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(...) I'd agree with BSB first, but I'd put CC below SES (CC has a single set of ratlines/stays going down to the center of the deck, rather than a pair going down to the hull. My order would be: 6285 Black Seas Barracuda 6286 Skull's Eye Schooner (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) And then of course for the Atlantic half of the world, you can stage a re-enactment of The War of 1812... (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) (URL) ;-) Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Royal Ork? nanu nanu So *that's* what you do with those Insectoids aliens--it's "Orson"! LFB (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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What hull, mast, rigging etc parts come with this set? I cant tell from the pictures I have and the instructions are not on brickshelf.com -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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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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