[RickAllen]

Rik81, I think you got the jist of it. Just to clarify, in history sloops (American style Nantucket or Chessapeak (sp) types) could sail closer to the wind, because of how they were rigged. Lateen (sp) rigged ships could also sail closer to the wind. This enable them to escape actions that would have involved them taking on larger, square rigged ships.

This was not taken into consideration in the Age of Sail series, rendering the campaign portion of the game unrealistic to me. However, the way Andrew explained it eventhough a sloop in Salvo (correct me on this, Andrew if I got this wrong) and a square rigger still sail up into the wind at the same angle the sloop's handling ability in Salvo has been upgraded to compensate for this, making the sloop more limber.

At least the designers of Salvo gave this some serious thought, which makes me very pleased.

If you like board games, check Ebay in the next couple of weeks. I'll be selling a bunch of them to pay for this one.

Rick