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[I3erent]

The rules are simple build a castle that kiccks a$$.  The minimum requiremements are to include all twenty parts in a real medieval castle.
The list is here...
                        http://www.castles.me.uk/parts-of-castle.htm
Sign up will end at midnight tonite. 1-10-09  the entries must be received by 1-17-09.

For those with less time you may join the judges list.
1.  Judging will be as follows,  each judge will get a first, second and third place vote.  The castle  with the most votes wins.  All things should be considered when judging a castle.  Judges may post a review of castles after voting.

2.  BUILDERS Anything Goes at least a minimum of all parts listed.

That being said let the games begin!
                         
Brave contestants...


Duke 2.0
detinith
ArkDelgato
MagicJuggler
Ivefan
Artyr


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[ArkDelgato]

This will be fun just for the story's of how it all went wrong.

[Sinergistic]

http://www.castles.me.uk/parts-of-castle.htm

Fixed your link. Looks interesting.

[I3erent]

Yea i fixed it too, so if you want in as a contestant or a judge say so and ill post the list, registrations has started.  This is strictly a one week challenge.

[ArkDelgato]

I already started, so sure, I'll sign up.

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

Your link shows more than 20 parts to a castle, did you have any particular 20 in mind?

[I3erent]

All of em I think some are the same with different names.

[ArkDelgato]

Todays fort was a bust.
Got some stone...Interuppted by fireman.

Shoot.

[Duke 2.0]

 Started on this. However, due to constraints of DF, we won't be able to construct a hill and build a castle on it. I will try to make one in a plain as accurately as possible.

 Now to get the Humans fired up again.

[I3erent]

Nice.  Here is the basis to start from players...  http://www.castles.me.uk/motte.htm

[Artyr]

But isn't a motte-and-bailey castle a different type of castle?

Anyway, I'll do it. Some of these sound interesting to build, like murder holes and the oubliette. Great for getting rid of those pesky nobles. Or cats.

[Ivefan]

I'd like a speciffic list of what you intend rather than what's on that site as many of them don't mix.
Following seems a good list.
Outer walls, moat, Fortifications, Gatehouse(& portcullis), Drawbridge
Keep;Buttery, Oratory/Chapel, Great hall(Minstrels gallery), Solar(Lord&Lady's Quarters) with connected Bowery.
Dungeon;Cells & Oubliette

[MagicJuggler]

And not all castles had moats...the one I have in mind is right next to the ocean anyway...

[Duke 2.0]

 Well, anything that creates a choke-point really. Ocean peninsulas are great for that, as well as rocky terrain.

 Doesn't stop people from constructing hundred-foot ramps to reach the walls of your mountiancity though.

 But yes, Motte-and-Baily castles are largely impractical in DF because hills come in two flavors: Larger than a region square and smaller than a field of Magnetite.

[ArkDelgato]

Oh god I left DF on over night.

2 miners and a woodcutter dead (from the 7)
all grass burned...
I love this game.