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(...) suggestion. And no, faced with someone weilding a claymore, I'm not going to call him unsophisticated, or make fun of haggis, or suggest that he might be overly thrifty. I would probably just back away slowly. eric (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) How many wolfpack would you need? I have three... (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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(...) Great pics! I like your Ninja theme game variation...heck I really lke the Bamboo glade idea too! (...) I will have to read the other messages in this thread shortly... I believe the large Asain style spear/axe polearms are shurikens...I could (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No, those asian polearms are Naginata. Shuriken are those little pointy metal stars everyone loved in the mid-80's. They can be seen painted on the torsos of most Lego ninja, tucked in their belts. As an aside, Naginata are often disparaginly (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) weapon", (...) Prior to the Edo period, the Naginata was a weapon used on the battlefields by samurai. The Edo period was relatively peaceful, and women of samurai families were trained with the Naginata. This is where the tradition of women (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) families (...) I've done some research and found some more information. I quote the following: Women, usually of high-rank, were allowed an education and training in martial arts. It was not considered unusual for clan princesses to be taught (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) To be clear, I didn't say *I* referred to the Naginata disparagingly as a "woman's weapon". I am quite aware of the damage one of these things can do in the wrong hands. For more information, play Kyoshiro in Samurai Showdown III on the Sony (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Could someone post a picture for those of us who are LCad defficient? (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western)
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(...) Here ya go! (URL) fun. -John Rudy www.cortland.edu/ace...e2000/john (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western)
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(...) shurikens...I could (...) those little pointy metal (...) painted on the torsos (...) That's right...throwing stars...I was pretty good with those...I couold almost play cricket or 301 with them) I stand corrected = ) (I just couldn't think of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks. They look a little small though. Easy enough though to take the concept and make something a little larger. Frank (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.castle, lugnet.western)
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(...) As far I understood from my studies, the military history of medieval Japan is basically divided into two sections, divided by the development of the shogunate. The shoguns began to encourage sword-worship and a harsh division between the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I seem to recall hearing of one diminutive warlord who greatly favored the use of a short-barrelled arquebus for controlling unruly crowds and was thereafter referred to as the Sawed-Off Shogun. Dave! (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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Hiya'll, Well. Now that I've gotten my first few BFs, I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. ATM I only have three, not a whole lot. The number seemed to suggest itself to some form of elite squad (which the Falcons always seem like, to me), (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My wife has accumulated somewhere around 100 BF guys, and she uses them for her regular army. :) James (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I only have two of them, from (URL) use one of them for my (URL) CW sig fig Halcyon and the other guy... um... hmm.. he's Halcyon's stunt double!! ;-) ~Nathan *wishes he had buckets of Black Falcons* (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Having just got in 40 muskets and 15 backpacks yesterday, my whole horde of 10 Black Falcons are currently an elite corp in my blue-soldier army. I ran out of spare shakos, so they have tricorns. Admittedly, they'll go back to castle duty as (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well through the magic of Mavica and editing, yo could probably "appear to have more" I saw someone post a pic of a Falcon wizard w/ willas black hat and majisto's beard...that looked very cool. I would be tempted to turn the 3 into visiting (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Between auctions and retail over the years I've managed a decent pile. Not sure of the exact count but it's two or three dozen. Enough though for the personal troops of some baron or lord. The 'Black Falcons' as a group always suggested to me (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oooooh.... intruiging... But I don't think I would, for the sole reason that the color combo fits very well within the Lion Kingdom, and I just *can't* pass the idea of having some sort of majickal bodyguards for Cleo. <grin> (...) Intruiging (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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