Alternative Pirate Flags

[Nosaj]

I am working on building a vast sea with various pirate groups, red coats, blue coats, and possibly other navies and was thinking. So basically I am planning on having a few fleets under different commands (right now I have Brickbeards crew being worked on as well as Redbeards, but I may add Ironhook and some others) but I need ways to distinguish ships apart to show they are not a part of the same fleet. Redbeard has the classic pirates flag, and brickbeard has the close-in-resemblence 2009/2010 pirates flag.

What are some other pirate-y looking flags that you would all find fitting in with the theme (pictures are great)

I guess more offical navies (redcoats and bluecoats are covered I guess, but there were plenty of navies back then) are welcome here too.

By the way, please try to deeplink photos if possible. If you are having trouble you could consult the tutorials on how to or just post a link ( )

Edited September 21, 2010 by Nosaj

[Captain Becker]

I guess 4+ Pirate flags would be good idea, and you can always make your own custom flags if ya want Hope that helps a bit

Captain Becker

EDIT:

Heres the Redbeards flag: My link

And Captain Kraggs flag: My link

If you want to make some Chinese pirates, this would be good flag: My link

Hope this helped more

EDIT2: Oh i forgot, you also want to make own custom cape to your pirates like this one

Edited September 20, 2010 by Captain Becker

[Nosaj]

Thanks very much Captain Becker... Those are actually about perfect, and oriental pirates actually were an idea I had in mind. The entire sea with kind of be an ongoing project (for the next 10+ years ha) and right now I am working on getting my four main groups (Redbeard, Brickbeard, Redcoats, and Bluecoats... you may have seen me posting about the MOC ship I will be starting to make progress on tomorrow and probably post about in around 2 weeks [when I can make real progress] which will be Brickbeards, then I will work on some redcoat stuff, but I am getting too off topic so let me get back on topic now). After I have suitable ships/islands/forst for them I will probably move onto some regular merchant and regular people stuff then work on getting the Chinese pirates started(the third main group of pirates) and maybe a smaller group, where captain kraggs flag may be perfect.

So I guess that was really a long rambly partially off topic thing just to give a thanks...

[Brig. Brick]

I have always had the idea of creating factions , and I think this is a good post to discuss it

here are my ideas :

------------------------------ soldiers ---------------------------------

bluecoats (of course)

the commander:

redcoats (can be split in two, new ones and oldies)

the commander

and\or

The mighty Armada

the commander

------------------------------ pirates ---------------------------------

These can be divided into pirates and privateers, the latter being loyal to a kingdom

pirates (flags)

privateers

bluecoats privater:

redcoat privateer:

Armada privater:

(the hardest to choose from , personally I like this )

capitains (they can be pirates or privateers at will):

(you shoul change the face of this one , just to avoid repeat)

Turkish \ arabic pirate

I want it

chinese pirates

------------------------------ islanders ---------------------------------

about the flag of the natives, I personally think that they shouldn't have, because the culture of the symbolism of the flag is not characteristic of natives

but they have one!

and about the natives, I see two types, the classic and new ones

clasics

new ones

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that's it folks!!!

[Nosaj]

Thanks a lot Brig Brick... I actually completely forgot about the armada, and I am not sure if I will be including islanders in my sea, but there are others who will surley be use islanders for similar stuff. I am not entirely sure what i am doing with the redcoats due to the classic and new differences, but I will figure something out.

Edit: I think I will (as soon as I get classic redcoats, as I dont have any right now) use the old redcoat cammander as the admiral and the new one as the governor... not positive yet, but it seems possible.

Edited September 21, 2010 by Nosaj

[SlyOwl]

I'll point you towards the Sail Library and the Decal Index, both of which have designs you may find helpful.

[Captain Becker]

Armada privater:

(the hardest to choose from , personally I like this )

That flag could also be a very good in Chinese pirates as well dont you think?

Captain Becker

[Claus von Nassau]

That flag could also be a very good in Chinese pirates as well dont you think?

Captain Becker

i have to disagree, the dragon on the flag is historicly more a normandic dragon then a chinese dragon, but that is just my opinion, but for the armada privateer i would go for the flag of the bull- knight of kk1

[Nosaj]

That flag could also be a very good in Chinese pirates as well dont you think?

Captain Becker

I somewhat agree with Claus von Nassau on this one. Although I am not going for entire historical accuracy (or really much at all for that matter), thats dragon just doent say "chinese" to me as the first one you suggested did.

Nevertheless, this thread is not just for me, but anybody looking for alternative flags, so maybe it will function better for another person as chinese than myself

[Brig. Brick]

I chose that flag because it is one of the most colorful, just as is the Armada ship.

Usually the redcoats and bluecoats sides makes a reminiscent of the Napoleonic era , but that is a long time after pirates , between all factions, the Armada is the nearest to the era of the pirates, in particular by the use of armor and morion helmet, instead of shako.

If I would like that TLG develop a new faction BlueCoat:pir-sweet:, I would be more happy seeing a new Armada, more minifigs and differents Galleons

[Nosaj]

I chose that flag because it is one of the most colorful, just as is the Armada ship.

Usually the redcoats and bluecoats sides makes a reminiscent of the Napoleonic era , but that is a long time after pirates , between all factions, the Armada is the nearest to the era of the pirates, in particular by the use of armor and morion helmet, instead of shako.

If I would like that TLG develop a new faction BlueCoat:pir-sweet:, I would be more happy seeing a new Armada, more minifigs and differents Galleons

I never really thought about that... everybody seems to reference red and bluecoats, although the spanish armada is the most accurate... hmm