Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20140703235414/@comment-25178962-20140816215904

But is there a compelling reason to exploit this mass producable resource? Filtered Oil is good for a completely renewable tool, a similar and cheaper consumable tool, and are consumable as extremely potent fuel for fire. What does that call for? Five, maybe ten crude oil at the most?

With a tool required to even make oil a usable resource, per resource, an oil bucket could be the 'quick non-retoolability' you are looking for, while at the same time being managable to defend from if a raider is impatient and tries something too ambitious with too little oil.

Let's take some of the focus of this off topic item and put this on Naval combat. So far, the most intimidating opposition I have seen to my War Sloop master race tribe is an approaching Sailboat with a large burning leaves slapped onto the front-most portion of it.