The Nezhuan Order of Battle

The Nezhuan Fleet (Full)

Water Stallions: 125

Dragon Ships: 8

Command Ships: 4 (Zhe, Kaoli, Hualu, Qo)

Kaoli's Left Wing

Water Stallions: 45

Dragon Ships: 2

Command Ships: 1

Hualu's Right Wing

Water Stallions: 45

Dragon Ships: 3

Command Ships: 1

Qo's Center Formation

Water Stallions: 35

Dragon Ships: 3

Command Ships: 2

The Ukni Order of Battle

Krosatir Sethim's Fleet

Chakaltun: 200

Thasak: 4

Onguloch Transport Ship: 1

Flagship: 1

Nezhuan Ships: The Water Stallion

Length: 20 men (110 ft)

Width: 3.3 men (18 ft)

Decks: A single, large hold with three overlapping layers for the rowers.

Masts: 2

Sails: Closed during combat (relying on rowers and Xunjin tide control for speed)

Ram/Beak: Roughly similar to a Greek trireme, but in the shape of a Longshu Tortoise

Armaments: Five Cuwei, a ballista that fires a hook and tow rope, with one positioned at the stern while the other four are near the bow in a semicircular pattern that ends with the furthest two positioned 1/3rd of the distance between bow and stern on both the port and starboard ends of the ship.

Personelle: 192

Rowers: 162, trained, free men. 56 (28/28) men on the highest deck, 52 (26/26) on the middle deck, and 54 ((27/27) on the lowest deck.

Soldiers: 10 crossbowman

4 Doshen armed with a long one-handed sword, small shield, and a hammer.

10 marines with a long one-handed sword, a full body shield, and heavy armor.

2 alchemists with incendiaries and reagents.

Staff: 1 flautist

1 signals officer using a concealed flame pit with system of reflective mirrors extending to an orb at the top of a tube which flickers out messages in all directions.

1 helmsman

1 captain

Battle Tactics: The Water Stallion

1: The rowers and helmsmen, taking advantage of the Water Stallion’s speed and mobility, attack the enemy ship, using either their ram or coordinated oar-breaking (accomplished by their trained rowers) to disable the ship. As this is happening, the five Cuwai will fire their canons into the enemy hull. Sometimes, if enough of the harpoon lines find purchase, the force of the Water Stallions own momentum can be enough to tear the enemy ship apart without the need for boarding maneuvers.

2: If the ship was not destroyed either by ramming or being pulled apart by the Cuwai hooks, the soldiers aboard the Water Stallion will use the tow lines to swing over to the enemy vessel.

3: The four Doshen are traditionally the first ones over the Cuwai lines, laying down hand-holds as they shimmy over the Cuwai cables so that the heavily armored marines are able to swing across.

4: Having crossed over to the enemy ship, the Doshen use their smaller buckler shields and long, one handed swords to defend the Cuwai lines until the marines and alchemists have come across.

5: If the wind is favorable, the two alchemists can mix a smoke screen while still aboard the Water Stallion during this stage of the boarding maneuver.

6: While the above is happening, the marines undertake a well-drilled routine where they climb over the Doshen’s hand-holds, using their larger, near-full-body shields to establish a secure area on the enemy ship for the alchemists to ignite their reagents.

7: The Doshen, freed from their defensive duties, use their hammers to break a hole through the wooden deck to the hold of the ship. If the Doshen have perished, a marine will take one of their hammers.

8: Once their is a secure landing area on the enemy deck, the two alchemists cross over, mixing an incendiary that will the ship from within.

9: Having lit the enemy ship on fire, the Nezhuan soldiers depart, with the alchemists leaving first, followed by the Doshen, while the marines perform a tactical retreat in good discipline once everyone else is off.

Nezhuan Ships: The Dragon Ship

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Length: 18 men (100 ft)

Width: 6 men (35 ft) at the beam, tapering heavily in a “pumpkin seed” shape.

Decks: A large inner hold

Masts: None

Sails: None

Ram/Beak: Dragon headed sigil that looks like a ram in normal circumstances, but lifts up from the water and transforms in Quha canon.

Hull: Spiked, hexagonal steel plated shell covering entire top and most of the side of ship and and joining the steel support beams along length of keel in a ribcage fashion to protect against ramming blows.

