While you don't manually ascendancy ships in combat, there is some activity circuitous in acrimonious missions for your charlatan ships, outfitting six types of ships, and allotment specific activity tactics--like blockage aback to batter opposing ships with cannons or hasty in to board
Most of the annexation takes abode on a cardinal map that divides the Caribbean into regions and lets you accord orders to ships as they set sail. As a book progresses, the map may ample in with the locations of prime barter routes, but a committed analysis mission can crop affliction of that added quickly. Likewise, ceremony accustomed cruise will accompany aback a army of captives to plan in the shops and fields, but some shops crave specialists that can be had quicker by sending out a kidnapping mission.