Talk:HMS Augustus/@comment-3421162-20120129052454/@comment-3421162-20120129142132

And you can't ensure full control of the seas just by having a 200 gun ship. A ship such as this would require days and days simply to prepare it to leave harbor. Thus it would not be able to respond to any offensive action, and would actually be more of a hinderence to most fleets rather then being a boon. The only time it would actually would be useful would be to bombard Spanish fortresses, coastlines, and lay siege to ports.