Battling With Ships

Hey all of you Pirates,

It's been a while since i've posted here, but I'm back again!

With the release of the Closed Beta and people still waiting to be let aboard on the beta ship, J Todd Coleman and the crew at KI have been working in some spoiler pictures of beta!

The topic that has been on everyone's mind was how you were supposed to battle on ships???

Well, Mr. Coleman explain the process of ship fights along with some pictures.

In response to the question, he answered this:

The answer is: Deckside Combat! When you engage an enemy ship in a melee skirmish (as opposed to raking them with Broadside cannonfire), it means you pull up alongside them and use gangplanks to cross between the decks. 

Here's an example of Broadside, where I use my crappy raft to engage with a Cutthroat Frigate. The battle doesn't go well for me...

From what you can see in the picture, it seems to be a melee fight that involves some sort of clicking or aiming (I'm not in beta, so I wouldn't know)

The process of fighting doesn't seem to require much skills, but like in most MMO's, it requires to have the upper hand in weapons and in health.

Another picture was posted up a couple of hours later, and this time, talking about deckside combat, where the enemy would actually get ON the ship and fight you.

...so the Cutthroats beat me up a bit with their Cannons, then engage me in Deckside combat. Which was a bad idea for them, really, because I have a really strong crew. They would have done better to keep pummeling me from a distance.

Thanks for Reading!

~Solodo