>>28349856Everyone is using wooden Man o wars. I have never been on a frigate sailing on the open seas before but I'd imagine the noise from your own ship and the minimal noise produced by sailing ships it would means that for catching a lone ship or flotilla in the open ocean would be neigh impossible. It would most likely meant to be used as in a shore defense system especially against ironclads and an full invasion fleet. Pomerlane Anon pls. I'm an autist for realism too. If not I would've already given /who/ a bunch of magic bullshit. We are world building here. Although they haven't really given a limitation on the hydrophones you can give realistic and reasonable limitation on them. Making shit up is half the fun in world building.