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Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Intro Thread, Era II
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Same here, the Throne of Gonda needs some GM input... -
Location: Fatu Hiva Type: MCRA Outcome The Count gazed out at the sea, from the Captain's Cabin of the WTC Libertine. "..and so you're sure, absolutely sure that Corrington is going to war with Oleon over Terraversa?" asked Darby incredulously. "Darby, would I ever lie to you?" asked the Count. "Not five minutes ago, you literally..." Darby paused. "Well I guess if you believe the lie you're technically not lying, because you believe what you're saying?" He asked, trying to consider the mind-boggling logic the Count employed. "Well, either way Darby, you're a pawn in a small game of nations and personalities, and we're raiding Fatu Hiva." Said the count with his usual exuberance. "Also, just FYI, you will probably be tried for war crimes if I am." Darby briefly considered his life decisions, before quietly concluding the Count was messing with him, though he reminded himself to restock the bag of embezzled money, and fake documents with fresh supplies... A bell on deck clanged. They had arrived. The crew scurried to make preparations for the landing. The Count Strode onto the deck, peered through his spyglass. "Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you our prize.... Fatu Hiva..." Said the Count. He paused. "And, may Prometheus grant us strength over these nutcases. Remember, no looting till the town stops shooting!" The WTC marines through up a cheer, and signal flags were waved. "FIRE!" He shouted The deck of the WTC Libertine shook, as it's cannons let loose a volley. Across their battle line, the Heavy Cannons of the WTC Blackbird, WTC Icarus Returning, and 7 other ships pounded the Large and Small fort of Fatu Hiva. The Cannon volleys reduced the two forts' batteries into rubble, before their gunners could properly return fire. The WTC's love of destruction was proudly on display. The Count let loose an evil chuckle. "They should have built bigger forts..." The Count ordered the ships to approach the beaches, and to land men on the beaches. A small gun placement managed to hit the WTC Rising Sun, rendering it helpless, but the Count continued undeterred. The Count himself boarded a small boat, to the protests of Darby, and soon the WTC had descended upon the beaches... On the beach, a different Count emerged, as he called targets, ordering his men forwards... The Oleanders were tough, but they were outnumbered, and outgunned. A tan tide overwhelmed the beach, and the WTC Marines quickly began to overrun their positions. A Soldier drew his cutlass and charged at the Count. A single pistol shot struck him in the forehead, and he slumped over. The Count grinned, and continued his advance forwards. The Beach was quickly overwhelmed, as the smell of smoke and blood choked the air. A few holdouts had taken shelter in a small house. With a loud crack, a machete wielding marine crashed through the door. As they raised their muskets, another Marine poked his rifle through the back of the building. The beach was soon clear of resistance, Oleander Marines retreated up into the city, in a desperate bid to regroup, and defend their settlement.... To Be Continued.... Thanks for viewing my build! I'm glad to finally wrap this one up. I had a lot of trouble with the WTC Libertine, (Which FYI, is an IC ship only, and not licensed at the moment.), and it still needs some more work, but you can't see it in how the photos are cropped, hopefully. The Fort was inspired by one of Phred's , and the beach scene by one of Ayrlego's builds of villager huts. I had a lot of fun with the beach scenes, though I am a tad disappointed the KPA had the descriptor be "Mostly Bloodless" . C&C appreciated, and I'll probably do at least one more of these before moving on to the next project.
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Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Intro Thread, Era II
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Cool, thank you for the clarification. I read your post wrong, my apologies! -
Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Intro Thread, Era II
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Indeed, but let's say troops are part of the raid. Wouldn't they then be commanding troops and eligible for commander skill? I'm totally fine with that not being the case, I just personally think that raids into settlements should earn commander score. (This is not at all related to the Count capturing a settlement last turn! ) Also thanks @Ayrlego! -
Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Intro Thread, Era II
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Rules Request / Clarification: For Naval Raids that involve the use of a Commodore/Admiral/National Hero, can Commander Skill be gained from successful raids? -
Nice Micro Bodi, the fort angles are done quite well. I also like the vignette of the wall.
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Well, that's just the choice of leadership. Personally, I'd love to send the Count rampaging into the Oleander heartlands, but BoBS prefers to avoid the old world.
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[COR-FB] Keeping the peace in Fatu Hiva
Mesabi replied to Brickwolf's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Nice build Brickwolf. Very neat and well put together. The cobblestone is especially well done. Also, the WTC doesn't really 'Steal' horses. The idea of stealing implies we're taking the Horse's for their intended use of transportation. If anything, I think the WTC are technically horse poachers! Yes, I do, but I want to get my builds for Fatu Hiva done before starting that project. Also, thanks for explaining it Brickwolf! (Though we should look into renaming this settlement as well...) -
Nice build KotZ It's well detailed, and well rendered. I see negotiations are going well.... If this is Minor, then I can't wait for major!
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[OL-KPA REACTION] Conquer the Citadel!
Mesabi replied to Keymonus's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Absolutely excellent build Keymonus, in terms of story and design. I love all the little details, such as the scattered trans clear bits as broken glass, or the tilted portraits. The Harry Potter wands being used to reload muskets is a nice touch as well. It's fantastic to see such good fig selection too, especially with each figure being given a bit of perspective as well. Great job with the build, and an excellent conclusion to the King's Port Battle as well!- 8 replies
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On the road to Pamu [Collab - part 1]
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Excellent build Bregir, and great story work as well, the dialog really adds to the build. The water wheel and texturing on the building and wall look excellent, and I look forwards to the rest of these collab builds. -
Brethren of the Brick Seas (BoBS) Intro Thread, Era II
Mesabi replied to Bregir's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
I definitely can see the placement rule as something that can easily be exploited, but it's never been an issue so far. I think a lot of us abide by the gentleman's agreement of having the ship placement make sense, and I hope we continue to do so. -
(I'm assuming it's ok to comment here, as the discussion is taking place in the main peace thread!) Nice looking build, and I really like the tilework. Your writing is definitely on par though here, and I love the back and forth between the characters!
