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Dr. Cogg for best tower..it looks very majestic to me.

Best Trap: mrcp6d

The boat is well done, nice job not using prefab parts.

Excellent details and the colors flow well.

I'm impressed... Yea that's the phrase I want use.

Wow...captivating story, looking forward to the next part.

Lord Osric should give his engineers lots of cheese for this one.

Kinda reminds me of a game I used to play. The teachers would strike and you just throw money at them for them to relax. Nice counter!

Very nice micro build.

Very nice build.

Are the uniforms custom? and wonderful build.

Cozy little keep. Keep it up sir.

Excellent tower, but the landscaping on this really is the part that stands out. The river is looks very smooth, not blocky or edgy.

Great tower by itself but an even cleverer execution of the idea!

Bureaucracy rules! Nice counter sir.

Very nice double counter. The interior looks solid!

Nice variation of plant life in the garden, great battle poses and buildings. Your giving my entry a run for it's money sir.

Nice work on the micro figures.

The time you took to add details are really noticeable. I like the angled towers, the monkey on the carpet (you and monkeys of course) the stream crossings and the colors are wonderful. Great entry!

I like the whole Byzantium type feel to it. Nicely done!

This is an amazing MOC. The action, details and scale are all impressive.

THAT base is wonderful!

How did you get the tower to lean like that? Also as far as C&C goes, I think the colors are a bit to abrupt and rigid. I think color balance and blending would help this build stand out more. Hope I didn't offend in anyway.

Thank you all for your awesome comments. If you've enjoyed my assault on the spice islands, as far as foliage and greenery goes, I think you will all enjoy what I have coming towards the end of summer...I plan to do the Spice Islands justice.

So heres my response to this: I have a few thoughts on this ,the first one being the build itself. It is very well orchestrated and has a lot of wonderful techniques, particularly the tree and the wheat. Now for the content-Being an African American male from the deep south of the United States, my first reaction to this build is that it disturbed me. To see my hobby turned into a graphic illustration of my ancestor's history was and still is very unsettling. However, I am a person of logic and rationale, and my overall response is this: If we as lego enthusiasts can depict historical battles (Gary's "Battle of New Orleans" comes to mind), killing, theft and other forms of social disorder and violence in mankind's history, then this build should not be treated any different. This is causing such an outcry because it depicts a form of racial violence, however all historical violence depicted in these forums are a form of racial violence. From caucasians killing caucasians, to members of asian societies raiding and pillaging each other, to different races attacking each other in the Guilds of Historica and the Pirate forum, to this. Either we open all of history to interpretation with legos or we restrict everything, essentially it's all or nothing. On top of that, I sense no malicious intent from this build or it's builder, only a wish to depict a historical scene, no matter how disturbing it may be. I am not saying I approve the content of this build by any means, all I'm saying is that to say that "You can't build or depict this because some people may get offended" is both ignorant and, depending on the builder (such as myself who is a castle builder, which were very violent times) hypocritical. So in short, excellent build, the content is disturbing to me, but I understand the meaning behind this and why the builder built it. Hope this adds another perspective on this. Now back to raiding and pillaging in Historica.