Can the damage increase while aiming the stern?

[DF5]

Can this game realize this function? While fire for the stern of enemy's ship, the damage will increase. or the probability of "Critical hit" will increase?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Pretty sure it already does that. The Ship_ApplyHullHitpoints function in AIShip.c has mention of raking.

 

[DavyJack]

Of course aiming your guns at your enemy will definitely increase the chance of CRITICAL HIT and DAMAGE. Well, logically speaking..right?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

We're talking about additional damage when hitting the stern from behind.
This is a tactic known as "raking".

 

[SRACon17]

is there additional damage when the enemy ship is raked from the bow too?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yup. I saw reference to both the bow and the stern in the code.

 

[SRACon17]

cool, i didn't know that raking applies to this game. nice to know that i have to work on my maneuvers to maximize the damage

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Wouldn't be very good sea battles if real life tactics would be completely useless, eh?

 

[Levis]

You can find the code in AIShip.c round row 2548

if(CheckAttribute(AIBalls,"Dir")) fBallAngle = clampangle(stf(AIBalls.Dir)+PI); // inverse of ball angle because ball is incoming
        else fBallAngle = clampangle(fOurAngle+(1.0-rand(1)*2.0) * PId2); // default to broadside on
        int quad = quadrantG(fOurAngle, fBallAngle);
        bool israke = quad == 0 || quad == 2;
        chance *= 1.0 + makefloat(israke) * 0.25; // extra 25% chance if raking

 

[DavyJack]

We're talking about additional damage when hitting the stern from behind.
This is a tactic known as "raking".

Nice to know. Thank you Sire Pieter. Another +1 to my vocabulary/knowledge about sailing.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Look it up on the Internet for more details. As I understand it, it is quite a crucial part of many sea battle tactics.