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Re: CASTLE WARS
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:57:08 GMT
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> In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes:
> > Of all the various lands and kingdoms in the Castle universe, which group
> > would survive a great war!
> > If each force ( all 12 ) entered into a gigantic battlefield, who would
> > emerge as the survivor!
In lugnet.castle, Jason Maxwell writes:
> I'm actually considering doing something similar to this! If anyone reads
> David Eddings I'm considering recreating the battles of Vo Mimbre (from
> Belgarath the Sorcerer) and Thull Mardu (from the Belgariad) with LEGO
> minfigs.
> For those of you who don't read Eddings (first of all, you should) his fantasy
> world consists of 13 countries. The two battles above are massive affairs
> involving 12 of them (one of the countries is just ignored by all the
> others). The four "evil" countries have general infantry troops while the
> eight "good" countries all specialize in different type of troops (pikesmen
> form one country, light horsemen from another, archers from a third, etc.). I
> was planning to get a bunch of minifigs of each type to create the various
> armies, having one minifig represent about 1000 troops. (The legendary charge
> of the Mimbrate calvary at the battle of Vo Mimbre involved a minimum of
> 10,000 troops) I've kind of picked minifigs from each line to represent the
> various troops, but I don't have my notes handy. In the end it would be more
> of a good vs. evil fight instead of an all out melee but it would look
> similar. It will take a while to get all the minifigs I need, but when I do I
> plan to take many photos.
Sounds ‘incredible,’ can't wait to see the pictures!!!
Do you have a landscape set up for this enormous battle?
I’ve never heard of your author Endings, I know Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
and Mckiernan’s Iron Tower Trilogy, but I haven’t read your guy.
And also, I believe that the power of the Black Falcons would rule the Castle
Empire.
Sincerely,
Richard 'Grand Master of the Falcons'
You can reach me at shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com
-Lego good, Canada great.-
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| (...) fantasy (...) I (...) charge (...) I (...) No I don't have landscaping yet, though for battles this big, they can (and were) really only be fought on big plains. The battle of Vo Mimbre was fought on the plain outside of the golden city of Vo (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I'm actually considering doing something similar to this! If anyone reads David Eddings I'm considering recreating the battles of Vo Mimbre (from Belgarath the Sorcerer) and Thull Mardu (from the Belgariad) with LEGO minfigs. For those of you (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.castle)
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