Combat and Damage

[felius]

So, I just recently got the game (elite version) in Amazon app store (hey, I have a kindle fire, not a generic android tablet ), and been having some trouble understanding damage. That is, when firing the cannons or trying to board (or getting attacked), the damage the game tells me that happened doesn't seem to have any connection with how the numbers of the ships change.

Need to reinstall? Amazon version bug? General bug for all versions? Working as intended and I missed something major about it?

[En1gma]

felius- Welcome to the forum! 

When you fire cannons/board a ship/are boarded yourself, are the numbers changing? When firing cannons- crew, hull, sail, keel, cannons and other stats on your ship have a chance to take damage, which would be subtracted from the total amount that you started with. Some weapons/upgrades have chances to affect which stats get damages- Chainshot deals damage mostly to Masts, Grapeshot deals damage mostly to crew members.

When boarding, the crews mostly deal damage to one another, with cannons still dealing damage to hull, masts, etc...

Damage is really only reported by seeing the numbers taken away from ship totals.

[fallen]

felius - can you post some more specific information than "they don't match?"

Welcome to the forum, you've come to the right place to get an explanation!