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Offline Rhalius

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Arrival of the 3666.
« on: November 11, 2011, 23:18:36 »
As promised, heres the pictures of my new assets.

For starters, the castle in all its glory with all included items. One of the chairs might not be that visible here but its there. Only items missing are the pigeons and the tower shield. To compensate, the items laying in front of the horse where in the set as compensation despite not being depicted on the seller's pictures.


I also bought the castle expansion set with the breakable wall, I already had the siege tower so this will allow some nice siege diorama's.
Sadly its not as complete as the 3666 and the replacement items arent always that great.

A grappling hook and two clickies with a black shirt and red pants are not included, and the knight on horseback does not have the correct helmet.
While I don't mind the extra purple dragon soldier since I have some of those, I'd have prefered him in soldier armor and not knight armor since I already have several sets of this design and its certainly not my favorite design. The rope for the crane is missing too but shouldnt be difficult to find a rope for.

And I also bought the prisoner transport with it, which can be seen entering the castle here, along with the tower soldiers from the previous set.
I am still thinking about how I will place that expansion set.


The three sets together and the shipping costs where 156,75 euro, which seems like a good deal to me.

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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2011, 23:24:43 »
Great, a fair deal for such a nice castle with klicky's and acessories. Thanks for showing. If you want to post some more pictures... Be my guest. :D
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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 23:45:37 »
And here is where my old clickies meet the new arrivals, quite ironic though that they are welcomed into their new home by these new arrivals.

The Fleur du Lis king shakes hands with the tower nobleman while the crowd cheers for the band of kinsmen that has survived this long in this dangerous land without any castle for protection.

There is trouble right away however, decisions need to be made about how this alliance is going to work.

The three friends Henry, Roderick and Frederick do their best to help their leaders reach a sensible agreement as ego's clash.
After several hours they are in agreement however.
The fleur du Lis will rule the castle since they are the only faction with a line of kings. This gives more leverage in diplomacy, which they will handle for all three.
The tower faction will be in charge of security, since they have the most soldiers.
And the Swan Knights are in charge when the fight is taken to the enemy, their brash and daring approach can intimidate the enemy.

And with that agreement signed by all three leaders, all of the castle's nobility gathers to listen to the poem written by the tower herald, who wrote a poem for this occasion that celibrates the strenghts of each faction.







While more poetry is recited, Frederick mentions to Roderick and Henry that he saw some good wine inside the castle.. so together they sneaked off to help themselves to an old bottle of wine, and they raise their glasses in celibration for this wonderfull new home.


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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2011, 00:23:54 »
Nice pics, Rhalius!
Congrats on these fine purchases! :)
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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2011, 00:57:15 »
A nice little story showing your klickys working out their territorial disputes! Really cute!
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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2011, 02:22:23 »
Great story! It's good to see them settling in. The 3666 is one of the best sets ever.

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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2011, 03:52:25 »
Those sets look fantastic together! Great story of them meeting!
Thanks for sharing the pics.  :)

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« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2011, 07:06:02 »
What a great little story!!!  :love: I like how you gave each function a role in the land!!! The feeling is really wonderful when you set up this kind of event... Thanks fro sharing an posting these pics!!!

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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2011, 07:52:15 »
Congrats to this wonderful castle !  :wave:

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Re: Arrival of the 3666.
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2011, 09:16:14 »
Thanks everyone.  :)

It was truly amazing to open up the box and see all that steck. I saw plenty here on the forums from you guys of course, but the old schuldtrum from my brother is the only steck I ever touched, none of my friends had any either during my childhood. And that set barely holds together, I cant remember those parts clicking together and requiring a bit of tugging to pull loose.

Its really going to open up lots of possibilities for stories, the other factions still need to decide on wether to support this alliance as a vassal, or band together to challenge it. The two kids could also have all kinds of adventures in the castle, the three friends could go on their infamous hunting trips, a traitor could cause trouble, etc.