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Re: Imperial Soldiers Rank?
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:02:39 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote
> 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.
This seems to suggest that all members of naval ship crews should be
uniformed - I don't know about that. At some point crews did become
uniformed, but up to 1800 (at least) only officers wore uniforms. There may
have been a dress code, but not uniforms.
The point is that ship crews can be raised from standard pirate figs.
Obviously skull and crossbones bicorns and maybe the pirate with the knife
tucked into his shoulder belt wouldn't fit in, but otherwise: wait until
they're out of their gourds at some port of call, bop them on the noggin,
and drag them off to sea aboard one of His Brikannic Majesty's vessels. Once
you're out of sight of land (and when they come to) they can either sign on,
or get off ;-)
And red coated marines aboard Brikish vessels might also sport black top
hats, as a reasonable facsimile for one of the (slightly tapered, rimmed)
hats actually used in the period.
Regards
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
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| On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FnuowG.DAE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 07:02:39 (...) Yep. I'm with you there. Blue coats being *naval* officers, that is. There are obviously officers in the marines as well :-) (...) I think the ships did carry (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) You are absolutely correct from an historical viewpoint - however, I usually write these kind of things from a gaming standpoint. That way I know who belongs where. But my admirals wear their bicorns front-to-back rather than side-to-side, so (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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