'Hercules' Pirate Frigate

A Level 50, 66-gun Huge Scout

You must be a Cutthroat

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.

15.70
1.13
1.22
9.50
4.25
10.00
9.00
135

180
79.8
0.0
350
15

50 ( Huge)
3
128024

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.

2528
1680
1680
840
420
3421

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

-
8
8
3
3
4

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.

24.0
24.0
24.0
24.0
24.0
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.	8x	1/2lb	7.0s	7.0	100y		-- / --
Topdeck:	20x	8lb	20.9s	28.0	500y		106 / 81
Gundeck:	30x	16lb	37.4s	36.0	615y		111 / 91
Fore guns: Guns in the front of the ship, also known as bowchasers.	4x	8lb	20.9s	28.0	500y		106 / 81
Aft guns: Guns in the back of the ship, also known as sternchasers.	4x	18lb	39.1s	38.0	625y		112 / 92

Polars

Upwind & Luffing

Close
Haul

Beam
Reach

Broad
Reach

Running

32% - 42%

5.02 - 6.59 knots

45°

12.17 knots

77.5%

12.17 knots

77.5%

15.31 knots97.5%

97.5%15.31 knots

15.7 knots

100%

15.7 knots

100%

13.89 knots

88.5%

Open Sea Speed: 56

Information based on version 02.10.57.00 Current game version is 2.15.46.0

A upgraded Hercules Frigate usable only by the Cutthroat Pirate. Similar to the Hercules Mastercraft but refitted with a large number of Medium and Light Guns for devastating close range abilities.

Strategy and Use

The Pirate Hercules is a good choice when it comes to brawling as it has a good mix of maneuverability, integrity values and DPS/spike damage. With its mix of 8 and 16 pounders, the Pirate Hercules does not have the range of the Privateer refit the Hercules MC.

This ship can deal out amazing Damage Per Second, but the longer reloads of the 16 pounder main deck make it unlikely you will see these ships in many 1v1 PvP fights. Although 18 pounders are the preferred guns for port battles, you will see the Pirate Hercules (pHerc) there as well as in many heavy PvP groups.

Tactics

Close in enough to bring the 8 pounders into action, use the maneuverability to spread damage out when tackling heavier ships, or stand in and slug it out with smaller ships,

Variants

Other variants of the Hercules:

Attainability

The 'Hercules' Pirate Frigate requires 100k Db, 3 LSBs-(Line-Ship Structure Bundles), and other minor parts to create. The total cost if everything is made by the player is around 1.1 million doubloons (varies depending on tax situations, Infrastructure Levels etc).

This ship must be certified before you can sail it. Certifying it can be done with 50 Battle Ensigns as a Cutthroat.

Distinguishing Characteristics

The Pirate Hercules has the Following Bonuses over the Vanilla Hercules:

Structure Bonus 17.5%
Reload Bonus 12.5%
Defense Bonus +2
Sail Integrity Bonus 20%