Talk:Redridge Fleet/@comment-7263041-20160112091403/@comment-6335668-20160113010246

Alright, Aretain. Two things: First, I am not attacking you. I am attacking your assertions and conclusions, because they are bad and wrong. You can have bad and wrong ideas if you like, but don't come to other people's pages and try to get them to change according to those ideas if you don't want your assertions and conclusions to be looked at and potentially attacked.

Second, your maths. You are incorrect. The frigate (actually a brig) has sixteen displayed cannons but capacity for eighteen. This would, even using your own figure, raise its count to 36. But, this is not the main problem. How do you expect to sail the ship in battle if you only have enough crew to run the guns? How do you expect to keep the guns up with casualties if a man goes down to enemy fire?

This is without mentioning the part where cannon cannot be readily operated by only two men. If we assume they're twelve-pounders - a pretty common armament - anywhere six to ten men is actually a recurring figure in our historical record. Bigger guns require more men, sometimes over a dozen. Unless you wish to make the argument that WoW cannons just work differently and that WoW ships can steer themselves - some probably can, with magic and all that - you cannot get by with a skeleton crew of 36 as a warship. Using a low-end figure for the guns of six, you want at least 108 crew, plus spare, plus the men handling the rigging, plus the men doing in-battle repair, plus the various officers, cooks, surgeons, mates, etc.

Let's look at a comparable historical example. The Swan-class, which you seem to have ignored because 'it doesn't exist in game', though it can be an illustrative example. These ships were sloops-of-war, armed with 14 6-pounder cannon (at that weight, you start seeing crews for the guns drop to 4 - 8), not expected to perform much in the way of boardings, not expected to fire both broadsides at once, and generally of low importance to the Royal Navy. They merited a crew of 125 men.

Again, I strongly urge you to stop giving advice about an area you clearly know very little about.