Crew Complements of Gunboats?

[jxie93]

Ah... Gunboats, where do we start?

I have seen just one too many one man gunboats, hell 9 out of 10 gunboats I see are flown by one person.

So my question is, in RP, what is the crew complement of a gunboat? This is totally dependant on the gunboat, obviously. But using common sense, what would you say the typical number of people required to operate gunboat is?

My opinion is that it'd require a minimum of a 2 man crew to fly a gunboat, a pilot and a weapons control. However, to maximise combat effectiveness more people must be used to maintain what is now classified as a warship. Although I do not own any gunboats, I have arrived at this knowledge simply by the inplausibility of roleplay of one person controlling an entire gunboat.

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