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Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:47:53 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Chris Maddison writes:
> What's up with the Knight's Kingdom line. They have a LOT of weapons included
> in each set, but one thing is missing: swords! • <snip>
> SO, TLC, what's up? It's not like
> England just ran out of steel! ;)
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 their heraldry as well.
Note the names of the kings as well. The Royal King is officially
"Richard Lion-Hearted", at least in some countries, while "Leo" is clearly
a name from a Romance language of some sort.
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.
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.
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
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| (...) included (...) Actually, I think they're more of a take on British soldiers. Ever seen Braveheart? Even though it's just a movie, it depicts the English VERY closely to King Leo's Soldiers, especially the helmets and lion emblems. But that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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| Jeff, mon ami, If Knights' Kingdom represents France, why oh why, are they waving flags similar to the Scottish bars (although the X is gold instead of white)? Eventually, they'll represent my kinfolk, the Irish. Oh, I could see it now, a little (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| What's up with the Knight's Kingdom line. They have a LOT of weapons included in each set, but one thing is missing: swords! Not the big silver ones, the small grey ones. This simple weapon has been around since Castle's beginnings, but you rarely (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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