As Fort Arltrees expands to fill the naturally protected cove that made it such an attractive location for a settlement, protection from the Red Coats has become more and more important. The point dominating the mouth of the cove has been justly named referred to as, "Gatekeeper Point" and the construction of a large fort has made the title even more appropriate. 

Angled stone walls deflect incoming fire and protect the garrison. 

Heavy cannon ring the fort, elevated a dozen bricks above the water line at high tide, gaining not only protection, but plunging fire against would-be attackers. 

As the rock formations drop off into the water, erosion has carved the cove out to nearly a right angle. The heaviest defenses face seaward over this rocky coastline.  

Nearly as formidable arsenal faces inward towards the calm waters of the cove. 

The primary gate leads out directly inland towards the rapidly growing town of Fort Arltrees.

Inside we can see COL Jacque Dyan coming out to inspect a coastal patrol before departure. 

A guard tower reaches high above the inland corner to provide extended observation to the crew and to keep his Majesty's Flag flying over the town. 

As peace talks plod along in Terraversa, the Brick Seas remain on edge and tensions run high. Conflict is everywhere, just this morning, guards observed two grabs fighting over an clam. In the end, all three were delicious. 

 

Edited March 31, 20213 yr by CapOnBOBS

An excellent fort! The sloped walls look great, and just the right amount of exposed bricks!

I love LEGO forts. The way that you made the walls slant - how?

Nice work @CapOnBOBS! Nice wall angles and the terrain looks good. I see you incorporated @Bregir's suggestion for some 1x2 plates alongside the 1x2 masonry profile bricks for texture.

Well built fort and beautiful scenery. I like the angled walls on the lake side. The tower and courtyard make it interesting.

Wow, nice fort! As others said, the angled walls are excellent, and the sea to land transition is very well executed (although the coast is a little bit too 90-degree angled). Great addition to our defensive system!

Thanks all! Slight Edit (Keymonus had already pulled the settlement over the upgrade threshold!) 

9 hours ago, MAVERICK26 said:

I love LEGO forts. The way that you made the walls slant - how?

You are talking to a guy who used to just stare at those great display pages showing off the whole pirate theme imagining the sweet fort I was going to build some day. As for the slant... 1 x 2 x 3 slopes, stacked 3 tall so far seems to be just the right height (total of 9 bricks high). If you stack 3 of those up, you can just lean a wall section 9 bricks high against it (last couple photos show this well). If you then end one of those leaning wall sections with another stack of 3 (1 x 2 x 3) slopes then it creates a leaning brace that you can then lean another stack against. That allows the two sloped walls to come together flush (photo 1.... very satisfying). Behind it there are some supports stacked 9 bricks high that the plates above are actually supported by and the walls can also lean against. I say 9 bricks high is the magic number because it just seems to line up just right that those plates on top can be pushed down flush with the leaned wall (I kinda dorked this up anyway and in most of the shots there is a bit of a gap, but in photo 2 you can see the plates sit nice and flush with the sloped wall.)

To @Keymonus valid critique, I have only been able to work this out with the bricks still coming together at right angles and will continue to tinker for a way to make some more exciting star forts (OPEN TO GOOD TECHNIQUE EXAMPLES?). Trying to max fort space and bring the walls right up to the shore, I was about 90% through when I stepped back, pushed all 4 plates together and saw that I really hadn't managed to vary the organic shorelines well enough to be convincing. 

Edited March 31, 20213 yr by CapOnBOBS

Thanks! Is it okay if I use these techniques in a MOC I plan to do?

1 hour ago, MAVERICK26 said:

Is it okay

Ha, of course, I dont claim ownership, but anyway, all I do here is plagiarize. But also, "sure, that'll be 5 bucks..."

I'll take your entire stock!

Your digital designs have all been really good, but it's still fun to see something done with real bricks. That's a very convincing fort with a cool classic look. The sloped walls are nicely done and that's an impressive amount of firepower.