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Aug 30, 2013 01:46PM
MY LAST CLASS IS GYM AND WE HAD TO GO OUTSIDE FOR AN HOUR BECAUSE THE GIRLS BASKET BALL TEAM WAS IN THE GYM AND ITS LITTERLAY A HUNDRED DEGREES OUTSIDE
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Hey, why did you put the BLOCKADE up for debate? We specifically agreed upon making a poll for its CONSEQUENCES. The blockade has already been approved and is a'rolling.
Awww, Braniac XD
Patients is a vertue.
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Patience. Patience is a virtue. And it also has nothing to do with this situation. I'm not angry about having to wait, I'm angry about Kimiko not following through with what we agreed upon. Mitch, I've already discussed that. Check the last post on the Suggestions/Questions topics.
There's no such thing as too big to fail, Mitch. Size will just make it harder to distribute what goods do come through the blockade.
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The medieval kingdom would have it's own military fleet would it not? I personally don't think that would be even possible unless it was a Spanish Amanda thing.
Mitch wrote: "There is also something called war"That would be what I'm trying to precipitate.
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Pirates wouldn't be able to pull such a thing off...Another nation perhaps but pirates? Nope
Look, it's nearly impossible to take on a group of ships that doesn't want to be taken on, especially if they stay close together. They can scatter when enemy ships approach and start ravaging the coast somewhere else, they can avoid patrols, this is a blockade, not a siege. They understand that they cannot take on the kingdom. Rogers would never risk his ships in an all-out war. He is specifically cutting off the flow of goods into the kingdom, and that's much easier. Can he stop them all? No. Can he discourage merchants from other countries to come? Easily. In fact, already done. Can he make it difficult and hazardous to leave the kingdom? Yes. Can he make it so that the kingdom can barely get any fish? Easily.
Make it another nation then all your stuff you just said would be true but pirates wouldn't accomplish that
You don't know much about pirates, mate.Pop culture would like you to believe that pirates would be lucky to have one rinky-dink ship, but most pirate captains could scrape together an entire ******* fleet. You know what a fleet can do?
Whatever the **** they want.
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How dare you judge me on the knowledge of pirates? There wouldn't be pirate 'fleets'Only a few ships together, not a fleet. I believe you have watched too much PotC friend... There was no utmost pirate lord or king
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Wow. You are really assuming dumbness on the part of my pirates and overestimating how technologically advanced the middle ages were.Their weapons were about as useful as snails. Why do you think people kept using swords well into the Civil War?
Because guns weren't worth a counterfeit wooden nickel back then. Bows and arrows had better accuracy and reload time. Cannons weren't much better than guns as far as that went, particularly if their targets weren't going around in their range saying "hey! We're going after merchant ships going to other kingdoms, so we figured we'd go inside your very limited cannon range!"
You know why ships had to go so close together to fire at each other with cannons?
Because those cannons failed utterly at accuracy.
Maniac the Brainiac *Thing 7* wrote: "You don't know much about pirates, mate.
Pop culture would like you to believe that pirates would be lucky to have one rinky-dink ship, but most pirate captains could scrape together an entire ****..."
There are still pirates out there and they do not have those kind of ships (captain Jack Sparrow), and your assumption that most people think this is insulting -_-
Pop culture would like you to believe that pirates would be lucky to have one rinky-dink ship, but most pirate captains could scrape together an entire ****..."
There are still pirates out there and they do not have those kind of ships (captain Jack Sparrow), and your assumption that most people think this is insulting -_-
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Besides... the pirates don't have to use just their ships, they could hijack the country's ships one by one, slowly taking control. It is not hard to 'pay' others to do the dirty work either, though threatening people's lives usually work the best.
You have good points but I still don't think it's possible, plus at dangerous times most merchant ships would be escorted and have weapons and defences of their own. If what you say was possible, the whole of England would have been conquered.
Callum {My comrades back! :D} wrote: "How dare you judge me on the knowledge of pirates? There wouldn't be pirate 'fleets'Only a few ships together, not a fleet. I believe you have watched too much PotC friend... There was no utmost ..."
I was going to say the same about you with your 'only a few ships' thing. Pirate captains had fleets. Captains of ships, those existed, but pirates like Hornigold and Blackbeard had a large amount of ships.
Catapults were even worse than cannons
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Their weapons were about as useful as snails. Why do you think ..."
Look at your history
1 the British defeated the Spanish with long range accurate canons
2. If swords were mainly used in the civil war than why were only officers were given them
So history is against you my friend
Catapults worked and of course they didn't! They didn't have whole bloody fleets! Not in the medieval age but late 19th century and early 20th there were VERY powerful Chinese pirate fleets.
Mitch wrote: "Trust me the real life pirates were only out for themselves so they could get rich and they usually only have one or two ships"Hah. And also, hah. I hit your argument in the face with one name, which I expect you to google and not wiki.
Hayreddin "Redbeard" Barbarossa.
Mitch wrote: "Maniac the Brainiac *Thing 7* wrote: "Wow. You are really assuming dumbness on the part of my pirates and overestimating how technologically advanced the middle ages were.Their weapons were about ..."
1. In the 1500s, which is over 200 years AFTER this timeline.
2. I didn't say mainly, that was the first modern war. They had them up to then.
History's always on my side, because
I
READ
IT.
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Okay, Francois l'Olonnais (pirate captain) vs Spain (most powerful country at the time).Jean Lafitte (an honest pirate king, had his own island) vs Britain (again the most powerful country at that time).
There's double your demands.
They didn't strangle the countries though did they? They didn't collapse the whole nations...
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I'm not suggesting collapsing an entire nation.And they did.
In the Middle Ages? No, there's no help from other nations, sorry.
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They did get help from other countries and they didn't cripple the whole damn nation...Van we just stop this argument and see what the mods all united, including Mitch and so on and so on, decide? I hate the idea but I ain't gonna bitch about it if it carries on so can you stop bitching about it if it stops please?
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* chugs soda * god Mexican food is spicy
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1) So my sister worded the poll question wrong. Phooey. But she did include the consequences to the blockade as well. And my sister is a pushover, she says yes to everything. (No offense, Kimi)
2) There will be some people who won't join in on your scheme ya know Maniac. As some people voted "No" and "I don't Care"
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