Mortar Brig questions

[Justme]

Few questions on mortar brigs

Will they be player craft only or will they be sold by Npc in ports

What's the expected cost

What is the crew requirement

[SteelSandwich]

They are not craftable yet, they will however be available in the stores.

 

 

Expected costs:

It's a brig, hazard a guess.

 

Crew:

It's a brig, hazard a guess.

 

The information about that is not yet known, so your guess is as good as any.

[Leviathan]

Blueprint will be added in mini patch later.

[The Spud]

I heard from people that it is slow, and it always needs protection around it.

[Leviathan]

It was slower than a comparable brig before and you didn't want to dive into a fight with it. It's really meant to keep it's distance and unleash hell on stationary/slow targets.

[Arvenski]

Does anyone have any screenshots of it, by the way? 

[maturin]

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3941/15742524841_d4fecaf3a2_b.jpg

 

Picture is a year old or more.

[Arvenski]

Thanks. 

[Justme]

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3941/15742524841_d4fecaf3a2_b.jpg

 

Picture is a year old or more.

From the pics the mortars look traversable 360 degrees

[Leviathan]

It was initially but that of course resulted in all kinds of issues and was quickly limited shortly after. It didn't make sense we could fire through our own rigging and hit ships behind us.

[Johny Reb]

This was a fun boat back in the day. I fought early on for them to add this kind of boat as a way to make Port Battles more interesting.

 

They took it out because it was to OP. The first problem was that it could fire its mortars on the move which should never have been the case. They were also super accurate and powerful.

 

Otherwise they were paper.

[Fluffy Fishy]

Is there any news of when it might be craftable? I don't like shop boats and being that I play pve they won't be a huge use unless we get some form of simulated fort battles, which would be fun.

[Yar987]

Is there any news of when it might be craftable? I don't like shop boats and being that I play pve they won't be a huge use unless we get some form of simulated fort battles, which would be fun.

 

 

Blueprint will be added in mini patch later.

[Lytse Pier]

Their ability to protect trader fleets were infamously bad in their time and their effectiveness was not good at all. I do however would like to test them in Portbattles to see if bombardement tactics would be a way to draw defenders away from their towers; but I hardly think the damage output would impress a firstrates capability to take damage.

 

However if mortarbrigs get in, we also need that other tactical ship ... the fireship! 

[Prater]

Their ability to protect trader fleets were infamously bad in their time and their effectiveness was not good at all. I do however would like to test them in Portbattles to see if bombardement tactics would be a way to draw defenders away from their towers; but I hardly think the damage output would impress a firstrates capability to take damage.

 

However if mortarbrigs get in, we also need that other tactical ship ... the fireship! 

With the amount that ships get set on fire, which seems like almost every battle, we don't need dedicated fireships.

[Fluffy Fishy]

Those two quotes

As much as I would like it to be I was looking for a more standard answer not just one day in the future when the wind blows a blowy blow.

[JTW]

As much as I would like it to be I was looking for a more standard answer not just one day in the future when the wind blows a blowy blow.

So you wanna ask the same question that others already asked, and receive a different answer from the people that already answered them? Ok then. 

[Lytse Pier]

With the amount that ships get set on fire, which seems like almost every battle, we don't need dedicated fireships.

Hahaha, indeed, probably not!

[Fluffy Fishy]

So you wanna ask the same question that others already asked, and receive a different answer from the people that already answered them? Ok then. 

I asked if there were any more details on when roughly the blueprint will be around. A slightly different question. The information we have is just that it will be added "Later" no one asked for a vague time frame beyond that.

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

I asked if there were any more details on when roughly the blueprint will be around. A slightly different question. The information we have is just that it will be added "Later" no one asked for a vague time frame beyond that.

 

Later means - use the NPC shop versions first and try it out.

[Arvenski]

Is the mortar brig based on a real ship, or is it just a generic design?

[maturin]

Is the mortar brig based on a real ship, or is it just a generic design?

It's the same as the normal brig.

 

Which is to say, Model Shipways' Fair American model.

[Arvenski]

I thought it might be, but I just wanted to make sure. 

[Cragger]

Mortar ketch/brig in battles against other ships is quite gamey. They needed to be desailed and anchored to even have hope of hitting something that couldn't move such as a fort after many repeat shots. Hitting drifting ships at sea while drifting themselves is tad on the silly side like front line SPGs in World of Tanks.