The new soldiers, what shall I do with them?

[Captain Zuloo]

Alternatively, you could use them as dress uniforms, in contrast to the standard "battle" uniforms.

Ah good idea! As you already have an army, you could use the new torsos for when you make MOC's of functions and ceremonies etc.

[Zorro]

In your case I would use them to form some additional units Bonaparte, I would certainly use some too build a French Sanitation unit (white epaulettes+shako+red paints??) and another French Guard unit (the Dutch grenadiers: white pants and white arms, shako, red epaulletes??)

And PLEASE dont forget about the Scottish (the Grays??), no Waterloo without some Scottish units!

Those are two units I am going to form for myself for sure, and have you taken a look at my list above? All those units carry resembling (red) unifoms!

PS: I just noticed after posting this reply I was promoted to Citizenship! My days of slavery are over

Edited September 24, 2008 by zorro3999

[samthelegoman1]

PS: I just noticed after posting this reply I was promoted to Citizenship! My days of slavery are over

Lucky

Wait for it... NOW!!!! CITIZENSHIP!

Edited September 25, 2008 by samthelegoman1

[Legoking]

If they are making new imperial armada blue guards, I think you should not mix them together and have a separate battle.

[Captain Zuloo]

PS: I just noticed after posting this reply I was promoted to Citizenship! My days of slavery are over

Wait for it... NOW!!!! CITIZENSHIP!

Hahaha. In four more posts I will be a knight. I shouldn't bragg, but WHOOPIE!

[Zorro]

Hahaha. In four more posts I will be a knight. I shouldn't bragg, but WHOOPIE!

PFFF....a Knight ....I would rather be an imperial corporal...

Knights dont belong on a pirate forum... (looking jealous while taking my map of Australia to the toilet to ***** my A** off)

That was to CHECK my AGE off (i keep track of it on the backside of my map of down-under

Yeah, I know, not a top-1.000.000 joke...

I have thought of making a Dutch Independent army under the Prince of Orange, and use them in, as an example, the battle of Waterloo.

As most know, many (or most) units of Wellington were Dutch/Belgian/...) Its not fully according to their hisytorical unifroms, although SOME Dutch uniforms were Red...)

DOES ANYONE HAVE the uniform books off Liliane and Fred Funcken too ?? They are so good for reference!

Edited September 25, 2008 by zorro3999

[Captain Zuloo]

PFFF....a Knight ....I would rather be an imperial corporal...

Knights dont belong on a pirate forum... (looking jealous while taking my map of Australia to the toilet to ***** my A** off)

Aw. That one hurt a little. Oh well, you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when I find need to create my first poll!

[Zorro]

Aw. That one hurt a little. Oh well, you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when I find need to create my first poll!

Oh yes, i forgot, you can create polls as a knight... (what is a Zorro? a) a random idiot b)a complete idiot c) .......

maybe its time for me to be a bit nicer to my fellow members from Oceania !

COULD I invite you for thea, my dearest SIR....

Soon...I too shall be knighted !

In regard to the actual topic and my last posts:

I have decided I will recreate the "Blyland brigade" with the new minifigs, as well as some french hospitaltroops and Dutch Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard.

You can find the unifrom descriptions a few posts ago !

[Imperial_Guard]

I've already collected tons of the old (classic) Imperial Guards (red coats) and Imperial Soldiers (blue coats). I'm using the old redcoats for my British armies and the old blue coats for my English armies. What should I do with these new soldiers? Mix them with my redcoats? Put them in some kind of special regiment? I'm looking for a historically correct "solutions".

You could:

1. Royal Marines

2. Palace Guards/specialist unit

3. Provincial Unit raised by "The Brickish" to protect overseas colonies

[Tordenskjold]

For me it depend on how many i cant get my hands on. if i get only 10-30 men i think thye will end up as a spesial troop, like sharphooters of like that. but since i have a plan of getting ALOT i want to make a special battallion/regiment. something like kings own rifle or whatever the name will be. dont think i will mix them in as officers etc.

Because we all know how bad it will be for moral if we removed the old officers and replace them with new ones

and last. if you dont know what to do with the old imperial guards, then ill find a place for them in my regiment

Bet you havent had that suggestion before

[Bonaparte]

Thanks for all the very good suggestions. There are several suggestions in this thread that I never could have thought of myself.

Since I already have around 150 Imperial Guards (my English infantry) I would prefer to use these new ones as something else than line infantry. Right now I'm considering using the new ones my English cavalry. That would be ideal since my English army doesn't have any cavalry yet. However, I'm not sure the shako's are historically correct for English cavalry units during the Napoleonic wars. Alternatively I can use them as Highlanders. But in this case I'll have to remove the shako's for sure with busby's (and I would like them to keep the shako's). Marines is another possibility. Or making them some foreign nation fighting with or against the English/French.

Once these become available I'll buy a bit more that 30 of them, that's for sure. So they will never become the bulk of my English army. I'll keep the old ones for that.

if you dont have these books Bonaparte, you are welcom to come on over and lend them!

I don't have these books and I would love to look at them. I'll try to pass by in the near future.