Armaments: Quha canon that channels the Ghashevrun crystals through a Xunjin manning the canon to create a half-liquid/half-solid flame projectile that floats on the water

Personelle: 100

Rowers: 80

Soldiers: 12 Crossbowmen

Staff: 3 engineers

1 flautist

1 signals officer using a concealed flame pit with system of reflective mirrors extending to an orb at the top of a tube which flickers out messages in all directions

1 helmsman

1 captain

1 Xunjin

Nezhuan Ships: Flagship and Command Ships

Length: 22 men (120 ft)

Width: 3.5 men (20 ft)

Decks: A large hold with three overlapping layers for rowers and small commander’s quarters in small above-deck building near stern

Masts: 2

Sails: Closed during fighting (relies upon rowers and Xunjin tide control)

Ram/Beak: Roughly similar to a Greek trireme, but in the shape of a Longshu Tortoise

Armaments: Five Cuwai

Personelle: 203

Rowers: 168 trained, free men. 58 (29/29) men on highest deck, 54 (27/27) on middle deck, 56 (26/26) on lowest deck.

Soldiers: 10 crossbowmen

15 marines

Staff: 1 flautist

3 signals officers

2 helmsmen

3 junior officers

1 admiral

Nezhuan Ships: Flagship and Command Ships

Length: 23 men (125 ft)

Width: 3.5 men (20 ft)

Decks: A large hold with three overlapping layers for rowers and small commander’s quarters in small above-deck building near stern

Masts: 2

Sails: Closed during fighting (relies upon rowers and Xunjin tide control)

Ram/Beak: Roughly similar to a Greek trireme, but in the shape of a Longshu Tortoise

Armaments: Five Cuwai

Personelle: 233

Rowers: 174 trained, free men. 60 (30/30) men on highest deck, 56 (26/26) on middle deck, 58 (29/29) on lowest deck.

Soldiers: 15 elite crossbowmen

20 elite marines

4 Imperial guardsmen

Staff:

1 flautist

5 signals officers

1 helmsmen

8 junior officers

3 senior officers

1 monarch

Ukni Ships: The Chakaltun

Length: 22 men (120 ft)

Width: 3.5 men (20 ft)

Decks: 3

Masts: 2

Sails: Open during combat when the Onguloch is present.

Ram/Beak: Made from a Zuthruhk enchanted metal that is heavier than that of Water Stallion, painted as a red lion on field of black. Joins into the keel, which is serpent shaped.

Armaments: A Nekrotz: a wide, pivoting nailed bridge that swings out from the Chakaltun’s bow and latches into enemy ships

Personelle: 201

Rowers: 168, typically slaves (56 per deck split evenly)

Soldiers: 15 Gon crossbowmen

15 Krushigha marines, armed with Sasada, Kartuthgra, Haghujre buckler, and a Drogash torch

Staff: 1 drummer

1 Nekrotz operator

1 signals officer, using a special brazier with red and black flames that releases different colors of smoke to communicate

1 helmsman

1 Krodursak

Battle Tactics: The Chakaltun

1: The rowers and helmsman, taking advantage of the Chakaltun’s heavy weight and superior rams, will attempt to break through the hull of the enemy ship.

2: If this is impossible, then the Krodursak in command of the Chakaltun will get as close as possible and use the Nekrotz to pound a bridge between the two ships.

3: The entire compliment of marines aboard the Chakaltun will attempt to charge over the Nekrez bridge en masse, while the Gon crossbowmen provide a screen of covering fire, overpowering the typically less-defended enemy ships.

4: Once the enemy have been overpowered, the marines will either use their Droghash torches and set the ship alight, or, if they were able to take beat back the enemy defenders before the ship could be scuttled, they will occassionally attempt to bring their own rowers aboard and comandeer the vessel.

Ukni Ships: The Thasak

Hulls: 3; one primary hull with a metal ribcage and two smaller, metal-plated, secondary pontoon style hulls supporting it with buttresses.

