Quote Originally Posted by DeRuyter View Post
Also anyone have a suggestion for the gunnery factors for a British 80 gun design, i.e.; HMS Caesar? I was thinking of adding +1 chit for the first 2 boxes. She had 24 pounders on the upper gun deck instead of 18s. I guess the same could be asked about a 74 armed with 24lbers on the upper deck.
There is very little wiggle room between the 74s and the 100-gun first rates as far as gunnery is concerned. I'm not able to discern much rhyme or reason to how Ares has done these kinds of adjustments. But if I was going to adjust for the 80 gun ships at all, I would add a factor here and there in the middle, so the drop-off in fighting capacity isn't quite as steep, rather than putting them all at the top. Adding a total of +6 factors seems pretty reasonable--the "juiced" ships in Wave 1 (e.g. Redoubtable and HMS Impetueux) show similar advantages