However, if you do manage to wield her successfully in battle, she will tear apart any enemy ship. Even more so than the previous ships in the guide, it is vital to sail in a group or squadron of ships, or at least with a more nimble escort that can protect your vulnerable stern, particularly as the Victory has a durability value of 1 sink once and its gone forever. Essentially, she is one of the two obvious choices for best ship for serving in the line of battle, but is very poor at performing any other role. Together with her poor sailing profile, this makes the Victory tremendously difficult to sail satisfactorily. Only the awkward Mortar Brig is slower than the Victory only the gigantic Santisima Trinidad (below) is slower at turning. For this purpose she has also got the highest armour and structure in the game, making her the most difficult target to sink in the game.Īll this of course predictably comes at the expense of her speed and maneuverability. This enormous capability for destroying her enemies makes her perfectly suited for her designed role as serving in the line of battle. Her damage output per broadside is roughly 25% higher than the Pavel, for instance. Obviously, not much more needs to be said about her firepower other than that it is completely enormous. She carries four bow chasers and two stern chasers. Her weatherdeck carries either 12 pound cannons or 42 pound carronades and like the other large ships, this is the only place she can carry carronades.
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They are also very heavy guns 42, 24 and 12 pounders from lowest gundeck to uppermost. Packing 53 guns a broadside makes the Victory the second most lethal ship in the game in terms of firepower.
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Her total gun count is increased mainly as a result of her greater size and the inclusion of a greater number of guns on her weatherdeck, rather than the 4 on the quarterdeck of the Pavel. The Victory, like the second-rate Pavel, has three dedicated gundecks. Once you’ve come so far in Naval Action that you are considering sailing a first-rate ship of the line, you probably don’t need this guide quite as much anymore! Nevertheless, it’s still useful to consider the differences between your two options available at this rank the Victory and the Santisima Trinidad (below).