Ship Name: Firizinian Nau
Credits:
Type: Seaship
Purpose: A vessel that can be used as both merchant ship as well as a warship, depending what gear is mounted onboard.
Consolidation Thread: NA
Architect: First appeared in Emder provincial navies, then its use expanded throughout the past three centuries.
Description: The Nau is a bulky design adopting an innovative architecture that allows for cannons or artillery pieces to be carried onboard for offensive use. The Nau's characteristic design of her forecastle and the large rectangular sails differentiate her from the ordinary Kraken Sea ships.
ATTRIBUTES
- Main Stats
- Defence: Low
- Defensive Elements:
- Wooden Hull
- Defensive Elements:
- Offence: High
- Offensive Elements:
- Scorpion artillery or black powder cannons
- Offensive Elements:
- Durability: Low
- Scarcity: Provincial
- Holdaria
- Beemzarath
- Beema
- Halla
- Friezond
- Emder
- Defence: Low
- TvM Requirement: 3vX
Strengths
+ Master-Crafted Sailing Ship. Due to their design, these ships are significantly fast while carrying a large volume of cargo or equipment.
+ Harbor and Starboard side gunports. These ships can be fitted to carry cannons, or scorpion artillery that can engage targets from both of their sides.
Weaknesses
- Exposed Poopdeck. Although the sides of the vessel can support gunports, due to internal space allocation, such a ship cannot have stern guns, which makes it vulnerable to fire from her back.
- Reliance on Sails. The architecture of the ship makes her depend entirely on her sails to adjust speed. If the sails are lost, or there is no wind, the vessel is in all respects immobilized.
Historical Information
The Kraken Sea has always been plagued by pirates. Ever since the antiquity, civilizations along the West and South shores awashed by the Kraken Sea's waters were forced to develop ways to engage and defend from pirates and raiders, gradually pulling them to a marine culture they later embraced to the fullest.
Unlike the Brython Isles, who invested in fortified ports and strongholds, the Firizinians and Munrians sough to challenge their enemies in a race for supremacy over the high seas. Strong, stout ships were developped, who could carry several artillery pieces and later cannons onboard with which to engage the enemy in naval confrontations, long before ship-to-ship boarding action could initiate.
The Nau was quick to become a symbol of naval supremacy, being used as a warship as much as a commercial vessel.
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