Length: Primary Hull - 25 men (135 ft)

Secondary Hulls - 20 men (110 ft)

Width: Primary Hull - 9 men (50 ft)

Secondary Hulls - 2.75 men (15 ft)

Decks: Primary Hull - 3.5

1: The hold, filled with rowers

2: An enclosed section with wooden walls and highkiln steel supports, filled with crossbowmen and archers. Covered in murder holes for the archers to fire on their targets.

3: A smaller, cubic chamber atop the second deck (closer to front) housing the Golugz.

3.5: A wholly ornamental pyramid tip rising from the four supports of the third deck.

Support Beams: 36, excluding the metal ribcage design of primary hull.

3 horizontal supports linking each of the secondary hulls to the primary hull.

3 angled supports linking the secondary hulls to the supports of the first deck.

2 supports forming an X pattern between the horizontal supports between each pontoon.

12 verticle beams supporting the first deck (four corners, four midway points, four more midway between the beams on the longer port and starboard walls).

4 beams supporting the second deck.

4 beams tapering up into a pyramid from the tip of the second deck.

Masts: 4, positioned midway between the support beams linking the hulls together, running through both the horizontal and angled support beams. The two closest to the bow are much smaller than the huge rear masts.

Sails: Always open during battle

Ram/Beak: None, but similar metal plating on front and rear to shield the Thasak from enemy ramming maneuvers.

Armaments: A Golugz: a pivoting three man long ballista at the upper deck, capable of firing man long bolts that can shatter the hulls of enemy ships.

Personelle: 306

Rowers: 220 (crammed into the hull)

Soldiers: 40 Crossbowmen with Gorash

20 Archers with Bhailgra

5 Krushigha in the lower level

5 Golugz operators

Staff: 2 drummers (one on either side of the hull)

5 signals officers, using a special brazier with red and black flames that releases different colors of smoke to communicate

3 helmsman (one commander two assistants)

3 Krodursak

1 Kronulsak

Ukni Ships: The Onguloch Transport Ship

Length: 36 men (200 ft)

Width: 7.5 men (40 ft)

Hull: Flat in the middle, tapering up into a bannana shape at the bow and stern, with large, terraced platforms rising in a pyramid pattern with two stairways at each end, the front bearing the altar platform of Banorg and the rear containing a signal tower

Decks: 1 main deck and an extremely large hold underneath, with two decks in the raised sections on the bow and stern, and a signal tower at the top of the highest stern platform.

Masts: 4; 2 vertical ones near the middle of the ship, 2 angled masts in the bow and stern

Sails: 6; a single large, square sail on each of the vertical masts, three triangular sails on the angled mast at the bow, with one significantly larger than the other two, and one large triangular sail on the angled mast in the stern

Ram/Beak: None, but solid steel plating wrapped around entire hull

Armaments: A delivey system for anchored, bouy-weighted, spiked metal netting to aid the ship in escaping

Onguloch Housing: A large altar platform with a physical alter at bow facing stern and chains rising from five points spaced around it. The Onguloch is kept directly below altar and rises up from the chamber below

Personelle: 133

Rowers: 0

Soldiers: 50 Crossbowmen with Gorash

50 Archers with Bhailgra

5 Krushigha in the lower level

Staff: 10 signals officers

5 Krodursak

1 Kronulsak

Visnaul: 10 Ka’ina

1 Ka’inulz

Banorg

The Chadurb Flagship

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Length: 24 men (130 ft)

Width: 4 men (22 ft)

Decks: 3

Masts: 2

Sails: Typically open during fighting.

Ram/Beak: Made from a Zuthruhk enchanted metal that is heavier than that of Water Stallion, painted as a red lion on field of black. Joins into the keel, which is serpent shaped.

Armaments: A hidden cache of thirteen replicas of Nezhuan Cuwai canons in the freeboard of the hold, five port side, five starboard, one facing bow, two facing stern.

Personelle: 230

Rowers: 153 marines (75 lower deck, 78 upper, with highest hold deck containing Cuwai replicas).

Soldiers: 30 crossbowmen

30 marines, armed with Sasada, Kartuthgra, Haghujre buckler, and a Drogash torch

Staff: 1 drummer

3 signals officers, using a special, larger version of the Chakaltun brazier with red and black flames that releases different colors of smoke to communicate

1 helmsman

1 Tukbharan

10 Chadurb officers

1 Krosatir