David FNJ

Location: C02, Hunston Tags: MANTIS AG: The Quiet Land of Hunston by David FNJ, on Flickr After an epic battle on Guinevere, Dave Daring heard of the cease fire with Kawashita (guess Kawashita were scared ;) so he decided to take a little vacation and go sight-seeing. He decided to venture with Ace Jagjit and visit Hunston. On the edges of many of the islands were these small rocks with blue moss-like plants growing on them and orange trees with strange trunks. But most interesting of all were the cute little critters that hopped about so happily in their little world. It seemed that they could protect their large eye by tucking it away in its cushiony body. The first picture does not fit within the 24x24 limit, so I took a second picture and took away a bunch of the blue studs. For judging, please ignore the opening picture in this post. I noticed that builds should be purist, but lacking enough orange leaves to fill the trees I used the awesome altbricks. Are these disallowed? I used them before in another build, then noticed the rule, and then saw that it didn't seem to be a problem.....so I went ahead and used them again in this challenge build. However, if it is not allowed in challenge entries especially, then judging can take into consideration the below photo which is very close to what the scene would have looked like with purist LEGO leaves in the normal green color: Personally, my non-purist methods include minifigures and altbricks leaves (because they look awesome, and because some glow in BLACK LIGHT which makes them even more awesome), but if this is a problem, I guess I'll be editing my leaves to LEGO colors because I don't have enough of the normal leaves to do something like this post (except with dark green). Anyway, I hope you enjoy! For the might of MANTIS!

Woah....that is just creepy! Fantastic shaping for that beast! Really nice work, definitely my favorite from you yet!

Awe, those goats are so cute! They almost look like bugs.... MANTIS like bugs :D

Yikes, that's pretty scary! Nice work!

Haha, that's great! I too am a fan of the laundry room - especially the hamper.

I'm still torn between the two options for number one, and it looks like the polls suggest a similar struggle. Perhaps this will be a trial-and-error type of thing where we test out one method one week, and then another method another week and see which works best?

Woah, that be all kinds of nasty-awesomeness! It looks like it's ready to spew all kinds of ickyness at anyone it comes across.... But MANTIS like bugs, so we would befriend it :D Fantastic shaping here!

That's quite the worm! Glad I didn't run into any of those XD Excellent job!

Masterful shaping on this beast! Welcome to AG :)

Yeah, that rock is fantastic! Great scene!

Those waves are excellently made! The rocks look great too, and those crabs are just adorable!

What a cool landscape! That mech is such a beast! Awesome.

Yeah, this comes before we got word about the cease fire, and it comes right before Ace's build: http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=110912 I hope that clears things up a bit! Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it :D Hopefully my explanation to narbilu helps clear things up about the cease fire thing. I have actually had those lava cheese pieces for well over a year - I got them from a PAB wall

The thorny landscape looks great here! Great job with the lava as well!

Yeah, that lighting definitely makes this scene come alive! Nice work man!

Very nice immersive scene! I like what you did with the tree trunks.

That is amazing! The functionality really brings this to another level! That dump truck really stands out, and I like how you included the big gun on it Lovely colors for the landscaping too, awesome!

That lighting is just awesome! I really like the stripped flooring and the two large lime green sections on the sides. Fantastic work!

Location: A06 - Guinevere Tags: A06, MANTIS, Military, land vehicle AG: Battle on Guinevere by David FNJ, on Flickr Dave Daring------Starstriker---------Ninja Nin------Mark of Orion----Paul Bricktron--Scorpio Starstriker--Isaac Redsyn-----Little John-------Ace Jagjit LET'S DO THIS THING! Watch out for that dropship! It's got missiles! Wow...uh, why don't our robots target it? Great...so much for the robot upgrades.... That blasted robot is in my way from firing at the dropship! Yeah...and now it's headed towards us.... Maybe if the robot would only aim its weapon TOWARDS THE SKY!! I think I got a shot at this! Turning death ray to medium power.... It's too late! Here it comes! I knew I should have picked the death ray...wait... BOOM! OH YEAH! That's what I'm talkin' about! That was just AWESOME! Way to go guys, that was close. Double D! A Kawawiwhatever is coming up on your right! Thanks LJ! The air is now clear! I've been able to pick off a bunch of troops and blow up some of those drones from back here. Let's finish this! Man...didn't get to use my death ray mode... Oh look, NOW our robot is starting to work. I guess it only does well when there are no airships? That's kinda lame. ............that was easy enough. I guess that's what happens when MANTIS is on the battlefield - TOTAL DOMINATION! And...uh, is anyone else's stomach feeling a little icky today? Anyway, Ace, I need you to help blow up a bunch of these Kawashita drones things. I'll be sending you the coordinates once I get back to the dropship. I'm on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note, this story takes place right before Ace Jagjit's build: http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=110912 The spoiler has some black light shots, close-ups on the machines, and minifigure-free landscape shots. AG: Battle on Guinevere by David FNJ, on Flickr

No way man, bright trans-green all the way

Because MANTIS needed an epic picture. Eventually I'd like to be able to make all of your characters (and make these more accurate), but this is about the best I can do for now. MANTIS - The beginning of domination by David FNJ, on Flickr

Well, we do agree to them now. It seems that these specific circumstances were not originally thought of with how they would work with the current rules (and that is reasonably expected with any game), so now Bob (and I assume other staff) decided to make a poll to see if the members think a rule change would be beneficial :) That's all this is really - seeing if a rule change would be good for the game.

Unless you cannot build alien builds on planets that have 0 domination points at the start of some week. Say Octan wants to go for planet B during week W. At the start of week W, planet B has no domination points on it. Thus, throughout the entire (W) week, no corporation may post alien builds on that planet. The week after week W, when Octan already has 38 points on the planet, can other corporations build alien builds on planet B. In fact, I think this new alien rule would be nice so that corporations cannot prevent a planet from being dominated because they feel like posting a bunch of alien builds the same week as a corporation is going for a certain planet. Aliens should counteract after their planet has been invaded. In sum, new additions to the Alien builds: 1. Alien builds cannot be posted on a planet that does not have any domination points on it on the beginning of the week (Monday). 2. Alien builds cannot decrease a planet's domination points by more than the amount of domination points that planet began with. (example: planet B has 5 domination points on it at the beginning of the week. A corporation cannot remove more than 5 domination points from that planet that week even if other corporations build normal builds on that planet.)

Voting no for calculating domination after all of the builds are scored means to keep it as is which is calculate domination after each build is scored.

I would like to transfer 83 credits from Dave Daring to Mark of Orion