Well, the game is awesome, but let me explain some things to the new players. When your at low health on a boat, that boat cannot use certain attacks, therefore, if your entire crew is low hp, you cannot make a move. Also, when you go into a fight in a city, the stuff sold in the city you had before that one, can give you a sense of what the levels are like. So if something costs, say thousands of gold, then the ships level in the next city is probably a little over the middle of the ship tree.