Ahh!! I see it now.  I was just assuming there were 7 engine nozzles and left it at that.  But you are right even if there were it does not explain why they appear at a angle.

llsoth said:

Ripper.McGuirl said:

Actually, you're both right.  Looking at it as a two-dimensional object, there is a slant of about five degrees at the midpoint of the ship.  Shifting back to three dimensions, the engines are on an dimetric plane (in art terms, the "paritial 3/4" view) while the rest of the ship is in true profile.  If you were to render this image as a three dimensional vessel such that you could orient it in such a way to reprodue the image, you'd have a 30 degree bend off the primary axis of the ship at its midpoint.

Sorry, I do drafting myself and I come from a family of drafters.

EDIT:  Sorry Ilsoth, didn't notice you'd already seen it.  Mea culpa.

The engines are definitely drawn badly as far as perspective is concerned.  Makes the ship look like it's bent.

Kage2020 said:

I might need to do some research into the Elizabethan ship captains. Me thinks that the exploits of those individuals will give some interesting foundations for RT games.

Starman Kane said:

And one might also take some inspiration from the earlier Tudor period as well.  All those cod pieces cannot be missed out in Rogue Trader.  Those players that are old enough can even watch Tudors for a bit of spice! 

And, the tongue-in-cheek part of me wishes for that must heinous and feared of pirates, if only his surprising success despite seeming stumbling ineptitude.  Yes, let us have the slapstick, hairless pirate Bald Rick. 

Kage

Incidentally:-

The moment of truth for the great ship versus galleon controversy came in 1591, when the Revenge, for reasons that need not concern us here, was trapped in the Azores by a fleet of fifty-three Spanish warships and fought them for fifteen hours before she surrendered. It might have been supposed that she must have fought the action by keeping here enemies at a distance, but the accounts say that she was boarded a number of times and and once by the Spanish flagship the San Felipe, a vessel three times her size. It must have been a desparate moment for the English and the enemy should have triumphed, but the terrible havoc that the Revenge's lower guns continued to make in the hull of the Spaniard caused here to haul off. Its amazing that Revenge's crew, and through sickness less than a third of them were fit to begin the action, could sustain morale under the circumstances. In the end they had used up all their powder, which was another reason for not following her commanders famous order to 'Split me the ship, Master Gunner'. During the action at least two, possibly four spanish ships were sunk by Revenge's guns, and in the storm that blew up after it sixteen more as well as Revenge foundered, presumably because of gun damage.

(With thanks to Archibald's Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy.)

 

Dezmond,

Is that the HMS Revenge commanded by Sir Richard Grenville?

Starman Kane said:

Aye. I think if I rememeber correctly he was somewhat... overconfident in trying to fight his way out rather than run for it, but it is a stiring story neh?

Dezmond said:

True. Still, his live provides a good example for the foundation of a RT character.

Definitely - but you could see a Rogue Trader causing absolute havoc with the weaponry on board their vessel as well as having that 'Master and Commander' feel of being isolated and dueling with an implacable enemy.

Starman Kane said:

Why not start with those at the top of the list? Might I humbly suggest Raleigh and Drake?