Turn Trader Snow into Mini-LGV?

[Slamz]

Just a thought:

Trader Snow is useless, as far as I can figure out. The Trader Brig carries more and this is really the main thing that distinguishes them. Trader Cutter and Trader Lynx have different sailing profiles that keep them potentially useful as blockade runners (especially the Traders Lynx which is nearly impossible to stop) but the Snow's 180 profile is not especially stand-out given its reduced cargo hold.

Trader Snow does have the upper gun deck but this is not a useful amount of guns. Makes it slightly harder to board but if you're at that point then you've probably lost the ship one way or another.

What if the Trader Snow was a mini-LGV in the sense that we up-gun it a bit more? Still a reduced hold compared to the Traders Brig but enough guns to potentially shred the sails of an attacker and run away.

Maybe give it 6 per side and 2 on the back? Class 9?

[maturin]

All traders should be able to carry guns.

[DeRuyter]

@maturin Good point but they generally would have less and lighter guns with insufficient crew to properly man them. Private merchants I mean not EIC ships of course.

[maturin]

Two pairs of carronades on a trader's brig would make this game a lot more interesting.

[Slamz]

1 hour ago, maturin said:

All traders should be able to carry guns.

That would probably be the ideal. There is no "Traders Snow". There's just a Snow. Every gun represents a huge amount of cargo space, though, because it's not just the physical gun but also a representation of stored ammo and powder.

In that case a cargo ship is just a warship with at least some guns removed. You would buy a Snow and just not put any guns on it to get a ship with a huge, empty hold.

I have a feeling the game engine does not support this level of customization though.

It might even be asking for a lot for the devs to add half a gun deck to the Traders Snow.

[z4ys]

55 minutes ago, maturin said:

Two pairs of carronades on a trader's brig would make this game a lot more interesting.

Even now nobody uses the stern guns ;-)