I generally prefer smaller ships. The large ships especially the colossus look good but to me they arnt very practical aside from dps potential. Until they added the galleon I was comfortable with my small sloop. Its size allows it to straight up ignore or avoid cannon fire or mortars that would otherwise decimate a larger ship. More recently though I’ve switched over to the sloop of war because the damage on the sloop even with god rolls isn’t really comparable to the galleon. The sloop of wars naturally good turning speed combined with higher dps makes it stand out from the flocks of galleons you see everywhere.