Talk:Carrack/@comment-26842175-20160117093426

Does this technology make a real difference? To my computations one gets the following results. Your Galleons/Caravels/elite Cannon Galleons take the same damage from an fast fire ship, and only 1 point less from heavy demolition ships, turtle ships and (elite) cannon galleons, reducing damage by 1/139 (less than 1%), 1/41(2.5%) and (1/36)(3%) 1/26(4%, but who uses massed non-elite canon galleons?). Only if your oponent uses Galleons, elite longboats or caravels it has a considerable effect, taking 1/14(7%), 1/17(6%) 1/6(16.7%) less.

It has the cost of around 4 ships, while it only makes your ships arround 5% better, so that means it is only cost effective after 80 ships. (actually you might need more, since I think 5% is a high estimate and for example improving a single ships to double strength(i.e. it can take on two ships sequentially) is not as good as doubling the ammount of ships of your non-improved army)