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Best death ever.

And I trusted you, Tiruin!

BAH

Were the rules changed in any way?

Hm, then maybe only use sails as an auxiliary propellent (in addition to the engine), as I originally suggested?

What I'd like to see:
- a greater diversity of roles beyond piloting, shooting and boarding. For example, some sort of single-person 'fighter' boats that separate from the main ship and harass the enemy.
- a sort of crafting system for the engineers - they take resources (both material and magical) from the supply hold and create situational improvements, such as anti-boarding spikes, improved sights for the pistols or whatever they decide to.
- a wind and sails system (sails can be put in one of the four directions - parallel to the ship length, perpendicular and two diagonals) and depending on their position they transfer a different portion of the wind speed to the ship (so if a sail is perpendicular to wind, it pushes the ship additional two tiles in the corresponding direction, if it's at 45 degrees, one tile, if it's parallel or folded, no effect).
- a limit on weapon range and/or a penalty to the roll depending on the speed of both ships (because it's harder to shoot a moving target, and doubly harder to shoot a moving target from a moving ship).
- more skills, several of which affect different aspects of the same occupation. For example, a separate ballistics skill that reduces the above moving penalty, aiming skill that generally improves accuracy and maybe some magic to steer the cannonball while in flight.
- more personalization. That means perks (bonuses to rolls in specific conditions, optionally with tradeoffs (example: mathematician: when firing cannons, improves accuracy, but lowers firing rate)), equipment, wounds and so on.
- more different weapons. Floating mine balloons, slow-moving torpedoes, sniping rifles, fireballs, what have you.
- optionally, fog: crew can only see, let's say, five tiles away. To see any further, you need a separate mechanism that fires laser beams and detects what they reflect off. However, turning it is slow and the enemies can see where the laser came from and calculate the position. Also floating debris that may cause a false positive.

Aww, no fourth-wall-breaking minmaxing. I am disappoint.

Vowel: demote this sack of uselessless straight down the stairs and tell him to get to work. Also turn left aka west and slow down to 2.

I love how this confirms that Slog is dead forever.

Try to use one of the dice as an additional 1d6 attack bonus.

You jump over the wreckage of the forward right cannon and take up position at the middle one.
[T4. R6. S2]
You fire, the recoil of the gun pushing you back despite its bindings to the deck. You don't see it hit; you don't see the shell hit the blue ship. You must have missed. You move to the next gun.
[T4. R6. S3.]
Another miss. You pound your fists on the cannon.

Uhhh. Why did he shoot twice?

Also, what about my suggestion about limiting speed change to a single level per turn?

Vowel: realize the effect of my singing on morale. Try to take out another point out of singing (for a total of -1) and put it into piloting. Also, turn left aka NW and speed up to 3.