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Re: Imperial Soldiers Rank?
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:38:52 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Tom Reed writes:
> Hi all,
> I'm not a military buff and so I haven't a clue as to what the ranking of
> the Imperial soldiers are supposed to be. I gather that the one with the
> white trimmed hat is an admiral and the foot soldiers are obvious, but what
> are the others. Does the color of the epaulets and the hats mean anything?
> I'm thinking that lego probably just mixed in the different hats and
> epaulets without following a system, but I'm not sure. Is there anyone who
> can enlighten me on this? I was trying to come up with a ranking system for
> mine, so any info would help. I'm hoping it might save me from making up a
> system!
> Thanks
The shako-topped and backpacked soldiers are obvious as you say. The tricorn
seems to represent officers, but doesn't have to (the Caribbean Clipper crew
for example), and the bicorn hat and foldback uniform coat represent
"admirals".
You end up with too darn many officers (kinda like the castle line, where every
other guy seems to be king). For ships, you can fill out your crew with
striped-shirted guys. Color-coding is one way to go: red stripes with red
coats, blue stripes with blue coats. Certainly cuts down on having to obtain
expensive soldier figs. Or go more british navy and switch all your redcoats
to the shako-backpack configuration to make them marines, and bluecoats as
officers.
Epaulettes. I tend to use them to indicate units or specific crew. This
unit/crew gets blue ones, that one gets red, this one gets white, etc. One
unit is getting white epaulettes and white pith helmets. I don't think I'm
going to cut up any epaulettes for the one-epaulette non-post captain look,
however (what a silly convention).
In short, make up your own conventions - whatever appeals to your sensiblities.
If I could get masses of non-gold epaulettes, I'd use the gold ones to indicate
officers, but it isn't practical as long as I want them on all my soldiers.
Bruce
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) Color-coding is one way to go: red stripes with red coats, blue stripes with blue coats. Certainly cuts down on having to obtain expensive soldier figs. Or go more british navy and switch all your redcoats to the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hi all, I'm not a military buff and so I haven't a clue as to what the ranking of the Imperial soldiers are supposed to be. I gather that the one with the white trimmed hat is an admiral and the foot soldiers are obvious, but what are the others. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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