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Fair, indeed.
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Well, CDU/CSU have 60% programatic overlap with the AfD which has doubled to 20% since last elections. And SPD and Green party dropped again for their obvious bandwagoning with the populistic center-right and extremist-right racist and anti-social rhetoric. Not sure if that's actually a win.
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Sounds like a great idea! You'll have to tell me how it goes.
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😂 Right?
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I do find the last sentence, "the game is now played by people in remote locations", a bit hilarious, though. Makes me imagine some eremites somehow playing Kriegsspiel solitaire in the reclusiveness of their mountain forest cabin. 😂
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Agreed, we should.
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Gotcha. It's just a quick draft, but I agree with Scott and you that it's not quite appropriate. Shouldn't have used it in the first place. Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated!
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Yeah, fair, that's something I am not super happy about either.
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Why is that? Could you suggest another arabic inspired one which you'd like better?
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It's an s, Barbaros.
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Soon!
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Will do!
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Getting close to playtest-ready.
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You should also read "The Cheese and the Worms", then. 😂
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Sounds plausible. Although that's probably mostly true for oarsmen conscripted from the merchant fleet, maybe not so much for gunners.
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Potentially. Ottoman guns were cruder compared to the advanced Venetian guns for the longest time, as they concentrated their best guns in the siege trains, if we follow Guilmartin. Either that or the question rather is: Why would the Venetians have removable parapets if they didn't really need to?
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different tactical approach or because their fixed secondary guns were much larger compared to, say, the Venetians who apparently were masters of the craft and handling of guns?
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and be reloaded outside the parapet anyway. Eliav has pointed out that even the Spanish would usually fire their guns multiple times during the approach (despite the historical and current debate about the effectiveness of it). Is the lack of a parapet on Ottoman galleys then really due to a
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Another question just came to my mind: Guilmartin argues that the Ottoman galleys had no stern parapet and were thus defensive tactical assets. While Venitian galleys had removable stern parapets to be able to easier work the guns. However, the main gun would recoil about 11 meters
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I'll let you know if Philipp Williams' "Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean. The Galley and maritime conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans" is any good. Just started reading.
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Ouh! I might try that today.
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As Riccato said: New sources, new evaluation of old sources, new perspectives, new systematic approaches to source studies.
It seems to me that Guilmartin was influenced by Brodel & potentially Ginzburg, which still was sort of the radically new historiography of the time.
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I could help you with that. 😅
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Yup, I started with that, see the other comments. Great read considering when it was written, but apparently not quite accurate in all its assumptions.
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Now you want me to read Spanish! 😂 I do in fact have some contemporary reports of German galley sailors which I'll have to read at some point. Gluzman's article might help undertanding certain expressions.
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I'm working on a set of rules, including campaign rules for which it would be good to know more. Guilmartin's calculated 10 day cruising range at about 2 knots seems to mostly work out, comparing it to the travel intervals Gluzman provides from sources covering routes between Venice and the Levant.
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I used it as a starting point and was surprised how good it was considering when it was released. A neat mix of case studies and socio-economic analysis.