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Re: Small cutter bows (6x7 bow pieces)
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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:48:16 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> In lugnet.pirates, Stephen A. Campbell writes:
> > Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > > This is true too! Don't forget, though, that the T-Rex Transport
> > > (5975) has the lovely and useful 10-wide bow bricks in white *and*
> > > in light grey--with my four 6560s I'm ready to build some nice big
> > > grey and white freighters!
> > >
> > > Hey, wait a minute, that's not very .pirates. I probably should
> > > talk about using the black hull bits to make pirate ships...yeah,
> > > that's the ticket...
> > >
> > > Anyways, the bow brick is quite alive and well, in both sizes.
> >
> > Freighters are very .pirate. Without freighters, what is there to plunder besides
> > Imperial and Armada warships and Islander canoes? Give me a fat defenseless
> > freighter loaded with treasure any day!
> >
> > Arrr! Put one across her bow ye scurvy sea-dogs! Prepare the grapples! Arrr!
> > Arrr! ARRR!
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> While the enthusiasm is not only commendable but admirable,
> I fear that an 18th-C. pyrate going after a steel, steam-
> powered freighter would be sort of like going after the setting
> moon. On the other hand, the black bows from River Expedition
> (which I'm praying I'll be able to get some of while they're
> still around!) would be ideal for building a sailing freighter,
> much better for plunderin'.
Although didn't early steamships sometimes go slower than a good trim
sailing ship?
> I usually arm my freighters with 40mm or 15cm DP quick-firing-guns
> anyways, to keep my little grey patrol boats away. I don't have
> enough to make a proper convoy, though.
Those would of course do a very good job of keeping the pirates at bay.
Much more accurate, much longer range, and much higher rate of fire.
> > PS - since the Pirate Game at Brickfest 2000 I've been assembling cutters and
> > parts for cutters like a mad Pirate ship builder gone mad! Arrr!
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> A mad Pirate ship builder gone mad? I'm not sure what that would
> entail, but it sounds rather disconcerting.
I need to start shipbuilding again. It's probably about time to start
getting geared up for Brickfest 2001.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Yep--the paddle-wheelers, at any rate. However, until they were largely out of the 'overlap zone,' most steamers still carried a rig--the speed issue is why the Navy was very late in adopting steam propulsion as a standard, and even then only (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) While the enthusiasm is not only commendable but admirable, I fear that an 18th-C. pyrate going after a steel, steam- powered freighter would be sort of like going after the setting moon. On the other hand, the black bows from River Expedition (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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