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Re: My fleet is bigger'n your fleet!
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 05:57:42 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > > 1 Brig (Steve Jackson term - a bigger version of...)
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> > Brig = Brigantine, a semi-standard class of warship (~16 guns).
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> I was using it in the sense of the term as Steve Jackson uses it in his Pirate
> Game rather than an actual ship (I know, a Brig ain't a ship).
It's not a boat, either. :) I presume it's a simple matter of confluence.
> > > Still lacking SES or BSB. Sigh.
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> > Someone asked: Skull's Eye Schooner and Black Seas Barracuda.
> > My fleet is primarily post-1870; it's three Fluyts (truncated Armada
> flagships)
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> Not tubby enough (IMHO). Whenever I get an extra brown midsection, I can
> return one of my CCs to its proper hull, which would release the red hull to
> become a 1 center section Fluyt. They had fluyts post 1870? I thought they
> were much earlier.
Indeed fluyts are far far earlier (c.17th-C.). The fleet is primarily post-1870,
but the fluyts and ironclads fall into an earlier era (Holdovers? Anachronisms?
Easy targets? You decide!). Sorry I wasn't clearer with my non-segue. I actually
think a sectionless Armada Flagship is tubby enough for a Fluyt, if built-up
properly--although maybe it's more of a cog, since it's hard to get more than one
effective mast on the darn thing. Either way, lyddite shells from _Indomitable_ or
the destroyers tended to make short work of 'em.
> > and an ironclad of the Coles Turret type (but not like HMS Captain--I can sail
> > this one in a breeze), made of four center sections and bow and stern of the
> > fourth Flagship. I sometimes make another ironclad from the front and back • of the
> > Time Vessel. However, I've ended up making waterline predreadnoughts and • torpedo
> > boats--any of which could lay my ancient craft low. Damn the • proletarianization
> > of the navy!
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> No ironclads yet, kinda late for pirates.
True--but not if you try to build SMS Emden. ;) A pirate of the nationalistic
sort! Arrr. (Actually, Mueller wasn't bloodthirsty--too much of a gentleman to be
a "true" pirate.)
> (made it over 100!)
Go us!
LFB.
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| (...) Pirate (...) It's a thing that floats and has sails. :-) (...) post-1870, (...) Anachronisms? (...) actually (...) one (...) I seemed to have mentally skipped over that "sectionless" Armada Flagship. Yeah, that can be tubby, though I put two (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I was using it in the sense of the term as Steve Jackson uses it in his Pirate Game rather than an actual ship (I know, a Brig ain't a ship). (...) flagships) Not tubby enough (IMHO). Whenever I get an extra brown midsection, I can return one (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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