Excellent suggestion: more Napoleonic sailors and marines.

If twleve more figures, say: two naval officers, two boat crew members, and four boarding/landing party sailors, and then a marine officer, sergeant, drummer, and-- _________?

That would make, counting the original set, sixteen sailors and eight marines, but maybe the ratio should be different for landing parties.

I do not think that 1/72 is a common sailing ship model building scale, but the ship model builders have a large range of ships' boats/fittings/cannons available to them.

I assume that a fair number of the Royal Navy/Marine figures could stand in for the early USN.

Barbary pirates also would be great--I know that there are some scattered figures in other sets that will work, but this would make for some interesting boat/landing party actions.

Howard Chapelle's "History to the American Sailing Navy" contains the plans of an extraordinary range of small gunboats and ships' boats from this period.

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