Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026although that's not including the cost of running either, the cost of running a trireme for a month was greater than the cost of making it but, putting that to one side, 100 ramy boys against a blasty boy, who wins? 81032
Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You might in the abstract be able to build 100 triremes for the cost of one ship of the line (I feel like you'd run into some bottlenecks but let's put that aside). Whether you could catch a force of sailing ships with any number of your triremes is a different question (answer is probably no). 140
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i'm looking it up now & their top speeds are not that different (+ the ship of the line needs wind) its crewing them where this would fall down–100 triremes is like 20k rowers 160
