estrongblade
Epaulette Inspector
I know that this is a dead thread - heck - I put in the last post nearly a year ago. As I recently began playing and moding C3C again, I thought I would share my civilopedia entry here as an incentive for people to use this unit. To use it, just copy it wholesale here in this post and paste it in your C3C civilopedia folder ( or PTW etc.).
Here it is:
#PRTO_HeavyFrigate
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^The [HeavyFrigate] is a frigate that was specifically designed to take on vessels of a larger size. Using speed, superior fire power and
heavier construction techniques, the vessel was actually strong enough to take on lesser ships-of-the-line under certain conditions.
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^A coastal city needs both $<LINK<iron=GOOD_Iron> and $LINK<saltpeter=GOOD_Saltpeter> in its
$LINK<Strategic Resource=GCON_ResourcesS> box to build Heavy Frigates.
#DESC_PRTO_HeavyFrigate
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^The Heavy Frigate was first built by the fledgling American Navy in order to combat the Mediterrainian pirates.
Also refered to as 44-gunners, the designers, Joshua Humphries and Josiah Fox, were determined to build a ship that would
prove to be an overmatch to foreign nation vessels of the same class. The idea was sound, as the 44s proved themselves time and
again throughout the many years following their launch dates in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The idea of Heavy Frigates
quickly crossed national boundaries, as friendly nations began taking the lines from the vessel and adopted them to their own use.
Enjoy!
PS - The 44 is NOT a replacement for a Man-o-War. The Man-o-War was actually used to describe the large armed vessels of earlier centuries, namely in the 1600s. By the time of the Georgian Navy (roughly 1725 to 1840), ships of large size (in most National Navies) were refered to as Ships of the Line. These "wooden walls" were what the British used to become masters of the ocean by 1805. The Man-o-War looked nothing like a Ship-o-the-Line, although the one that is labeled as such in the game looks like a Ship-o-the-Line {SOTL}.
Even 44s could not take on the majority of these monsters, some of which had upwards of a 120 guns and were two, nearly three times the size of Heavy Frigates. The SOTL also was capable of Heavy bombardment and I give mine both Blitz and lethal sea in my editor. Anyone who has read about Trafalger or the Nile would quickly understand why I do this.
Here it is:
#PRTO_HeavyFrigate
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^
^The [HeavyFrigate] is a frigate that was specifically designed to take on vessels of a larger size. Using speed, superior fire power and
heavier construction techniques, the vessel was actually strong enough to take on lesser ships-of-the-line under certain conditions.
^
^A coastal city needs both $<LINK<iron=GOOD_Iron> and $LINK<saltpeter=GOOD_Saltpeter> in its
$LINK<Strategic Resource=GCON_ResourcesS> box to build Heavy Frigates.
#DESC_PRTO_HeavyFrigate
^
^
^The Heavy Frigate was first built by the fledgling American Navy in order to combat the Mediterrainian pirates.
Also refered to as 44-gunners, the designers, Joshua Humphries and Josiah Fox, were determined to build a ship that would
prove to be an overmatch to foreign nation vessels of the same class. The idea was sound, as the 44s proved themselves time and
again throughout the many years following their launch dates in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The idea of Heavy Frigates
quickly crossed national boundaries, as friendly nations began taking the lines from the vessel and adopted them to their own use.
Enjoy!
PS - The 44 is NOT a replacement for a Man-o-War. The Man-o-War was actually used to describe the large armed vessels of earlier centuries, namely in the 1600s. By the time of the Georgian Navy (roughly 1725 to 1840), ships of large size (in most National Navies) were refered to as Ships of the Line. These "wooden walls" were what the British used to become masters of the ocean by 1805. The Man-o-War looked nothing like a Ship-o-the-Line, although the one that is labeled as such in the game looks like a Ship-o-the-Line {SOTL}.
Even 44s could not take on the majority of these monsters, some of which had upwards of a 120 guns and were two, nearly three times the size of Heavy Frigates. The SOTL also was capable of Heavy bombardment and I give mine both Blitz and lethal sea in my editor. Anyone who has read about Trafalger or the Nile would quickly understand why I do this.
) and for the civilopedia descriptions 
On to other, upbeat things. 
