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Area/Game:	Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:	How to play
Subject:	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
Posted by:	Silver Sunchild - 20years 255days ago.

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Ensign wrote:

flying_neko wrote:

Ensign wrote:

Silver Sunchild wrote:

Is there going to be land, shallows, reefs, currents, tidal streams, uncharted seas and the occasional giant squid? The draft of the vessels would also be handy in shallow water scenarios.

Small point could we see port and starboard rather than left or right we are captains of the ocean waves not lily livered landlubbers

Ahahahhghhggh

I have enough problems with left and right, I don't need confusing antmore!

then I suggest "port(L)" and "starboard(R)"

...or is it the other way around

But its Larboard and Starboard, the phrase port wasn't used until after the period

http://bille.cudenver.edu/dpbille/math/port.html

god I'm sad!

I think I may be the saddest

I think Starboard comes from the common term steerboard or steering oar side which was commonly on the right side of a vessel. larboard means basically the other side (lar = ancient greek!?). larboard was replaced by port as it was causing confusion due to sounding the samer in stressfull situations and port was used as a relacement as it was the left side that vessels went alongside so as not to damage the steering oar

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20years 256days	Silver Sunchild	[WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
20years 256days	Ensign	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
20years 256days	flying_neko	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
20years 256days	Ensign	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
20years 256days	Ensign	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too
20years 255days	Silver Sunchild	Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Land Ahoy and other bits too