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<blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2167884" data-attributes="member: 8944"><p>Definitely. In fact, it's probably already happening, but if you have a specific idea for what direction you want shipbuilding/conversion to go at this point, it can certainly happen that way. </p><p> </p><p> Exactly what I was thinking. In a long-lost star wars game, we (I was playing and GMing) offered to absorb some of the cost of arming merchant vessels that wished to privateer against the Empire - you may wish to do something similar (or provide some other enticement to better encourage privateering - generous salvage rights are the very least of what you'd need to do, I think). </p><p> </p><p>The draconid ship is probably a little bit more like the Merrimac (The CSS <em>Virginia</em>) than it was like the Monitor - it looks like it's just a warship with iron plating grafted to it, rather than a vessel specifically built as an ironclad (Nice catch on the reference, though! WHEE! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). In the limited naval forays that you've heard reports of, more and more draconid vessels are becoming similarly armored - but comparably few are armed with cannon (probably because you control 2 of the 3 big foundries/forges). Those that do have cannon generally seem to have only a few, with the remaining firepower being taken care of by magic and older weapons like ballistae. </p><p> </p><p>Of course, it's also not a steam vessel like the two examples above were. It's got sails and oars (and a slave deck so that there are people to man the oars) for when the wind is too weak to push it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The_Universe, post: 2167884, member: 8944"] Definitely. In fact, it's probably already happening, but if you have a specific idea for what direction you want shipbuilding/conversion to go at this point, it can certainly happen that way. Exactly what I was thinking. In a long-lost star wars game, we (I was playing and GMing) offered to absorb some of the cost of arming merchant vessels that wished to privateer against the Empire - you may wish to do something similar (or provide some other enticement to better encourage privateering - generous salvage rights are the very least of what you'd need to do, I think). The draconid ship is probably a little bit more like the Merrimac (The CSS [i]Virginia[/i]) than it was like the Monitor - it looks like it's just a warship with iron plating grafted to it, rather than a vessel specifically built as an ironclad (Nice catch on the reference, though! WHEE! :)). In the limited naval forays that you've heard reports of, more and more draconid vessels are becoming similarly armored - but comparably few are armed with cannon (probably because you control 2 of the 3 big foundries/forges). Those that do have cannon generally seem to have only a few, with the remaining firepower being taken care of by magic and older weapons like ballistae. Of course, it's also not a steam vessel like the two examples above were. It's got sails and oars (and a slave deck so that there are people to man the oars) for when the wind is too weak to push it. [/QUOTE]
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