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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 6168986" data-attributes="member: 707">I'd say our biggest threat is enemy airship artillery, both mundane (cannons) and magical (enemy spellcasters).  We need to be able to withstand bombardment as we close to engage, or while exchanging fire if the enemy airship chooses to try and maintain distance or run.I think we are fairly solid versus boarders.  We have some strong melee combatants, so repulsing enemy boarders would be one of our strengths, along with boarding the enemy airship in turn.This is a good point, I'll have to start looking into how we can protect them.This is not necessarily a given.  Our airship will not fly solely via propellers.  In fact it was originally built to house a bound elemental as is standard in Eberron.  However, we've been looking into alternatives to the bound-elemental design and recently heard of an engineer working on a similar project in Sharn.  We ended our last session headed in that direction.Once we meet with said engineer it's our hope that between him, myself, and the alchemist, we can perfect the design and build a prototype for our airship.  I think it's entirely likely that the new engine will still be highly magical, perhaps running on dragonshards or some combination of shards and captured lightning.That said, we won't know how it stacks up against traditional airships in regards to speed, etc. until we have the prototype fully operational.We are definitely going to pursue this line of defense as well, but since I doubt we'll be able to avoid combat every time, I don't want to depend on it entirely.  We've already taken the first step in that direction.  When we started repairing the airship, we made a conscious decision to try and maintain its rundown, beat-up appearance, while repairing and upgrading the interior to the best of our ability.  So while it's fully functional and seaworthy, the ship looks rather dilapidated upon first glance.I definitely want to pursue the cloaking device/invisibility as another attempt to avoid conflict.Beyond that though, a solid offense/defense is still a good idea I think. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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