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Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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lugnet.castle
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:20:33 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> When you consider the Pirates timeline in addition to Castle, I think most
> everyone agrees that the redcoats are British and the bluecoats are
> French. (The Armada is Spanish of course, but they're not important right
> now.) Note the similarity in design between the redcoats and bluecoats -
> and then the similarity in design between the RKs and the KKs.
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> I think the implications are clear. The RKs eventually evolve into teh
> redcoats, and the KKs into the bluecoats - making them England and France
> respectively.
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> That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. 8) It has nothing at all to do
> with the paucity of swords in current castle sets, though. Maybe LD will
> offer them as one of the "rotating" elements, and we can all get together
> and order a metric boatload of them.
>
> J
The British naval officers wore blue coats. The British Marines wore red. Of
course, you can make 'em whatever you want - I use 'em all as British or French
and British as fancy takes me.
Bruce
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| (...) <snip> (...) Actually, it's my belief that the KK sets are France to the RK's England. Britain and France have always had close ties, with many British kings (for example) holding land in France. Both nations had lions as important parts of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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