AoM Gatehouse Phase 1 - The Cave

[Tomsche]

The next build in the series for Age of Mitgardia, and together with the Inn tree the only ones I still need to start up, is the Gatehouse series in the Defenses tree. Now the tree specifies at first a simple gatehouse, then a defended Gatehouse and finally the whole shabang with oil and such. This all results if you pass in the Gatekeeper subtitle.

Now, I had a good day in MoCcing today, as you will see over the coming days, but I managed to start and complete no less then 4 builds. So to kick it all off, here is the Gatehouse phase 1.

In the earlier days of rural Mitgardia, when it was still all rough lands, inhabited by savages (which, on the contrary to what a Kaliphlin dandy would tell you, was not `last week`), the `gatehouses` where nothing more then cave passages.

These often where cut from the surrounding hill sides by early dwarven miners, then when they got abandoned over time where often taken over by the first human tribes who inhabited both the caves, as build their early settlements on the other sides of the passages, making great use of the natural defenses that way.

The gatehouses where usually nothing more then raised platforms hewn from the rocks, where the watchers, well, watched for potential dangers, while maintaining fires to one the one hand scare off wild animals, and on the other give travellers a chance to find the passageways.

[Scaevola]

Nice moc, some good rockwork there . However perhaps a little less colors on the ground and some more foliage would improve it.

[mccoyed]

Cool idea for AoM. I have a somewhat similar one involving dwarves but I love that you're doing what seems like a time exposure type thing.

[Hammerhand]

Nice take on the gatehouse challenge! And I see Mitgardia isn't as civilized as Mitgardians like to pretend it is.... Y'all are just a bunch 'o barbarians.

[IenjoyLego89]

Nice little moc, can't wait to see the next one :)

[Alfadas]

Nice MOC! I agree with Scaevola, some more foilage would be nice. Or none at all, with a lot of snow. But it still looks great! Keep m coming!

[kabel]

The build is really and nice and there's an interesting story. However, why are your pictures always so grainy?

[Tomsche]

I got no idea, I think it`s the age of the camera kicking in

[Lord Vladivus]

Nice idea! I agree about less colours on the ground though.

[Gunman]

Nice one Tomsche keep it up! Try find out whats happening with the quality of your pictures because you are losing points with bad photos..

[soccerkid6]

Very neat take on the gatehouse category The rockwork looks a little too regular at the bottom inside the 'gate', having some of the slopes stick out a stud farther, or using some different types of slopes would fix that