Re: Why Big ships?

The reason for this is not that ships in the "old days" were any better
at standing up to the punishment that cannons or even catapaults and
ballistae could dish out.  It's that the Spelljammer combat system makes
them much more accurate weapons than they actually were.  Imagine a
bunch of kids running past each other with slingshots, that's how
accurate things actually were.

But to try to interpret that into the system is, IMO, not really
practical, and makes the system unwieldy and not much fun.

Perhaps a combat phase where the target ship had a chance to maneuver
out of the way?  I haven't tried this, so I have no idea how it would
work.

Yours truly,
Sable


--- Richard Myers <REMyers001@???.com> wrote:
>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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