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Imho, this unit is underused. I almost never see players , and personally use them in large naval battle. This mainly, imho:

1. For a 4 turn unit whose only achievement is to explode itself, Demolition Boat effect (not the damage) is low. To make our 4 turn has more benefits, they should be used against group of units, which is hard to do as usually Demolition Boat fall first.
2. They cannot be built by worker.
3. They are not stealth unit.

May I propose to make them "worth their cost"?

1. Add ability to plant petard, just like Demolition Ship.
2. Lower cost to 3 turn, in consequence of lowering damage.
3. Add buildable by worker, with longer mend than Galley
4. Make them stealth water units - this I believe is too much, but somehow I like the idea, in consequence of lowering damage.

Not all point, onlly one should be chosen of course

U do know that demolition ship is the upgrade of demolition boat? So just upgrade demolition boat then u can plant petards,

Its useful in this scenario: u r pushing with ur fleet and u made a line of petards behind, wen ur ships r injured u can fall behind petard line and any unsuspecting enemy ship will blow up

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I agree, that it's a little weird that unit is completely useless before upgrade.
As for which action could be taken:
3. Unfortunately it would leave Petardier as still very limited - how to balance that ?
4. How exactly would you hide a ship on open sea? Even taking into account, that it could be "hiding" like

I think it wouldn't be bad to allow upgraded one to place petard too (maybe weakened version), so option 2.

Demolition boat can also set up floating petards which have 15 power.
Floating petards are upgraded along with To Demolition Ship tech.
Already in dev version.