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Strange developments on this thread. Maybe CivFan could use the services of Wikileaks?
Those ancient Veneti ships have always intrigued me. Mainly because so little is now known about them.
Certainties were:
They had higher sides than the Roman warships facing them.
They relied upon sails and not oars in battle.
They had rigging to these sails that was easily cut by opposing warships (the Romans did this to them in battle to make the ships unmanageable and defeat them, according to Roman written history).
As far as I know, none of these ships have been recovered archaeologically and there are no existent, contemporary pictorial representations of them.
Back in the day, Aluminium did a conversion of this ship from AoE2:
Which you can find here.
I've used it as an Etruscan transport and seem to remember it was a little bigger than other ships....not sure if you're looking for that attribute.
If I remember well, the cog has a raised bow and stern and wouldn't fit very well, it's more a medieval ship.
It has got a raised bow and stern to be fair, but it might be suitable - it depends on what Cemo thinks is the best fit based on the units available. I still think that the light transport is probably better myself. Might be worth him having a glance at the ship on the link. If nothing else, it might be an upgrade from the Venetti ship...
As an aside, it would be wonderful to get aaglo out of unit-making retirement - making this ship on pov-ray would have been right up his street!!
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Um why didn't you just use 'subscribe to this thread' in the thread tools?
Um why didn't you just use 'subscribe to this thread' in the thread tools?
Speaking only for myself, I do it to let people know I'm interested in a thread & want to contribute something further on when I'm able to. A lot of times I don't see where to creatively contribute to a project until it's been going on a while. By giving a tiny nudge of visible encouragement instead of just lurking I'm letting them know that there's at least one more person that shares their interests.Spam?
Further to this, what would go in-between the Cog and the Caravel? Maybe a 'Hulk'? I don't think we have a unit for something like that, although we do have a bunch of Mediterranean oar-driven ships from around the same time, yes?The Normans crossed the English Channel in ships looking like the Viking longboats, so for Northern Civs I think the Venetii Ship should be long before the longboats. Liburnians galleys perhaps for the Romans at the same time.
This Venetii ship should perhaps be pre Longboats and then after the Venetii we have the Cog.
" Originally Posted by cemo1956
The Normans crossed the English Channel in ships looking like the Viking longboats, so for Northern Civs I think the Venetii Ship should be long before the longboats. Liburnians galleys perhaps for the Romans at the same time.
This Venetii ship should perhaps be pre Longboats and then after the Venetii we have the Cog."
Further to this, what would go in-between the Cog and the Caravel? Maybe a 'Hulk'? I don't think we have a unit for something like that, although we do have a bunch of Mediterranean oar-driven ships from around the same time, yes?
In or out of the can?Spam?
I believe it's the carrackFurther to this, what would go in-between the Cog and the Caravel? Maybe a 'Hulk'? I don't think we have a unit for something like that, although we do have a bunch of Mediterranean oar-driven ships from around the same time, yes?
Further to this, what would go in-between the Cog and the Caravel? Maybe a 'Hulk'? I don't think we have a unit for something like that, although we do have a bunch of Mediterranean oar-driven ships from around the same time, yes?