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Re: No more steel in jolly old England
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:55:45 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> 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! ;)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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 doesn't change the fact that there's no swords. As for as the LD thing,
I wouldn't mind one bit.
-Chris
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