. It also matter if you're attacking much bigger ships......If in some impossible scenario you managed to sink a 3rd rate whilst in the cutter, you would gain ungodly amounts of gold and xp. Way more than if you sunk it whilst in a 3rd rate yourself. It's this system that makes predicting gold and xp rewards really tricky as there isnt a concrete number that i can point to. However, an educated guess would be, that you'd probably earn half the XP, but half as much again in gold. However, if you were to focus on levelling for now and getting in a bigger, more poweful ship, engaging in large fleet battles, port battles, and grouping with others against larger fleets and vessels will probably earn you more than just capturing. So you can be flexible. Sorry i couldnt provide more concrete numbers.
+AxeManAnt No, that's great, thank you! So I should probably go for max XP anyway... I believe you mentioned in another video, that grinding missions is best for that? (Haven't bought the game yet, but definitely will, once I have a little more time... Maybe as soon as tonight/tomorrow)
to start off, yeah...grinding missions is the way to go....if you're frugal with your money then you'll find by the time youve ranked up a few times you'll have tons of it anyway....enough to move on to a nice ship anyway. Hope to see you in-game :)
+aryko1 Sounds like it was abit too damaged, even once captured, a ship still takes on water, and it's possible for them to be a lost cause, even if you win. Try not to damage the ship too much, and avoid hitting parts of it that are usually below the waterline. It's all experience though, and I was the same when i started, got a nice privateer capture, and was admiring it before ending the battle, and suddenly it sunk lol. Thanks for watching and im glad this video helped you :)
I got two questions : How to rebind keyboard keys and how do you bring up that little map wich shows all the ships in a fight not the minimap . Thx for answering .
Yeah i found it and changes the bindings . Ive seen a big battle and the clanleader was opening a map where u cld see all the enemy ships and yours too and mark them . Thx for answering !
I am considering buying this game, but the reviews are kind of pushing me away.... especially the review about the closed group of russian PvP'ers and the lack of fucks the Devs seem to give.
Bring down their armor before using grape.. Best advice in a awesome vid! Thanks Axe keep it up man!
+Krusty McNugget you're welcome, Thanks for watching :)
I know this vid is pretty old and you probably don't even play NA anymore but I want to thank you for the tutorial.
I've watched a few videos and read a few forum posts on capturing ships and this was by far and away the clearest and most comprehensive guide. Not any of the other guides I saw mentioned the boarding preparation at all lol. Thanks for the help.
+McLeod Thanks so much! The boarding preparation is, i feel, super important so i'm shocked to hear other tutorials havnt mentioned it. Glad i was able to help you out. :) Thanks for watching.
if you shoot slightly above the ship were you don't see splinters fly off the armor doesn't do anything and you can snipe the crew or fire into the windows in the stern and it sweeps the deck
That was super helpful. I had no idea you could demast a ship! This games combat is really in depth with demasting and even how your shots can do different damages with how the ships angled. I just want to thank you for doing my suggested video! I'm going to go try to capture my first ship today!
+Spartan IV 001 Yeah, the combat is very detailed. for instance, each cannon shot is track by the game and a single shot can penetrate through the hull, kill some crew, ricochet off a cannon and burst through the other side of the ship. Its crazy awesome. Also, hitting an enemies cannon is the best way to start a fire on a ship, and watching one explode when it's magazine catches is pretty amazing. There is alot more going on beneath the surface than one might expect.
Another great video. The demonstration of taking out the mast was especially nice. however, it is not really necessary to de-mast as long as he is slowed down enough.
i wish they replace the mini-game with actual boarding.
I wish it was easier to bord period. the speed is too high
You can actually damage the crew pretty easily with grape without taking down the armor. The crew hitbox is right above the gunnels on the side of the ship. You can usually clear a trader lynx's decks after a broadside or two.
What i love doing is when my opponent and I are going parallel to each other, I cut right in front of it with the intention of them ramming into my side and breaking their bowsprit, making it go much slower when it does break
Your tutorial was really helpful, managed to capture a traders brig with your methods.
