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(...) The most entertaining book I read about US subs in the Pacific was the venerable 'Pig Boats,' a popular-issue book that was as of 1992 still available in paperback. As for academic books, Morison like most was still enamoured with the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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In lugnet.castle, John Robert Blaze Kanehl writes: Here is my review of the Ninja Heroes when I received them a few months ago (for those of you who are interested in my opinion or if you don't have these yet) (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I like the minifig pack and the miniheroes, but more than anything, I wish Lego would release a Ninja accessory pack with swords, helmets, etc so I may continue my tradition of "Samur-izing" every minifig and his brother... I felt the same way (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Cool, isn't it? (Thanks again to Chris for asking and Todd for delivering) (...) I had to sell off some assets awhile back, but my Samurai, Ronin, Ninja armies still number 1000+. (...) Ninja sets disappeared from retailers around me a year (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) "Blind Man's Bluff" is a great book about the history of submarine warfare. (...) Japanese pirates during the period that the Ninja sets apply often picked up Koreans from ports they raided as part of the crew. Chris (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'm still working 300 years before that! (...) Before Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, there was really no Japanese "navy" so ship building tended to be on a fairly small scale, except for troop transports which were very boxy. (...) extremely (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Glad to see I'm not the only one building Ninja armies. =) My latest storyline involves the ninja clans attacking the regular castle folk, so I've been bulking up on the ninja figs - mwhahahaha! Last night's count shows 492 which includes 219 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Hmmmm, I haven't counted it, and I still have a bunch in unopened boxes. 30 cavalry, I know. Somewhere around 150-180 foot including MIB shirkers, maybe a third of that Ninja that I'm slowly acquiring helmets so they can be converted to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I have a total ninja/samurai army of about 80. I can probably muster 20-25 mounted units. Christopher Pisciotti Loch Forest, CA (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Was the train in the water? Can you recommend any good books about submarines the Pacific theater? I've read the Pacific volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's History of US Naval Operations, but I don't remember there being too much in there about (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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My name is Sun and I TOO am a Lego Ninja theme fan. Like many other compatriots on this board, I was brought out of my dark ages thanks in part to this theme. My current involvement with the theme is fairly limited because of other Lego projects etc (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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I didn't even notice this news group until today. It's great that there is a place now where I can be sure to see stuff on ninja and nothing else to water things down :) So I was just wondering, how big are everyone's ninja armies? I asked this (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Maybe not as ambitious as you think. I was only going to build one of the main donjon but it would span 4 large grey baseplates - am guessing 84n x 84 studs wide at the base of the donjon. Will report once I have done a nawabari ("laying down (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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I spent last night sorting my ninjas and was wondering how you guys categorized them. There are black, grey, white, red, and green ninjas. So does each ninja class perform different jobs in your worlds? (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) You'll need some black hulls! (...) I think there's a minor difference between full-blown junks and sampans (sorry, I learned the spelling used by the US Navy during WWII--as maru traffic vanished, US subs began spending torpedoes on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes...when the Ninja theme came out, I immediately thought cool! Shogun with Lego! If you ever read or saw James Clavell's "shogun" you'll see that the Portuguese were very active in Japan. I realize this novel takes great liberties with (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) To the best of my knowledge, junks (later called san-pans) were Chinese/Korean in origin. I was under the impression that a majority of Japanese ships were coastal vessels, small fishing boats or galleys, designed for short journeys and (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) That's a great scene! You can build some neat small ships out of non-pirate pieces - then you could do a Commodore Perry scene. Well, you have definitely inspired me - I already have my pirate crew assembled, and I'm going to start working on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) You and me both =8^) (...) The reason why I built my "Gatehouse" in such large scale was to get a feel for how large a structure would need to be to accomodate many of the rooms you mention. A personal goal is to build a structure that can (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Answered offline (...) www.bricksmiths.com (...) Count me as interested, depending on price point, and I don't even "do" castle. :-) Larry Pieniazek Bricksmith www.miltontrainworks.com (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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