Retech

Preach and See?

I will just confirm that Archi does not have Ironclads. :thumbup:

I think it needs more rhyme, but that's just because I'm a rhyming kinda person. :thumbup:

Well I couldn't tell which it was since I was little, but it was yellow/black and had wittle wings.

I have a lower pain threshold, and generally don't like bees, even though they contribute billions to our economy. On the positive side, I still got to eat the cake.

A bee tried to steal my chocolate cake once, so I tried to smack it, but then it stung me. It was very traumatic. :cry:

Actually, that was just my frustration with bees. :thumbup: Also, I have a problem with smells.

How is that cute. :unsure: Do we really need more life? I think if we moved into a heated intellectual discussion, then it doesn't need anymore life. Scientology is a cult! A culllllllllllllllllt!

That's because I haven't been sent completely updated plans, and an admiral almost never knows the exact location of enemy ships. Tactics would mean, what the ships would do if they encountered one of these warships.

Lydia definitely has some evil back there. I just have to find it. :thumbup: EDIT: Actually, I think the better word would be ambition.

Thirty galleys to one of the megaships. That is not a bad ratio. Considering I've been proxying admirals because you haven't given them any tactics to work with, that's probaly the best you could hope for.

If it was a pretty big rock... Anyways, I don't pretend to be an expert in Medieval combat. My expertise comes from various moves and video games, and common sense of course. I do all my calculations before I write the report, meaning that the battle report is my attempt at describing why such and such utterly wrecked such and such (using the modifiers used in the calculations as a guide). So, use the battle report where you can and don't take some descriptions too literally.

Well the ships started sinking and were put out of combat in around a second. Galleys weren't built with triple hulls or fail safes like later period ships.

Err... why?

I still have two stuffed Bananas in Pajamas in my closet. :thumbup:

My system for tech is very simple. There are the "historical" techs and logical improvement techs, and there are the theoretical techs. Historical techs usually bump things up a level, like...making a new kind of plate armor. The effect is quite simple: better armor. Logical improvements would be like Ross' terrapins, where he combined two concepts together. Theoretical techs, I allow if they are somewhat plausible. They don't usually improve a unit, but changes its strengths and weaknesses. That's basically it. If someone is clever enough to think of a theoretical tech, then I find it logical that someone who is equally clever could think of tactics or weaponary that would counter the theoretical tech. Also, everything is relatable to price. Seeing how few ships were built, it would stand to reason that they would be prohibitively expensive to build too many. I don't pretend to know everything about this kinda stuff, but if it's not gamebreaking, or if I could make it so it was fair, then I would allow it.

Zomg, I know where that board picture comes from. It was the pet plank of this doofus who was sorta bald, with occasional hairs poking out. Gaaaaaahhh

Okay, the bottom line is: I have balanced out the technology so it isn't overpowered. I have no idea if the technology would even work in real life, but as long as it is somewhat plausible, I can work it in. The creator of the ships wanted them to destroy so and so number of ships as an estimate of its power, so I increased its price (a lot) to compensate. Then I added different strengths and weaknesses in comparison to a normal ship. Also Icu, who said they were hunger starved. :thumbup: ----- I NEED FULL DEFENCE PLANS FROM EVERYONE PLEEEEEASE.

It may be secret, but it does give off clues when it's used. I simply repeated what was stated in the battle report.

I thought I've been giving pretty big clues. When the flames breached the hull, it made a whooooooshing sound before the entire thing basically burst outwards in an explosion. :thumbup:

The attack on de Franco did not fufill conditions mentioned in the plan.

