The recent update of an additional ship, Brigantine, to Guldorand really tips the scale badly against Sencliff.
Let me summarize the state of ships across the settlements -
Guldorand
1) Flag Ship x 1
2) Galleon x 2
3) Brigantine x 1
4) Galley x 2
Cordor
1) Flag Ship x 1
2) Galley x 1
Brogdenstein
1) Flag ship x 1
The above three settlements are the Team Good. And honestly, they have a -HUGE- population to choose from if they'll like to invest in sailing, either politically motivated or just those players that enjoy sailing.
The only reason that i reckon that they do not have much sailors are because the politically motivated faction are not interested since Sencliff was at it's lull period for a long period of time.
Now, we'll take a look at Sencliff side -
1) Galleon x 1
2) Brigantine x 3
While the above setup of ship looks good, if you simply do the comparison that Sencliff with lacking population, having tried to amass enough sailors for 2 ships and possibly 3 ships perhaps will still get decimated by just, Flag Ship x 1 and Brigantine Ship x 1.
Flag ships are just that powerful.
And it's important to note that Sencliff requires more sailors and even more supplies to crew more ships, from their already lacking population. Another factor to note is, this is the minimum estimate.
With the addition of Brigantine ship from Myon, it's possible to meet 2 x Flag Ship with 1 x Brigantine combination.
This kind of line up simply decimate any chance of success when they're fully crewed.
While i understand that Team Good need to be given more benefits but isn't that benefit a little too much against Sencliff?
Even if Team Evil want to perform, there at least need to be chance of success when we met at full capability through tactics deployment and capability.
However, when the power severely tips against the Sencliff side, all form of tactics do not work.
It's not easy to amass a pirate faction in Sencliff and when they does, all settlements start to gear up to fight against us which is very good but when you give too much tasty cookies to the Team Good, and nothing to Team Evil.
Once Team Evil loses motivation and Sencliff goes lull period once more, everything is back to the same state as it was months ago or perhaps longer.
I hope that the Devs team should really think about this matter and that Sencliff need some cookies through improvement or anything at all. But when the bare minimum to beat us becomes Flag ship x 1 and Brigantine x 1, this is severely demoralizing.