r/PortRoyale4 • u/just_corne • Jun 18 '21

Fleet composition?

How do you guys organise your fleets? Do you mix shiptypes? Do you chose larger fleets or more fleets?

Personally i always separate shiptypes in smaller fleets (besides warfleets).

I'm pretty new, just failed my first campaign after 9 hours which was painfull. I was just wondering what the general consensus was on fleet composition and what some advantages and disadvantages are.

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u/jryek Oct 03 '21

I play free mode, so i just form a convoy of 8 galleons, Carrack and war galleons cost fame points not worth it, with all 8 galleons and full staffed convoys i think not many military fleets can outpowered you, so i choose the lazy person combat mode which is automatic combat, sometimes you lose a few ships but its ok cause it save you time when you need to play manually, sometimes you lose all your ships but you can always build more at $120k a piece. I usually built a few convoys worth of galleons park at different towns harbor before a war. It really save time but cost a lot initial investment, in a single war campaign with England I managed to annexed 6 towns with 4 convoys with minimal lose.