Mercenary Story Rewrite

[Swordfish941]

Good idea K9870. Let's make the ship a frigate.

[k9870]

Just gotta find a good model and research it a bit. Does the boat have any separate crew or just the main mercs, do the mercs have special jobs (like ship mechanic, navigation, pilot, damage control, etc?

[Swordfish941]

Rocco serves as the mechanic while Johnny serves as pilot and navagation. The mercs are their own crew.

[k9870]

Might be way too hard to have just a few mercs....a bridge crew needs three (pilot, navigator, lookout.)
The same person can nav and steer in open ocean but going into a harbor is rediculous to try that. Also the line handling takes several people. maybe a small crew of locals that mans the ship and guards it while the mercs are on missions? Give you a few minor characters to develop and use in the story too.

[Swordfish941]

Can you give me some names for the onboard crew? And what's line handling?

[k9870]

When you dock up you need a crew member on certain points to throw lines onto the cleats on the docks (or bits/bolalrds for bigger boats) to tie up. Also, for anchoring, you need people manning the anchorline. I dont know of names but a crew would probably be locals so the type of names in the area (im unamiliar with south africa.)

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by k9870

When you dock up you need a crew member on certain points to throw lines onto the cleats on the docks (or bits/bolalrds for bigger boats) to tie up. Also, for anchoring, you need people manning the anchorline. I dont know of names but a crew would probably be locals so the type of names in the area (im unamiliar with south africa.)

Maybe the crew could be a bunch of badass Boers who are ex special something-or-others