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Interesting... How structurally sound is that technique? It seems like if you pressed your finger halfway up those sections, they would buckle. Are they braced somehow? Eric (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello everyone, I've started out on writing some rules for a naval combat game set in a castle style era. I had about four pages but was a nimrod and forgot to save and then the program crashed and I lost all my work. :( Anyways I suppose I should (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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This is probably a stupid question, but when did cannons come into use? Would a ship in the 'castle' era have cannons? (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) The commonly accepted date for the European adoption of cannon is 1327, when one appears (IIRC) on the Bayeux Tapestry as sort of a modified ballista (it's firing a giant arrowhead). But that's an indication that, by then, cannon had diffused (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Correction--oops. Bayeux Tapestry is the depiction of the Battle of Hastings. I'm thinking of another tapestry, but the date is right (1324, 1326, and 1327 are the ones given). I hate making misteaks like that. best LFB (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Very interesting, thanks Mr. LFB. But I have another question for you, when did guns and gunpowder come into use? (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I just stumbled upon a really cool resource on early, early cannon and firearms: (URL) It has a picture of said cannon, though in a manuscript rather than on a tapestry. And I apologise for being a CAD by replying to my own post not ONCE but (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It depends. By whom, and for what purpose? LFB (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Surely you would need some ships to be able to go on crusades, rather than for defence or pleasure cruises! Martin (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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That's plenty of information, thanks for your help! (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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