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Re: [CW] Interest in Castle World for Pirates?
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:51:53 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<FozrM1.F2x@lugnet.com>) wrote at
11:22:01
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> > 3) If it's wanted and needed, would people be willing to redesign some • models
> > to not contain guns?
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> We don't tend to use repeater rifles or revolvers (à la Western), and I
> could do without the musket and the blunderbuss (I guess .... for a little
> while, anyway .... probably) but ships without cannons? What would be the
> point ;-)
Yes, the Pirate stuff tends to be a bit later in history. Castles
actually stretch into this period, but taking pirates back to when there
were no guns leaves you with some pretty puny vessels
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> And I'm not sure how red coats and blue coats would go, armed only with
> swords pikes and lances.
To Davy Jones' locker :-)
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> But I'm thinking about it :-)
It can be done, but I wouldn't want to. At least, it would be way down
the list of upcoming projects. Hmmm. The more I think about it...
No. It's just a different milieu. A Castle themed ship would not be a
Pirate ship.
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> Time to go lurking around .castle I guess. Never thought I'd ever do that!
Pirates is better! Arrr!
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Tony Priestman
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| (...) Avast Ye Swabbies!! There be plenty of precedent for a cannon armed ship without the hand guns. Henry VIII's 'Mary Rose' had lots of guns and the men were armed with pikes, swords and bows. Obviously the new set is in the transition age (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Pawel Nazarewicz wrote (...) or (...) Thanks heaps. Always nice to have someone looking out for you. (...) Sounds interesting. (...) problem (...) models (...) Now I'm guessing that by guns you are not referring to the great, big, lovely, glorious, (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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