I voted yes, and as far as some people thinking pirating and naval warfare wouldn't fit in Skyrim, the Vikings (whom the Nords are fashioned after) were fierce naval warriors, and they ruled the seas of the ancient world. So it is my opinion that it fits excellently with Skyrim.

The problem is whether it would be worth it. Skyrim is landlocked on three sides, and maybe the devs shouldn't waste their time with something that would need to be so great, with such a small area to do it in.

Maybe something of this scope would be better suited for a return to the Iliac Bay, or maybe Summerset Isle or even southern Hammerfell.

But i may be wrong and it'll be in skyrim...

As long as there are sea monsters

I suppose this is a good point. I don't really know anything about the map, except that there will be a lot of forests and mountains.

I really enjoyed the small boat you could use in Bravil. I'd enjoy a small sailboat with a variable route even more.

A boat would be cool but, I dont think naval fighting would be the best choice for skyrim but maybe in the next tes game

Similar To A Bad Idea XD :thumbsup:

You can use a small boat in Bravil!?!?!? Where? (goes to start up Oblivion)

I already posted this on the "You have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself" thread but it makes more sense to put it here...




It has various rivers running through it and evidently, most of them connect to eachother as pointed out by my map. Whether the streams are large enough for boats to pass through is another question. I'd imagine sailing a ship in those rocky rapids we've seen in the trailer wouldn't make much sense.

I'm all for naval warfare, think of all the possibilities it would open up modding wise.

Personally i would like to be able to sail accross the seas of nirn one day visit the other continents the world has to offer other than tamriel(obiously we wont see this in skyrim but maybe a future title that uses the entire continent). and their should be a way to go up in the ranks as a sailor to a captain, and own your own vessel (or a firsherman rank, you could end up owning a large fishing boat). and as far as naval warfare goes i would say yes but so long as they dont put in cannons (NO GUNS), maybe use ballistas to fire on enemy boats (that can be enchanted by mages).

Owning your own longboat should be as you rise in rank with the clan you chose (think Morrowind houses) and you would also need to find a crew.

I thought Redguards were supposed to be the pirates of the series?

I understand that a lot of people think of Vikings when they think of Nords, but they are NOT the same people.

Is pirating a big part of their lore?

For my personal use, a canoe or rowboat. Maybe I could fish from them? The larger vessels could be used as a transportation devices. Especially for travel back and forth along the northern coastal region. And even perhaps on rivers, etc. I don't want to captain a large vessel in Skyrim, but in an appropriate setting, that possibility could be very interesting. Perhaps TES's next great adventure...

ah, yes that would be cool to fish or dive from the boats, especially if deep water was super-dangerous.

and yeah, i think in Skyrim the larger vessels should be only for transportation, but i would also like that if the transportation had an option to be in real time, I want to fish off the side of the boat while it's moving

Great topic and poll :thumbsup:
Damn right i'd love to use or live in a boat/ship etc,would be bloody marvelous :biggrin:

Thanks.

and i didn't even think of the possibility of a "house-boat" (even though i thought of a galleon/pirate ship and those would pretty much include a bed/storage). A house you can take down river, and into the ocean... that'd be cool.

why not

although maybe as a mod cause I don't think Beth are gonna spend time on it

There is a cival war and it said in-game (not shure where) how the nords are exelent seamen and warriors. They are in a huge cilval war here people to overthrow the stuipid old dieing husk of an empire. You would think that there would be many pirates taking advantage of the war and some ""freedome"" fighters atacking Impirial shiping to hurt the empie and to hurt the loyalists. Or just plain pirates and sumuglers taking advantage of the war. I would love to have a large pirate fleet with big crews just sailing around pirating and hurting the Empire. It would go verry well. It would add another element to the game I would love. I would explain in much higher detail I might latter but I have to go.

Yes if there are boats, especially with warfare, there should be pirates. A pirate is just basically a bandit or highwayman on the sea. I guess the well-known "pirate" just came to be known from the fact that they were legally licensed from their government to steal enemy boats, but "pirates" have been around far before that.

P.S. I learned in my American Government class you can still be a pirate in the U.S. if you have a license. It's kind of just a law that just never got removed. I wonder how you would apply for such a license...

Hela yes. I think you should at least be able to pilot some boat. But I think it'd really be fun to be able to ride a boat someone is piloting, and the boat would go to ports and things would be loaded off of it or people would go off or come onto it. There should be a multitude of boats to pilot/ride on. It would be fun to be able to 'own' one and you could store it in some mini-port designated for you and perhaps the port could be right in your yard if this game allows you to own a house/yard. It'd just be fun to pilot a boat that people go on as well. Once you completed a trip of loading people on/off or cargo or whatever you'd get 'money' and then you could choose to continue it more or leave the boat. Of course you could also destroy the boat, kill the people on it, not go to ports to load people off/on or cargo, etc. Doesn't that seem so immersive and satisfying for these ideas to be in here?

People might start to get suspicious when people that leave on my boat never come back

I would totally load up my boat and slaughter the people to loot their bodies. I wonder if they would jump off the boat and try to swim to safety....

This would be pretty cool, as long as the guards don't somehow know all the people i killed, even though i left 0 survivors and 0 witnesses... Unless some Argonian happened to be swimming around in the deep ocean...

Yes but not in Skyrim. Elder Scrolls VI maybe.

I think you're thinking of a "privateer" which is basically a non-military fighting ship. For instance, when Britain and Spain were at war, Sir Francis Drake was a privateer. Not a British naval officer, but he was "legal" in the eyes of the Crown and therefore could attack Spanish ships with impunity. Technically he was supposed to stop when the war was over (otherwise he would just be a pirate) but he had become so popular he kind of got away with it.

Anyways, I support this 100%. I really wish Bethesda had spent time on this, to prove they can still push the envelope rather than just release the same game with slightly better graphics and different gameplay. Not only
would it make sense (the Nords are sailors, and even if they only have one coast, it's huge, and longboats were specifically designed to navigate inland bodies of water) but nautical adventures are at the heart of the legends and stories which inspire all fantasy. Odysseus, Beowulf, Sinbad...

This would be really nice. Heck, I'd even settle for a small rowing boat... and a fishing rod.