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Drunknok, please be aware that it is not clear what is OOC and what is IC. This is something you should try to make more clear, as some of your posts appear to be you as a player writing them, nor you as a character. Capt Wolf: Phenomenal job with the write up this month. Some very exciting encounters - particularly the one concerning the HMS Ironsides!! ;)

To representatives of His Royal Majesty, King Philip I, Lavalette July 618, King's Harbour It has come to our attention that a ship of the Royal Navy, the corvette HMS Badger, has been brought into Lavalette as a prize to a fleet of notorious pirates. We warn you that the vessels (mentioned below) have been involved in several instances of documented piracy against merchant shipping in the Brick Seas, and that the HMS Badger was taking in its efforts to keep the sea lanes safe for all nations. You will hereby find enclosed our official request to have the HMS Badger seized and returned to the Royal Navy. We have no doubts that neither his Royal Majesty King Philip I, nor the honourable RNTC, wishes to see Olean ports harbouring pirates. We are willing to compensate you any reasonable expenses you may have in seizing the HMS Badger and her crew. Should additional crew be needed to man her, we will send a vessel under a flag of truce from Cocovia to retrieve her. And while Corrington has no wish to interfere with internal Olean politics, I implore you to consider the nefarious acts of piracy committed by the Black Flag fleet now harboured under the guns of Lavalette, and the danger it poses to all peaceful shipping of the Brick Seas. Awaiting your response, Rear-admiral Fletcher Commander-in-chief, Royal Terra Novan Navy Pirate vessels: Killer Frog Morning Fog Warped Wood @Captain Genaro

To commander-in-chief, rear-admiral Fletcher, On a routine patrol in the seas surrounding Cocovia and Annetta we sighted a number of sails on the horizon, heading for the trade routes to the Southern Isles. I gave the order to close to investigate. It proved to be a fleet under the black flag, in my best assessment consisting of three class 7 warships and a class 4. With only the HMS Badger in consort, and hence heavily outgunned, we stood to leeward to maintain eyes on the enemy, should reinforcements become available or merchant ships be in danger. After a short while, the foremast look-out identified the enemy flagship as the notorious Komodo Dragon. At 5 bells in the forenoon watch, however, wind failed us and after a short calm, changed to give the pirates the weather gage. They stood down on us and after a short dash to windward, it was clear that we could not avoid interception. I ordered both ships to beat to quarters immediately. Knowing that we were outnumbered, I decided to go for the flagship. The HMS Badger passed to leeward and the HMS Ironsides to windward, raking the Komodo Dragon in turn before taking her under two fires. The HMS Ironsides lived up to her name and most enemy fire did little damage, but the lighter built HMS Badger took heavy damage. I ordered the HMS Badger to withdraw and made to follow her closely. The last joint broadside from the two RN ships seems to have caused a leak in the enemy flagship, as she started tossing her guns over board and pumping out her water, but to no avail, as she sunk shortly thereafter, Unfortunately, a lucky shot from the Killer Frog knocked down the main topmast of the HMS Badger, which took with it the foretopmast too. We moved to take her in tow, but the Killer Frog closed fast and boarded, preventing our efforts. The Black Flag fleet made no efforts of giving chase of the HMS Ironsides, being busy collecting survivors from the Komodo Dragon and repairing the damage we had caused. They were last seen heading East. I must say that the officers and crew of the HMS Badger fought valiantly throughout the battle. In Her Majesty's service Captain Jno. Cooke, RN HMS Ironsides

To all Loyal Corlanders, The Royal Society of Navigation and Discovery is seeking additional funding, and hence hereby issues a series of 10 bonds of each 100 dbs, as per its charter. Please inform your local representative (in this thread) if you are interested in investing in Corrington's future, and if so, how many bonds you would at max be willing to purchase. The final distribution will be decided as per the charter. Best regards Sir Edward Summerridge Executive Director, BoC

I believe I did... ;)

No size limit, but it has to be larger than 16x16 (or equivalent) and licensable. So technically, you could build a royal property. :)

