Talk:The Resolute/@comment-4909238-20140211164601/@comment-3436902-20150506064123

I agree with this, not even later ships of the line had over 140 guns. The cost is one thing, no single household could afford this, especially such a one with only one living member, which owns no extensive lands, and has no industry to garner wealth from. Ships of the line were built in a day and age when governments held sovereign authority for once, noble houses were a thing of the past, and the military was no longer loyal to single families, this was a period of standing armies and naval fleets. So, to all of the sudden take technology from one era and supplant it into another, is illogical in and of itself. Thats only the political and economic sides of an error who's nature is far more technical - no ship of the line existed in the middle ages and even during the Enlightenment, a wooden ship of that size would have collapsed under its own weight. There was a reason they never got bigger than they did... actually two if you also count the fact that the technology for building such a ship was not available until the late and early 19th and 20th centuries, when the age of sail had long since passed and a 200 gun ship of the line would have literally been pointless (kind of hard to blow a hole in a battleship with a cannonball). Finally, considering the fact that the USS Pennsylvania, the largest ship of the line ever constructed (with its 140 guns) was launched in 1837 (some 300-400 years after the end of the Middle Ages), you may want to dial back a bit. Settle for a 74 gun ship of the line, realistically, this house could probably not even afford that, but for roleplay purposes it ought to be overlooked.