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Re: Weekend of LEGO Pirate Games!
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lugnet.gaming
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Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:04:27 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
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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...
> >
> > 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).
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> 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.
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> > See the pictures on my web site for an idea of layout (and looks like I
> > need to go find the Boger's pictures....)
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> Ack. I think they posted the URL in .wamalug...but I
> don't remember ever seeing their pics.
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 fixed pages).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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