I have always been taught never to start with the negative, so I will start by saying that it is looking really cool and ambitious. Sorry for not offering any feedback earlier. A mast will typically be divided into several spars. For smaller vessels, xebecs, and galleys, they typically have polemasts, meaning masts in one piece. Schooners and many other mid-sized vessels have schooner masts divided into two parts, like what should be clear in the picture below. For brigs and full-riggers, there will be yet another division of the mast. Lower mast, topmast, and topgallantmast. The division will happen much like in the picture above with an overlap and some form of platform. Where the lower mast and the topmast overlap, you have the "tops", where there will typically be a fighting platform from where a swivel can be mounted, or marines can fires their muskets down on the deck of the enemy. Particularly in early vessels (galleons, carracks, etc.), these platforms could be very large, while they were somewhat smaller on more modern frigates and ships of the line, although still used as a fighting platform. Where the topmast and topgallantmast overlap, you have the "crosstrees", which are basicly just some planks crossing (basicly a #). Here, a sailor might sit with the glass as a look-out, but it will not generally be used for anything else apart from when going up and down the rig. I think I would also revisit the shrouds. Both topmast and topgallant shrouds would be spread by the tops and the crosstress respectively, to give them side ways stability I have tried to do a drawing of the whole thing below, but I think it might be hard to read - you can always look up some pictures or schematics online. (and in reality, topgallant shrouds were probably most often less pronounced than in my drawing - often just a single stay(rope) on each side.) EDIT: I should add that on the sideways picture, we are seeing the larboard side (i.e. the vessel is sailing towards the left). So the shrouds pull backwards, as well as sideways. shrouds and masts by Christian West, on Flickr I think the shape of your topgallant and topsail is good. (They should be carried on the topgallant and topmast, respectively). The course (lowest/main sail) is a bit to wide and rectangular, but otherwise good job. And of course, the hull look fabulous. Not much - keep experimenting and if you can create a hull like that, with a bit of work on rigging, you can create some fabulous vessels! Well done so far!

Thanks. I will see if I can get a picture of her general construction. It is fairly simple. :) Thanks - a cabin on deck would be a rarity for a vessel this size, but hey - captain's got to have some luxury... ;) Thanks - practice makes "perfect" ;) Thanks Flavius - my rigging work has been improved over many builds - and now I really enjoy setting up the rope and making it all stand taut and straight. :) The deck details is something I have been focusing on, as I have always felt a bit weak in that area - my natural focus is on hull shape and rigging. And yes, regular printer paper. I see now that the lines really make them look rather nice, but I am still searching for the right material going forward. :) Not sure about pictures. But imagine the hatches have some raised sides over the deck. On top of these sides a number of wooden spars is placed, over which a canvas is stretched. This canvas/tarpaulin is then battened down around the edges. That is what they represent. With the method using hinges for the hull, one is very limited in how to do the slope of the bow, particularly at this scale. To me, it would need to be a continuous curve from the beakhead down, and that I could not recreate at this scale. Also, in reality I think many ships had a keel almost vertical at the bow. So it is not perfect, but my best effort :P No railing there as it would be in the way of the main boom! Generally, I think most vessels this size would be flushdecked, so it is a bit of a idiosyncrasy. Should a vessel of this configuration and scale have existed, I am sure the poop deck would only have seen very limited use... For this vessel, it didn't - as I considered it from the start - but when using string rigging (with a goal that everything can stand by itself even under some strain) anchor points for stays and shrouds (chain plates) are really important. Otherwise, the sides fall apart as you tighten the shrouds, or the hull bulges up as you tighten the stays... I have had that happen on several vessels, including the terraman I am working on - and sometimes you have to go through major redesigns to fix it. The Ironsides have notoriously weak chains, and is slowly falling apart as it sits on my shelf! :O

By Friday is ok.

Elos has the right of it. As long as all in game resources committed are from the same entity, it does not matter who builds for the adventure. The minimum number of builds is generally set by the number of entities supplying resources (troops or ships). (Under some circumstances, build requirements may deviate from this norm.)

