land-fight

There might be some hope for the FireFly MMORPG if it combines a little bit of flavor from other games. a EVE-online space battle, a SWG land-fight, and a pretty good upgrade system for gear on characters and ships.

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A number of archers and darters will go on board, and a multitude that we should not have employed in an action in the open sea, where our science would be crippled by the weight of the vessels; but in the present land-fight that we are forced to make from shipboard all this will be useful.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Athenians, in their eagerness to push their success as far as possible, were carrying on a land-fight from their ships.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Bingham, Sir Roger Williams, men famously known for military experience, were chosen to confer of the land-fight.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

And here on this sea-girt headland the land-fight had been fought.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

A number of archers and darters will go on board, and a multitude that we should not have employed in an action in the open sea, where our science would be crippled by the weight of the vessels; but in the present land-fight that we are forced to make from shipboard all this will be useful.

The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

Great was the melee, and quite in contradiction to the naval tactics usual to the two combatants; the Lacedaemonians in their excitement and dismay being actually engaged in a sea-fight on land, while the victorious Athenians, in their eagerness to push their success as far as possible, were carrying on a land-fight from their ships.

The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

Lipari islands; and by means of grappling-irons, he so connected the ships of the Carthaginians with his own, that the combat became a sort of land-fight.

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a stand where he himself was not engaged. 9 The confusion was tremendous; the two combatants in this battle for the ships interchanging their usual manner of fighting; for the Lacedaemonians in their excitement and desperation did, as one may say, carry on a sea-fight from the land, and the Athenians, who were victorious and eager to push their good fortune to the utmost, waged a land-fight from their ships.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007