"Hearts of oak are our ships; Gallant tars are our men."
- Hearts of Oak, David Garrick& William Boyce
"Fire!"
"The commander said fire!"
"Praefectus misit eius ordines!"
"πυρ!"
From the roars by the men of boiling blood, charred fingers and distorted faces came the blasting of shells pounding onto the enemy ships at the sides. The first few of the Roman ships have come into full contact to the Venetians by the broadsides. While the Venetians are expecting for a further exchange of arrows and followed by a naval boarding operation, the Greeks pushed out a series of blackened rods out of their ships and started blasting at them– it is a thing they are not alien with, these things are called artiglieria, but certainly they did not expect these things to turn out on ships.