+Gijs Post great to hear! glad the video helped you :) congrats on the brig!
Thank you for these videos, they are much needed and appreciated. keep it up
+Max Sanders you're welcome, glad they are helping :)
Here is a tip for capturing cutter sized ships, no need to remove the armour from the ship, just load up grape shots and fire it into the open deck/side and kill the crew off, after that a free capture WHITOUT the broken minigame :) cheers!.
I hope you keep on posting more helpful vids. Its very good for new players getting started and getting rid of the basic cutter. Hopefully soon for me :) I got one more question off the topic of this vid, but is it worth to start crafting ships from the very beginning or do you guys have any other suggestions how to get started with earning money?
+Litera Patens Thanks for watching, and i certainly do plan on keeping the vids coming :) As for your question, yes...If crafting is something that is going to interest you, the sooner you start working on it the better. Crafting has a seperate XP system, so even if you were the highest rank in the game, you couldnt craft much without levelling it up first. The only problem is gathering the resources to craft....you can capture ships and break them up in port for some parts needed for ship building (also breaking ships gives you a chance to get some rare drops like ship blueprints and crafting notes, which are required to craft the larger more powerful vessels). Or you could save up a bunch of gold and purchase a bunch of raw materials (capturing traders works too as they often carry raw materials) and then start crafting from there. The only problem with capturing alot and breaking ships, is you get more gold and resources out of it, but less XP, sinking ships gives more xp than capturing so it's a balancing act. I'm going to be crafting alot more soon, but first im just trying to rank up for a bit. Crafting takes a bit of getting used to and im no expert at it by any means, havnt done much of it but hope that helps a little.
+AxeManAnt Thanks for the answer! So for me i also decided to rank up first but take the opportunities of capturing traderships as often as possible to create a pile resources in my outpost. Do you have any experience in trading resources? Some told me it is not really time-money efficient compared to missions etc.
I have very little trading experience. Playing Elite dangerous for 6 months killed any desire to do any trading in any game, lol. The economy in Naval action is very bare bones at the minute, so trading isnt very intuitive, and in my experience not too profitable right now. Some people do like it and seem to do ok with it, but mostly it is as you said, it's probably better just to do missions and get involved in battles, than trading. Trying to level up means you need to do alot that already earns you gold anyway, i find that in grinding levels, i am never really short of gold unless i purchase a high level, powerful ship which cost a ton.
+AxeManAnt I see. So it is, "Ahoy my brave sailors gain me victories, gold and honor!" For the swedish crown :)
haha, yes. until you meet the Pirate hordes and we take all your gold and ships ;) lol hope to see you ingame soon :p
trader snow has side guns but only 3 per side and the trader brig has rear guns 2 i think
Hey, to begin with great video. But do you have any idea what is wrong if u capture a ship in my case a AI ship in a mission. But it doesn't pop up as a vessel so i can't sail it or sell? would be thankfull for awnsers.
Great stuff AxeManAnt. I should really have watched this prior to tackling my first trader...sank it sadly. Now I know.
chain shot was to rip sails and break yard arms, bar shot was used to knock of masts.
Im pretty sure chain shot was efficient against masts because when the chain wraps around the mast the balls turn and smash simultaneously into it at such a velocity that would almost surely knock it down
Aim much higher with grape, if you are hitting the people on the open deck you dont even need to bring the side armor down. Even better, grape the ship from the rear. Even rate ships have pretty big weaknesses in the armor in the back and your grape shot will go down the length of the ship killing huge number of crew
+captainandrey Yes, especially after taking down the armor down to zero.
can you capture ships in port missions or quests or do you have to find ships at sea?
+Brody Davis you can capture ships anywhere
AxeManAnt are you going to do videos covering major patch changes? That would be awesome.
