| |
Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Steve Campbell writes:
> > Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
>
> > > And fitting 30+ ships into a Miata would truly be hell on wheels. :-)
>
> >
> > 30+!!!!
> > I guess you'll be entering the 'brute force' category at PirateFest'00.
> > Are those all 'real' Pirate ships or did you make them up?
> > Or are you (sadly) counting all of your rowboats as Pirate 'ships'? If
> > so I have well over 1,000. Or so it seems.
I like that coinage, "PirateFest '00."
> > SteveC
>
> Didn't I cover this in "My fleet is bigger than yours" a while ago? The
> current fleet stands at:
>
> 4 Crossbone Clippers
> 3 Renegade Runners
> 6 Armada Flagships
> 3 Imperial Flagships
> 3 Caribbean Clippers
> 4 Redbeard Runners
> 1 Black Sea Barracuda (yeah! Finally)
> 0 Skull's Eye Schooners (boo!)
> 1 Imperial Trading Post cutter
> 2 Sea Sepents (drafted from the Middle Ages)
> 2 Custom "brigs"
> 3 Custom "cutters"
> (Customs are built on the six-wide bow piece similiar to the Trading Post
> cutter)
>
> 8 wide size ships, 16 narrow hulled ships, and 8 pint-size coastal craft -
> (VERY appropriate for the early raids of Drake and the like). Several ships
> have been modified (a three center section CC with a second full double-sailed
> mast is currently in dry dock over the holidays). Thank you for those two
> brown center sections, Frank! A ten-wide based on the hull front of the
> Adventurer's Amazon river boat is also in the works. I've got bits and pieces
> to cobble together another wide hulled ship.
That's OK. I'll just bring one ship, if it fits in my car:
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/indomitable.html
On the other hand, I'm not sure I need to actually bring it. I can probably just
fire the HG from here in Jersey, and just bring the plane to spot for them. "It
*is too* primitive, there's no radar!" ;)
In all seriousness, though, I'd be up for a trip to VA to engage in piratical
endeavours--the only problem being that I don't exactly have a wealth of "proper"
pirate hulls (4 Armada Flagships and a Flying Time Vessel). The closest thing I
have to a genuine pirate ship is a recent ironclad, the _Olympus_:
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_profile.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_fore.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_midships.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_stern2.jpg
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ironclad_foredeck.jpg
Yet even this ship is steam-driven, and has a primitive turret amidships--and
there just weren't many pirates around by then (c.1868). On the other hand, I'm
sure shore bombardment with lyddite shells would be deadly to the horrible
wildlife of Snake Island (and probably any treasure too). ;)
On the other hand, I just landed about a dozen 6-wide boat prows from trades and
6441 purchases. I also have an absolute ton of mast sections, thanks to Todd and
AUCzilla LXXVIII or some other recent number. I could probably produce something
less-than gorgeous, but acceptably buccaneerish. Oooh, I'm also low on cannon,
with only a dozen or so.
> I don't even want to think about rafts and rowboats...
I do, because I'll need them...but on second thought:
"Okay, your rowboat fires its cannon at the target. The carriage recoils through
the bottom and back of your rowboat, which splinters into a million pieces. The
blast effect alone bursts your sailors' eardrums and, dazed or unconscious, they
drown instantly. Next ship?"
Maybe I ought to make a LEGO recreation of David Bushnell's little 1770s submarine
_Turtle_...guys, leave the copper sheathing at home, and no naming your ship
"Eagle." Guys? Guys?!? ;)
best,
Lindsay
---
Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr)
Department of History
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Pirate Gaming
|
| Mr L F Braun wrote in message <385F388B.AA3ED961@p...su.edu>... (...) piratical (...) "proper" (...) thing I (...) Hm, it's sounding like Virginia would be a reasonably central location that most of us could get to. I really need to start building (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Pirate Gaming
|
| (...) Didn't I cover this in "My fleet is bigger than yours" a while ago? The current fleet stands at: 4 Crossbone Clippers 3 Renegade Runners 6 Armada Flagships 3 Imperial Flagships 3 Caribbean Clippers 4 Redbeard Runners 1 Black Sea Barracuda (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates)
|
17 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
