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11-13-2008, 11:22 PM | #52 |
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Re: Sailing Ships -At least until CCoI (Low-Tech) arrives
Great Write up icelander!
I wish I saw the earlier discussion when I was running a fall of constantinople. I was wondering why the fantasy stats of the galley weren't making sense compared to all those I could get my hands on (Other than osprey books, those stats online etc.). I had several naval battles and needed some good sets of stats to set up a "Sid Meier's Pirates" style of turn based ship combat. In the post mortem, I found that players liked the ship combat and the mix of naval and boarding tactics. The challenges in naval tactics, character athleticism (balance, jumping, and movement), Close Combat, and Resource management (time, labor, and supplies) could be better systematized for greater enjoyment of the players and further simplified for GMs. |
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11-17-2008, 12:24 AM | #56 | |
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Speaking of Chinese ships, Zheng He ships would find many uses in Fantasy Games because of the tall tales regarding their size. |
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11-17-2008, 12:29 AM | #57 | |
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11-17-2008, 08:45 AM | #58 | |
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11-18-2008, 07:35 PM | #59 | |
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<Pages through it.> Didn't think so. The latest Chinese vessel with stats is the shachuan, which pre-dates the junks by several hundred years. The junks evolved out of that vessel, but it existed circa 800 c.e., whereas the proper junks didn't exist for another 200-300 years.
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Yup. But I've read in wiki that it is contested that these ships really existed. I've read the same things about the structural limitations of wood for ship building in another source. Since (in my readings) there are no hard facts (or good sources) about it, it would suit fantasy quite well for the overly cirtical skeptics. Zheng He's Fleet's other ships seems interesting though. They seem to have more accessible sources which makes them doubly more likely to get GURPSified. |
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