Keymonus

Although I'm not a pirate, I've followed all your lessons and they are simply great! Hilarious vignettes and nice cannon design!

Welcome back! I hope to see you back building again. This building is very nice, I think your style improved a lot since the last time. I like the porch and balcony structure, it has a real Caribbean vibe. Nice job with the little irregularities in the walk too!

Thank you guys! I’ve been too busy lately or they would have already be sent to the great alliance states! Fortunately my delay allows me to use for the next storyline about Carno-Lotus war without teleporting them back

I already commented about the magnificent hall/temple in past and I’m still impressed by what you built! Excellent rendering and minifig posing, but some details (the chandeliers for example) really stand out! ps Really looking forward to seeing where will the plotting go!

As usual, great storytelling and greatest of parts! The tiles from the dices of LEGO board games make up a wonderful scheme! I’m looking forward to starting a new AMRCA to make my character visit the Alliance States

Somehow I forgot posting the reply I had written... Magnificent ship, from the hull to the tips of the masts! I’m a great fan of ships with custom hull in general, but this is a masterpiece that fully deserved the front page. Excellent riggings too!

Gorgeous build, huge but still with an incredible level of detail! The architecture is very nice, but what I like most are the pipe organ and the stained glass. Well done!

As usual, thank you @Capt Wolf for the useful results and the exceptional writing, this time you provided them both in a record time! By the way, fortune was definitely on my side… I increased my wealth of almost a half with a single MRCA! *Mariners celebrating, drunken mariners' songs in the distance

Thank you! As soon as I saw that sticker on bricklink I planned to use it in a little cell, it is just perfect! Thank you! Lotii will probably not be as glad as you! Thank you! I saw a field kitchen on a book some time ago and after some attempts I succeed in building one... actually a little too modern (1850 or even later) but in my opinion not so out of place.

Nice little cutter! I like the way you modified the ship and the color scheme is totally Eslandolan. Well done!

Wow, this is an impressive build! I will surely copy the rope bridge, but the barracks hidden in the caves are very well done too! Despite it is a LDD, the minifig posing is well realized too (I know it must have been quite a pain). One of the best hideouts I’ve seen up until now!

Lovely banner! I liked the bunnies but the new one is by far better!

île de Zeus, Astrapi Royal Arsenal, January 620 Name: Rimbaud's Raiders Unit size: Company Type: Light infantry / Chasseurs Motto: On the frontline and beyond A month had barely passed after the end of Infero Pordejon campaign, but winds of war were blowing again on the Brick Seas: two foreign nations were sharpening their claws in the East, ready to jump at each other's throat, and the interests of Oleon could be in danger. Under a cloudy winter sky, the First Light Infantry Company of Astrapi left its barracks and started loading the supplies for the next months on rowboats: weapons, ammunitions, artillery, cannonballs and, even more importantly, preserved food supplies… any good commander should always remember that an army, first of all, marches on his stomach. When a military unit leaves, infinite details must be taken into account: little things, such as a field kitchen (and so edible food rations) or a few bottles of liquors may drastically raise the moral of soldiers during the difficult days of a military expedition. For the same reason hardtacks, bought from civilian suppliers, are carefully checked by the company clerk… in many cases they can be infested by weevils, especially if the cheapest providers are chosen. In Rimbaud's Raiders, however, things are very different: everyone, from the private to the commander, eats exactly the same food, like in pirate crews. Only one of the many peculiarity of this company. The First Light Infantry Company of Astrapi, in fact, is a very peculiar unit. Rimbaud's Raiders were trained and equipped in early 618 at the expense of Tristan Rimbaud, at the time only a retired captain, and only recently they were integrated in regular Oleander Army. These soldiers have been deployed in all the last crises in Fatu Hiva and Infero Pordejon, achieving successes that would have been impossible for a regular unit: tight infantry formations and ordered lines of soldiers are useless in colonial scenarios, where irregular tactics, guerrilla and cooperation with local militias are far more effective. The Raiders have fought hard for Oleon wherever they were needed, becoming an elite unit: in the jungle or on the shore, in the wasteland outside Charlatan Bay or in its alleys, those men were always on the frontline during the most dangerous campaigns, loyal to their commander even when all the odds seemed against them. This was possible only due to a peculiar choice of the commander: the First Company represented in fact a second chance, sometimes the last possible one, for brave and though men without a place in society… the scum of the nation, the undesired, received a second possibility, at the price of a great danger. There were veterans who couldn't return to civil life, trying to drown in alcool their past... ...but also men with a turbulent life, smugglers or even pirates. Once a problem for the nation, the type of problems usually solved with a squalid cell or a canvas rope. Now, part of one of the arrowheads of the Royal Army. With flexible discipline, acceptable food and distribution of loot, the Rimbaud's Raiders are not so different from a pirate crew… their recruitment was quite a gamble, but they are exactly what is needed for the wars in the New World: not ordered lines of toy soldiers to face the enemy, but daring scoundrels to flank him and hit him hard. Tristan and another officer inspecting new muskets A mysterious officer, met by Tristan few weeks before. He gave him new orders from the High Command, determining the departure of the Raiders. Native scouts, a constant element of the campaigns in the New World. Overall view of the scene. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Something I wanted to build long time ago! I used the Rimbaud's Raiders in all my operations, from Fatu Hiva to Charlatan Bay, but they didn't actually exist in EGS terms. I'll license them (better: I'll integrate them in the regular army) as a company, even if I still don't have any idea about where they will go. Not in Charlatan Bay, at least up to now; more probably in the East, to face the Lotii, or in an AMRCA. Anyways, I felt I needed them to exist to continue using them!

