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[Assassin's Creed] [Assassin's creed:Rogue] Forgetting game mechanics, could the Morrigan actually go toe to toe and defeat most of the other ships in the game, let alone the Assassin Flagship Storm Fortress?

It's stated that the Morrigan is a heavily modified "Sloop of war". So yes, I guess it's modifications give it an advantage but should these modifications have allowed it to survive and defeat the Storm fortress, let alone the other legendary Man-o-war ships you face.

Not much of an expert on old ship Types so I can't really know. Thought you'd at least need a frigate to survive such battles.
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A Sloop of War was typically the smallest class of warship at the time. Given to Heavily Modification, the ship is ultimately limited by it's size and ability to displace water while taking on armour, guns, and mast strength for sail speed.


A single one might be able to take on a Frigate if lucky. A Frigate sized Man of War had roughly double the guns of a Sloop (give or take). Since our sloop is heavily modified we can give it some leeway for perhaps having some larger bore cannons, and able to fit more weight without significantly loosing speed, maneuverability and sinking.


That would likely be it, and it would need to utilize a capable captain who would've been able to position the ship such that it had optimal wind favour and able to minimize it's exposure to the guns of the Frigate.


Our Sloop of War is going to need fantastic captaincy, as well as lucky shots to quickly incapacity the gun decks on the frigate in order to have a hope of surviving.

If you're taking about the ridiculous Ship of the Line size man of wars.... Those could have up to triple the cannons of even the Frigate. So we're vastly, vastly, outclassed on our own by pitting a Sloop of War against the top ships of the Navy.


On its own, in a 1-on-1, it's odds are ridicously low, but it would still possibly stand some chance assuming it's again able to utilize it's superior maneurvability to favorably minimize it's exposure to the the Ship of the Line cannons. But, in some of the later challenges where there might be two or even three supporting ships against your lone Sloop you would not stand a chance. Not even a slim one.