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Nice build Bodi, You really have a good technique for making ships look good to scale, and she turned out quite nice. Excellent job with the sails and rigging as well!
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[SR-FB-Large Commerce] A Crab-filled Endeavour
Mesabi replied to Count Vroskri's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Nice build Vroski, the wood frame and the stonework look quite nice together. I think your shoreline is a tad bare, but otherwise great build. I really have seen you improve quite quickly on here, and it's quite impressive!- 10 replies
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And a third massive Ship! You're on fire today Cap, and I really like how you managed to make all three of your LDD ships distinct. Each one is quite detailed, and decently different then each other, which isn't always easy to do I've noticed. You've nailed all the curves quite well, and again, the sails are done quite creatively. Great job! In other news, I think I'm going to have to invest in a few forts!
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[OL-FB] Coal Mine 3 Glory Seekers Part 2
Mesabi replied to CapOnBOBS's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Nice followup Cap, but I can't say I'm a fan of the overhanging cabin, it's just a bit jarring visually to me. Otherwise, great build though, and you've definitely been showing off your LDD skills lately. -
Excellent build Cap, and I like the look of her a bit more than the other one you put out today. I think the gilding gives it just a slightly better colour palate, though they both hold up in construction the same in my opinion. I just love the feel of her, she looks so powerful! You definitely nailed the curves! (and that cross section is a great demonstration, thank you) I'm curious, any particular ship you based her on?
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Oh boy, another large ship for La Royale. I'm hoping that'll be conducting operations in Terraversa, instead of anywhere else on the Brick Seas.... I love the use of those old fashioned space cockpits as sails. I wish they'd have thought to do that with their real sets, it works quite well. All in all, definitely a solid build. Only thing I'd suggest is the cannons on the top deck look a bit large, and out of scale for the ship, and I think brick built could have worked a bit better. Great build though, and I look forwards to seeing what battles she takes part in.
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Excellent build Tom, and the paneling on the sides looks excellent. I like how the exterior is a slightly different scale than the minifig interiors, it looks very nice.
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Thank you Fraunces! Thank you Evan! If you mean the tiles with the three red stripes and crossed muskets, those are custom printed. @Darnok had them printed a few years back using a simple logo I made. This build is the planning (or lack there of) of the Raid of Fatu Hiva, i.e. right before it. I'll be doing the raid builds next / soon, but I've been swamped with life recently, and only really had time for the forum.
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I was told once that the 4 main factions were very set in stone, but that was ages ago. I'd be surprised if that changed. A few details I will add: Back in ye old times, when I was far more arrogant, I drew up some rough outlines for a lot of the Lore to the Southern nations. Very little of it was used, but I think these details kind of remain: I remember a decent amount of us agreeing that the The Southern Peninsula can be called the 'Kawashita' peninsula, as a reference to Andromeda's Gates, but it was never finalized. Dranmonto is the Japan analog, mostly due to how the islands look, and there was decent agreement on it being the Japan analog. (I remember this being like one of the only things we all agreed upon in that committee lol) Kemblarsi used to be a part of Kemblar, mostly because of my AMCRA there. I think it has it's leaders defined in the AMCRA, but that's about it, and It doesn't go into much detail over culture, aesthetics, so I'd say it's like 5% defined. I also have a mostly complete Jameis Farstrider's entry for Namere, but it needs some tweaks and updates, and approval. I'm a little attached to Namere, and the basic gist of it is, Italian City States, Nordic Culture.
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[GOC-FB-COR] Fort Stockton, Wullham
Mesabi replied to evancelt's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Excellent landscaping evan, and sorry I didn't comment on this earlier. I've got to say, your use of Duplo to build larger builds is definitely an effective technique that I hadn't seen on the Brick Seas before your arrival! I really like the style of the main building. It reminds me a lot of the officers quarters at Fort Snelling. (unfortunately, that seems to be the one building there's no good photos on the internet of! ) The Tile work at the base of the entrance is especially well done too. I think the one thing I'd definitely say the build is missing, is an interior. I'm always a fan of interiors (and the lack of them is probably my most common critisism!), And I really feel like a partial one could have been done here on the back side of the building. I think that making buildings a facade, and putting a partial interior is a good compromise between the exterior scale, and interior scale of Lego builds, and it would have been a great finishing touch here. That's just me however, and the build is fine without it! It also could use a bit more action, there's a lot of kind of empty space that could have used a bit more detailing. Maxim made a bit of a point about the fort looking a little small in comparison to the landscape. All in all, the build looks excellent though, and it's certainly a testament to your talents. Great job!- 15 replies
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[COR-TROOP] New Recruits in Wullham
Mesabi replied to evancelt's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Great looking build Evan, and landscaping is excellent. I like the grey uniforms as well, and it's a solid build. -
[ESL - TROOP] Mercs of Fuerte Unido
Mesabi replied to gedren_y's topic in Brethren of the Brick Seas
Interesting cast you have there. Nice terrain work too. I look forwards to seeing them go to battle!