[Justout]

After owning a light sloop and jumping straight to galleon (Unlimited, heheh) I went on a few trips with it, bought a sloop, and used it ever since.

The galleon 'supposedly' has more armor, but fighting the Kingfisher (Firebrand broadsides) it seems like the sloop can take a very nice licking and keep on ticking. The galleon just gets obliderated, despite its thousands of more hull points. Honestly, just fighting low level ships with their basic cannonball, a few shots and you're looking at 4/5 health already.

The other reason I prefer my sloop is that while it may not be able to take much as a pounding (supposedly), it just doesn't get hit! It's SMALL. The galleon is a big wall of wood, not to mention its weakest armor is the largest part of the ship. With my sloop I can literally outmanuever their cannonfire in all situations except very very close range.

So far all I've found the galleon useful for is lining up from very far away, firing the broadsides, dashing to a cannon, firing the broadsides repeatedly and praying that they don't get close enough to shoot you. That just doesn't seem like naval combat to me.

Either way I just bought a full-sized frigate and I'm going to see how that works out.