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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8002177" data-attributes="member: 6920268">Thats the last of it.I have an obessive interest in Naval history and when my players asked me about the forces available for the navies I looked at the material on the ships in the published adventures and found I could not reconcile the descriptions given with effective ships of an appropriate period. I noticed that the interval between the 3rd Yerasol War and the events of the campaign is about the same as that between the launching of HMS Warrior (and the silly US Monitors) and the launch of HMS Dreadnought. Even given a lightly slower progression that made it very hard for sailing ships to be even slightly credible as opponents for the Danoran iron ships. Even HMS Warrior was expected to be able to take on 4 or 5 Wooden ships and win.So I have tried to come up with a reasonable progression, all ships are actual British built warships of the period , one of them I have been on. I did not use Warrior herself using one of her later half sisters for the equivalant ships.The two biggest discepancies from real life are1) No propellents more advanced than gunpower, the last of the Danoran ship are equivalant to those at Tsushima however they will have shorter engagment ranges and less capable shells as in the realword gunpowder had been replaced. This also means no selfpropelled torpedo's  which eliminates the whole class of Destroyer/torpedo boat ships and means I have removed many of the light guns from designs as they were intended to meet a none existant threat2) Big classes of ships. In practice in this period most ship classes were only 2 or 3 ships before the rate of progress meant the next ships were of a slightly different class. This should be even more prevalant as I estimate the population of Danor and Risur as about a third of the UK's 30 million so their navies are smaller than that of the Uk so even smaller classes but that would be a real effort to write.I am mildly tempted to stat these out for Fear God and Dreadnought my favoured naval wargame for the period but thats probably too much trouble as even I won't be fighting the battles out and it has no provision for wizardsI hope this has been of some interest</blockquote>

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