Frankly, I don't think that we should do that. Not argueing from history but from the gameplay perspective: For a game that offers different civs, these need to be balanced so they all remain a valid option to be chosen by the player. Any "less capable/less valueable" civ would simply never be chosen and we can remove it from the game.  But all this while having different characteristics so that specific strategy might be beeded to win a game, e.g. Kush against Rome.

NO, I'm saying that they should be fully covered regardless of what happened in history. (this is the only time you can make an exemption like this)

So, it seems there is a dispute whether it should be a mod or pull request, so I made a poll that ends at 12:00 on the 16th

Just clarifying, you are saying I should say "posted on deck" instead of turreted, because people think I mean something else? So, maybe if the bigger boats (like siege ships), could have the range bonus, but arrow and ram ships don't Yah, that makes sense, harder to hit a moving target, or harder to hit something when moving. Maybe I could make a mod or something that does that

The problem is that forums have been abandoned, as developers nowadays mostly interact through social media and Discord.   We used to have a more varied internet.