+Scrib Jelly Yes. when major updates hit, i will be doing videos covering the changes and bug fixes. :)
Got excited when I saw actual crew on the ship. Then the mini game poped up.
What does the Fk, Bk and Ok mean in the minigame window?
+Ghroznak Fk for muskets grenades ans deck guns kills, Bk for kills by melee weapons and Ok for Other kills, like an other ship helping you.
+Ludwig Moloko thanks. Was wondring. Guess F for firearms then :)
Another great video - really helpful, learnt a ton. Thanx 🍺
i hope the add more viseuls to the bording mini game like actulee see your crew jump over and fight.
srry for bad english btw
How do I inspect a ship
Were you part of the pirate fleet that mercilessly hammered two NavyBrigs?
+DrunkenSloth I was part of a fleet that destroyed a brig, lynx and cerberus last night. But they were npcs, if you mean player brigs, then no, i missed the action :( haha
demasting target (when you are using small ship) is sort of waste of time. Just blast his armor and grapeshot his crew, get his sails down below 70 to give yourself a bit of speed advantage (chainshot from the front or from the rear when crossing his course works much better than shooting from side) and then just push him against the wind ... sail alongside him and then start turning into him pushing his prow, he'll start to turn to evade and when he turns against the wind you'll be both going slow enough for boarding. It is a lot faster than demasting and it works on everything you can capture with early ships (except for Lynx, that thing is just too fast and maneuverable and can maneuver against the wind without problems, you'd have to demast that)
+sagand As you said yourself, Lynx's need demasting,, I de-masted a lynx in this video :p And you're right, generally, if i was capturing a ship, it'd be rare for me to try to de-mast, especailly against small ships like you say, however this was a tutorial and was designed to show people it can be done, and one of the ways in which to do it. However your method is certainly viable and its one of the reasons i love NA so much, there are multiple ways to approach and deal with any circumstance, whether you're fighting to sink or capture.
Before doing this, we need to buy a shipyard ?
where can you find easy traders, I, ve just bought a snow but I have to find money to equip it with guns so I would like to find some easy rewarding prizes for the basic cutter, thanks in advance
I find a lot near Islamorada, thats where I got my 5 trader brigs
Thank you for the video - very helpful - couple questions though -
1.What does sending to Admiralty do?
2. Can you put the captured cargo back on the trader and send it to outpost?
3. Can you sell the captured cargo/is that the same as "send to chat"
Thank you in advance!
+Arthur Chapman Thanks for watching :)
1. Nothing yet, hasn't been implemented
2. no, if a captured trader is carrying too much cargo for your main ship then you must sail it to port or abandon some of the cargo. however, if you send your main ship to outpost and sail the trader, you can teleport back with it.
3. yes you can sell the capped cargo, but sending to chat is merely showing others what you have, not a means of gifting or selling cargo.
Hope that helps.
AxeManAnt
That sure does! Thank you for your responses and keep up the good work.
Just keep bracing until the enemy braces. Then wait till the last second (or better, 0,5 second, just before the timer runs out) and hit the Attack button. Easy win guaranteed.
I'll give it a go. I know there are a few tricks for the boarding mini game that I didn't cover in this video, but I hadn't heard your method, I'll try it out next time I'm capping a ship, thanks :)
How do you like being a Pirate. How is the pirate to pirate community working out. Currently I'm really tempted to go over to the pirate side but I want to know more about it before I take the plunge.
+lexafied3d Pirates, are a little more chaotic than the brits, which is the only other faction i have experience with. But i do feel a little more free as a pirate, i can do whatever i want. As for the community, pirates have been working together alot lately to capture ports, so if you can get in with those guys organising those battles, its alot of fun, but you also have trolls, who attack everyone, since pirates can attack other pirates, but it hasnt been too bad so far. Like everything, it can be good or bad, really depends on your playstyle and preferences :)
good stuff thx,looking fwd to the next vid
+Cliff Munro thank you. and thanks for watching.
Thank you, this clears up so much for me.
