But we can also use it to attack enemy ships, especially big and slow ships like the First Rate. Usually, by instinct, we use the mortar when an enemy ship is chasing us in a strait line. That's why we use some tactics for a much effective use. But its difficult to hit moving objects when the projectile (bomb) takes so much time to land.

Mortar are also very powerful against ships. This is a good tactic against strong, big and slow ships like the First Rate. When you are next to an enemy ship, independently of it's size (in fact, the bigger the better), you can throw the barrel from the size in order to make it landing IN the enemy ship. We all know how to commonly use powder: we throw from the back of our ship an make it a 'sea mine'. There are three of them I will share: Powder, Oil and Mortar. (*) Whaler is the only ship that you can't build or buy, but instead you can only capture in the open sea.There a some battle tactics you can use to sink ships. Snow, Corvette, Sloop of war, Barquentine

Table describing maps and available ships

Some Civil ships (such as Xebec, Barque, Barquentine, Flute) can be captured earlier, in special random mission 'Slave ships' (green icon on map, unlocked after purchase of Map of Windward Islands). you can immediately (even at beginning of game) chase enemy tiny Sloops with your huge HMS Victory if you want :-) Premium ships can be bought for real money at any time, so e.g. Be warned that more unlocked maps means increased difficulty of enemies! The best ships will be spawned if you discover Panama Coast (discovering remaining regions doesn’t affect the ship spawning). If you own more maps there is more probability that better ship will be spawned. Ships (which you can encounter in the open world), blueprints and treasure maps depends on how many maps you own.

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