User blog comment:Cuddles Epic/DNR No.2 - Being realistic and going too far./@comment-90.221.249.233-20130605082612

I'm going to have to challenge you on the cannon point. Ships could have up and exceeding one hundred cannons over three gundecks (including the top deck) in cases of the First Rate Ships of the Line, and then decreasing as ships get smaller (Second Rates, Third Rates, Frigates, Sloops etc.)

However, what I find most amusing is the insistence by all navies in RP to use ironclad ships. Ironclads have to remain in coastal waters and are incapable of cross-continental deployment. Furthermore, they sit lower in the water and therefore have less use for cannons. They're also slower and less manoeuvrable. That's why I always tend to strip off the iron cladding if I even inherit any ships on W42.

~ Tom