American Schooner stats.

[DeRuyter]

Isn't the problem really that Ares didn't plan well for ships smaller that 5th rates in the stats? Stating it another way perhaps they didn't design the game for unrated vessels?

Unless you scale it for battles with smaller ships where a 5th rate frigate is the equivalent of a 1st rate.

[Diamondback]

Isn't the problem really that Ares didn't plan well for ships smaller that 5th rates in the stats? Stating it another way perhaps they didn't design the game for unrated vessels?

Unless you scale it for battles with smaller ships where a 5th rate frigate is the equivalent of a 1st rate.

That would be a reasonably correct assessment... it's impossible to really have a game that works well across the full spectrum of ship sizes. I think they really slapped Swan in as an afterthought intending it to be Lower Limit, then had a moment of "Oh CRAP!" when they realized just how important smaller vessels were in the War of 1812 and the early USN across the board. (Probably why "Make the Americans Playable" and "Fill Out 1812" got kicked to back burner even before Game As A Whole did"...)