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Re: My Ships
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Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:14:13 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Alex Polimeni writes:
> >
> >
> > 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 squadron:
> > 2 Schooners, basilisk and shearwater,
> > 2 cutters, rippon and comet
> > 1 brig, Trial
> > 1 Bomb Ketch, Vesuvius
> > 1 Sloop, confounder (a remake of Goldfinch)
> > 1 Frigate, Halifix. (flagship.)
> >
> > that is eight ships. they are all small ships, but i find two things: small
> > ships can get in alot more interesting trouble then ships of the line,
> > ships of the line are VERY hard to make, and last of all- who wants to • blockade, and rot on patrol?
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> But the French Squadron of Port Brique has the advantage of consisting of a
> brig and a pair of chase maries (sloops in the modern sense of sloop)
> assisted by three single cannon sailing gunboats. And they have the even
> bigger advantage of not just being planned, but actually existing! ;-)
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> > With my fleet of little ships, i can go into Port Brique and destroy, loot and
> > cut out your ships at will!
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> Ahhh...
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> Have you considered the ports defenses?
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/southernfortsmall.jpg
> is but a small portion of them)
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> > you might have a chance if you deployed at sea..
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> The grand armie (http://www.lugnet.com/loc/au/~1285/PortBrique/GrandArmie)
> will make short work of landing parties!
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> > but wait, the Frogs always did let their ships and their crews rot
> > at anchor!!!
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> The Northern hemisphere commanders perhaps, but not Jacques Legeaux!
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> > Frog!!(best luck on you ships, anyhow.)
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> Mmmmm... frogs legs. On the menu at the ABC cafe in Port Brique.
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> > HH, Commodore of HM squadron, deployed in the azores, currently.
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> The Azores? Probably best the squadron stays there.... the South Pacifique
> could be a dangerous place for them ;-)
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> Cheers
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> Richie
Ah, threatening. but more likely just a pose.
Why do you think i chose to have a fleet of small, almost tiny ships? with
perhaps five marines each? not just because i have a shortage of bricks.
My ketch can bash into the ports defenses, while staying out of range.
I can dodge in and out of the islands, hiding in coves that draw perhaps three
feet, while you blunder about.
twenty, at the most, marines against your Grande Army which has-how many
soldeirs? But, your huge army can just blunder here and there, smashing and
destroying, attemting to get me. where as my light marines can spread out,
skirmishing and slowly wearing your army out.
Oh, and thats a way to keep the people in luege with you. "if you dont follow
us, we chop of your head." Pooh. I can probably get your war-ravaged civillians
to rebel.
and, as the cause of my fleet, i will rip, shoot and burn all Tricolors i find.
(strange, my national colors are red, white and blue....)
Commodore Lord Sir Horatio Hornblock.
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| (...) Out of range of what, exactly? Port Brique has mortars and long guns too. And if a ketch is bobbing about off the coast lobbing shells at the Port, it's a relativeling easy matter to dispatch a ship or two to teach it a lesson ;-) (...) If (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) But the French Squadron of Port Brique has the advantage of consisting of a brig and a pair of chase maries (sloops in the modern sense of sloop) assisted by three single cannon sailing gunboats. And they have the even bigger advantage of not (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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