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Re: Arrr, first message
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 04:48:43 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Tony Priestman writes:
> > How the heck big is a platoon of Imperial Guards? Red or blue? I think 3
> > modern squads make a platoon, but 1600-1800?
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> Sorry, but I don't even know how big a squad is.
10-12 more or less, kinda-sorta, depending on who's army you are talking about.
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> On the basis that everything Lego is a scaled down version of reality
> (big sailing ships with a crew of 8, etc), I would suggest halving the
> real numbers anyway :-)
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> So, assuming a squad is 6, a Lego squad would be 3. Three squads in a
> platoon makes 9, plus an officer gives 10.
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> How's that?
I'd probably make it 12 (three squads of four, officer in each squad, with one
officer being the overall platoon leader). I don't know if that should be two
non-coms and one officer, but there's a high proportion of tri-corners to
shakos, so you gotta make do. :-)
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> (BTW, given the above numbering, I've got three and a half red platoons,
> and a large contingent of staff officers, and a couple of squads of
> blues :-)
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> --
> Tony Priestman
I think I'm somwhere around 30-35 blue coats and 40 red coats. My son tends to
scatter them around and I periodically sort them out and group them again.
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| (...) I envy you horribly. I'm lucky enough to have four bluecoats and twelve redcoats...sigh. On the other hand, I use them to staff WWI-era warships' marine detachments, so they become largely insignificant for combat anyhow. But hoo-whee, if you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| In article <FIH4ot.A6A@lugnet.com>, Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> writes (...) Oh arr, oi be fergettin :-) (...) Sorry, but I don't even know how big a squad is. On the basis that everything Lego is a scaled down version of reality (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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