'Corsair' Mastercraft Xebec

A Level 22, 22-gun Medium Scout

SAILING Sailing
These parameters determine how your ship sails.

Max Speed: Maximum Speed
How fast your ship can move in battles. Improving battle speed does not improve Open Sea speed.
Acceleration: Acceleration
Determines how fast the ship gains speed.
Deceleration: Deceleration
Determines how fast the ship loses speed. Lower values are better if you want to maintain speed, higher values are better if you want to stop quickly.
Turning (Fast): Fast Turn Rate
The Ship's turn rate in degrees per second. This is how fast the ship turns if it is moving at maximum speed.
Turning (Slow): Slow Turn Rate
The Ship's turn rate in degrees per second. This is how fast the ship turns if it is moving at a speed of at least 4 knots.
Turning Accel: Max Turning Acceleration
This shows how fast a ship accelerates into a turn. The higher the value, the faster the ship reaches its maximum turn rate.
Turning Decel: Min Turning Deceleration
Ships gradually suffer less deceleration as they turn. This shows a minimum amount of deceleration a ship has when turning. Lower numbers (relative to other acceleration stats) are better.
Best Point: Best Point
The wind angle at which the ship can attain its maximum speed. The wind comes from angle 0^o, and angle 180^o is running with the wind at your back.

SHIP

Capacity: Capacity
How many units of cargo the ship can hold.
O.S. Visibility: Open Sea Visibility
How far away other ships will spot you on the open sea.
O.S. Spotting: Open Sea Spotting
Increases your spotting range, allowing you to detect ships beyond their O.S. Visibility.
Crew: Crew
The maximum number of crew on your ship. Shows the fighting strength of your crew.
Target Tracking: Target Tracking
Reduces the accuracy penalties you suffer due to your movement and your target's movement. Improves your chance to hit fast moving ships.

21.25
3.56
4.85
13.68
8.10
10.25
11.80
90

110
42.9
0.0
130
25

22 ( Medium)
4
6526

LEVEL (SIZE): Level and Size
The level required to use this ship, and the size of the hull.
DURABILITY: Durability
The number of ships you have left. Decreases by 1 whenever the ship is defeated in combat (with the exception of skirmish).
INSURANCE VALUE: Insurance Value
Amount of doubloons you will receive for this ship if she is sunk or scuttled.

HEALTH Health
The ship's Health stats show how much damage it can sustain.

Hull: Hull (Structure)
The internal structure of your ship. When your structure runs out, your ship sinks.
Port: Port (Left)
The ship's port armor. Armor facings protect the ship's hull.
Stbd: Starboard (Right)
The ship's starboard armor. Armor facings protect the ship's hull.
Bow: Bow (Front)
The ship's bow armor. Armor facings protect the ship's hull.
Stern: Stern (Rear)
The ship's stern armor. Armor facings protect the ship's hull.
Sails: Sails & Masts
Shows how much damage the ship's sails and masts can sustain. Ships lose speed as they take sail damage.

Integ. Integrity
The ship's Integrity stats show how much damage it can sustain.

630
395
395
195
90
1340

DR Damage Reduction
Shows how much the ship's armor reduces the damage it receives.

-
2
2
1
0
0

MODIFIERS Modifiers
These change your chance to hit, chance to get hit and the damage you take.

Sails: Sails
Offense, defense and resistance values for your ship's sails and masts.
Crew: Crew
Offense, defense and resistance values for your ship's crew.
Bow: Bow (Front)
Offense, defense and resistance values for your ship's bow armor.
Stern: Stern (Rear)
Offense, defense and resistance values for your ship's stern armor.
Sides: Broadsides (Left & Right)
Offense, defense and resistance values for your ship's broadsides.
Grapple: Grappling
Grappling offense makes it easier to board ships. Grappling defense protects you against hostile boarding attempts.

OFF Offense
Offensive modifiers are a percentage increase to your chance to hit. The numbers here include any benefits from 'Accuracy, All' items.

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

DEF Defense
Defensive modifiers are a percentage decrease to the chance enemies will hit you. The numbers here include any benefits from 'Defense, All' items.

27.0
27.0
28.0
28.0
28.0
0.0

RES Resistance
Resistance is a percentage reduction in the damage you take.

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
-

BATTERIES Batteries The guns on your ship are divided into batteries. Guns within a single battery are identical and are controlled as a group.	Type Quantity & Weight This shows number and size of the guns in the battery. Heavier guns do more damage, have longer range and penetrate armor better. Lighter guns reload faster and are better at dealing sustained damage against unarmored targets.		Reload Reload The time it takes to reload the entire battery of guns, in seconds.	Damage Maximum Damage This shows how much damage each cannon can do at minimum range using heavy round shot. Damage gradually decreases as your target gets farther away.	Range Maximum Range This shows how far the cannons can fire heavy round shot. Other ammo types modify this range.	Acc Accuracy This shows the cannon's percentage chance to hit a standard target at 200 or 400 yards away. The chance to hit is increased based on target size, and decreases based on movement.	200 / 400 Accuracy This shows the cannon's percentage chance to hit a standard target at 200 or 400 yards away. The chance to hit is increased based on target size, and decreases based on movement.
Swivels: Swivel guns fire anti-personnel shot, spraying enemy decks with a lethal cloud of musket-balls.	6x	1/2lb	5.2s	8.0	125y		-- / --
Topdeck:	14x	8lb	19.5s	28.0	750y		153 / 227
Aft guns: Guns in the back of the ship, also known as sternchasers.	2x	8lb	19.5s	28.0	750y		153 / 227

Polars

Upwind & Luffing

Close
Haul

Beam
Reach

Broad
Reach

Running

45% - 45%

9.56 - 9.56 knots

30°

20.19 knots

95%

20.19 knots

95%

21.25 knots100%

100%21.25 knots

17.85 knots

84%

17.85 knots

84%

14.88 knots

70%

Open Sea Speed: 63

Information based on version 02.14.21.00 Current game version is 2.15.46.0

Versions:
02.10.57.00

Combat Level

Combat Level: 25

WARNING

The correct "Polars" and "Open Sea Speed" remain unavailable at this time.

General

A custom-built Corsair Xebec made with superior craftsmanship and materials. It has more guns, heavier guns, and more armor than a standard Corsair.

Variants

Other variants of the Corsair:

History

The xebec owes much of its design to the earlier galleys and galleasses of the Mediterranean. The root of the name probably comes from an Arabic word for 'small ship', and is rendered into English in three forms: 'xebec', 'chebec', and 'zebec', though the word exists in many other languages as well, indicating its popularity (or at least knowledge of its existence) in the rest of Europe. read more...

Strategy and Use

In Pirates of the Burning Sea, we expect a variety of players to sail the xebec. It will turn up as an available ship for naval officers of low rank, roughly on par with the sloop-of-war, though it is not of course one of the rated ships. Merchants and free traders can buy the xebec from civilian shipyards, probably for making numerous short-haul runs within a particular island chain. And pirates, of course, should get great use from this swift, sharp hawk of the seas.

Tactics

Freetraders will find that while the cargo capacity is small, the 'Corsair' Xebec is a superior vessel of fighting, boarding, and fleeing enemy vessels. The close-haul sailing speed, freetrader bonuses, and square-rig design of a majority of other ships means that what the 'Corsair' can't out-run, it can out-fight. With various hull armor, sail, and gun outfittings, the stock 'Corsair' Xebec can be brought to mastercraft levels for little cost.

Version History

(2.14.21.0) 2014-03-04

Changed cannon battery stats
Cannon accuracy figures to be included in an upcoming hotfix patch

'Corsair' Mastercraft Xebec

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General

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