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Unit pack: Medieval galleys

Originally posted by mrtn
We're drowning in nice ships! (Or is that an impossibility? :hmm: )

I think that there's nothing nice in a drowning ship (especially if you're in one). ;) :p
 
As I comemnted in the provoew thread the first sail on the two-sailed galley should be slightly smaller.

Edit: Very Nice Work :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by vbraun
As I comemnted in the provoew thread the first sail on the two-sailed galley should be slightly smaller.

If you look close enough, you can see that the front sail is slightly smaller :)
 
Aw, crap, I'm so slow on the draw that I'm posting in the fricking preview thread.

I love these suckers, aaglo! Your ships rule!
 
Originally posted by Mithadan
Aw, crap, I'm so slow on the draw that I'm posting in the fricking preview thread.
Me too... :D Awesome ships again, aaglo!
 
Anybody know if this unit, or one of the Corsair units, would be appropriate for a Barbary Pirate unit? (Am too lazy to go and search the internet myself, thought somebody might know offhand.)
 
Mithadan - the corsair ships would. I think the only true "Corsairs" were Barbary pirates.

aaglo - more perfection! thank you!
 
Originally posted by thestonesfan
Mithadan - the corsair ships would. I think the only true "Corsairs" were Barbary pirates.
Ahhh, thanks!
 
I also missed the preview thread entirely (luckily I looked in the completed units before posting in the preview :) ).
These look great :D And very fast too...
 
Darn you aaglo :p, Now I have to redo my Imperialism Mod pack :p

:thumbsup: Oh and excellent unit BTW :D.
 
The barbary pirates favored light, fast ships called xebecs (xebeci? ;)). From Wikipedia.com:

A xebec, also spelled xebeque, jabeque, sciabecco, and chebeck, was a small, fast, three-masted (but originally two-masted) vessel of the 16th to 19th centuries used exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea, with a distinctive hull, which added a pronounced overhanging bow and stern, and rarely displacing more than 200 tons.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a large xebec carried a square rig on the foremast, lateen sails on the others, a bowsprit, and two headsails.

They were greatly favored by Mediterranean nations as corsairs, and for this purpose were built with a narrow floor to achieve a higher speed than their victims, but with a considerable beam in order to enable them to carry and extensive sail plan. When used as corsairs they carried a crew of 300 to 400 men and mounted up to twenty-four guns according to size.

I would say that the corsair is close enough, although it is a bit heavier in the hull and has only two masts.

Here's a pic:
 

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Originally posted by Lusikka755
BTW, do you use the original trireme hull as a base for nearly all of your ships or do they look a little alike for some other reasons?;)

No I don't. This unit was completely based on the galleasses - and it's actually the vise versa (galleass was basically nothing but an upgraded galley). :p
 
Originally posted by Ukas
Aaglo's units rock
he wears only one sock
because his time
is limited like this rhyme
to put on another sock
because his units rock

Yeah! :worship:


:confused: wow,not bad, at least it rhymes. So you can do more than graphix Ukas. :hmm:

:lol:
 
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