I got a qestion do you guys battle your sail ships? Like have all the guns on one side for firing all once with one button so you could only have two buttons one for each side.
Read the rules, they explain how many guns you get. But yes, you volley all the cannons on each side as a group. But that doesn't mean that an AoS ship is easier to build nor operate. It's actually harder.
ok well i just never see any of that on youtube other than regular rc ww1 and ww2 ships battling and the other sail boats only have smoke cannons
Ours fire BBs like the motorized combat ships, but they run on sail power, which is not trivial to learn. Nor is it easy to build. The cannon system is not a whole lot harder (if any) but this is not something to get into without someone who knows what they're doing next to you explaining stuff. I strongly recommend building a good battlecruiser in the format of your choice as a learning experience (And a heck of a lot of fun on the water). They generally have a good bit of room and are fairly forgiving of mistakes If you lived near me or one of the other Age of Sail guys, I'd say try it, but at a distance it'd be hard to walk you through.
There has not been an AoS battle to date. This format is still getting off the ground and into the water. Only one AoS format ship has been completed and in the water (albeit very briefly) and I didn't think of getting video of it. Heh. You could be getting in on the ground (water?) floor of a new battling format. The downside is as a new format there is hardly any ships actually sailing yet, no battles yet, the ships under construction are literally scattered over the USA, the ship is complicated to rig with sails, and the 1:48th scale can lead to some large ships. The smallest ship I think is practical in AoS is probably the one I built (www.rcnavalcombat.com/Forum/tabid/5...fault.aspx). The hull is only 21" long and very shallow. It is going to be a challenge to fit cannons into it.
problem could be modified fast gun 50 BB but where it take 2 seconds to fire again giving the benefit of the barrel getting warm again for more power full shots.
Gascan and I built a couple 1:96 scale prototypes, to see if age-of-sail combat would be practical under sail power alone. The result was a smashing success, even though neither ship was actually armed. You can see one of our mock battles here: http://youtu.be/j8ZcxjiH8ys These models have been passed on to Tugboat, since they were built for training purposes and Tugboat is closer to having a fighting square-rigger than Gascan and I are.
Frankly, barrel tempurature has no effect on how a fast gun performs. Also, do not assume that people have not tried to make smaller cannons. I've seen some innovative designs in the past few years. Yet there comes a point that the physical size of the fittings used to make the cannons limits how small the cannon can get. To go smaller, a person has to think outside of using fittings and go with a totally new design. I've seen one design this summer that looked and operated rather well and could be adpated to smaller ships such as the Le Requin and destroyers. The designer had to hand machine the cannon which takes time and knowledge ... both of which would ramp up the cost of a cannon if they were mass produced. Frankly, todays fast gun cannons are easy to make, mass producble, cost effective, and perform well. They are not big and clunky. For thier small size, the cannons make very good power and operate reliably.
