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3 centuries of history and 51 ships, feel them at https://clck.ru/38Ns3j For quite a long time, the basis of naval combat was two main rules. Weaken the enemy ship and engage its crew in hand-to-hand combat. Sailors developed many tactics, but the principle almost always remained the same. From about the 12th century, medieval sailing ships acquired powerful superstructures on the stern and bow, these were the so-called castles. Castles served as fighting platforms and were useful in close combat because they gave the crew a height advantage. Sailing ships quickly gained power over galleys, which had previously been the main type of warship in the Mediterranean....