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Re: Imperial Soldiers Rank?
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:37:47 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote
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> > For ships, you can fill out your crew with striped-shirted guys.
> Color-coding is one way to go: red stripes with red coats, blue stripes with
> blue coats. Certainly cuts down on having to obtain expensive soldier figs.
> Or go more british navy and switch all your redcoats to the shako-backpack
> configuration to make them marines, and bluecoats as officers.
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> This seems to suggest that all members of naval ship crews should be
> uniformed - I don't know about that. At some point crews did become
> uniformed, but up to 1800 (at least) only officers wore uniforms. There may
> have been a dress code, but not uniforms.
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> The point is that ship crews can be raised from standard pirate figs.
You are absolutely correct from an historical viewpoint - however, I usually
write these kind of things from a gaming standpoint. That way I know who
belongs where. But my admirals wear their bicorns front-to-back rather than
side-to-side, so what do I know. :-)
Bruce
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) Mmmm, so do I. (URL) at all sure about the historical accuracy, but it just looks more dashing, no? My army chieftains wear them side-to-side. They're not _supposed_ to be as dashing, are they ;-) Richard Still baldly (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) Color-coding is one way to go: red stripes with red coats, blue stripes with blue coats. Certainly cuts down on having to obtain expensive soldier figs. Or go more british navy and switch all your redcoats to the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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