Interview

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 02-10-2009, 18:41

The building destruction in this shot looks really cheesy. Hopefully it looks better in motion.

**Sir Beane** · 02-10-2009, 19:34

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

The building destruction in this shot looks really cheesy. Hopefully it looks better in motion.

Thats an old screenshot so hopefully the newer build of the game looks less like a house made of Lego collapsing.

**Obadiah** · 02-11-2009, 04:07

Why are each of these links bringing me back to the same screen shot of the little triangular village? I'm not seeing demo or cannon towers or...

**Fisherking** · 02-11-2009, 13:01

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

The building destruction in this shot looks really cheesy. Hopefully it looks better in motion.

I think I found the one you were speaking of, though this one led to the fort.

The physical model they used obviously lacked any internal structure, at least at the time of the shot.

The result was as though someone set off a fire cracker in a playmobil house and the various components popped out. All squares and rectangles.

The little fort is interesting, but what is more interesting is all of the ships you trap if you take it.

Odd ships though. Some look like some sort of odd Dutch Flutes with 4 masts. I will pass my inclination to get technical on the ships, however, and only say; that if ships could fire on troops, taking this fort would be no walk in the park.

**Sir Beane** · 02-11-2009, 13:35

Originally Posted by Fisherking

I think I found the one you were speaking of, though this one led to the fort.

The physical model they used obviously lacked any internal structure, at least at the time of the shot.

The result was as though someone set off a fire cracker in a playmobil house and the various components popped out. All squares and rectangles.

The little fort is interesting, but what is more interesting is all of the ships you trap if you take it.

Odd ships though. Some look like some sort of odd Dutch Flutes with 4 masts. I will pass my inclination to get technical on the ships, however, and only say; that if ships could fire on troops, taking this fort would be no walk in the park.

They could be Fleuts. They will probably appear in the game as a merchant ship for the Dutch. If I remember correctly they were the first shIps to be mass-produced to a standard blueprint, and made cheaply to increase profits. If so it makes them a good candidate for a researchable technology.

**Fisherking** · 02-11-2009, 13:46

Originally Posted by Sir Beane

They could be Fleuts. They will probably appear in the game as a merchant ship for the Dutch. If I remember correctly they were the first shIps to be mass-produced to a standard blueprint, and made cheaply to increase profits. If so it makes them a good candidate for a researchable technology.

The ships lines do look like it, but I have never seen a Flute pictured with a jigg mast after the mizzen. The stubby mizzen mast is a characteristic of that ship type.

**Sir Beane** · 02-11-2009, 13:52

Originally Posted by Fisherking

The ships lines do look like it, but I have never seen a Flute pictured with a jigg mast after the mizzen. The stubby mizzen mast is a characteristic of that ship type.

Perhaps the distance model for the ship is less accurate than the up close model? Or maybe the ship is a merchant ship that has been modified by pirates or commandeered as an emergency war vessel?

Or maybe we are getting carried away over-analysing a throwaway screenshot.

**Fisherking** · 02-11-2009, 15:40

Originally Posted by Sir Beane

Perhaps the distance model for the ship is less accurate than the up close model? Or maybe the ship is a merchant ship that has been modified by pirates or commandeered as an emergency war vessel?

Or maybe we are getting carried away over-analysing a throwaway screenshot.

They have said 25 ship types in game.

Some of these will most likely be different gun rates in some of the classes.

I heard how many land unit types in the game too. But that was in the German video and I have forgotten. All I remember is “gosh! That is a lot!”

Sorry for analyzing the ship type too much…it is a hard habit to break. It comes from my old line of work…and maybe from to many submarine sims…

It should be fun for you to figure out what the 25 ships are though. You might even go back to ships and boats and things that float…

**Marten** · 02-11-2009, 16:33

For me the ships are looking like galleys ("peregrine galley") or some of the yachts from this age. Anyone ever seen a picture of the "Royal Caroline" or equal ships? They were used as fast cruisers between England and the colonies in 18th century.

The hull seems a bit long for a Flute (overall proportions ...). Or it is the CA answer No. 236 for intrusive questions: "It's from a old build - we changed all ships 34 weeks ago"

**Lusitani** · 02-11-2009, 17:46

Originally Posted by Sir Beane

They could be Fleuts. They will probably appear in the game as a merchant ship for the Dutch. If I remember correctly they were the first shIps to be mass-produced to a standard blueprint, and made cheaply to increase profits. If so it makes them a good candidate for a researchable technology.

Hmmm they look like galleons to me honestly. The sort of galleons the English and Dutch used, with small bow castles.

Like the Ark Royal...