Zey zid zu zumting. Your castle had roughly five thousand soldiers. :thumbup:

Some Funny Business (Revised) A large Cretian transport fleet sailed towards the Valencia, a region in the eastern part of Spain. They were escorted by three large Cretian warships. As the neared the Spanish coast, ten Spanish galleys sailed to meet them. Numerically, the Cretians had the advantage, but the majority of the Cretian ships were used for transport, while the Spanish had only warships. The Spanish galleys ordered the Cretians to sail away, but the Cretian warships merely turned their sides to the Spanish and fired a barrage, destroying five ships instantly and damaging another two. The remaining Spanish ships immediately fled, while the Cretians did not give chase. The Cretian transport fleet landed in Valencia and released thirty thousand Tunisians. They seemed as if they were possessed, and began moving southwards down the coast in a large group, causing chaos along the way. A small detachment of the local knights rode through the countryside, hunting the Tunisians, but the occasional straggler continued to persist his wanderings. The worse part was that the Tunisians decapitated the heads of Spanish peasants in the area and carried them on their trip southwards. The three Cretian warships headed north to the Torelo, a Spanish castle on the border with France. The commander of the Cretian fleet was reluctant to enter the range of the castle's various defences, but when it was clear that the metal projectiles could not damage the castle walls from such a distance, the fleet moved much closer to the coastline and fired several volleys, breaching the castle walls at two locations, on the side closest to the water. They received minor damage from the castle's ballistas, but were otherwise undamaged. Meanwhile, another three Cretian warships sailed for "de Franco", the Spanish castle located in Gibraltar. They engaged and destroyed ten galleys with no casualties, before arriving at the castle and beginning the barrage. It managed to heavily damage on point on the walls, but it did not do as much damage as hoped. Unlike the other commander, the Cretian commander did not think of coming up-close and remained at a medium distance. As their ammunition began to run low, following procedure, the Cretian fleet began to withdraw. However, the Spanish had wheeled catapults and flaming ballistas to the shores of the strait and began firing at the Cretian warships. The Cretian commander ordered his ships to sail in single file, to keep them as far away from the shores as possible, while they could still utilise their fire power to heavily damage Spanish forces on the shoreline. It also saved the fleet, as one of the warships caught fire, causing a huge whooshing sound and a large explosion, releasing bits of wood and metal over the surrounding area. Casualties: Twenty Spanish Galleys One Cretian Warship Assorted Spanish soldiers on the shore Hundreds of Spanish Peasants Damage caused: Two breaches in Torelo on coastal shore Heavily damaged section in de Franco French-Burgundian-Icelandic Invasion of Spain Following the siege of the Southern French Castle, the former foes united their forces with additional relief forces from Burgundy and France and marched southwards into Spain, towards Tolero. They arrived shortly after the breach of the walls by the Cretian fleet, and prepared to breach the walls. The castle was garrisoned by a skeleton garrison as well as local nobility. Further, the peasantry in the area were formed into militias by the frightened nobles, who lived in constant fear of a French attack. Roughly half an hour later, the coalition forces began their attack. Their targets were the two breaches in the castle walls. Unfortunately, they would have to hug the coastline to reach the breaches, which would subject them to several minutes of harrowing archer fire before they reached the breaches. The commander realized the breath of the operation, and ordered his men forward. First, the three Cretian warships off the coast fired a series of volleys at the defenders, using a differently shaped projectile. It proved less effective than expected, and the garrison refused to surrender. The coalition forces fired five specially made carcasses into the castle, before beginning the siege. After ten hours of stalemate, the Army of Madrid finally arrived to relieve the defenders. The coalition had been expected a longer wait, but Spains improved infrastructure allowed the Army of Madrid to march on finely paved roads to their target, especially to an important part of the Spanish defensive network. Coalition scouts discovered the advance an hour beforehand, allowing the coalition forces to retreat back into France, to their castle in the Southern border. Meanwhile, much of the castle's garrison is either killed or impaired by strange diseases. Fortunately, a quick quarentine prevented the spread to the rest of Spain. The Cretian warships immediately withdrew after the retreat of the coalition army, to prevent further losses. Meanwhile, an Icelandic fleet was spotted off the coast of Gibralta, before they turned and sailed back northwards. (I think that I have followed the posts to as much accuracy as possible, except for the middle part which had some contradictory or confusing information, which I tried to iron out as much as possible)

Or asking random people to feel your biceps and abs, before lifting up your shirt. Liberal use of the word "Musculus"

Sure, go ahead. :thumbup: Basically a reset happens every five days, on the day after a multiple of five.