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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 15:19:21 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > 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).
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> It's not a boat, either. :) I presume it's a simple matter of confluence.
It's a thing that floats and has sails. :-)
> > > > 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.
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> 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.
I seemed to have mentally skipped over that "sectionless" Armada Flagship.
Yeah, that can be tubby, though I put two lateen sails on it and try to
visually lengthen my mid-sectionless AF. A wide front/stern would be a true
tubby cog, though I have often refered to the stock Crossbone Clipper as a cog
(extremely derisively).
Bruce
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| (...) It's not a boat, either. :) I presume it's a simple matter of confluence. (...) 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? (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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