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Pirate minifig question
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:46:20 GMT
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I've been reading the Hornblower stories (and I watched the A&E miniseries)
and I've decided to change my "classification" of the Pirate minifigs. I
think something more realistic would be:
Blue soldiers: Replace shako with bicorn hat, naval officers
Red Soldiers: Marines
Striped shirted pirates: Naval "enlisted" personnel
All others: Pirates
It just seems to make more sense this way. Instead of having ships crewed
entirely by soldiers, you have a couple of officers, a squad a Marines, and a
bunch of types that were rounded up by the press gangs to do the manual labor.
Does this make sense to other people? Am I off-base historically? Just
wondering if I've interpeted the readings I've done correctly.
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| (...) This is not an unreasonable approach historically, assuming you are trying to duplicate the British navy (with Hornblower, Bolitho, Lewrie, Aubrey/Maturin and no doubt more series, at least there is a lot of inspiration). Naval pressed (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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