+Taylor Hemmings No problem, glad it helped you :)
can you capture a first rate using this
If you're using a smaller ship that is faster and more manoeuvrable, what you want to do is to stay behind the 1st rate at all times and fire broadsides into its stern, making the balls go lengthwise through the entire ship causing a lot of damage, when the HP is low you can start using grape shot to mow down the crew and then board it when it goes down a sufficient ammount
love the game, but its hard getting to know what to do. I like to play sea shanties when am playing lol
Is it financially viable to capture a ship? I mean, can you sell it after you sent it to port? And how much would you earn from selling the small trader captured in the video? Thanks in advance!
Capturing traders is a great way to earn extra money over simply sinking them. As not only can you sell them in port, you can also sell any cargo they were carrying too. But bear in mind, you gain less XP from capturing atm to outright sinking so if you focus on capturing traders you will gain plenty money, but not much xp.
+AxeManAnt Thanks for that quick answer! Do you have a rough estimate on how much more gold you would make over sinking it? And maybe even how much XP you would sacrifice?
the gold and xp you make per ship kill or capture varies wildly from ship to ship and also depends on your ship. It also matter if you're attacking much bigger ships......If in some impossible scenario you managed to sink a 3rd rate whilst in the cutter, you would gain ungodly amounts of gold and xp. Way more than if you sunk it whilst in a 3rd rate yourself. It's this system that makes predicting gold and xp rewards really tricky as there isnt a concrete number that i can point to. However, an educated guess would be, that you'd probably earn half the XP, but half as much again in gold. However, if you were to focus on levelling for now and getting in a bigger, more poweful ship, engaging in large fleet battles, port battles, and grouping with others against larger fleets and vessels will probably earn you more than just capturing. So you can be flexible. Sorry i couldnt provide more concrete numbers.
+AxeManAnt No, that's great, thank you! So I should probably go for max XP anyway... I believe you mentioned in another video, that grinding missions is best for that?
(Haven't bought the game yet, but definitely will, once I have a little more time... Maybe as soon as tonight/tomorrow)
to start off, yeah...grinding missions is the way to go....if you're frugal with your money then you'll find by the time youve ranked up a few times you'll have tons of it anyway....enough to move on to a nice ship anyway. Hope to see you in-game :)
I captured the ship and left the battle, but the ship doesn't show...
Same problem here... 3 times in a row.
Thanks bud! Good video
I captured a ship yday and hit x and then i got confused ..in the end the ship sunk ...but now i know what to do ..thx for your good tutorial .
+aryko1 Sounds like it was abit too damaged, even once captured, a ship still takes on water, and it's possible for them to be a lost cause, even if you win. Try not to damage the ship too much, and avoid hitting parts of it that are usually below the waterline. It's all experience though, and I was the same when i started, got a nice privateer capture, and was admiring it before ending the battle, and suddenly it sunk lol. Thanks for watching and im glad this video helped you :)
Thx for the tips and greetings from Germany !
I got two questions : How to rebind keyboard keys and how do you bring up that little map wich shows all the ships in a fight not the minimap . Thx for answering .
+aryko1 Press escape in-game, go to options -- Controls, you can rebind keys there. and do you mean the player list? press "tab" to bring that up :)
Yeah i found it and changes the bindings . Ive seen a big battle and the clanleader was opening a map where u cld see all the enemy ships and yours too and mark them . Thx for answering !
this helped a lot thank you 😁
A good heads-up. Thanks :-)
Helpful stuff ,thanks.
A capture tutorial on a Trade Lynx..... How informative.......
A useless comment.....How informative........
Thanks, subbed!
+LoudestHoward Thanks! :)
I, m playing as the British empire by the way
I am considering buying this game, but the reviews are kind of pushing me away.... especially the review about the closed group of russian PvP'ers and the lack of fucks the Devs seem to give.
i feel the same about the game but i really want to buy it... i looks so good and fun to play..