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Re: Pirate Game Question
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:40:56 GMT
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Roy Riggs wrote:
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> I have a question for you fellow pirate game players. When building
> custom ships, do you let everyone just make whatever they want,
> irregardless of reality? Case in point, my friend likes to put all of
> his cannons mounted onto those swivel bases. So while at any given
> time you only have half your guns pointed towards him, he's swivelled
> all his cannons to bear on you..
I asked this of Steve Jackson once, and as a result of his answer, the
guidelines I go by when I run the game are:
- a ship may always have one swivel mount cannon
- only large ships (like class 5 or so or larger) may have more than one
swivel mount
- class 7 (and maybe class 6) ships may have 3 swivel mounts, though
generally they will only have two
I'll have to dig up more specific guidelines (actually, if you look back
through the archives here, there should be complete guidelines for my
game).
Another point when I'm running the game is that your broadside cannon
can fire from both sides. So my Class 7 Red Seas Barracuda has 2 swivel
cannon on the foredeck and 5 broadside cannon, which can shoot from
either side. You can build your broadside cannon in any of the following
ways:
- use a side to side swivel mount like the Red Beard Runner
- on a 16-wide ship, put one cannon on each side (only one of each pair
may shoot in a turn, when a cannon is lost, a pair is lost)
- put one cannon in, and use HOG to put it on the appropriate side of
the ship
I'm tempted to revisit the cannon rules. One thought is to have one
broadside cannon per center hull section, plus one (i.e class-1 for
12-wides), and have the advantage of 16-wide ships be that they get 2
swivel mount cannon on the foredeck, and have cannon on both sides, so
if there are targets on either side, they get a LOT more shots than a
12-wide. This would give 16-wide tubs (no center sections, class 3)
generally the same firepower which can be brought to bear on a single
target as currently allowed (though as 2 swivels and 1 broadside instead
of 2 broadside and 1 swivel), and the larger ships one fewer cannon, but
the large ships would have a huge advantage in fleet actions, and would
also be able to replace lost cannon (say 1 turn to move a cannon from
one side to the other - though that would still be a free move on a
12-wide, though perhaps requiring two crew).
--
Frank Filz
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