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1/1200 Roman Tower Quinquereme Game Pieces 3d printed

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1/1200 Roman Tower Quinquereme Game Pieces 3d printed
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1/1200 Roman Tower Quinquereme Game Pieces

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Following the end of Macedonian Wars in 148 BC and the Punic Wars in 146 BC, the Romans took away valuable lessons in naval warfare.  They had already reverse-engineered Carthaginian quadriremes and used them in the second Punic War, but it wasn't until the conquest of Greece that they started to work on bigger ships.  The Romans never made such extensive use of heavy galleys as the other Mediterranean powers, instead opting to use larger numbers of comparitively smaller, faster, and more agile ships.  The quinquereme is built like a trireme, but has two men on each of the upper and middle oars, and one on each of the lower oars.  Slightly larger hexaremes, which were almost identical but with two men on the lower oars as well, were used as flagships.  Such ships were used most notably at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, fiasco that it was, to shocklingly great effect against the Ptolemaic leviathans such as the tesseraconter.  By this time, the Romans had also abandoned the corvus, as it proved to make the ship unstable in rough seas.  Furthermore, a corvus that was long enough to allow Roman soldiers to board a much larger, taller ship would have been absurdly large.  The quinquereme is instead armed with scorpions and onagers (ballistae and catapults), as well as archers.  This particular model is exactly what I have just described, with two towers, each with a hole for pins or flags, but no corvus.

Ordering the extra small variant will give you a single ship.
Ordering the small variant will give you four ships.
Ordering the medium variant will give you eight ships.
Ordering the large variant will give you fourteen ships.
Ordering the extra large variant will give you twenty-five ships. - available in black and white only, due to size constraints.
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1_1200 Roman tower quinquereme
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2.17 x 5.82 x 2.29 cm
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Mature audiences only.
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