Habour chains were a very common defense, running into it with a wooden ship would smash the ship up pretty good and you can let the chain slack to let your friends pass over it then retension it after. Constantinople did have them protecting the golden horn so the Ottomans carried their ships over land and dropped them into the water behind the chain to get around it.
Habour chains were a very common defense, running into it with a wooden ship would smash the ship up pretty good and you can let the chain slack to let your friends pass over it then retension it after. Constantinople did have them protecting the golden horn so the Ottomans carried their ships over land and dropped them into the water behind the chain to get around it.
At that point it feels like bringing boats at all is just a flex