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Re: Castle wall idea - using 3 x 3 x 6 Corners
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Sun, 16 May 2004 04:58:22 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2004, Jeff Shiner wrote:
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> > I'm not normally a castle person, but my son asked me to build a castle.
> > So I thought I'd start with the outer walls (not sure what they are
> > properly called). I seemed to have a large number of part #2345s on hand
> > in dark grey (ok... old dark grey) and put them together to form a jagged
> > wall. Personally I like the effect. What are your opinions?
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> > http://members.rogers.com/jashiner/wall1.JPG
> > http://members.rogers.com/jashiner/wall2.JPG
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> Looks nice. I don't know prototypical it is (I can think of a few
> military problems with a wall built that way) but it looks strong and
> imposing.
Thanks for the feedback. Military problems in defending or attacking?
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> I don't like the slopes at the bottom, though; I think it would
> be better to have the walls go right down into a wet moat. And the towers
> don't live up to their wall; they're these wispy little things on big,
> beefy walls.
I agree about the slopes at the bottom... but I didn't want a moat. I'll
have to play with them more to see what I can come up with. Do you think
both towers are too small or just the corner towers.
Thanks again,
Jeff (castle newby... long time AFOL)
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> TWS Garrison
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| (...) Defending. The point of projecting towers is so the defenders can sweep the fronts of the walls with projectile fire. With a wavy front, an attacker standing between two of the waves would be hard(er) to hit, because the wall itself would be (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) military problems with a wall built that way) but it looks strong and imposing. I don't like the slopes at the bottom, though; I think it would be better to have the walls go right down into a wet moat. And the towers don't live up to their (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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