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Re: Pirate minifig question
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Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:40:51 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Jason Maxwell writes:
> 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:
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> Blue soldiers: Replace shako with bicorn hat, naval officers
> Red Soldiers: Marines
> Striped shirted pirates: Naval "enlisted" personnel
> All others: Pirates
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> 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.
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> Does this make sense to other people? Am I off-base historically? Just
> wondering if I've interpeted the readings I've done correctly.
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 personnel could wear just about anything on a daily basis, so you
don't have to restrict crews to stripped shirts, though there probably would be
a fair amount of white pants (made from sailcloth).
I've found blue-coats more prevelant than red-coats, so getting the proper
proportion of red to blue may be difficult. And I usually restrict the rarer
bicorns to the ship's captain and have the rest in tricorns. Stylish captains
arranging their bicorns fore-and-aft, of course.
Bruce
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| (...) labor. (...) you (...) be (...) A solution to the lack of red-coats is to make a French navy. All officers could be in blue, and though I'm not aware of the French equivilant of marines, perhaps a company of voltigeurs with blue coats and red (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fw7wC3.6uA@lugnet.com>) wrote at 22:40:51 (...) <snip> (...) This is a fair description of how the Brickish Navy operates, although no-one gets pressed, they all get moulded :-) (...) Actually, I seem to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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