HMS Fort Diamond

[Banished Privateer 7,259]

HMS Diamond Rock - known also as a 5 gun sloop-of-war or "stone frigate".

 

Picture of 16 French ships fighting a rock island for over half a month. 

 

The British side had two men killed and one wounded, and the French 20 dead and 40 wounded (English account), or 50 dead and wounded (French account), and three gunboats sank.

Sources:

https://ageofsail.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/hms-fort-diamond/#more-178

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Rock

[George Washington 291]

Wonderful read. Thank you. 

Close up of 'used to be' fortification place. 

Edited August 30, 2017 by George Washington

[rediii 9,455]

Would like to see that implemented sadly its not dutch, portugese or venetian. Maybe next time.

 

[JollyRoger1516 716]

'The French Engineer was the only Engineer on the island so no mortar battery ever materialised'

[mikawa 524]

Wonderful story ... where ist the rock ingame? Is it the small white ball on the north side of the south shore?

[Banished Privateer 7,259]

@mikawa

 

HMS Diamond Rock is missing in this game. @admin might change it to make the game more realistic 

[mikawa 524]

Thanks Google ;.-)

[George Washington 291]

That island could be a great pve content spot. 

[Nielsnnk 68]

things like this in a portbattle makes the game fun and great. thing forts and towers must be controlled by players in the first place cuz then they make sense.

also devs should ships that are sunk inside a portbattle to protect it. good idea?  and also a place to board a  tower or fort, maybe a point at the beach where you can drop marines cuz atm the every portbattle the mortar brig takes out every fort or tower.

Edited August 31, 2017 by NielsVisser

[George Washington 291]

14 minutes ago, NielsVisser said:

things like this in a portbattle makes the game fun and great. thing forts and towers must be controlled by players in the first place cuz then they make sense.

also devs should ships that are sunk inside a portbattle to protect it. good idea?  and also a place to board a  tower or fort, maybe a point at the beach where you can drop marines cuz atm the every portbattle the mortar brig takes out every fort or tower.

Not only that it can be included inside Career missions. Kill enemy ships, destroy and board Fort Diamond and get rewards and XP. There is so much history in these waters and 0 content about it. 

Edited August 31, 2017 by George Washington

[Banished Privateer 7,259]

Player controlled forts and towers would be awesome. More spots for players in PB ^^

Also landing troops and marines on the beach to kill forts and towers could be a great addition. Landing zones to be added into the game. Even if ship is sank, troops and marines if landed succesfully can take over control of fort / tower.

Edited August 31, 2017 by Peter Goldman

[Nielsnnk 68]

@admin this topic got some nice ideas to add more content.

You got a game its called "battle stations pacific"  when a Troop transport Is close to a port or airfield and is slower then 10 knots you can release 4 landing craft, maybe this works in NA as well on the beaches or forts/towers?  maybe you can add a Objective in the port battle?

or drop 300 marines (or idk how much) in the city/beach for 250 victory points, or 5 marines 5 victory points.

 

Troop transport in Battle stations pacific:

Edited August 31, 2017 by NielsVisser
:)

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17 minutes ago, NielsVisser said:

@admin this topic got some nice ideas to add more content.

You got a game its called "battle stations pacific"  when a Troop transport Is close to a port or airfield and is slower then 10 knots you can release 4 landing craft, maybe this works in NA as well on the beaches or forts/towers?  maybe you can add a Objective in the port battle?

or drop 300 marines (or idk how much) in the city/beach for 250 victory points, or 5 marines 5 victory points.

 

Troop transport in Battle stations pacific:

This is an idea I proposed for raids, succesful landing of troops on beach. Like raiding port 15vs15 and 1000 marines need to land. For Port Battles this idea should stick only for capturing forts and towers (instead of killing by Mortar Brig). Capturing them can totally change the result of PB and also will add more tactics and strategies.