[quote=@Navy_Vet]
I'm working on a CS, are the ship classes similar to their counterparts in the late 1700's other than the airlift balloons? If so will it have identical armaments? same number of cannon and crewmen etc
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Yes. There are frigate, carrier, Pondaloon, cruisers, all the basic classes have an airship counterpart.
A good game with ship classes and statistics is Sid Meyer's Pirates.