[Admiral Bejaune]

I know this topic has gone cold, but I just ran across it.. I am probably going to use the new soldiers as an admirals personal guard or perhaps a special unit in the marines. Im sure those ideas have been said before but I did not feel like reading every response on the subject.

-T

[Thomas B.]

Well, to make it easy on you, you can just give them to me when you buy the new pirates sets! Or you can give them to Hinkley, my hero!

[QuartermasterRobert]

I like the idea of highlanders! If you can make a good enough kilt, I'd love to see how!

[Captain Zuloo]

Oh yes, i forgot, you can create polls as a knight... (what is a Zorro? a) a random idiot b)a complete idiot c) .......

maybe its time for me to be a bit nicer to my fellow members from Oceania !

COULD I invite you for thea, my dearest SIR....

Soon...I too shall be knighted !

Ah congratulations Sir Zorro. I would be Sir Captain Zuloo, but that sounds silly so I will stick with just Captain. Hehehehe. Welcome to the round table!

[Captain Blackmoor]

Use the new red coats in the regiment of the trading companies. As you see in Pirates of the Caribbean III, the red coats from britain were removed and new blue soldiers from the East Indian Trading Company took over the power. The trading company's soldiers can be an elite class as well.

[Captain Zuloo]

Use the new red coats in the regiment of the trading companies. As you see in Pirates of the Caribbean III, the red coats from britain were removed and new blue soldiers from the East Indian Trading Company took over the power. The trading company's soldiers can be an elite class as well.

But in real life, The EIC - a British company would never have taken over the the British navy. Good movie, but silly nonetheless.

[Razzer]

.....I've already collected tons of the old (classic) Imperial Guards (red coats) and Imperial Soldiers (blue coats)....

I feel for you Bonaparte, all that money spent and then theres more needed to be bought.

On a brighter note, I never had the chance to collect the older Imperials...and now theres better looking ones!

My time to shine

[Zorro]

I feel for you Bonaparte, all that money spent and then theres more needed to be bought.

On a brighter note, I never had the chance to collect the older Imperials...and now theres better looking ones!

My time to shine

BETTER LOOKING ones ??? NO WAY José !

I think the new torsos are megablocking megablock and look like megablock ! (now you have my opinion ! )

No, my words were not "auto-corrected" .

IMHO the older ones were a lot better suited for a napoleonic army.

Edited October 11, 2008 by zorro3999

[Fluyt]

BETTER LOOKING ones ??? NO WAY José !

I think the new torsos are megablocking megablock and look like megablock ! (now you have my opinion ! )

No, my words were not "auto-corrected" .

IMHO the older ones were a lot better suited for a napoleonic army.

Yeah, the older ones looked better because of the white torso, there's just something that isn't right about the new one, maybe it has to do with the red torso.

The new ones are nice, but only in relatively small numbers or for a special regiment in an army (artillery, grenadiers, maybe even a band or other supporting troops like medics or messengers). For an entire army, the old ones look better.

[Razzer]

Yeah, the older ones looked better because of the white torso, there's just something that isn't right about the new one, maybe it has to do with the red torso.

The new ones are nice, but only in relatively small numbers or for a special regiment in an army (artillery, grenadiers, maybe even a band or other supporting troops like medics or messengers). For an entire army, the old ones look better.

I'll agree with you that the lack of white torso is a negative, and the old imps had their classic charm, but allow me to justify my opinion on why the new guards are better:

1. More detail on torso print

2. PRINTED shako!

3. New brown backpacks

4. And they come in impulse sets so they'll be dirt cheap on the internet (I know that isn't to do with the look of them but it does matter )

[Fluyt]

I'll agree with you that the lack of white torso is a negative, and the old imps had their classic charm, but allow me to justify my opinion on why the new guards are better:

1. More detail on torso print

2. PRINTED shako!

3. New brown backpacks

4. And they come in impulse sets so they'll be dirt cheap on the internet (I know that isn't to do with the look of them but it does matter )

More detail is indeed a good one (allthough this makes them harder to fit in with old pirate torso's), just as that they'll become very cheap. But is it sure the shako's are printed and not just stickers? On one hand it is nice if they would be printed, but it'll really limit their use, opposite to the "old" neutral shako's. And are new brown backpacks a good point? (you mean reddish brown right?), it is good that they have backpacks, but I like the old brown colour better. It would be nice if the new backpacks where that new dark brown colour.

Edited October 12, 2008 by Fluyt

[Razzer]

More detail is indeed a good one (allthough this makes them harder to fit in with old pirate torso's), just as that they'll become very cheap. But is it sure the shako's are printed and not just stickers? On one hand it is nice if they would be printed, but it'll really limit their use, opposite to the "old" neutral shako's. And are new brown backpacks a good point? (you mean reddish brown right?), it is good that they have backpacks, but I like the old brown colour better. It would be nice if the new backpacks where that new dark brown colour.

Old brown is a better colour, but new brown is here to stay so I'm working on updating my collection to it, and as to the shakos I'm assuming they'll be printed as the dark (and light) wizard's hats were.

[QuartermasterRobert]

Personally I like the new ones better because of the red torso... it looks like they're wearing a jacket now. The old ones only looked like "redcoats" from up front :p