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Re: CASTLE WARS
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:36:34 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes:
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> > In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes:
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> > > Of all the various lands and kingdoms in the Castle universe, which group
> > > would survive a great war!
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> > > If each force ( all 12 ) entered into a gigantic battlefield, who would
> > > emerge as the survivor!
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> Sounds ‘incredible,’ can't wait to see the pictures!!!
> Do you have a landscape set up for this enormous battle?
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> 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.
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 Mimbre (which means I need to
get my hands on a Yellow Castle if I'm going to do it right) which had a great
forest near it (after the battle the forest was chopped down for firewood,
I'll let you figure out what they needed to burn). Thull Mardu is a city on a
plateau with a river running by it, that's about all the landscaping that goes
into these battles. This project is still in the early stages anyway.
I would reccomend David Eddings if you liked the other authors you mentioned.
His first book in the Belgariad is Pawn of Prophecy. It's the beginning of
the 5-book Belgariad, which is follwed by the 5-book Mallorean. That is then
followed by two stand-alone books that detail the back story of the world. He
also has a seperate series in a different world which I haven't read. Be
forwarned that the beginning of Pawn of Prophecy can be slow, so give it some
time, it's the only slow part of the whole 10 books.
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.castle)
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