Warlord Games | David King | Activity https://www.warlordgames.com/community-members/davidking/activity/ Activity feed for David King. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:01:15 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 b9e82cef2fed8a1f20327265e34790d3 David King replied to the topic A doubt with USS Essex in the forum Black Seas https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/a-doubt-with-uss-essex/#post-184931 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:09:48 +0000 She was a far superior frigate after her re-armament. The 32lb carronade is around twice as effective as the 12lb gun it replaces, and the main issue faced by the frigate was being disabled by mishandling sail in squally weather, and then being unable to keep a spring on her anchor when driven towards a lee-shore and unable to continue to…[Read more]

]]> 0 24cfb8f657fd83c4b94c410a03c3ce46 David King replied to the topic Possible house rules in the forum Black Seas https://www.warlordgames.com/community/topic/possible-house-rules/page/4/#post-183863 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:51:37 +0000 While each carriage design would vary, and accurate drawings of carronades in situ on the standard slide carriage are tricky to find, those I have measured have had a maximum elevation of 14 degrees or more, which is slightly more than the port-limited elevation of guns (seldom much above 10 degrees).

That 5 degrees is the highest value recorded…[Read more]

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