[MarkSheppard]

MarkSheppard, I thank you for your "opinions" but not for your unsubtle rudeness. Have a nice day...

If you don't want me to be "rude" don't say things which insult my intelligence highly.

And by the way, to assume that hundreds of years from now the dynamics of ship design and combat will be very similiar to today is "idiotic". Like comparing the placement of weapons on a ancient Greek warship to an American Missile Cruiser! "It's the future!" (Also it's a game.)

I see my previous lecture did not sink in. You can't cram a billion archers onto a Greek Tireme in much the same way you can't cram a billion missiles onto an AEGIS cruiser; there are system limitations which present themselves. While an Archer is a very low impact weapons system which does not require heavy reinforcement of the ship's structure, or heavy power cabling runs; he still requires enough space on deck to load, pull, and fire his bow effectively; this imposes an upper limit on how many archers you can cram onto a trieme and be effective.

(Also it's a game.)

Then I guess we better play balance the M4 Sherman and Tiger I so that the German player in a game doesn't gain an unfair advantage!