[Andrew Watkins]

Adam,
I guess it is relative, as much difficulty as the English may have had i think you will find every other nation had MORE problems getting top notch sailors.

[Andrew Watkins]

We are just going to add 10% to english and use the national rules

[Andrew Watkins]

I think the spanish are better than the french as long as you take a couple of 1st rates

[Andrew Watkins]

2 excellent ideas there

1) increase the cost of the english
2) don’t use the national rules.

I suppose the 2nd one removes any possible bias from the game!

Personally I prefer the 1st though. Will ask the guys and see what they think.

[Andrew Watkins]

True I am looking for balance
True the English ships were better crewed etc than the french.
But this is a game so it is only reasonable that if one side is better than the other then it costs more to balance it out.

The problem with the free national upgrades for the english and the french, where the english ones are quite reasonably better than the french ones is that they are free.

Another perfectly reasonable option is to make NO changes whatsoever to firing high etc but just increase the cost of all english vessels by 10%

Would that be more along the lines of what you would expect?

The obvious problem with playing the game as is with english V french is the english are pretty much always going to win. whilst this is also historically accurate it does not make for a very good game.

We could play bolt action historically, with the english, americans or russians in 1944 having 3 times the number of points as the germans in every game, or the germans having 3 times the number of points in 1940 but it would not make for a very good game 🙂

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