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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 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —John Robert-Blaze Kanehl
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Marc Nelson, Jr.
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Chris Barker
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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 (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Marc Nelson, Jr.
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks. (...) too (...) Wow, even I don't read anything that boring. Actually, at the moment I'm re-reading a great book, A Naval History of WWI. Before reading it, all I knew about WWI naval history was Jutland, but this guy (Paul Halpern) (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Chris Barker
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| | | | | | Mr L F Braun wrote: <SNIP> (...) Since the first guns arrived on the island of Tanegashima, guns were known as tanegashima for a while, but were later called teppo. Chris (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: pirate + ninja —Chris Barker
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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