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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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I vote for the black seas baracuda. I hate the aft sections of the other 2 large boats and I especially hate that tilting mast on the RBR. The caribian clipper is ok but I hate the armada flagship and imperial flagship because they both use the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) Yeah. Cool, isn't it. (...) I'm writing as fast as I can, but my y2k compliant quill isn't made for this kind of high pressure work. I'll try to knock it out late tonight :-) So far so good, no-one seems to have (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) HUUURL SteveC LEGO Perilous Pirate Page (URL) moved the Lighthouse! To find out how: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) And here I be thinking that Baroque be the condition of me swag bag affer I purchase said vessel from Lego wif'out it being on sale. I be such a lubber at times. The Corsair (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yea, it's a Bark which has been hit by a full broadside from a 1st rate ship of the line, and now it's baroque in two... (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I forget who started this! Richard? "Arrrr, is a Baroque anything like a Bark or Brig?" The Corsair Bruce (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well deserved and long overdue. SteveC LEGO Perilous Pirate Page (URL) moved the Lighthouse! To find out how: (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Don't forget, Doolittle is also pursued by the nefarious Capt. Malcolm Brickering(1) from whom he won the Aurora (formerly the Queen Anne Revamped, re-named, of course, for his Lady Fair, Ms. Waite) in a personal injury litigation on behalf of (...) (25 years ago, 4-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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Jonathan Wilson wrote (...) light (...) (URL) black. Man, you have just got to go to over to Lugnet and have a poke around. Answers to all these questions and more. Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) towers set, if I am not mistaken. Can someone confirm the size? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Hmmm...I think since we're discussing pirate dublurgs (sort of like blurg dubloons) this belongs there too. I know that I've got a virtual mint in gold and silver! Anyhow, I wonder what the Wild West/Town Dollar-to-Pirate/Wild West Blurg (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) By the way, there were soldiers, officers and admirals (being a finer coat than officers. They (of course) came in redcoats and bluecoats. 2 Cents. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Tom, I don't think there was ever a formal ranking system, you'll have to sort one out for your own armed forces. There are two torsos: the grunt's, with the crossed white sashes, and the officer's (so I use them ;-) with the buttoned back top coat, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote (...) middle also used on those 2 sets and the mast top from BSB. Are there any others and if so which sets use them? (...) Arr matey etc etc etc etc. There was a pretty lively discussion about masts etc going back to an (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Anybody got an extra of the guy from 6286 Skull's Eye Schooner and 6277 Imperial Trading Post with white fancy-looking shirt, brown vest, gray straps, and red beard (he had different colored tricorne and pants in those two sets)? LMK. Thanks. Mike (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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I know only of the mast base used on the BSB and forbidden island, the mast middle also used on those 2 sets and the mast top from BSB. Are there any others and if so which sets use them? Also I believe there are 2 sizes of rigging piece, if I am (...) (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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Richard Parsons wrote in message ... (...) baseplate (...) In the US, the only rack I have seen is a cardboard box for the 48x48 baseplates (and I think also the Duplo base plates). At TRU, the 32x32 baseplates are in a wire rack (which may or may (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general)
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