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I keep looking at this and I have to say that I really like it for a lot of reasons already mentioned. However, I think arches on the under side of the brigde would improve this build even more!

no way, we're too chilled too be easily fooled by hot blooded head-less Kaliphlins! *sings: Rule Mitgardia, Mitgardia rules the seas ...*

I'll be sendig some troops too, without my hero though, he's still in a monastery recovering from the blows he recieved lately!

as Mitgardian you are eventually forced to remove the arms, there simply is no other way to get the green arms into the chainmail torsos ...

brilliant Legonardo (as always) if this was for sale, I'd buy it the very instant!

Mikel, this is spectacular and I really like that someone else beside me is still building in Varlyria. Can't wait to see the additions to this moc!!

I got quite a bit in dark grey, black and red, no light bley though, never seen it

Now Kristel, with all that commenting on GoH mocs its about time you joyned the guilds yourself , preferably Mitgardia though, the one and only place for mocing ladies ...

that's what happens to those who don't shell out enough mocs

nah, that's just this Minnsota accent, you know ... too much German blood up there in the woods

@cara; great to see that you're back with us again! I feared you had given up for good as have so many others. So, I'm really looking forward to your new mocs, I'm sure they are going to be awesome!!

Thanks guys, @frank: I appriciate your feedback quite a bit. I seem to have a thing with Portugese ships, and it's thus quite cool to recieve such positive feedback from a Portugese. That said, I'll see what I can do about making the frontcastle higher. As for the Revell model, I kinda like it and relied on it for quite a while although I do know, that it's not quite accurate. @sebeus: the inversed 1*3*1 slopes in red brown are extremely difficult to get. But, I won't be able to finish the stern caslte before I can get two more. @MIATH: gald you like it, what do you mean with clean edges though?

Mitgardia is on your heels!!

thanks guys, if it was in the urukay army I should have one too, where did I put it?

I guess that's what ska meant with land rush, and I with the charter idea @Eryn: interesting idea

hey mikkel, great idea to carry a character through a series of mocs by different builders, perhaps we should include more stuff like that in the GoH chapter II. Other than that, great build and actually I think the photography is alright with me!

where does it say you need 35? I don't have that many either ... @eccs: which set are the green coats from?

sk, why do you post this here and not as a Mitgardian free build, it even has a Mitgardian flag in the garden? Other than that, great stuff, I really like it, could be just somewhere along the Valholl city wall!!

@grimmbeard: unforutunately I didn't take pictures duing that stage, and now I'm content with two sections. I'm still not sure about the front mast, but these are the model and the drawing I'm mostly relying on, and you can see that the bow part does look a bit odd: So I'm not really sure how to solve the issue

there is a lot of good stuff in what you write! Can't really disagree with anything of that!

@ska: Just a little reminder what you said about colonization yourself. I think you're sort of contridacting yourself here. I pretty up much came up with the charter idea after reading your comment about a land rush and your ideas about portugese exploration. I really wonder why people keep telling that they don't want pirates, when I never said anything pirates myself. Also, as you mention different sort of charters, that is perfeclty fine for GoH. Maybe the guilds could hand out different charters as well. But, If we were to leave things here without the one or the other rule we end up with 25 different continents, which I don't think makes a lot of sense. PS: damn, wasted my 1000th post on discussing where I should be presenting a moc

yep, I know what you're talking about. Can't seem to be able to finish any town or pirate mocs anymore. It's all been boiling down towards GoH ...

I don't want red vs. blue in this part of the forum either. I just want to make GoH more interesting and give new members the incentive not to stop building after one or two builds. And, the more I read about the Henry the Navigator, the more some parts of the Portugese exploration start to become very appealing to me.

I think you have some very valid points here. Personally I was always thinking more about question two than one, I have to admit. So while we can solve question 1 rather easily, question 2 is much harder to be answered. For myself I can say, that what kept me building here is this sense of community and mutual appreciation that is much stronger here than in the pirates forum, where I started out mocing some 3,5 years ago. I also think GoH really helped me to get down to serious mocing for good and expand my building reportoire. However, If we can't manage to attract new members I fear that sooner or later GoH is going to become a really slow endeavour. It's already slowed down considerably in recent months, and I don't really like that. I want to keep going with this project. As for my suggestions: who's to say that handing out charters would place us between caslte and pirates? With the advent of Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) exploring and colonizing actually started around 1450, the time we set ourselves in the beginning. It really is an awesome time and that's why I think we could also incorporate some elements of it while staying active in the home guild at the same time.

aye, that's how we want to deal with it! So the winners determines the future of GoH, I can totally live with that. However, I'd definetely like if the original guild leaders stayed around as at least normal citizens.