Luskan's "ghost ships" had been able to sweep through the waters of the Sword Coast unhindered all these years because of their stealth and their capacity for surprise attacks. Before their "targets" could react, they could deal them a devastating blow.
In terms of ship design, the sections along either side of a vessel's hull were often relatively vulnerable. What was more, nearly every ship of this era was built primarily from wood, a material comparatively prone to damage.
The Luskan ghost ships exploited precisely this weakness. Before their "targets" noticed them, they would ram directly into their midsections with their strongest part—the bow. Some poorly built merchant vessels would even be snapped in two on the spot; at the very least, they would be severely damaged.
Although doing so inevitably caused a certain degree of damage to their own hulls, since they could dive beneath the sea's surface, they naturally had no fear of a little hull damage causing leaks.
More importantly, this method gave them another, even greater advantage in boarding battles.
By the time they had used their overwhelming numerical advantage to cut down the deck guards like chopping vegetables and charged into the cabins, some adventurer guards who had been resting between shifts had not even finished putting on their leather armor or picked up their weapons before they were singled out and killed amid confusion and panic.
In fact, this tactic had also existed in Li Wei's world. Its name was blitzkrieg.
Blitzkrieg, also known as lightning warfare, was a tactic used by Germany during the Second World War. It fully exploited the speed advantages of aircraft, tanks, and mechanized forces, defeating enemies through sudden assaults and rapidly cutting apart the enemy's main force with mechanized units to achieve the intended results.
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