Automatic Targetting of Broadsides

[Crimson Rose]

This happened to one of my newer characters, not Crimson.

Here I was doing a solo gold run, down between PdF and Kingshead. I parked my sloop a good distance away from a Black Harbinger, got on the cannon, and took out its masts as it came up. None of the swarm of Navy and EITC ships were bothering me, because I'd only been sinking cursed ships.

With the BH helpless I got back on the wheel, lined up my ship as best I could and began using broadsides to sink the BH. (This way I get half credit to cannon and half to sailing.) With the ship half-sunk, about my fifth broadside, suddenly the cannons fired DIRECTLY to my rear, hitting a Navy Colossus. Next thing you know 7 EITC and Navy ships were converging on me and I was in the middle of a storm of shot and shell. I barely made it to PdF, with the ship leaking and squeaking.

Why it would target something new when I have an obvious and established target directly on my broadside, I don't know, but it was a pain in the butt. This is besides the fact that firing directly to the rear like that is physically impossible in a real fighting sail ship.

Crimson Rose