Citizens, Lend me Your Oars Ancient Conquest 's first neat feature is the addition of nine heroes, one of whom is Jason himself. Once on board a ship, the hero adds a special power. Jason helps you avoid running into rocks, Perseus protects you from gorgons. A boarding ship will typically carry swordsmen, a more offensive ship may carry a couple of catapult weapons. But if you don't like default loadouts, you can load up with what you like.
Ships can have one of three ram types, and three armour types.
Tables in the online manual detail the space taken up by items in each ship class, and what types of ram and armour each ship can carry. The design of the game is very good - lots of thought clearly went into it. More on that later. Added to that are some good options for ship control - you can have ships guard zones as well as the more normal waypoint patrolling. You can also set standing orders on whether each ship should board, ram or attack at a distance.