Speaking of personal weaponry, I’ve always had a weakness for the plasma rifle from Doom. And a suit of power armor from Starship Troopers. (the book, you heathens) And a personal sound system blasting such sentimental favorites as Rob Zombie’s I’m your Boogieman. D***, now I wanna play Doom.
Actually the rail guns will do nicely for that. Nothing like a beer keg (empty or not) accelerated to a significant fraction of c to ruins somebody’s day.
Tanks! BY GOD, we needs us some gawd-damned Tanks! M-1A2, latest and greatest!
[sub]and suprisingly easy to aquire. don’t ask.[/sub]
Sure, you can blow their cities to kindling, but until you put some tread on their heads and make ‘em cry “UncleBill”, ye ain’t gittin’ squat outta the lubbers!
And for music, I recommend “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf.
Oh yeah: ARRGH!
An if’n were gonna be doin’ some rammin’ we need a bad ass RAM on the bow. I’m thinkin something extendable/retractable, so it doesn’t slow us down when we’re haulin A. Make it out of some sort of composite fiber, and it’ll make shish-ka-bob outta just about anything that floats. Or was floating until the Prong of Death came along.
aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhha
Oh, and the cool thing about a retractable ram, just scrape the offending ship off like a booger.
I hereby declare (in our fearless commander UncleBill’s absence) that ExTank is incharge of Heavy Armor.
Sir, you have a blank check. 
Arrrr!
I have brought a saw.
Who wants a leg chopped off for authenticity’s sake?
Uh … Dave … if you’re gonna CHOP off a leg with a SAW … I’ll let somebody else go first. Oooooh, that hurtz.
Arrrr! Pirates with tanks, a sight to warm the heart of the scurviest knave. Bring me the head of Kevin Costner! A case of rum and bag of gold to the man who brings me the head of the worm who made Waterworld! Arrr!, I love to say Arr! Arrr!
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[sudden insight] No wonder I failed woodwork at school.[/sudden insight]
Why do I think this thing is going to be like the floating party in Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
We can launch lightening fast raids for french onion dip and water crackers.
Let’s stick to reality, shall we? No plasma cannons, only Phasers and Photon Torpedos.
Stop looking at me like that.
The first thing I thought of when I opened this thread was to have The Imperial March being blasted during invasion. Maybe we’ll need an 8-disk player to hold all the invasion tunes?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m so dang excited I’ve stopped eating fresh fruits and vegetables, so I can a truly scurvy sea dog. Arrrrr, where’s me bandanna an’ earring?
I could put your eye out so you could wear an eyepatch!
If we do the traditional pirate thing and hang out at the Bay of Biscay, we could hang out at San Sebatian and go to the beach.
If we do the contemporary pirate thing we need to hang out in the South China Sea, and pull over freighters.
You’ve forgotten boarding parties (boy do I love the man who came up with that term)! Me and the viking horde shall provide instruction.
We’ll also need the complete rules for Evil Stevie’s Pirate Lego Game to occupy our time between raids.
I can picture the raid on Legoland now…
Since this is going to be one huge ship maybe it should be VWVSV (Very Wide Very Slender Vessel). I am sure we would be able to fit the big guns then.
But what about amphibic capabilities? We wouldn´t want our foes to hide inland right?
/Andreas
Avast ye scurvy dogs! Batten down da hatches and prepare to engage the anti-grav fields! We’re attacking the wild untamed nurses of planet Xebos! Har! Har!
How many Shellbacks do we have in here? We’re gonna need to do some serious initiations the first time we cross the line!
The fuel was for the LM2500s and the barbeque pits. We’re gonna have so many kinds of barbeque roasting, they’ll be able to see our thermal image on Saturn. [sub]Except when we engage the cloaking device and go “Stealth”…[/sub] Who wants to start the barbeque competition? I claim first dibs on making the chili we’re going to use for torturing our prisoners.
Submariners and SCUBA folk, what about a flying mini-sub, a-la the one from the DSV show? And some LCACs[sup]*[/sup] to give ex-tank some amphibious capability.
Also, we’re gonna need a Corvus on the bow, if we’re going to be ramming things and boarding cruise liners. Plus a bunch of conveniently placed masts with ratlines and such, so the traditionalists can swing onto the cruise liners, saber-in-teeth.
[sup]*[/sup]LCAC==Landing Craft, Air Cushion. Really big hovercraft.
Oh man I’m gonna look pretty evil swining onto the cruise ship with my chainsaw in my mouth and my shotgun in my hand:D
For land incursions all we need are two WWII style jeeps with .50 caliber machine guns on them.
The Rat Patrole [sub]in color![/sub]
[tease] Ooh, there is so much I could add here, but alas my security clearance forbids it.[tease]
Seriously though, we should look at some UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). Then when people are looking up going “Whazzat?” we nail 'em with out Tomahawk Anti-Ship Catapult (TASC).