Jailtime after ship got hit once

[Angel Daggerfury]

So my War Gal still had a full bar, we hadn't been hit at all after sinking about 5 ships. Got to a Corsair, they fired ONE time at us, I knew I couldn't get away in time, so I used Take Cover, and OMG that Corsair's 1 hit took my whole ship's bar all the way down to nothing & we sunk. =( Everyone in my crew was mad, coz we were pretty sure the Corsair fired only broadsides at us, their one & only attack on us, nothing extremer than that. There were no other enemy ships nearby on my compass either. I can see if a Corsair fired broadsides at my lil light sloop, of course it would sink immediately, but I was in my War Gal plus I used Take Cover too! Not to mention I got stuck on board after my ship sunk & had to log out as well to get out of that glitch. Royally sux coz we had gotten a few royals on board. =(

[AdmiralSavvy]

I had a very similar experience with a Corsair on a war frigate. I was leveling cannons and I was approaching the Corsair but not too close to be able to take the sails off with lightning. And when I fired the first shot, it came towards my ship like lightning and it didn't fire any firebrands but it "looked" like broadsides,it took my ship's meter to 0 and sunk it. In the cutscene I found out that it was actually explosives that it had fired.

[Dr. Zeppers]

Sounds like its using Explosives.

Ive noticed more of the enemy ships using these lately. The new skeletons in particular, but not surprised others are using them. High level enemy + explosive cannon fire = Davy Jones Locker.

[am1974]

Yes the Corsair uses explosives. That ship is very deceptive lol. Takes a while for it to load its explosives so it looks like its a glitched ship then wham you go down lol.

[Chris]

arg thats not fair we can only use regular cannons and they can use all the way up to explosives?

[nat sharkskull]

That happened to me to matey. Full green bar. Used take cover and was badly damaged and started to run for it, thought I out ran it with ramming speed but it shot one more time and down I went. Lost a full cargo.

[Hawkeye]

happened to me for the first time today, but its easy to figure out they used explosive. cant wait to get lvl 20 cannon >=D