Wow, impressive build! All the details, from minifig posing to carriages, from the fence to the SNOT road, are simply great! The fallen flowers are a nice touch too. Great job! Any idea about where this scene could be set? In the motherland or in the colonies?

Beautiful build and great use of parts, using large printed parts is always tricky and you did it excellently. The carriage is very nice too, as well as minifig choice. Well done!

Thank you! I tried some new techniques for the facade, but it didn't turn out as well as I wanted; I'm quite fond, on the contrary, of minifig posing and I'm glad you liked it! Well, bending a knee in front of somebody with a disquieting passion for knives and sacrifices… What could ever go wrong?

Welcome back! I hope it was nothing too serious IRL and, in any case, I’m glad that things are going better now. Our characters never had a chance to meet (otherwise one of them would now be in Davy Jones’ Locker ), but I hope to see James Rulthorpe around soon!

I’m not completely into all the leadership mechanics but if I can help somehow (such as reporting the MRCA outcomes per account in an Excel sheet so that they can be directly copied and pasted in the summary), for this MRCA or for the next ones, please let me know

Nice build, especially the external wall is very nice! I like how you made your build appear lively, with everyone doing something. Your figbarf of light infantrymen is very good too!

Thank you all guys! This time I tried a couple of new things for the facade, but I had to sacrifice the interior... a little compromise between aesthetics and building time! I agree with you, cooperating with “heretics” may put Tristan on the black list of somebody, including a freshly nominated Canon with a concerning passion for barbecues (congrats again @Ross Fisher)... maybe building a little chapel to prove Tristan devotion could be useful! By sure aristocrats’ expression are one of my preferred details... the only problem was taking pictures without “killing” everybody else with the camera

My I suggest you to change the ship name if (hopefully never) you’ll need a Comete IV? It doesn’t seem to be the luckiest name for your ships! By the way, nice little build, it definitely has the feel of an intermediate deck!

île de Zeus, Astrapi Hotel de Ville, January 620 "For the will of our blessed King, under the eyes of the Almighty Gods and of our whole Nation; for your service to the Homeland in peace and in war and for the ancient name of your family; for your bravery, virtue and devotion; you, Tristan of the House of Rimbaud, are awarded the title of Count of Astrapi. You receive all the honours and the duties of your new rank alongside, with all the presents as witnesses. May you bring glory to our Nation, and may the Gods enlighten your path!" Tristan remained unmoved and impassive, as required by the protocol. Anyways, he could almost see the faces of the few noblemen attending the ceremony. He had received the title months before, via letter, for his actions during the dark happenings on Fatu Hiva… a little, but scorching victory against the members of the old aristocracy who always despised him for his low social standing: men with more titles than merits, useless cowards with brave ancestors, who never moved an inch in their life. Tristan knew that many of those men wanted him to be hanged as a traitor for his long permanence in Charlatan Bay: those idiots would have preferred the complete massacre of the Oleander contingent to a victory of a man coming from the ranks of low nobility. Now they would have been forced to greet him with respect, a bitter pill to swallow… Tristan wouldn't have let them forget about that too easily! Fortunately, however, most of Oleander noblemen, and almost all the ones in a relevant position, were different from the inflated balloons behind him. So, instead of facing a firing squad, Tristan was receiving a high decoration in front of the garrison and of a couple of people consumed by rage. "Moreover, for your acts of valour in our colonies and in foreign land, you are awarded the Medal of the Two Swords of class 1 for bravery on the fields of battle and you are promoted to the rank of Regiment General of Oleander army. Bring glory to our Nation, and lead our soldiers to victory!" In foreign land… nobody openly admitted that Tristan had fought for almost two years in a pirate settlement, to restore a pirate government on a pirate island! Tristan sometimes had doubts about his campaign in Charlatan Bay, but he was quite sure that any alternative would have been worse. At least, Acropolis and Astrapi were still standing, and his friend firmly ruled Infero Pordejon. After the ceremony, Tristan was approached by a man in a black uniform, who had remained on the sidelines up to that moment. "Monsieur Rimbaud, strongly felt congratulations for your promotion. Titles, however, are just a mere facade… the real congratulations are for the way you ran a military campaign in hostile territory, against superior forces and with very little support. You could turn foes into friends, destroy the support of the population for the rebels, take the strategic points… my superiors want to talk you about this. We foresee winds of war in the East, with the increased hostility between Corlanders and Lotii. We fear that things will be dirty and irregular, and we think that you and your men could be useful." Tristan followed the man towards the garrison headquarters. So soon… he had arrived in Astrapi only two weeks before, and he already had to leave. It was time to unsheathe the sword again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My character had received the promotion to Count months ago, but I could never build a proper response. With this build, I want to make that (and the new promotion to Regiment General) official.

Clever use of the parts, in particular of the tan tent! Your minifigs are quite nice, as well as the goods loaded on the lateral boats. My only suggestion is that you should take pictures with a plainer background (usually also simple A4 white papers work quite well), I think the presentation would be better.

Clever little build! Probably I should double-check for a lamp every time I find a treasure

Nice minifigs guys! I’m looking forward to the beginning of the challenge to see them in action! Very nice flags too, especially the yellow one!