Six kilometers from the main cluster of Drow Ships Petrov's fleet formed up into a line formation. The Avatar was in it's center, flanked by two hunter class ships and with lighter elements along it's sides. The seven Blizzard Ironsides-class ships were staggered among their ranks in case any Drow ship managed to get close. While they had fire off a few shots beforehand, this allowed them to bring to bear eighteen heavy cannons.Said artillery was loaded as rapidly as possible with shells and charges being crammed down barrels as quickly as could be managed, either by hand with the 15cm guns and with multi-man rammers with the heavy 23cm to drive home their 165 kilo projectiles and charges. Usually careful adjustments would be made in response to precise calculations after each shot to insure a level of accuracy that the Drow could not match. Today, however, they did not bother with that. The Bulk of the Drow Fleet had clustered together in a huge cluster kilometers across. Even if it did compromise imply having the rough range would suffice for now.There was no attempt to coordinate salvos. The guns were fired as soon as they were loaded and were immediately reloaded. On average Petrov's line of battle was getting off about sixty rounds per minute in steady succession. The thunder of their salvos echoed kilometers, as did their impacts.Previous- Infrastructure: Part Two Hundred and Thirteen Next- Infrastructure: Part Two Hundred and Fifteen