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(...) Ahoy there! You've certainly started at the top! (...) It's always good to see another vessel on hand to fight the English! (...) There's some great work there. You've done a nice job of styling a hull out of bricks, particularly the detail (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) The ficticious adventures: the HMS Surprise was a real ship. -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) i wonder how long it would take to upgrade to this in a game of pirate wars. seriously this is one cool moc. hopefully i'll get to see it in person. coming to brickfest? ondrew (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Impressive! Kind of makes me want to build the HMS Surprise, the ficticious frigate from the Patrick O'Brien novels, and more recently the movie. It's a little smaller than Old Ironsides. I'm going to bookmark that for inspiration. (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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I knew I wanted to get the number of cannons correct so I worked off of that. I originally built a cross section of the hull in three different scales before choosing the final scale. I reckon it's closer to 1:72 or 1:60 scale in terms of the ships (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Cool, Ben! Lots of details, inside and out. It appears to be around 1:48 scale; were you pretty meticulous to actual details in your rendition? (translation: how close did you approach the status of "rivet counter":-) I must say, however, that (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Always wanted to build a model ship out of LEGO: (2 URLs) Click the picture or: (URL) The ship features two decks below, one top side, 54 LEGO cannons, removable deck plates to check out the inside. The entire models breaks into three sections to (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) That is a problem. But, if you were to develop multiple personalities, you could play a game by yourself and test the rule modifications. ~Clangador (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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"Clangador" <clangador@comcast.net> wrote in message news:HyrtE6.1Isu@lugnet.com... (...) some (...) shot, (...) the (...) are (...) be (...) seem that (...) I've been giving some thought to changing rules. The trouble is care must be taken (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Why don't you modify the rules you use when running a game? It doesn't seem that big of a deal. ~Clangador (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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Hello All! I have posted pictures of Exploits of Empire military units on Brickshelf. The pictures are composed of army and naval officers and personnel as well as artillery. (URL) (20 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) ship (...) do (...) close (...) could (...) were (...) Within (...) do (...) Most of the debate I had heard in the past was that grape wasn't really worth using in the game. In the past couple games I've run, I have seen some use of grape. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, no. Dismasting a ship was probably the easiest way - the opposing ship couldn't manuever to make an effective broadside while you can. You don't do that with grapeshot. Further, grapeshot was only really effective from close range, and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) But that's braodly historically accurate. For most countries' fleets/ships/captains the whole point of shooting at an opposing ship was to disable it, board it and force the crew (or what was left of them) to surrender. For example, for the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) I think it is too effective. I'll be giving it a range of 6" and -2 per 6” thereafter. I want cannon fire to be about ship-to-ship combat and not slaughtering the crew while leaving the ship intact. From what I saw, GS is easily the most (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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(...) Your observations are accurate: bowsprits varied from ship to ship. If Lindsay can't give you a formula for a specific class of ship, I suspect one does not exist. Generally the angle of the bowsprit got shallower as time went on. Sloops (as (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Whether grape is "too effective" or not as currently written is the subject of much discussion in ESPG circles. I don't think there has been any firm conclusion drawn as of yet. (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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Yesterday I ran a small pirate game for a couple of my friends. It went pretty good. Each started with a class 2 ship. There were 3 large islands and half a dozen small islands. An imperial base and a neutral base. During the game, each captain (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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Hi Stephen (and everyone): First of all, base pedantry: bowsprits. No N anywhere in it. Second, the substance: Bowsprits varied in length historically, as indeed did the geometries of the bows to which they were attached. In part they were meant to (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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hello everyone, i have a question. how long are the bowsprints on your ships as compared to the length of your respective ship? is there any historical "formula" as to finding the length the bowsprint of a ship should be? i have many pics of ships, (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.pirates)
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