It was common practice for navies to use captured ships in their own fleet. Would a sheet of 'peel off, stick-on' flags be popular so that the nationality of a ships could quickly be changed for a scenario and then changed again for a different one?
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It was common practice for navies to use captured ships in their own fleet. Would a sheet of 'peel off, stick-on' flags be popular so that the nationality of a ships could quickly be changed for a scenario and then changed again for a different one?
I think that is a good idea. By the way, you could change anytime the nationality of a ship...., it can be also change into a pirate ship..., yes, great idea.
Some such mechanism would be good. One scenario could be retrieving a captured ship. If the original crew is still onboard, it would make the battle tactics rather interesting - not only recapture ship, but do so with minimal damage, especially crew damage, some of which would be suffered by captured crew.
I think that's why they produced captured ships, anyways - to have them at the start of a battle as captured ones.Originally Posted by Naharaht
Can't imagine a scenario when a ship was captured, changed colours and fought again.
After bigger battles, the winning side sent only small crews to man and sail the prize home or to the nearest friendly harbour.
...and I won't trust such stickers.
I would like to see someone with 3D printer capability create small (and tasteful) pennants that could be switched as needed on the main masts of the ship sculpts? The scale might be too small for 3D printing, but something on the top part of the ship (that wouldn't fall off) would make identification and ownership easy to spot.
you could print of the flags on the site, glue them to a plastic rod then drill a hole on the ship the same size as the rod where the old flag was. Just have a bunch of flags to swap out at your leisure.
I was thinking more in terms of stickers to cover the stern flags.
Stickers is good, I think.
They are, but Paul's idea is also!
Interchangeable flagstaffs could be interesting mode of quick changing nationality.
Iron Outlaw, Brad, has produced a sheet of British, French and Spanish flags that can be printed onto sticky-back paper. It is in the 'Chippy Shop' under 'National Flags'.
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