Do you use a house rule instead of the official "First Broadside" rule?

In our group, the following variant has proven itself for years:
Instead of generating a higher amount of damage by having more damage tokens, we go the route of hit probability...

The ship firing a First Broadside may replace up to two "0" markers with new markers.
(Optionally, the number can be adjusted based on the number of markers - but we generally take a maximum of 2 markers)
The first "0" markers drawn are retained and do not go back into the bag.If "0" markers are drawn again when drawing, these are of course valid!

This means that the first broadside cannot do more damage than the maximum. However, it is far more likely to deal more damage than a regular broadside.