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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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