pirates - playmobil vs. lego - how to win

[Bolingbroke]

pm needs to give us army builder sets, a la the lego star wars battle packs. ten - fifteen euro per pack, four soldiers. adult collectors, it is proven, buy a lot of such sets. then again, pm doesnt care much about adult collectors ...

and it would also be nice if they didnt change the soldiers every three years or so ...

pirate-wise, im a bit board with the carribean variety to be honest. the mediterranean was teeming with corsairs in the 16th century. it would be nice to have something like that, but i cant see it happening. but that's why they should focus a bit on the adult collector. i cant see chidlren being that interested in that sort of thing ...

[Macruran]

pm needs to give us army builder sets, a la the lego star wars battle packs. ten - fifteen euro per pack, four soldiers.

They have a couple of soldier army builder packs available now, three soldiers per pack.

[Hadoque]

PM set 4290 contains "a plank to walk" that can be put in place.
"Walking the plank" defininately was a means of execution aboard ships, like keelhauling was a way of severe punishment (most often also with death as result).
How often it was used, I can´t remember say. 

"strangely" the only royal navy ship that was designed by playmobil before lego pirates appeared is historically correct.

The 3740 schooner is a very beautiful ship, but it isn´t historically correct either; a "schooner" should have at least 2 masts.
The schooner-design was an evolution from 16th/17th-century Dutch masted sloops and yachts, used in the coastal areas.
(Dutch ships were famous for their beautiful sculpted details/ornamentation, and  the origin of the word "schooner" might well lay in Dutch language; "een schoone schip" meaning "a beautiful ship" in English.)

First "schooner" in Royal Navy service was the HMS "Royal Transport", a yacht with a schooner-rig built in 1695. Picture of an accurate wooden model attached.

Most of Playmobil´s ships should have one more mast to be more representative...

[Macruran]

"Walking the plank" defininately was a means of execution aboard ships, like keelhauling was a way of severe punishment (most often also with death as result).

And what of "kissing the gunner's daughter"?

[Hadoque]

And what of "kissing the gunner's daughter"?

There were several ways for punishment by lashing or flogging, the one undergoing the punishment being tied to a cannon in a bended-over position being one of them.

[cachalote]

PM set 4290 contains "a plank to walk" that can be put in place.

you are right hadoque.
as i really don't like my 4290 set, i completely forgot about it.

[cachalote]

The 3740 schooner is a very beautiful ship, but it isn´t historically correct either; a "schooner" should have at least 2 masts.

what should we call it.
a SLOOP doesn't have a square sail.
a CUTTER doesn´t have a square sail and has 2 latin headsails.
a KETCH has 2 masts.
a BARQUENTINE has 3 masts.

an extra mast would certainly easy the difficulty.
but i guess we can allow playmobil some very small liberties.

[cachalote]

-Large soldier fort. Lego did it, Playmobil only gave us small forts. While some nice ones, I would like to see them make something as big as a small castle.

here are some portuguese, french and british models i guess you will all like...

[cachalote]

a semaphore (or telegraph) could also be included somewhere...