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Re: Pirate minifig question
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:56:41 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Ross McCullough writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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).
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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.
> >
> > Bruce
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> 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.
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 the French
blue.
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> 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.
Ahhhhh, like Nelson....and Napoleon! Stylish English officers went
fore-and-aft, dunno about the French.
And as we all know, it was the Irish that were the real fighters anyway. :-P
Bruce
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| (...) to (...) rarer (...) you (...) Meant to lable the stylish as French, not the French as stylish. Those aristocratic "fighters" are a lot of pansies, and don't deserve to deserve to be labeled English. Though the Duke of Wellington was an (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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