Niels Terkildsen

Ah, you were faster than me. Here's the information about Ilderim/Pommern on orlogsbasen.dk Builder: P. Brock Bought: 1717 Withdrawn: 1765 It's impossible to read any of the information on the drawings because of the low resolution.

Early 20th century picture of Gustavia: Not that it's very good, I just stumbled upon it in a Danish picture archive.

Jodgi, it sounds like you should play the skirmish part of the game when it comes out; that's where you can get your fast thrills

Hahaha, this is hilarious. I hope it was meant as a joke.

As much as I like her, she would look a bit silly next to an early 19th century ship of the line. Imagine her in a game set at an earlier date... Now there would be some magnificent beauties there - For NA we have to make do with functional, sleek ships; though they have a charm of their own I suppose.

No, I would hate for NA to go in that direction. PotBS had full automatic ship repair and crew replenishment after every battle, and I really hope that this game is striving for a more realistic, challenging, and interesting approach.

This is definitely a problem as I see it as well. I don't think inventing a new way to use repair kits will fix it though. Personally I'd prefer if repairs required resources; for example: You can buy extra spars, cloth, oakum, planks, etc. at port.1 The resources you have on board limits the amount of repairs you can do at sea. When sailing on the open sea you can instantly repair your ship using these resources (and limited by them).2 When sailing in a battle instance you have to be on survival mode to repair, and the repairs take time.3 1 Spars should be hard to come by in large quantities, and all resources should be limited by ship size. 2 For example, you can only repair your sails if you have the sailcloth, only replace masts (preferably only minor masts, topmasts, etc.) if you have the spars, and only repair your hull if you have planks and oakum, etc. 3 Alternatively the system could be revamped entirely; something like this.

Jeg gjorde et forsøg med Nordisk Fribytterkompagni i PotBS for nogle år siden, men dengang var spillet allerede på vej ned, og de nordiske spillere, der var tilbage, havde allerede knyttet bånd til andre forbund. Det kunne da være sjovt at sejle i et nordisk fællesskab, men man fristes jo også til at sværge sig til det danske splitflag, nu hvor vi har vores egen nation - og jeg har svært ved at se et sammarbejde igang, når man sætter det svenske flag ved siden af det danske Den eneste mulighed, som jeg ser det, er, at dette samarbejde skulle sejle under Jolly Roger...

Here's a Danish database: http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/enkel.htm A lot of the ships have no pictures at the moment, but there are also quite a few that does. For example, here's the frigate "Perlen" built in 1803: