BungeeLemming

In fact It was a suggestion on how they could "recycle" some ships. It seems that the "old 64 ship of the lines" were made razees since they were.. old/obsolete in a time when the 74 gun ship became standard. But Those ships are a way to counter supergrigates like the USS constitution

I was just reading in an old webside about warships in the napoleon's eara when I read about Razees again. A Razee is a ship like the famous "HMS Indefatigable". She was designed as a 64 gun ship of the line. But instead of commisioning her as an outdated ship they stripped her down to a heavy Frigate. That means she still had her main batterie with all the 26x24 pound cannons but got cutted down to a frigate size. The draft for example was raised from 19 to 13 feet. More details to be seen in the famous Wikipedia since I lack english knowledge to explain technical details.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indefatigable_%281784%29 http://home.arcor.de/thomas_siebe/indefatigable.html <-- sry for german language.. Its only a suggestion but It may be worth having a look at. It would give players some sort of freedom to arm and design some ships for their porpose. I dont know how to achieve such features ingame but maybe one could simply use the same model with empty gunports for raised speed and other features.. best Regards

USS Constitution in Naval Action.. I wonder how to balance this ship to other Frigates. Those few Frigates made after the 44 gun-ship scratch are so powerful compared to British or french frigates of that time.. I mean: They are armored like Lineships and carry 24 pound cannons on their main batterie.. on the topdeck masses of carronades. btw: that side is very dissatisfying in terms of shipcombat. But I guess thats because its not made for the Shipcombat freak like I am one.. Ive GOT to find the page where you can read tons of shipcombat sceneries in the Napoleonic aera of time. Ill post it as soon as I can find her. Sadly I couldnt track her for months.. edit: I finally found it: http://pellewserbe.pe.ohost.de/schiffe.html But I fear its german only. You can read reports of British and French Commanders in some battles. They are documented very good with precise chronology.. If you read them, have fun. Also you can find a List of ships wich are included in the page's content.(Its where I have all my names for my potbs-ships) http://home.arcor.de/thomas_siebe/schiffname.html