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[Taricus]

Yeah, a carbine isn't too important right now. IF anything we can just use our cavalry as dragoons, give them the full-sized rifle and not worry about that too much.

[tryrar]

Yup, I agree for rifled cannons. Think we can try to also get some ammo types we don't already have, like a Shrapnel shell?


And yeah, we go dragoons temporarily to solve infantry, but we need to keep our naval advantage up. I suggest we copper the bottoms of both ships, and go for sail refits as well(maybe doing a Bermuda Rig sail plan for the Jaeger)

[Taricus]

Why not for the london class?

[Aseaheru]

 Sloop rig our brig?

[3_14159]

Yup, I agree for rifled cannons. Think we can try to also get some ammo types we don't already have, like a Shrapnel shell?

+1. But these are a revision aren't they?

In that case, I support

Brittania class Steam Frigate:A new, 200ftx100ft steamship that utilizes an Archimedes Screw(1 full twist) and rudder system instead of paddlewheels for propulsion( though failing that, paddlewheels work as a backup). It is armed with 1 contiguous gundeck consisting of 28 6-pounder guns(14 in each broadside) as well as 2 6-pounder chasers. the coal bunkers are designed to provide some amount of extra protection to the boilers from the side.

as our design action.

by the way, do we all agree on spending our focus on building a fort to protect the beachhead?

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

[andrea]

no, we thought about the cannon for the design. Not overly ambitious, but it still improves our casting and introduces rifling to the system. plus, compatible with all our ships. That britannia class steam ship I think deserves a turn of its own to be useful. And I am not sure it would be on the first iteration fast enough to enforce our blockade.

[3_14159]

no, we thought about the cannon for the design. Not overly ambitious, but it still improves our casting and introduces rifling to the system. plus, compatible with all our ships. That britannia class steam ship I think deserves a turn of its own to be useful. And I am not sure it would be on the first iteration fast enough to enforce our blockade.

In this case, shouldn't we try to go for breechloading? After all, working with out rifles has made breechloading no longer complex.

[andrea]

That was my plan as well but somebody rightfully pointed out that breechloading cannons are a whole different beast from breechloading rifles.

maybe in the design we could add some good shot. like, I believe some other nation developed carcass shot?

[10ebbor10]

I'm a bit hesitant of trying to improve our cannons again. It gives a marginal naval improvement, but that's about it. In addition, I highly doubt we can keep extracting more performance from the same design. I think we should be just a tad more ambitious. Not as much as the rifle, but just a bit.

I propose that if we do go for the 6 pounder, that we at least add a horse carriage to it.

[fillipk]

I think we need a smaller faster design to counter those escaping our blockade, probably a ship that specializes in crippling ships not destroying them, as anti blockade runners.

[andrea]

a mount for an horse carriage is a great idea, if we don't have it already. +1 to that.

rifled artillery should be a bit more than just a marginal improvement. hopefully.

[Aseaheru]

 Theres not really that much of a difference between a gun that can damage a ships rigging and one that can get its hull.

[andrea]

chain shot?

[Aseaheru]

 Is a melee-range thing. Roundshot is about the only long-ranged round around.

[fillipk]

Or something to set fire to their sails.