{"id":138,"date":"2007-01-21T01:02:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T04:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/21\/the-hrms-mercurius\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T01:02:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T04:02:04","slug":"the-hrms-mercurius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/the-hrms-mercurius","title":{"rendered":"The Hr.Ms. Mercurius"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hr.Ms.<\/p>\n

Above is the Hr.Ms. Mercurius, a (completely fictional, though named after an actual) 17th c. Dutch sailing vessel. Judd saw some earlier prototypes, but honestly the other ones are really primitive in comparison. They lacked a mizzenmast (the most sternward mast) over the poop deck* and were overall much clumsier in appearance.<\/p>\n

I realize that the sails don’t make a lot of sense just yet; some of them put others in their lee. Some pictures I’ve been looking at seem to imply that that’s OK. I don’t know. I suspect that talking to actual sailors<\/em> might help. Fortunately, I know some. Maybe next time I’m at home.<\/p>\n

You’ll note there’s really nowhere to put crew markers. My original intent was to have them be little markers you move around the ship physically, but I think that it’s a pipe dream that would require bigger ships, which would require more table space. More likely, there will be a Lego plate with dots on them: yellow dots represent Sailors, red dots represent Marines, maybe black dots represent Cannon. Maybe you have a dot with a big hat and a fancy coat that represents the captain.<\/p>\n

Check out this<\/a> very interesting article on shipboard combat. It supports the offense\/defense comments I made in the last post, too.<\/p>\n

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*Hee hee hee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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