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[Devastator]

Well, it would maximize advantage for this turn, and a botch would only affect the fighting at sea.

But sure.  It'd probably be better if we roll well on the rev anyway.

[Happerry]

Let's take back the seas.

Make Adamantine Harder and Stronger: (4) Madman198237, Devastator, NUKE9.13, Kashyyk
Revise a boat with Adamantine Plating: (1) Happerry

[Taricus]

Make Adamantine Harder and Stronger: (5) Madman198237, Devastator, NUKE9.13, Kashyyk, Taricus
Revise a boat with Adamantine Plating: (1) Happerry

We'll want the Adamatine stronger before we start cladding ships in it.

[evictedSaint]

Revision: Better Adamantine [1]

Well...we did it.  We can now specify the hardness of Adamantium we summon, anywhere from soft, malleable copper-hardness to the stern, unyielding stiffness that surpasses steel.  The problem is...well, it's unworkable.  Our Researcher Priests can call down ingots of the stuff and conjure it into being relatively easy (I won't go into the long, drawn-out process of summoning), but...they're just ingots.  They don't melt, or even get hot in a forge. They glow, and they're a little bit heavier than what you would expect the same amount of leather to be, but they're pretty damn useless - the light weight means it doesn't even make a decent paperweight!  With copper-soft Adamantium we can at least hammer it into a useful shape, but harder than that we're at a bit of a loss as how to forge.

Luckily, steel-hard Adamantium is just as cheap and easy to conjure as copper-soft Adamantium, although it's pretty worthless at the moment.  Expensive.

[Taricus]

...We could tie a whole load of those ingots together, or glue them onto a shield or something. That'd be a way of making them useful.

[Devastator]

Of course it's a one.  Anything but a one and we have something very good.

It's still not useless, though, we have super-light copper we can use in place of the leather cladding on our shields.  That'll protect them from spalling and make them a little more effective.  The fixed temperature could also be useful for actually heating in situations colder than the fixed temperature, and we can use it for things such as keeping water from freezing or by putting inserts in boots and such, which will be better than walking on colder ground.  It could also be used for cases for bowstrings or wands or such, as it will keep it from getting too cold while remaining watertight.

[Kashyyk]

They don't melt, or even get hot in a forge

Once we find a way of molding it, we've got fireball-proof armour.

[Taricus]

That depends if the heat doesn't transfer through the material.

[Devastator]

It also shouldn't be impossible to shape unless something else is going on, as we could always hit an ingot with a second ingot which should be able to deform each other on some level.

Maybe not a useful level, but that's quite odd.

What happens if we strap an ingot to a wooden frame and shoot a ballista bolt at it?

[Taricus]

@Evicted how large are the ingots coming out?

If we can summon the adamantine into pavises straight out of the divine, we could basically nullify their artillery: Those cannonballs won't be doing much if they hit one of those.

[Devastator]

@Evicted how large are the ingots coming out?

If we can summon the adamantine into pavises straight out of the divine, we could basically nullify their artillery: Those cannonballs won't be doing much if they hit one of those.

Yeah, it depends on if the properties are 'steel hard, but we can't warm it up to make it worth forging over ordinary steel', or 'incapable of deformation.'

Sadly, I suspect it's the former.

[evictedSaint]

@Evicted how large are the ingots coming out?

Oh....let's say the same shape as your average brick.  A copper ingot of the same size would weigh about a four kilograms.

Yeah, it depends on if the properties are 'steel hard, but we can't warm it up to make it worth forging over ordinary steel', or 'incapable of deformation.'

It's a bit harder than steel, but you can't make it hot and soft, thus meaning it's unworkable.

[Happerry]

Well, if they're bricks, at least we can make walls from them.

[Devastator]

Well, if they're bricks, at least we can make walls from them.

Yeah.  That's something at least.  We can mortar them together and use walls of sand or dirt behind them, for mass.  Should be protection for our ballista positions, at least.

[Khang36]

Yeah.  That's something at least.  We can mortar them together and use walls of sand or dirt behind them, for mass.

Well we could put walls of dirt and sand in front of it to absorb the impact of the cannons with the wall as a firm backing to prevent the dirt or sand from collapsing on our forces hiding behind the wall