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[Sheb]

Dang. Bloody high command.

So, coppering our brig?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I want a fast and hard to board brig. Coppering doesn't help this.

[Sheb]

Coppering does make it faster.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Yeah, coppering makes the bottom of the hull smoother and more uniform allowing for the ship to cut through the water easier.

[RAM]

Can you refit it to use the new cannons while you are at it?

[Sheb]

Yeah, that's a given. Anyone can think of something to do beside coppering and changing the guns?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Adding firing positions for Coombes?

Also, I do think that we need switch two mobile 6 pounders to one nose 8 pounder to make the ship lighter

[Baffler]

We could improve our seasoning methods, maybe, or fit them with a bermuda rig. It's more appropriate for a smaller coastal vessel and should give them more maneuverability than their square-rigged loyalist counterparts in the waters around our island. That's a fairly complicated revision though, and if we want this to also be our trading vessel we'd probably be better off leaving it how it is.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I prefer to keep it simple and relatively cheap:

Revise Dover class brig into Montgomery class brig
Improve sails to make faster. Remove 6 pounders. Add one forward facing 8 pounder. Add firing positions for Coombe mini-cannons. Add marine infantry quarters. Add few dories.

I want a trading\axualary ship that is cheap, swift enough to run away, hard to board and capable to board itself. Roles are: trading, rading unescorted traders, doing small scale landings.

[Funk]

Should we try to build a line of defences?
If we fortify from Montgomery to Fort Combe that would give use a safe fall back line of that front.

[stabbymcstabstab]

That's not a bad plan, and if we build it along the river it would have extra defenses.

[Sheb]

Wait, UR, you want to guts the whole broadside of our brig?

Edit: Never mind, it has no broadside. I still think we should keep two 8-pdrs.

[Kashyyk]

So, Montgomery class brig?

[Sheb]

I'm okay with it if we copper it.

Revise Dover-class brig into Yorktown-class brig

Replace the two 6-pdr by two 8-pdr Van Karsten, with some cast iron brazier positioned next to them for carcass shots. Copper the hull to make it fast, add pintle-mounted Coombe mini-cannons on the sides, increase the masts and sails size. The resulting ship should have slightly more firepower than the Dover while being much faster.

[Funk]

I'm okay with it if we copper it.

Revise Dover-class brig into Yorktown-class brig

Replace the two 6-pdr by 8-pdr Van Karsten. Copper the hull to make it fast, add pintle-mounted Coombe mini-cannons on the sides, increase the masts and sails size. The resulting ship should have more firepower than the dover whil being much faster.

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