LeBoiteux

C'est Varennes... Bientôt, le roi va se faire guillotiner. Que vont devenir ses Enfants ? Si les Enfants Du Roi sont bien passés à l'ennemi comme le dit l'OP, ça me paraît normal : il font juste comme Papa, la Contre-Révolution.

C'est PYR que ça : ça emPYR et ça sent PYR. Tout ça pour un emPYR. Mais il y a PYR...

Monsieur et Madame de Funeste ont un fils... (désolé )

Capture of La Babet by the British in April 23rd 1794 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109622.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109625.html

Time to vote for #4-10. We know the Wreker, the Montañés and the Téméraire will be in the final poll. But what about the other 7 ? Time to vote for them.

Fast and unpredictable

Unfortunately only one ship is expected to be chosen at the end of the poll, if I ain't mistaken. But IMHO if three ships were to be chosen, I'd rather have one per gap :

First draft of d'Orvilliers' fleet from Surcouf's post : This account has been hard to do and is approximative as : The number of guns and name of the captain of some ships are unknown : Le Dragon and Venus du Fréol, Some ships seem to have French names but Spanish captains, such as Le Phénix (Antonio Ulloa), Le Gaillard (Alberto Olaondo), Saint-Julien (Marquis de Médina), Le Diligent (Antonio Albornoz) and the other way around I'm not sure of the total number of ships, Surcouf's post is dense So there are certainly some (lots of ?) mistakes. Any correction would be welcome, @Surcouf. I can also PM you the Excel file. It might be even easier for you. However, it might give a quite fair picture of d'Orvilliers' fleet. It especially shows as Surcouf pointed out that : Spanish had lots of 70-gun ones, Most of the French Sols were 74-gun ships. There were also quite a few old outdated French 64-gun ships. There were only 3 three-deckers : La Ville de Paris, La Bretagne and the Santiss. Trinidad

on the French Requin, if I ain't mistaken : https://ancre.fr/en/monographies-en/18-monographie-du-requin-chebec-1750-.html

Indeed the same builder, J.-M.-B. Coulomb, made both the royalist Coquette class (in 1779-1781) and the French Revolution Prompte class (in 1793), both 20-gun corvettes, and achieved little innovation in the meantime (apart from the smallest dimensions of the latter). La Babet (1793) Plan from NMM of Greenwich Source (@Wagram) : http://forum.game-labs.net/topic/7348-sélection-de-navires-1er-semestre-2016/?do=findComment&comment=139085 Dimensions (pieds du Roi) : 112 x 28, 6 x 14, 4 Armament : 20 x 9-pdr Sister ship : La Prompte Sources (plans, info) : Boudriot, Historique de la Corvette, p. 34-36 Demerliac., p.247 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Babet_(1794) British armament = 22 (La Babet), 24 (La Prompte), 26 (La Naïade).

I guess that another important year for figureheads is 1789 (till 1804 and the 1st Empire) with the French Revolution and the come-back of allegorical figures embodying the new political ideals that are also visible in the name of the ships (The Revolutionary, The Human Rights, The Tyrannicide, The Unity...). For example : La Poursuivante, 1796 So the decree in 1777 by de Sartine imposing the lion as the only allowed figurehead had a limited practical effect in the French shipyards and didn't lasted long (12 years till 1789). I guess there should be a figurehead on L'Hermione : a lion or an allegorical figure. I'd prefer the latter, for no historical reason, but just because there's already been a lot of lions as figurehead in game and I favor feminine figure. And Hermione is a mythological figure. However, I guess that a 3d figurehead needs a lot of work and is costly. I don't know whether or not copying/rescaling/pasting a preexisting (in-game) lion figurehead on the Hermione is doable/desirable.

The current results of the poll bears you out.

IMHO, a ship with 32-36 guns (whatever her nationality) is a priority in game : there's nothing between the 30-gun Renommée and the 38-gun Surprise/Cherubim/Belle Poule Light frigates are very enjoyable to play with, a good compromise between small ships and heavy frigates Necesitamos una fragata de 32-36 cañones, con independencia de su nacionalidad, por la jugabilidad (reverso traduction...)

About the number of bots, it was limited to 1500 per day because of technical restrictions when Unity 4 was on. I don't know about Unity 5...

"En petit comité" ? A French expression. At least, we'll get that.

That's a secret so hush : right now Malachi is modeling two 3D models (La Panthère and L'Amarante) that will be so beautifully made, so perfect that NA devs will fall in love and implement them. Don't tell Malachi I told you : it's a surprise. I also suspect him of modeling some swedish or danish or... frigates (the Christiansborg ?).

Nice but built in... 1901-1902, that is faaaaar out of the time frame (1690-1820). Please post plans of in-timeframe ships in Shipyard (not picture). btw future implementation of new (but still unknown) nations in NA might not mean immediate implementation of ships from a given nation in the current poll

Great job ! A noob's question you might have already answered before (sorry if so) : why doesn't your 3D model follow the outer line of the plan ? Is it meant ?

Don't ask me. I'm no expert. And I've never been for a realistic (and known) geographical location (a Caribbean OW) from the start.

Have I talked to you about a settlement established in Florida in 1768 by, among others, Greek ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Smyrna_Beach,_Florida

You, Surcouf, want "Tanks" in NA ? What happened to that Naval expert I've admired so ?

Hermione is a mythological figure so the choice of a feminine figurehead is understandable. Lemineur's choice for L'Hermione But in 1777, Antoine de Sartine, Secretary of State of the Marine, prohibited (or was it only discourage ?) allegorical figures as figureheads for the French Navy, right ? However, such naval sculpture were still made by the Arsenal de Toulon in 1779 : Antoine Gibert, for the frigate La Naïade (186 x 55 x 68 cm). Paris, musée national de la Marine, Inv. 9 OA 17 [39 OA 16] Could it be a private order for a privateer ? Or is it for the French navy ? Did the Arsenal work for individuals ? I do not have the complete details...

Andrew Peters made the figurehead of the replica : https://www.hermione.com/en/2011/846-the-figure-head.html https://www.amazon.fr/Ship-Decoration-1630-1780-Andy-Peters/dp/1848321767

Time for the Septinsular Republic to rule the world !!! (it was on Napoleon's side during the Sixth Coalition, so I'm on topic) (+ a nice flag)

The 2016 poll remained open 3 months. The 2017 poll is only 3 weeks old... That might be the main reason for the vote difference... That also shows that those who are in a hurry might have to wait. However, in 2016, there was no 'initial' poll (that implies a second round of voting)... 'An average number of people ingame during a month = 455' doesn't obviously mean that the same 455 players play NA over and over 24 hours a day, 30 days a month. That makes a lots of potential voters. More than the current 549 ones. I just mean we might have to wait. The results are unlikely to massively change but devs might wish to let as many players as possible vote.