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To: SauronOfMordor
They would have a BUNCH of scorpion bows deployed at Kings Landing.

That sort of goes to another thing I noticed.

How did Euron get so many ships built in such a short time? It would take years to build that many ships. Even when the British Empire was at its height, getting a warship "ship shape in Bristol fashion" would take a long time.

But Euron Greyjoy shows up with hundreds of top line warships. And building those Scorpion arrow platforms takes time.

111 posted on 08/09/2017 6:33:09 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
But Euron Greyjoy shows up with hundreds of top line warships. And building those Scorpion arrow platforms takes time.

Yes. Where did Euron get all the lumber? Sailing ships need iron fittings for mast stays and pulleys -- that would keep blacksmiths busy for a while. You also need lots of sail cloth, which in pre-industrial time took a while to produce. I suppose he could have gotten help from Cercei on that, but she was broke at the time.

Those scorpion arrow platforms take many man-days per platform, but I guess you could throw men at the project and start an assembly line. Building a hundred scorpions is not as big a project as building a hundred ships.

112 posted on 08/09/2017 6:40:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The 18th century HMS Victory took seven years to build:
As fate would have it in 1758, the same year of Lord Nelson's birth the Board of Admiralty ordered twelve new ships of the line, among them a 'first-rate' ship with 100 guns, to be named Victory. HMS Victory is a first-rate warship with four masts built to be a floating gun platform with 100 cannon of different calibers arranged on three decks. She took seven years to build at a cost is today's money of 50 million English pounds, designed by Thomas Slade of the Royal Navy and laid down in Chatham Dockyard, England. Sir John Lindsay, Victory's first Captain, took command In March 1778. On May 8, 1778, she set sail for sea duty for the first time exactly 13 years and a day, 4,746 days from the time of her launching. Her active service life began on Friday June 13 when she sailed from Spithead as the Flagship of the Channel Fleet and first cleared her decks for action on the July 23, 1778.

A story in itself is the construction of the Victory. The 18th century shipwrights had only simple gear and tools and the difficulty of moving enormous timbers from where they were felled to the dockyard in Chatham. This extensive skilled workforce of about 250 men were required to accomplish the work. The shipwrights needed a hundred acres of oak forest, about 6,000 selected mature oak trees found in the weald forest of Kent and Sussex in England. The balance of the timber needed was fir, elm, and pine and was cut and stored knowing the wood required seasoning or drying for many years.

So you can't just build ships with fresh-cut wood. It needs to dry and season first. Unless they had massive stockpiles of seasoned wood, they would have had a problem.
113 posted on 08/09/2017 6:51:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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