Gunnery Practice

[mikawa]

Hi,

 

in the British Navy of 1800 it was common to practice gunnery whenever possible. They fired broadsides on a dummy target made of barrels and planks. To shorten the times when you were lying still waiting for enemy ships to get out of a running battle (which might be up to half an hour depending on the number of ships involved), it would be nice to have a gunnery practice mode (which creates a sandbox area with your ship and a barrel target) so that you can concentrate on aim training with your brand new carronades or long cannons and so on ... and to be able to keep an eye on chat meanwhile .... and exit and join the others when the enemy fleet is dropping out ... That would be way more fun than just waiting.

 

Greetings,

-- MI

[Captiva]

A similar feature has been advocated by forum members in the past.

 

My proposal was a 'Naval Action Training Academy' where the new player could learn and practice sailing skills (manual sails) and gunnery skills without fear of losing a ship dura.

 

The Academy would offer two types of ships to practice with; a fore and aft rigged ship and a square rigged ship. On either of these two ships the player could outfit them with all type of cannon for practice purposes - Mediums, Longs and Carronades.