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Subject:	Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.pirates
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:44:10 GMT
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> It looks very effective. Most of my small designs use a 1x1x1 brick with > five studs (though some cheat and use a technic 1x1x1 with hole instead), > which are in pretty short supply in my collection... so using the 2x2x2/3 > camera/laser brick with studs on the side is particularly helpful to me at > the moment! Good good! > The new brig needs some deck guns, and the nice chrome (9 pounders?) are > reserved for the frigate... so it looks like she'll get some of these. Looking at you pics, the length of the chrome guns in studs seems about 6 -- so they're either short 9-pounders or long 6-pounders. British Frigates tended to go for either, depending on the Captain. > The UCS X wing has eight barrels in grey.... unfortunately not dark grey.... > as an alternative. And the 8880 supercar (and at least one techic > helicopter) has the palm tree segment (that is what you've used as the > barrel lining, isn't it?) in grey as well. Precisely right about the lining! I don't have either set, I'm afraid, but at least these get rid of all the pesky barrels I have lying around. > I do like the slide (which I completely ignored on my on carronade's). It's hand on two levels: first, it is acurate, second, it saves me gun carriage wheels (which are in desperately short supply!). I'm toying with the idea of pivot-mounting about a dozen of 12-pounders because my wheel supplies have dried up entirely. > My other thought on carronades, now I have two ships that need them, was to > use the technic cannon (http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/32074) (but without > the projectile). Interesting. I haven't seen any of these myself, but it seems feasible enough, if you can figure out a mounting... heck, that could be a mortar! Well, it seems we have a series arms race on our hands here... ; ) Kenneth Tam

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		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) Yes, I found my supply of small wheels (which I'd previously thought of as being large and annoying) suddenly dried up when I started carriage mounting a lot of my guns. My small cannon designs us 1x1 round plates as wheels, mounted directly (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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		Re: Tired of being outgunned by pirates with deep loot-filled pockets?
(...) It looks very effective. Most of my small designs use a 1x1x1 brick with five studs (though some cheat and use a technic 1x1x1 with hole instead), which are in pretty short supply in my collection... so using the 2x2x2/3 camera/laser brick (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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