halfir

I am currently designing Gondolin in LDD, and hope to produce a brick-built version over the next few months. I am recently out of my Dark Ages and have a really limited collection of bricks, so testing large LDD designs for stability is really difficult without first buying thousands of bricks. I am particularly worried about the stability of the high wall sections. My current design is a 32-stud wide wall section constructed of 1x2 bricks supported by three flying buttresses. I plan on making the wall 32-36 bricks high, with a buttress every 10 bricks of height, and am afraid that the wall will not be stable enough. For those of you with experience building large castle walls, will I be better off making them with 2x2 bricks, or is my current design viable? Thanks for all of your help!