Like Land Combat, Naval Combat occurs when opposing fleets confront each other in the same province. Also like Land Combat, these battles can go on for many days, so they should be considered not as a single engagement, but as two fleets maneuvering to gain wind, standing off and skirmishing before the fleets finally collide.
This screen shows the strength of the two fleets engaged in the combat.
Combat will begin with a contest of firepower, followed by shock action in which ships attempt to grapple or ram one another. This sequence will alternate until one of the fleets loses morale and is either routed or destroyed. The condition of each ship is expressed as a percentage, and hovering over a ship with your mouse will produce a tooltip which identifies which opposing ship they are currently firing on, as well as their current morale, their strength, and the ship type.