Thank you, all. I like working with vessels this scale - it is much more manageable if you need to redo something, for instance in the internal workings... Thank you - hmm, good question. I would think the hull took a few hours, maybe one more for detailing, one or two for masts and rigging? Not a huge project, really, but it is a process of experimenting, building, and rebuilding. Once you know what you want, and remember the structural supports for chain plates, bowsprit and masts, the hinge plate hull and technic connector masts are easy to work with :)

Baker's diary, day 39 This island offers a wealth of interesting flora and fauna, as well as some very interesting geological formations. Most interesting, though, is the remains of a lost civilisation that keeps popping up around us as we follow the track inland. For a long time it has been rising slowly, and now turned into a narrow pass leading slowly upwards. The path follows a river, with the occasional bridge or platform to keep us moving. Most of the iconography around us seems related to large cats, not unlike that of the Myzec, although here, the felines appear held in higher respect and perceived less as a danger than on Cascadia... Up ahead, I can hear the sound of a waterfail, most likely feeding the stream below us. /Baker Baker's diary, day 40 We have reached the waterfall, which seems to come out of a man-made structure on which a very large gate- or doorway is build. Montoya managed to misstep walking over the bridge, causing one of the supporting ropes to break, almost throwing him into the rushing stream. It is a mystery to me how such an intelligent and highly regarded man can be so clumsy... But I managed to talk him across without further incident /Baker To be continued

Nice story and build for sistershipping, Flavius - she will proudly sail with us again this turn! And nice looking update of the pictures! Really helps presentation! :)

Interesting last minute exchange here, nicely backed with IC talk and builds. Well, we took the Pineapple Revenge recently, so don't count that amongst your fleet! Maybe that's why the captain isn't dressed...

Above and beyond, Capt Wolf! Nice to see NPCs represented in the brick - Who is who, though? :)

Tabloids... "Technically correct - the best kind of correct..."

A new vessel for the Montoya estate:

The Montoya estate has seen no less than two of its vessels detained by Oleander authorities on pretence of an outrageous tax regime meant to control the workings of free trade. Ibn al'Sayeed has furiously protested to rear-admiral Fletcher, but the crown have so far done nothing - and perhaps there is nothing to be done, bar starting a trade tax war, something Her Majesty was unlikely to approve. That offers little comfort to the ambitious manager of the estate, though, so he has ordered an expansion of the fleet to compensate. When Montoya returns, there are to be no doubts as to al'Sayeed's diligence! The first vessel in this expansion is the unarmed coastal class 3 schooner "Amethyst". Relying on speed and upwind performance rather than defences to stay safe, she has a capacious hold, further added to by only carrying stores for shorter voyages. Her large deck hatches allow easy access to the holds, and by rigging a block in the gaff of main and fore sail cargo can be easily loaded and unloaded, even in small settlements with little infrastructure in the way of cargo handling. Newest vessel in the Montoya fleet. She is nothing fancy hull-wise, just a standard hinge based build, but I like the clean look of her decks, the overall shape, and the hatches I stole from @Bart. The rigging is also something I am starting to feel rather confident about - I am still on the look-out for a good material for sails that is easy to work with, but these turned out fairly well too. C&C welcome as always.

After gently prying the door open, a long hallway was uncovered, leading down, into the sandstone underneath the desert sand. A couple of ETTC Sepoys were tasked with taking point in exploring the complex, with clear instructions to avoid disturbing it more than absolutely necessary. After a flight of stairs down, they encountered an underground stream, the only way forward being a narrow ledge along the walls of the crypts. Further up ahead, a decapitated skeleton was lying clenched under a heavy axe. "Seems like someone made it here before us... And triggered a trap!" one sepoy said. "Good for us!" he added and proceeded boldly forward. His more careful (and more perceptive) comrade only just managed to save him. "Duck!" he yelled and yanked at the backpack just before a brass blade came swinging at great speed. Hearts beating fast, the two sepoys hurriedly warned the rest of the expedition and sat down for a rest, leaving further exploration to others... To be continued.... @Lord Buckethead

As the storm passed, and the expedition came out of their hiding, a strange sight had appeared. Under a curious tree, an entrance to something underground had been uncovered by the shifting sands. Being proper Corlanders, this was a find that had to be explored further... To be continued...

"King's Harbour in the red" Really? :P

I think you just need to tell LS which ship it goes on? @Legostone

Your talk about King's Harbour in the red had me checking the account sheets.... :P And the talk of Cooke's tiny (private) residence had me looking for all those luxuries. In both cases, i can only call: "You are fake news!" Amusing commentary on all things bobs.

Great work on combining the "Bounties" LB. I like the different tiers of decks, and the life you have given the ship. For sails, I personally find baking paper somewhat fitting for Chinese sails, particularly if you add the characteristic "ribs" of a junk's sails. May she bring you great fortunes and good luck in the coming MRCA's.

Cool SNOT technique used for this, Drunknok - for some reason, it reminds me of old games! :) Good luck with the prospecting!