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Ship Design: Brethren's Frigate
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Ship Design: Brethren's Frigate is a Recipe Papers item that unlocks the Brethren Frigate, the durable, 36-gun Frigate variant of the Brethren of the Coast. Brethren ships are sea fortresses; this design produces the most defensively oriented Frigate in the game.
Reading the design adds the Brethren Frigate recipe to your Shipwright menu. Once unlocked, the recipe persists across deaths; the paper is consumed.
Property | Value |
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Hull class | |
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36 guns | |
Combat role | Heavy capital warship; absorbs and trades broadsides |
Trade-off | Slowest of the three Frigate variants |
Every Frigate hull comes in three faction variants that share the same 36-gun layout but tune durability against speed. The Brethren build is the tank end of that spread.
Variant | Profile | Best For |
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Frigate (Stock) | Balanced hull and speed, the baseline 36-gun warship | General-purpose sailing and a first capital ship |
Toughest frame, slowest top speed, trades broadsides | Holding the line in a stand-up fight | |
Fastest hull, lighter frame, runs down or escapes | Chasing targets and disengaging on your terms |
Sold by the Brethren of the Coast Provisioner at the highest reputation tier. The Brethren Frigate is the single most expensive single-ship purchase in the Brethren stock. Reaching the buy line typically requires a finished faction quest chain plus a long stretch of contract running.
36 guns means 18 per side. The reload cycle and powder consumption are correspondingly large; keep a full hold of Munitions before any sustained engagement.
Pair the hull with Plans: Tempered 36-Pounders or Plans: Perfectly Ordered 36-Pounders for the best per-shot damage at range.
The slowest Frigate in the game still outruns a Brig under broadside fire, but you cannot escape a Blackbeard Frigate in a tail chase. Plan engagements where the Brethren Frigate is the lead trade rather than the runner.
Ship Types: every hull class and faction variant
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