The video is fun, but the military tactic it uses is called "the hammer and the anvil" and it's a horrible tactic. If you fail to hit your enemy, you subject your friendly forces to friendly fire.
My CO tried this tactic in training (blanks), and subsequently was let go. That's how bad this tactic is.
Well they're pirates, not military strategists, so that actually makes it more convincing that this would happen. Unless we're worried about military officers getting their tactics from silly Disney pirate movies, I think its ok to let this slide. Plus it looks cool.
Well they're pirates, not military strategists, so that actually makes it more convincing that this would happen.
Firstly, its was regular navy (that was staffed by idiotic nobility) that was more likely to fuck things up.
Secondly, this doesn't happen. Its like 101 of military tactics of the age of sail.
I mean, there was one single example where it might've happened (did not end well for ships on the either side; the one in the middle had also managed to escape before the rest of the enemy fleet caught up), but even that one is debatable.
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u/edwbuck 11h ago edited 11h ago
The video is fun, but the military tactic it uses is called "the hammer and the anvil" and it's a horrible tactic. If you fail to hit your enemy, you subject your friendly forces to friendly fire.
My CO tried this tactic in training (blanks), and subsequently was let go. That's how bad this tactic is.