In the stock game, starting fires on deck of a ship will help it along to being sunk. With small merchants they can be sunk with gunfire only. I usually use around 20 HE shells or so to send one to the bottom. As for the bigger ships. they can be sunk with gunfire just takes alot more shells.
However most people punch holes below the waterline with AP shells.
As for GW and the other mods out there, I'm not sure how fires on deck effect the sinking rate.
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