Re: Why Big ships?

Maybe a way of modifying the exisiting ships to augment their hull points,
so they will still take hits but just last longer before breaking up.
 Also ignoring the critical hit tables might help too.
 Perhaps additional armour plate (at a suitably high cost) or internal
reinforcements. The old ships of the line were built with very high
structural strength, using massive timbers.
 I'm toying with perhaps small suitably trained creatures that carry out
running repairs in battle. In my campaign there are Tanu and they can use
their psionic devices to train/control small primates. A bit like R2 bots in
star wars?
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From: "Richard Myers" <REMyers001@???.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Why Big ships?


> I always wanted to see a system that made ships harder to actually
destroy.
> Ships were hardly ever sunk by firepower in the "old days."  Usually, it
was
> excessive casualties that forced a ship to surrender, usually by boarding
> action.  This remained true up to advent of ships-of-the-line, and even
with
> them.
>
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