Frigate

A frigate is a common 3 masted sailing warship

Fighting a Frigate
Frigates make up most of the campaigns units so knowing how to fight one, helps.

Its generaly a bad idea to let a Frigate fire its full broadside at you, as they tend to be some of the largest in the campaign and Frigates can reload fast as well. Its best to fire at the bow and stern, however often they too have guns on them. Making Frigates hard to take on. Its a bad idea to send a Ship of the Line to take a Frigate on, as Frigates are capable of easily stick away from theire firepower. Infact its better to send a better frigate to take on a Frigate. Even better though is too use a 3rd rate ship of the line to take one on, depending on the exact specs of the 3rd rate, the rates speed and firepower balance will give you a fairly fast, well armed ship that could take on a Frigate.