> Greg said:
>
>> And there are virtually no boat-building matrials.
>
> Not necessarily the Egyptians built ships out of reeds.
In fact, several of the "weeder" peoples of the Janube make their boats of reeds too.
> Aren't moonboats
> made of reeds?
The smaller ones can be.
> All you need is some would-be moonboat commander with the
> half-baked idea of starting a moonboat shipyard at Corflu. Even if they
> couldn't make flying ones they could make at least one crappy reed boat.
Mon boat construcion is not the same as making a watery boat.
> http://cruises.about.com/library/pictures/baltic/bloslo26.htm Imagine the
> fun of some horribly unprepared Lunar crew aboard their reed ship running
> into the Wolf Pirates? Sounds like fun to me.
If it's fun, I say do it.
But my original point stands. I can't really imagine a warship, or
even a quality sea transport ship, made of reeds.
Unless, of course, it was in the hands of player characters, who
undoubtedly could come up with the right magica and the right
interpretation of other magic to make some kind of outlandish warship.
"OK, guys, you two work the Bouyancy spells. Then we'll put stasis on this giant metal bull we captured for a ram, and then we'll get these whales to propel it at the last minute--you know, for surprise effect. And we'll have these seven sylphs whirling around us to protect us from the arrows, and ..."
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