The president of the Brady Ship Designers Guild was an academic red-robed mage with white hair and beard, and his face was covered with wise wrinkles.

After looking at the application form for the promotion of senior ship designer submitted by Da Liang, he said to Da Liang in a kind tone: "Captain black-haired, I am Adolf Christielson, the president of the Brady Ship Designers Association, you can call me Adolf or Christielson.

First of all, I wish you all the best of luck.

From your elaboration in the application form, I can tell that you have a familiar understanding of the brig-class battleship.

Brigs have more firepower than sloops and weaker than trimas, and other characteristics are in between. It is positioned in naval warfare as patrolling, supporting, and guerrilla, with a balanced range of capabilities, and can do it wherever it is placed.

It is an indispensable supplementary force for a fleet.

But because the brig can do everything, there is no prominence. It can't outrun a sloop, it can't beat a three-masted battleship, it doesn't seem like much, but it will be very uncomfortable without it.

This is the positioning of the brig, the comprehensiveness determines that its basic design has reached a perfect balance point, it can be changed in any way, but it will definitely not exceed its own limits, and if it is strengthened, it will be weakened.

Therefore, it is not easy to change a good brig, and the transformation of a brig is a real test of a ship designer's talent.

Captain Blackhair, what aspect of the brig did the test ship you submitted a reinforcement to? ”

Da Liang and Guise have mastered the art of nose bow design, and with the help of Guise, Da Liang has successfully designed a brig with a bulbous bow.

However, Da Liang is not satisfied with a speed-enhanced brig.

Unlike the sloops, which are mainly responsible for patrol and alert tasks, the brigs can already shoulder some combat missions.

As the speed increases, the brigs will take on more combat duties. The attack should be the first to seize the position, and the retreat should be broken by one's own speed. When you have the chance, you can also use brigs to carry out surprise attacks.

If the brig is inclined to fight, then its firepower and defense are a bit thin. The size of a brig makes it very difficult to add artillery, but increasing defense can also increase its survivability.

Therefore, Da Liang proposed to Guise to thicken the hull.

Guise believes that thickening the hull means compressing the storage capacity of the battleship, making the brig battleship, which is not very spacious, even more cramped.

However, Da Liang pointed out: the brig itself does not have the ability to sail, and its supply depends on offshore ports and large fleets, so the warehouse capacity does not need too much for the brig, just enough. As the speed of the brig increases, the cost of traveling the same distance will also be reduced, which can completely reduce this part of the storage to increase the defense of the battleship.

Guise, who was persuaded by Da Liang, and then Guise, who was a master of ship design, easily completed the design of a brig that highlighted speed and defense.

Through his studies, Da Liang also mastered the design drawings of this brig battleship, and was named the brig destroyer.

At this time, a brig destroyer was being built on the Brady shipyard.

It's just that Da Liang didn't expect that he had just submitted his application for promotion to senior ship designer, and he was immediately brought in for review, so that he didn't have a sample ship to participate in the review now.

In response to President Adolf's question, Da Liang first took out the winner's badge he had won at the North Star Ship Designer Workshop, and then said, "Hello three judges, I'm the leader of the White Fang Pirate Regiment, Black Hair. Because I designed a high-speed dhow battleship, I won a ship design workshop.

The Brig I used to participate in the Senior Ship Designer Review this time also used the same speed-up design techniques that I successfully used on the dhow, resulting in an 8% increase in the speed of the brig. ”

When Da Liang took out the winner's medal, he had already moved the three presidents.

The Ship Designer Seminar is a ship design academic seminar that only master ship designers are qualified to participate in, and senior ship designers need to be invited to participate.

The three presidents were very eager for such a seminar, but none of them were masters of ship design and were not qualified to participate directly, and their status could not be invited to participate.

And the ship designer in front of him not only participated, but also won many master judges.

It's like a transfer student from a famous school in Pheasant University.

And when Da Liang said that he had completed the design of the speed of the brig, the three presidents couldn't be calm.

Speed is wealth and life for pirates, and they can be chased by merchant ships and run away when they encounter strong enemies. The speed increase of 8% means that the brig is close to the speed of a sloop, and such a battleship will definitely sell well in the pirate community once it appears.

It's just an 8% speed...... Is it possible?

There is an upper limit to the speed of a sail battleship due to its power source, which means that no matter how it is modified, it will not allow the sail ship to break this limit. This upper limit is around 10% of the speed of each ship's base model, and the closer it is to this value, the more difficult it is to modify the hull.

A little more strengthens weakens the other stats.

A two-masted battleship that can increase speed by 8% can't imagine how much the rest of the hull's performance will be cut?

But the Winner's Medal, which represents the high-speed dhow designed by the black hair, has been recognized by the master ship designers, and also means that he has mastered a very mature set of design techniques to speed up the ship.

If a brig can achieve an 8% increase in speed without too much of a reduction in other areas, it is a modification that could make a big profit for the pirates.

The three guild leaders can't wait to see a prototype of this high-speed brig.

"The 8% speed increase is really an unexpected improvement. Where is the ship? We're going to go on board now for a real ship test. ”

Da Liang, who didn't have a boat, had no choice but to say, "I'm very sorry, I didn't expect to be able to conduct a promotion review so soon." The two-masted destroyer I designed is still under construction at the Brady shipyard and will take another four days to complete. ”

Prototypes are still being built?

Of course, the three guildmen were not willing to wait another four days to see the battleship.

President Adolf immediately summoned an apprentice ship designer: "Go and inform the shipyard that the two-masted destroyer that Captain Blackhair has built there is now for accelerated construction, and I will see it in two days."

The cost of accelerated construction was fully covered by the Brady Society of Ship Designers. ”

Seeing President Adolf's eagerness, the Ship Designer Apprentice immediately turned around and ran out, then flew towards Brady Shipyard.

At this time, Da Liang said: "President Adolf, about the two-masted destroyer I designed, in order to enhance its combat capability, I have designed it to speed up, and then strengthened its defensive power, so that it can perform better in battle. According to my forecast, the brig destroyer is 13% better in terms of defense than the base model of the brig. ”

Adolf immediately recruited another ship design apprentice: "Inform Brady Shipyard that no matter what they think, tomorrow I must see the brig destroyer designed by Captain Blackhair!" ”