Boarding with patch 9.96 broken?

[Gysendorf]

After the patch I sailed with my boarding Pavel against a Victory. Vic had more men but I had more Marines.

1. Round:

AI selected Fire Grenades, I braced and pressed 2 seconds before end Attack.

Result: I killed 70 men, AI killed 240 men. I was so in shock, lost the fight and I forgot to make a screenshot. You will say now - no screenshot never happend blablabla. I had these problem with lower ships too, 5&6th rates.

Now today same problem again see screenshot. My teammate had more crew, more marines more muskets and this happens. For me boarding is actual broken, for the screenshot Dirk boarded over his left side, he had all advantages and had exceptional muskets equiped and does less damage? If you look more up in the battle report it gets more funnier, he attacks against brace and loses more man than the AI, at this point his morale was better than of the AI. All in all my expierence and also the expierence of other players is - boarding is actual broken! If you shoot and grape down the enemy ships to zero crew is easier, safer and not so unlogical as the actual state of boarding. Please dont say I should follow the boarding guides, the actual state of boarding these guides are more dangerous than helpfull. A statement form the developer or the admin would be really nice.

 

[Jeheil]

Yeh don't attack into fire grenades or guns. Save your attack and brace instead. This was always an expensive way of boarding anyway...now its deadly.

 

Take Doctor and Press-gang if you are doing a SOL capture run for money or fun or whatever.

[manuva85]

Actualy atacking guns is the best way to win vs ai... it is more profitable to me than atacking brace in this patch. Atack vs granades is a big no no though;p

[Anolytic]

What you're describing is how boarding has been for months now. If you order your men to charge while the enemy is throwing grenades at them, that's pretty costly. You should charge during fire deck guns, because firing a cannon is neither easy nor fast, and your men can get to the enemy and cut them down while they are still reloading.

[Sir Texas Sir]

I noticed the brace thing too.  It seem they have more firepower than my crew even though I have twice the marines  and twice the muskets.  I do an Attack/Musket action and only do it on brace or defend.   Though it seems they have all gold mods no matter what.  I have had a brace almost kill more guys than my attack or muskets did and you think I did an attack on a defend or something.

 

 

Oh and attacking on a Grenade throw has all ways been a very bad thing.

 

I was looking at your friends screen shot and one thing I'll tell him is he did have a disadvantage in FIREPOWER cause he only had two gun decks compared to the other ships 3+.  If I can ever get a good roll on a 5 ship or will just take the boarding buck out I'm wondering on two deck ships if ladders are going to be more handy for this firepower difference I been seeing.  Cause I been seeing a lot of equal kills or more when you attack on a brace at first when closer to same number crew, but it seems to drop when they have less crew than you.

[Gysendorf]

Thanks for the answers but whats about attack vs brace problem in the screenshot? With brace you kill more men against attack as on the other way, thats strange if this works as intended than you dont need the defend option anymore.

Edited October 28, 2016 by Gysendorf

[Anolytic]

Brace has always been very effective against attack if you have good barricades. The only thing that's changed is that for the past months AI always has good barricades. Attack against brace on someone with golden barricades is devastating to the attacker most of the time.

[Gysendorf]

Brace has always been very effective against attack if you have good barricades. The only thing that's changed is that for the past months AI always has good barricades. Attack against brace on someone with golden barricades is devastating to the attacker most of the time.

Can't believe it, because before patch 9.96 an AI ship with brace and you select attack you killed always more than the AI.

[Gysendorf]

No response from developers or an admin? Guys are you ignoring the problem?