What is the fastest ship with the biggest crew?

[rolypoly]

Figure if I want to do this pirate thing right, I need the fastest ship with the biggest amount of crew for boarding. I looked through the "book of ships", and it looks like the Corvette is the best for that. Is that correct? Are there any other ships better for that?

And where can I buy a Corvette?

[Herrius Le Crabe Québécois]

Corvette is the fastest ship in the game, i can get 17 knot and up to 22 during storm. (may or may not need some rhum to get that, i forget if i used some to get that high).
War Galleon can get a good 15 knot (with all upgrades) , have more guns and a little more crew. (and a lot more storage room).

pure speed i'd say corvette, if you want more firepower, more crew to get slightly bigger ship, war galleon.
You can find corvette in open world or buy them in big port. You can also find blueprint in open world in shipwreck and then build one in one of your owned port.

[Cowardly Camper]

For boarding, you don't need a fast ship at all. Corvettes are not good for boarding large ships due to not having any sailors. It would take at least 3 of them just to man a first rate, much less capture it.

To board, upgrade a first rate all the way and just lumber straight on over to the ship you want. Board and capture. When attacking a town, they never flee. When attacking a slave ship, they flee at a whopping 4 knots. Just ballchain their sails and capture. If you want to save a few sailors, slap it with a cannon barrage and a grapeshot barrage. I don't recommend it, though, as you'll spend more money on repairs and cannonballs then you would on sailor replacements.

[Varien]

I like using Xebec escorts, but my main ship is a Man of War. It's a bastard between the ships of the line and the corvettes IMO.

I've read all the guides and for some reason everbody praises the galleon and war galleon. There complete garbage lol.

[Cowardly Camper]

Yeah, having boarded well over a hundred ships of almost all sizes with a first rate, I can tell you, it works great and you'll love the 849 sailors. Man o'war is a great ship too. Largest ship that can still go the 10knots. Only nice thing about the galleons is they have a ton of cargo space, essential if you want to spend the next 15 minutes pounding disabled ships with grapeshot. I don't recommend, as sailors are cheaper to replace, but it is nice if you haven't got any ships that can hold 600+ sailors.

[Fuzzy466]

Originally posted by Herrius Le Crabe Québécois:

Corvette is the fastest ship in the game, i can get 17 knot and up to 22 during storm. (may or may not need some rhum to get that, i forget if i used some to get that high).

Corvette and Snow as equally as fast as one another.

Both can go at 19.1 knts with rum and 22.9 knts in storm.

Stats on papers show the Schooner as the fastest ship in game. (I have yet to test what its max speed are, considering vanilla stats are shown in Book of ships as 11.4 compared to 11 for both previously mentioned ships.)

[highfivingbears]

I'd say a better boarder than the Corvette would be the Junk.

I've gotten up to 16.2 knots without full upgrades, and it's got more crew with better boarding stats as well.

Plus, they look pretty darn cool

[76561199079802931]

##WARNING- this ship is not for direct combat and will be ripped apart in seconds.##
I am currently using a clipper and let me tell you it is very very fast. Mine is fully upgraded and goes upto 19.2 full sails in normal circumstances and 23 during a storm. And with this single ship I have crushed the pirate confederacy and the WIC along with a port (though I have my own secrets and a pirate never reveals his secret). It is available at the port La Ceiba(French port north of Panama) for about 1500.
For boarding I will recommend 1st rate for the reasons my fellow pirates have mentioned.
Captain LoneWolf3462 signing off

[Tiram3su]

Well we did use clipper in multiplayer to go for port raids first go kill the fort one pulls all the ships the other goes mortaring then Mortar down all enemys following you adjusting your speed as you please

[Red Field]

Clipper the best mortar ship lmao, love it for smuggling XD