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| Good lord! Horse Guards must be informed of such a slaughter -- I pity the next of His Majesty's Ships to visit that port seeking rest and resupply! Love the fort -- and the water texturing is excellent. Good number of decapitations, too -- gotta (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Submitted for your approval, the Imperial General's seaside hacienda, where he get away from the day-to-day grind of bringing justice to pirates. Watch as the sleepy beachfront is assaulted by a never-before encountered foe, the army of the Shogun! (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) If it's a British squadron, you needn't worry -- I always blame my shortage of manpower on the fact that the small population of Britain is crewing the LARGEST and MOST SUCCESSFUL fleet of the period, and arguably the most successful relative (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hi Don, Great work on the Viking raider -- like Richie says, it'd be great to see in in action! Who knows, a good shallow-draught landing boat could be useful in a multinational fleet... really good for getting up rivers, as I'm pretty certain (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hi Mike, Well, once again, just a splendid piece of building. And hats off to the excellent custom work you managed with Utile Plast -- I really think you should give lessons to us lesser mortals in that regard... : ) And of course, excellent choice (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Thanks for the Bomb Ketch pictures! that is going to be about the size of it...in fact, almost none of my ships will be bigger then that. However, i think i could handle the ships you have in harbor. because, here is my fleet: The British (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hey thanks for all the praise. It makes the effort worthwhile. (...) The Oars, well. I wa sout bid on a large lot on Ebay, but the buyer was kind enough to sell me half the lot, then I purchased 10 at a very affordable C3 from wbuhr.de on Bricklink, (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Yeah, i know its not for ship action. Like in Hornblower, he uses his bomb ketchs to rip apart a french corvette-privateer at anchor in a bay. my purposes for a bomb ketch is that the Privateer fleet in my storyline-well, its base is the wreck (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) <snip> (...) Here's a link to a scale model of a bomb ketch: (URL) bomb ketch is rigged as a ship, but without a formast (ketch = 2 masts). Possibly converted from a frigate or sloop, but more likely purpose built. Historically, ketch's were (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Blockade Port Brique? At the moment, it's missing a flagship, the light frigate /Eponine/ having recently been sunk. A replacement is currently under construction, but if you get in quickly, you'll only have the 12 gun brig /Madame Thenardier/ (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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