Talk:Boats/@comment-14904442-20160114041032/@comment-24214574-20160116075724

Though I think I understand what you're trying to say, I don't think "tank" is the right word; tanking means just taking punishment from enemies without retreating and attacking without stopping. But I agree that there needs to be some kind of balance to sea combat. Boats take a while to get up to speed, and since they're bigger than the player sprite more enemies can surround them to cause more damage per second. Other than magic itrms that have the potential to damage the player as well there's no weapons that I know of that can attack more than one enemy at once, making it incredibly difficult to deal with swarms of enemies.

However, if you think about it the Armoured Boat has 500 health, so if you go off fighting something like the Tiger Shark in anything other that you're pretty much asking for death.