fatboy2
14th Feb 2016
17th Sep 2016
The point of this game is to attack cargo ships and gain as much land as possible. (Build a pirate empire!) There are even secret hidden treasures around the islands that you can find!
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Almost all of them failed to explode, and the one that did only blew up a small ship's boat. The way it helped the US was that it scared the British, and made for a dang good humorous song that helped increase American morale.
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Side note: The Turtle was not the only underwater weapon made by David Bushnell to help the US fight the British in the Revolutionary War. He also made primitive contact fuses with flintlock mechanisms, placed them into 40 barrels filled with gunpowder, and sent them down a river to break a British blockade. However, as with the Turtle, it didn't work as intended.
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Thirdly, almost none of my crews lean on the side of the ship. Finally, fatboy, just because there were electric motors in the 1800's, they only showed up during the late 1800's to the early 1900's. Due to all of these factors, I challenge SB's disabling and subsequent capture of my ironclad.
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GUYS! Seawater may be conductive, as is iron, but not THAT conductive. Besides, the deck isn't made of metal. Also, any cannon crews would not be touching the cannon directly and any cannon would not be touching the outside iron.
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I'm not saying that everything has to be exactly realistic, just that shocking the crew of an ironclad to unconsciousness during the 1400s is kind of hard to believe. Okay, I'm leaving now.
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This is a NW for heaven's sake! Everything doesn't have to be exactly the same as in the real world. Now go away or seriously I will report you.
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The way it worked was it would sneak up on a ship at night and stick a bomb to the side of a ship. It failed when the screw it was using to drill into the Eagle and plant the bomb hit a band of iron, and shortly after that it failed. It was never actually used in direct combat.
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And for your information, the Turtle was not a puny sub that couldn't face a ship in combat. It nearly succeded in sinking the British flagship HMS Eagle and was a played a pivital role in loosening the blockade of New York during the revolutionary war.
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GO AWAY OR I WILL REPORT!!!!
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But I doubt that SB could fit an amount of electricity in a sub great enough to knock a crew unconcsious bu conducting through iron. And that's really funny, I am studying ironclads at school, and the main method of building them was to sandwich iron and wood to make the armor. Oh, and the Turtle sub was really bad, and couldn't possibly face a ship in combat.