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Started by Captain Tammo, February 18, 2013, 07:08:30 PM

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Captain Tammo

#15
March 16, 2013, 01:37:47 AM
Whoa headinanothergalexy I haven't seen you in forever!!!
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Martin the warrior

#16
March 20, 2013, 10:48:03 PM
Quote from: alderbowbeast on March 07, 2013, 02:19:36 PM
Some more perspective on just how huge the Goreleech would have been.  The average Trireme from Greek history had about 170 rowers. The Goreleech, being about twice as big as the average trireme would have had about 340 slavebeasts to row the ship.  Of course the average crew and fighting forces on The Goreleech would have been between 60 and 80 vermin.
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#17
March 27, 2013, 07:07:43 PM
Quote from: alderbowbeast on March 07, 2013, 02:19:36 PM
Some more perspective on just how huge the Goreleech would have been.  The average Trireme from Greek history had about 170 rowers. The Goreleech, being about twice as big as the average trireme would have had about 340 slavebeasts to row the ship.  Of course the average crew and fighting forces on The Goreleech would have been between 60 and 80 vermin.
ONLY 60-80 vermin? There had to be more than that!

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Captain Tammo

#18
March 30, 2013, 06:00:16 PM
60-80 vermin is a lot to fit on just one ship!
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Ungatt Trunn

#19
March 30, 2013, 06:08:20 PM
Quote from: Captain Tammo on March 30, 2013, 06:00:16 PM
60-80 vermin is a lot to fit on just one ship!
That wouldn't be enugh to manage all of there slaves.

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alderbowbeast

#20
March 30, 2013, 06:35:57 PM
I would agree that 60-80 vermin on one ship controlling several hundred slaves would be a lot, but keep in mind, all the slaves are chained hand and foot, and not all of them are handled at the same time.  It is because of Beau and Vurg's thievery that all the slaves break loose and easily take over The Goreleech.  Not to mention that this is not a "pirate ship" in the conventional sense, like we think of from Pirates of the Caribbean.  This was a Greek Trireme,  60 to eighty crew members would have been a large crew.  Also keep in mind that the average crew for most of the ships would have been in the range of 15-30.  We know that there were not many more than 20 mice on Sayan. 
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Ungatt Trunn

#21
March 31, 2013, 03:24:24 AM
Quote from: alderbowbeast on March 30, 2013, 06:35:57 PM
I would agree that 60-80 vermin on one ship controlling several hundred slaves would be a lot, but keep in mind, all the slaves are chained hand and foot, and not all of them are handled at the same time.  It is because of Beau and Vurg's thievery that all the slaves break loose and easily take over The Goreleech.  Not to mention that this is not a "pirate ship" in the conventional sense, like we think of from Pirates of the Caribbean.  This was a Greek Trireme,  60 to eighty crew members would have been a large crew.  Also keep in mind that the average crew for most of the ships would have been in the range of 15-30.  We know that there were not many more than 20 mice on Sayan. 
How do you know what type of ship it is?

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Romsca

#22
March 31, 2013, 11:45:51 PM
The book said it was a trireme

The Shade

#23
June 02, 2013, 01:32:00 PM
Quote from: alderbowbeast on March 30, 2013, 06:35:57 PM
I would agree that 60-80 vermin on one ship controlling several hundred slaves would be a lot, but keep in mind, all the slaves are chained hand and foot, and not all of them are handled at the same time.  It is because of Beau and Vurg's thievery that all the slaves break loose and easily take over The Goreleech.  Not to mention that this is not a "pirate ship" in the conventional sense, like we think of from Pirates of the Caribbean.  This was a Greek Trireme,  60 to eighty crew members would have been a large crew.  Also keep in mind that the average crew for most of the ships would have been in the range of 15-30.  We know that there were not many more than 20 mice on Sayan. 

Yeah, you only really need one or two vermin for avery line of slaves
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HeadInAnotherGalaxy

#24
June 02, 2013, 06:26:39 PM
Pluz, ze zlavez vere nae fed vell, zae zey only 'ad enough tae rov, an' nae much elze.
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clunylooney

#25
April 18, 2020, 04:51:39 PM
Well, in the book it says that if both halves of the Goreleech were put together, it would be as big as a small village. I live in Yarmouth. Yarmouth is a village, so it would be like a small Yarmouth. Which is HUGE
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Grond

#26
April 27, 2020, 09:15:04 PM
Yeah the way that ship is described you would almost think that it is approaching the size of a dreadnought or even an aircraft carrier. Which for a ship from a pre-industrial age would be huge...

clunylooney

#27
May 02, 2020, 01:13:44 AM
Quote from: Grond on April 27, 2020, 09:15:04 PM
Yeah the way that ship is described you would almost think that it is approaching the size of a dreadnought or even an aircraft carrier. Which for a ship from a pre-industrial age would be huge...
Fun fact: If the Goreleech is in fact the size of a small village, that would make it's crew number 500. Crazy.
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