Talk:Battle of Mar de Plata (1744)/@comment-4753863-20111201151335

Ok sort of off topic but a 42lber would be far too heavy for any small ship even including some frigates. Unless it was sort of prototype top secret ship the bow would simply capsize under the weight. And if it was top secret they wouldn't have simply wasted it to your rear guns. About the heaviest cannon a cutter could hold would be about 18lbs with no other guns on it. Now you might think that a 42lb cannon isn't very big, but that's the weight of each cannonball. 42lbers were EXTREMELY heavy and could only be carried on ships with reinforced carriage structures designed to hold them such as Third/Second/First rates. Another problem if it was 42lbs would be that the gun carriage and bow reinforcements needed to hold it even on a prototype would be far too sturdy to be able to sink it in only two shots. I'd just reccomend turning it down a little for realistic tactic's sake. Like 18lbs or even 22lbs if you want to keep some sense of largeness to the cutter.