how did naval combat work in medieval days before

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Anon09/07/26, 03:52No.65488311

>Faggot OP kills a thread to ask a question that the most cursory glace at Wikipedia could've answered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_warfare#History

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Anon09/07/26, 06:59No.65488645

>Were they firing arrows at them, ramming each other, yes.

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Anon09/08/26, 08:38No.65491643

Assuming that you're talking about ship-to-ship combat then pretty much, yeah. The Romans did some funnies with artillery (probably out of sheer boredom, honestly) but by and large the only reliable way to dumpster an enemy vessel before the advent of cannon was to ram (assuming that your ship was designed for that, or you'd probably damage yourself just as badly) and/or burn (assuming that you could do so without catching your own ship on fire) it and that was secondary to the strategy of just lashing up to them and engaging in a boarding action.Also worth noting for the sake of pedantry is that there's ~150 years of overlap between the medieval period and naval cannon, as gunpowder-based weapons were used on ships as early as they were on foot. The bongs were using deck guns to shoot at the French in the fucking 1330s. IMO the real diving line in naval warfare is the gunport.

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Anon09/09/26, 03:06No.65493885

Naval combat mainly occurs near the shore or ports. Ships were not really combatants, just transports for moving land armies around. Ramming, boarding and Greek fire were the main ways of naval warfare.

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Anon09/09/26, 03:31No.65493961

Depends where you're fighting, but it was mostly boarding and ramming all around.

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