Ships

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Shouldn't ships be buildable as regionals?

After all, if the Celts conquered Greece, they would surley adopt a more Hellenistic theme to thier navy, as their own surley left a lot to be desired.

Celtic ships were pretty good actually

[Pharnakes]

Hardly up to facing down a Tetrere, though.

[Watchman]

And conversely by what I understand of it most ships designed for the Med, and particularly galleys, by and large suck on the rough seas of the oceans.

[Pharnakes]

True enough.

[Ignopotens]

it's still a a fair point about regional ship-building, though

[Watchman]

True. It'd certainly kind of make sense for a people encountering a whole new type of sea to negotiate to adopt as much of the local tried-and-true practices as possible. Although the Atlantic types as such ought to work well enough in the Med as far as sailing around goes, one can kind of see where such sailing "roundships" dependent upon boarding for their offensive power could soon be found wanting against the ram-festooned galleys...

[QwertyMIDX]

Well during the 1st Punic War boarding tactics won out over ramming so that's not quite so cut and dry.

[Pharnakes]

@Watchman Yes, my thoughts exactly and I'm sure that the mediteranean powers in there turn would adopt something salong the line of long boats if forced to navigate the Atlantic or the Baltic.

@QwertMIDX, Yeah, but that was large, fast galleys boarding large, fast galleys, not slower, low freeboard celtic type boats, the crew of a long boat would surley have quite a hard time getting onto a Tetrere, let alone a well defended one.