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| (...) Just so. Sneaking is a business for the night, I find, and thus is best left to port, where you have firm locations on targets. Guns hardly play a part then (unless you face a particularly diligent crew). I wouldn't care to try to run down a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) (Just did a quick scan of the house...) Certainly the Endeavour (albeit a barque) in the mide-late 18th century and the Supply (albeit a brig) in the late 18th/early 19th century had and used spritsails as well as jibs... I've seen a print of (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) <snip> That's an impressive force! I do like the torso designs. (...) (URL) ? (...) Well, if one was planning a long voyage, the Misérable would be the vessel for the trip. Actually, with the abundance of white BURPS at the moment, I'm (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Which is a nice idea, but it appears to be most un-French. If the Misérable were a British vessel, where the captain dined on stodgy salt pork and pease the smell of gunpowder could only improve the meal, but on a French Vessel, gunpowder in (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) ;-) One has to have *something* to intimidate, after all. (Yes, a three masted, twelve gunned, sloop of war (three centre sections) - a 'pocket frigate' perhaps. And without a Hornblower clone to be seen!) Cheers Richie (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) All I know is, if I'm facing that many troops, I'm bringing my AT-TE!!! :D (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) This is why their Lordships granted 'Friendly' 18-pounder Carronades. Not that I plan on testing the theory... : ) (...) Working on it! Wait, did you say British sloop? : ) Kenneth Tam Brickley's Cove (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) But one doesn't count those smaller guns ;-) (...) Well spotted! There are some nine pounders that can be run out in the captain's cabin, but some poop deck stern chasers would be nice as well. The view from the poop deck (let alone the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) It makes the stock Black Seas Barracuda look a bit underpowered... (...) Indeed. I owe my direct inspiration to the HMS Agamemnon out of Port Block, though. (And I still remain uncomfortable not be able to accomodate the entire crew in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) One bow, one stern, six centre sections and 90 inverse 2x2 slopes (and 12 1x3 inverse slopes to anchor the stays!). (...) Two RBR's is an excellent base for a ship (my Eponine II was built on such a base) and you have a few useful parts left (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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