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Re: Imperial Soldiers Rank?
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:56:08 GMT
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FnuowG.DAE@lugnet.com>) wrote at
07:02:39
> Or go more british navy and switch all your redcoats to the shako-backpack
> configuration to make them marines, and bluecoats as officers.
Yep. I'm with you there. Blue coats being *naval* officers, that is.
There are obviously officers in the marines as well :-)
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> 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.
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> The point is that ship crews can be raised from standard pirate figs.
I think the ships did carry clothing, but for replacement purposes only.
So you wore the clothes you carried on board. And if you were pressed,
that was the ones on your back.
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> Obviously skull and crossbones bicorns and maybe the pirate with the knife
> tucked into his shoulder belt wouldn't fit in,
I think you're probably allowed a knife, once the ship is cleared for
action :-)
> 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.
Ahh! Hadn't thought of that. Jolly fine idea.
--
Tony Priestman
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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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