Beacon fires

[wolfalbigensian]

I think Beacon fires around capital areas would be a nice addition to the game, specifically for reinforcement areas, for example an enemy player enters the reinforcement area at port morant (jamacia )beacon fires light up along the coastline, the player continues toward and enters kpr zone kpr beacons are lit whilst morants go out again, it wouldn't pinpoint the enemy but it would act as an early warning sys that the enemy is in the area, Beacon fires were certainly used in the Napoleonic era and it would I think, be a fun element to add. I seem to recall in Devon England there were over 80 of these beacon fires dotted along the coastline in the 1800s.

[Fenris]

12 minutes ago, wolfalbigensian said:

I think Beacon fires around capital areas would be a nice addition to the game, specifically for reinforcement areas, for example an enemy player enters the reinforcement area at port morant (jamacia )beacon fires light up along the coastline, the player continues toward and enters kpr zone kpr beacons are lit whilst morants go out again, it wouldn't pinpoint the enemy but it would act as an early warning sys that the enemy is in the area, Beacon fires were certainly used in the Napoleonic era and it would I think, be a fun element to add. I seem to recall in Devon England there were over 80 of these beacon fires dotted along the coastline in the 1800s.

Lighthouses were suggested, beacon fires are a bit medieval.........

But who knows if those suggestions someone reading.

[Slim McSauce]

I agree!

[Teutonic]

The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!

I think lighthouse would be more suitable personally.

[Lovec1990]

9 minutes ago, Teutonic said:

The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!

I think lighthouse would be more suitable personally.

Or both lighthouses close to port and bonefires more away from ports?

[Aster]

[Wick]

Coast lines had semaphore stations for communications alongside with riders. No bonfires.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/semaphore.htm

 

[Christendom]

[wolfalbigensian]

the beacons are lit and Loki and I shall answer!

[wolfalbigensian]

5 hours ago, VO101_HWick said:

Coast lines had semaphore stations for communications alongside with riders. No bonfires.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/semaphore.htm

 

incorrect they did have beacon fires, www.opcdorset.org/LytchettMinsterFiles/LytchettMin...   Preparations against Napoleonic Invasion 1804 
 
In the early nineteenth century the new threat of invasion came not from the Spaniards but from the French, led by the tyrannical but brilliant Napoleon Bonaparte. A letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset to Mr. Banks at Kingston Lacy on 12 OCT 1803 still survives. In it he requests that Mr. Banks have prepared a beacon on Badbury Rings, sufficient to burn for two hours, to be lit whenever the beacon on St. Catherine’s Hill to the east, or those on Lytchett Heath or Woodbury Hill at Bere Regis had been fired. So Beacon Hill was once again called upon to play a part in Dorset’s defence and was re-commissioned for the first time since 1607. 
 
The beacons had to be manned continually, even when mists made them impractical. There were several false alarms when fires in houses or in fields were mistakenly thought to indicate an invasion. However, as Diana Trenchard of the West Dorset History & Genealogical Research Centre has pointed out, the effectiveness of the beacon system was demonstrated on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee when on the night of 6th June 1977 the lights of beacon fires spread over the whole of the UK within one hour, when no beacon was lit until the previous one was spotted - the only exception being the Channel Isles where a helicopter crew was allowed to spot a mainland beacon. 
 
The following is a direct quote from “Illustrations of Dorset History” by R.R. Sellman, published by Methuen, 1960. 
 
“Though the French invasion was expected in the South-East [of England], on the coasts nearest to the great base at Boulogne, careful preparations were made in Dorset and elsewhere to mobilise men and resources. The warning system of signal posts on the most prominent points of the shore-line, and of beacons on the highest hills inland, was designed to alarm the whole county in a few minutes. Back from the coast, places were appointed as depots to which provisions were to be carried; and detailed plans were made so that everyone knew what he had to do and how much transport and supplies each district must provide. 
 
Besides the regular troops and militia encamped on the range of hills behind the coast, a volunteer of 1867 Infantry, 506 Cavalry, and 821'Sea Fencibles' was ready to assemble at local centres. No large-scale defence schemes like the Military Canal and martello towers of the South-East [of England] were undertaken, but batteries were built or strengthened to protect the harbours at Lyme, Weymouth, and Poole, and the anchorage in Swanage Bay. The alarms and excitements of the period are described in Hardy's “Trumpet Major”. “

Edited June 19, 2018 by wolfalbigensian

[Slim McSauce]

I'll just plug these two together for future ease of use.

 

Edited June 20, 2018 by Slim McSauce

[Atreides]

 

We need lighthouses.

Edited June 20, 2018 by Atreides