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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9778552" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>The one I was in that worked used age of sail trappings, right down to the major military powers having &quot;ships of the line&quot;.&nbsp; The GM didn't want to introduce gunpower - less because of the worry about cannons and firearms and more about the worry of PC's putting barrels of gunpowder in portable holes and then blowing everything up - and so we had ships loaded with ballista and &quot;mangonels&quot; of various sizes (interpreted as torsion powered ballista).&nbsp; Functionally these worked basically like cannons (but with maybe half the range).&nbsp; It was an unrealistic compromise of course, in that real age of sail warships would have bounced torsion engine fired missiles without damage, but it had enough color of realism to suspend disbelief.&nbsp; It's easy to imagine a 72 lb ball moving at 200 mph smashing through things, and possible to imagine that fired from a great torsion engine crewed by 16 sailors.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9778552, member: 4937"] The one I was in that worked used age of sail trappings, right down to the major military powers having "ships of the line". The GM didn't want to introduce gunpower - less because of the worry about cannons and firearms and more about the worry of PC's putting barrels of gunpowder in portable holes and then blowing everything up - and so we had ships loaded with ballista and "mangonels" of various sizes (interpreted as torsion powered ballista). Functionally these worked basically like cannons (but with maybe half the range). It was an unrealistic compromise of course, in that real age of sail warships would have bounced torsion engine fired missiles without damage, but it had enough color of realism to suspend disbelief. It's easy to imagine a 72 lb ball moving at 200 mph smashing through things, and possible to imagine that fired from a great torsion engine crewed by 16 sailors. [/QUOTE]

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