[Shrike]

About, um..... four, maybe five plus one of the anthologies?

[Anaz]

Ah. You haven't seen them play with the LACs yet.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Shrike
Shame, I was actually hoping for some sort of reply as to why you see them as particularly well-designed warships.  Oh well, bye.

Meh. I've been advised by my doctor to stop arguing on the Internet. Your opinion is firm, I can't change your mind and I'm too damned lazy to do it.

[Swamp_Thing]

Originally posted by ngtm1r

You earn a D- in Naval History. Nelson's brilliance lay in how his broadsides were employed. With smaller, faster ships, but less well-armed, he could not form battle line and defeat the Armada. What he could do was appear to form battle line, then, once combat was imminent, have his ships break formation and turn directly into the Spanish line, moving into the spaces between ships in battle line so that the English could bring broadside guns to bear while the Spanish could only reply with a handful of stern or bow guns.

Excuse me while i ask, but just what part of the ship is turned to the enemy, when you sail directly towards them? Perhaps the bow, no?
Also, excuse me while i don´t waste half a page mentioning all the details, on a thread that bares no relevence to that subject.
So, in all honesty, you get an F- in compreention.

...coming from you, that's friggin' hilarous.

What is that supposed to mean?? Or were you just running short of ammo, and decided to use pot shots instead?

[BlackDove]

......back to topic.

Congrats on getting paid. Good job on getting someone to pay you for them.

They're not my thing but to you.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Anaz
Ah. You haven't seen them play with the LACs yet.

Actually I have.  I've read the first, a couple in the middle and a couple at the end.

The whole 'We're developing all this cool new technology' is partially what set me off with the honorverse.

[Anaz]

because, heaven forbid, new technology is developed?

Explain thineself.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Swamp_Thing

Excuse me while i ask, but just what part of the ship is turned to the enemy, when you sail directly towards them? Perhaps the bow, no?
Also, excuse me while i don´t waste half a page mentioning all the details, on a thread that bares no relevence to that subject.
So, in all honesty, you get an F- in compreention.

Actually, your comprehension is what's failing, because you still don't get it.

A graphical representation for you, then.

I    <---Spanish ship
_   <---English ship
I    <---Spanish ship

That's how Nelson won it. He got between them.

Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
What is that supposed to mean?? Or were you just running short of ammo, and decided to use pot shots instead?

Perhaps you've forgotten that discussion...let me refresh your memory. You were arguing with myself and Karajorma.

Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
Also I am a fierce apologist of "the best defense is a good offense"

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Anaz
because, heaven forbid, new technology is developed?

Explain thineself.

A) It's all developed by Manticore.

B) It gets completely overwank - 'Podnaughts and LACs rule the skies!'

[pyro-manic]

OK, I feel I must point out something rather important here:

Spanish Armada: 1588.
Battle of Trafalgar: 1805.

The Armada was beaten by a combination of Francis Drake and (in the main) a big storm. Two hundred years later, the larger French fleet was taken apart by Nelson, using new tactics that the French couldn't deal with. Rather than fighting a traditional "line" battle, where the two fleets sail in a line past each other and fire broadsides, he split his fleet into two columns, which then sailed through the French line. This meant the French couldn't get clean broadsides off, while the RN could fire right down the decks of the French ships as they "crossed the T", as ngtm1r said.

As for the original topic - congrats to Corhellion for getting published, though I too don't really like the designs of the ships.