SteveMartin wrote:
I find the WSIM drifting rules to be much to arbitrary and frankly would rather see them dispensed with. Ships with sail boxes should not be drifting about out of control. Only dismasted ships should drift and then only for a random number of turns, not more than six, by which time even the most green crew of Spaniards should have improvised a sea anchor of some kind.
I don't find the drifting rules arbitary at all. however I'm fairly sure the boardgame rules actually states that ships with sails
always gets to chose if they want to drift.
There's also the "backing sails" rule that's missing. That is the movement option "forward 0 hexes", which would make maneuvering in close formation a lot easier!