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Old 09-06-2011, 06:28 PM   #11
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Default Re: Recources for the Age of Sail?

Try 17th century for maps. 15th century, the area didn't have a lot of westerners. 16th century might have some maps, but I wouldn't hold up high hopes.
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Old 09-06-2011, 07:09 PM   #12
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GURPS Age of Napoleon has some discussion of the Age of Sail, including abstracted rules for nautical combat. It's for Third Edition, but might still be worth the look, and the PDF is cheap ($7.99) if you're interested.
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Old 09-06-2011, 08:11 PM   #13
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Try 17th century for maps. 15th century, the area didn't have a lot of westerners. 16th century might have some maps, but I wouldn't hold up high hopes.
First stop for any historical map on line: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

It's the Perry/Castaneda collection. Has stuff from the 16th to late 19th centuries. Click, download & print.
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Old 09-07-2011, 05:51 AM   #14
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@pyratejohn: Amazing :) good luck with your website!
Ha! Thanks. I completely forgot I even had a link to it in my sig. I really need to get my pirate reenacting forum up and running again, even though I've taken a sabbatical from reenacting.

As for maps, besides the link mentioned above the Library of Congress has a few images too.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Sadly, the people I work for (Marine Chart Division of the Office of the Coast Survey) don't have anything from that era. We have a historical chart collection site, but we didn't come along until 1807, and didn't really get to surveying until the 1840s.

When I finally run my grand pirate campaign, for a bit of a twist I may use modern charts for GM purposes, and make the players use period charts. You can find our modern chart collection, along with those from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, at our online chart viewer website.
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Old 09-07-2011, 06:15 AM   #15
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Hey, thanks for the links. I grew up reading some of those charts, but didn't know where to get them. And grew up watching people with expensive boats not read those charts, with the expected results.
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Old 09-07-2011, 07:38 AM   #16
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I had an age of sail mini-campaign last winter. Going through the new low-tech books & the pirate crew book there are basic stats for a lot of generic ships. Sloop, Brig, Cog, Hulk, Bermuda Sloop, Sloop of War, & Frigate.

As for weapons there are plenty of stats for small arms, swivel guns, ship's guns from 4 pdr to 42 pdr, and field guns from 3 pdr to 24 pdr.

I compiled them into two spread sheets. If you would like them I could PM them to you.
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Old 09-15-2011, 09:52 PM   #17
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Hello there,

I am gamemastering a campaign set in the age of sail. I am very fond of GURPS, which offers lots of concepts - from combat to shipbuilding. Unfortunately I can´t find much "ready to use" material.

For example: I can not find a good set of data-sheets for the dozens of different types of ships, which colored the age of sail. What i could find, was little information in Gurps 4th Low-Tech and GURPS 4th Low Tech Companion 2. Also the GURPS 3rd Swashbuckling gives only a general idea and GURPS 3rd
Voodo reders mostly to Swashbuckling about this.

Thanks in advance, i am very looking forward to any replys!

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Old 09-15-2011, 10:42 PM   #18
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I found a fair bit of useful material at http://www.thepirateking.com/ .

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Old 09-15-2011, 10:53 PM   #19
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If I wanted to do a lot of boarding actions is the a good source of Deckplans to go with the aforementioned datashetes?
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Old 09-16-2011, 12:06 AM   #20
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The map from the Pirates computer game was reasonable to give to the players. You should use one of the historicals to precisely locate shoals and such.
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