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In lugnet.gaming, Wesley Davis wrote:
> I wouldn't go with the draft idea, unless it was minimal. If anything, I'd say
> class minus three inches. This would make big ships use boats, but allow cutters
> to pull right up next to the islands. Ports would of course be deep enough for
> anything up to a class 8 to pull up alongside.
I really like the idea of using draught as a quality--it
would slow down the really "big" ships in and amongst the
islands, and allow maneuverability to mean something. But
it also would give the cutters an advantage in getting to
the treasure islands, which is extremely good for balance.
Besides, if it were a "hazard" of getting too close to the
island for a large ship, it would require some calculation--
is the 1 in 6 chance of beaching (or whatever) worth that
extra two inches of approach?
> We could consider giving some players a merchant ship plus an Imperial cutter as
> an escort craft. This would get the merchants in the game. The escort craft
> wouldn't be tradable; the merchants ship would earn money by travelling between
> the major ports without getting robbed. Since it would be undergunned and
> undermanned, it would still be balanced, IMO, to have that player control it and
> a cutter, since the cutter's crew and cannon are basically what the merchant
> would be missing, anyway.
I can't agree here, with the whole idea of "merchant escorts."
Historically, the merchant ships *were* armed, albeit much
more lightly than warships (or pirate vessels). Perhaps a
better option is to restrict merchant ships to the armament
of ships a few classes lower, and possibly to a lower amount
of ammunition and/or skill in the use of heavy naval type
weapons as well. Generally, for piracy to be viable in
an area, by definition the imperial military presence had to
be small and selective--not gallivanting about protecting
every single merchant bottom itself. Now, it might be possible
for a merchant to *hire* a cutter to protect it, or even to hire
another player to do the same...
all best
LFB
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| "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:Hx1Bxn.1rFx@lugnet.com... (...) I'd say (...) cutters (...) enough for (...) My biggest concern with adding draught is the added complexity for not that much gain. I also don't want to (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates)
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| I wouldn't go with the draft idea, unless it was minimal. If anything, I'd say class minus three inches. This would make big ships use boats, but allow cutters to pull right up next to the islands. Ports would of course be deep enough for anything (...) (20 years ago, 1-May-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates)
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