
It may also be more likely that one will spawn from a wealthy city, but they can come from cities as poor as modest. A nation's wealth may very well be a factor.

When their cities are getting attacked, they'll start producing military payroll, troop transports, and invasion forces). When all three other nations are at war with one young nation is a good time to watch for SOLs (Incidentally, nations have a sea alert level and a land alert level. For the young nations, there's a small probability that each New Warship will be a SOL.

When a nation's alert level gets high, they start building New Warships and providing all their regular ship traffic with escorts. It appears that what is going on is that each nation has an alert level determined by the number of ships they are losing at sea (there may be other factors such as coastal bombardments). Some reports maintain that a Ship of the Line can only be spawned by a nation that is offering a reward on you, but there have been reports of France spawning a SOL when they were offer no reward on the player at all.Ships of the line are only spawned by non-Spanish nations in fact, the Spanish will never spawn any Frigate class ships.Here are a number of tips that may help in spawning a Ship of the Line: In order for an enemy Ship of the Line to spawn, the following factors and conditions must be taken into consideration: Additionally, it can also prove useful when attacking cities, especially if you intend on flipping a city to another nationality, making it both a useful raider or invasion force.Ī head-on battle with a Ship of the Line can be difficult and dangerous-especially if the player is unprepared-but even more difficult is actually finding a Ship of the Line. Even without upgrades, it should be able to handle any threat that comes your way. Once captured, however, the Ship of the Line serves best as the Flagship of your Fleet. Only its battle capability matches its rarity ergo, attacking a Ship of the Line is very risky and dangerous. No nation/era combination will ever have the player starting off with a Ship of the Line.įinding a Ship of the Line is extremely difficult, as it is the rarest ship in the game – it is not unheard of to finish a game without ever seeing one. The "Ship of the Line" is the largest member of its class, and is also considered the most powerful ship in the entire game.

In Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004), Ship of the Line is the name used to refer to the largest member of the Frigates Class. The most powerful combat vessel on the seas Largest member of the Frigate class Smaller: You just don't know what naval supremacy is until you've stood at the helm of a fully-upgraded, fully-armed Ship of the Line with 300 men aboard. They are commonly considered the most devastating ship in the game. Ships of the Line will always bear the "New Warship" tag. True to its purpose, a Ship of the Line will only emerge in wartime against another faction. In-game, the Spanish Empire is the only faction not to deploy Ships of the Line, relying instead on Galleon ships. Slightly superior to the Large Frigate, the SOL is commonly known to be the most powerful and rarest warship in the game, able to carry the maximum number of guns (48 24 each side), the largest cargo hold and largest crew capacity.

A Ship of the Line (SOL) is generally a large warship, belonging to the Frigate Class.
