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In lugnet.gaming.brikwars, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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Loosely inspired by some gorgeous SW Sail Barge MOCs on Brickshelf, NELUG’s
latest [1] Brikwars game featured a steampunk skiff battle set above the
desolate Kar’Zuba desert. Every skiff represented a Trading Guild, and upon
arrival at the outskirts of a potential market town each captain decided to
try and “thin the competition” a bit.
My contribution to the fight was the Egregious, a Dragonfly-Class Torpedo
Gunboat. Its steam powerplant (located in a protective cast-iron bathtub
within the hull) powers three heavy-lift main rotors, as well as a pair of
outboard steam-turbine-driven manuevering props.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=261935
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sullis3/BRIKWARSGAMES/SkiffFight/Egregious/egregious04.jpg
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-Shaun
[1] For the record books, this was NELUG’s
34th Brikwars game - and that
doesn’t include some games we’ve put on for public events such as Ourcon 17
(Amherst, MA) and Brick Blast (Middlebury, VT).
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That’s rather incredibly cool. I particularly like how it’s quite ‘realistic’
within its own logic: the grilles over the fans, the cannnon balls, the
equipment. Most excellent steampunk.
The split hull construction is particularly effective. It’s probably a good way
of doing boat hulls too.
Tim
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In lugnet.gaming.brikwars, Timothy Gould wrote:
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That’s rather incredibly cool. I particularly like how it’s quite ‘realistic’
within its own logic:
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Thanks! That was one of the aspects that I enjoyed the most - trying to
rationalize “how it worked” as it was being built.
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the grilles over the fans,
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The trick is not to crew your Dragonfly-class Torpedo Gunboats with women
wearing Victorian hoop skirts.
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The split hull construction is particularly effective. It’s probably a good
way of doing boat hulls too.
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That’s actually where I started with this technqiue. I’ve been plugging away on
a WWII ship for a couple years now, and have half the hull of Blackbeard’s Queen
Anne’s Revenge done in this same style. Who knows if they’ll ever get finished,
but I’m pleased with how the method works.
Thanks again.
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