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Re: Pirate minifig question
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 01:08:44 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> 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
> >
> > 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).
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Bruce
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 epaulets
would serve in their place.
The French could then fight with or against the English, depending on when you
place them. Then the French, being the "stylish" ones, could wear the fore-
and-aft bicorn, and the English, being the real fighters, could wear it
athwartships.
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| (...) a (...) captains (...) I like the Prussians someone mentioned (Lindsay, Frank?) a while back, or my own Black Guard. There's lots you can do with enough pirate bits. If I want English and French, I chuck history and make the English red and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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