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Re: Weekend of LEGO Pirate Games!
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Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:18:31 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Frank Filz writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
> > Ideally you use actual island baseplates. Granted, this may
> > be difficult or impossible nowadays--but I remember we had
> > islands of all sizes, some 16x16, some 16x32, some 32x32. It
> > is, as always, governed by what you want to be on the island.
> > BTW, 8x32 tan baseplates from 6444 make excellent sandbars and
> > reefs!
> >
> > I'm hoping to put together a fairly large island this time
> > around, built of bricks on four 32x32 blue baseplates, but we
> > shall see...
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> The available space, compared with how much open sailing you want really
> determines how many and how big the islands are. When we played at
> Brickfest, we had 4 islands in the 32x32 or bigger real (plus several
> ports at the edge of the game area).
The only downside, IMHO, is that so many of our islands were,
well, square. Granted, this is hard to avoid, but I'm going
to try and put together some more organic-shaped islands.
> See the pictures on my web site for an idea of layout (and looks like I
> need to go find the Boger's pictures....)
Ack. I think they posted the URL in .wamalug...but I
don't remember ever seeing their pics.
> http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Lego/pirate-brickfest2000.html
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> > BTW: Ought we go looking for a big blue plastic tarpaulin
> > (that sort of recyclable-bag plastic consistency?) to lay
> > down if there's no carpet on the floor? I'd contribute a
> > few bucks to such a buy. Of course, if we have blue, grey,
> > or green carpet in situ, we're OK already...but is there any
> > carpet in the venue under discussion?
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> Oooh gosh, I hope we have carpet...
Me too. Chris? Any word on what the material amenities are
like?
best
LFB
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| (...) Yea, it would be nice to have less square islands, though it really doesn't affect the game that much. I do like the Belville base bricks for the reason that the islands do look a little less square. Frank (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.gaming)
| | | Re: Weekend of LEGO Pirate Games!
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| (...) Ah, figured out what was wrong, just had my URLs for the thumbnails screwed up... All fixed, and while I was there, I fixed the links to Richard Parsons's pages (actually they were fixed earlier, I just finally got around to uploading the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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| (...) The available space, compared with how much open sailing you want really determines how many and how big the islands are. When we played at Brickfest, we had 4 islands in the 32x32 or bigger real (plus several ports at the edge of the game (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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