Suddenly, horrifyingly, textures were applied…
By means of hitting with big bricks anything that came within range - and lobbing big bricks with ballistae at anything that was further afield, the Shabby Hyena Weirdo has now more or less completed the construction of Defensive Gates, Walls and Towers more or less accurate-ish to those of the Roman site at Xanten.
As well as the whopping Gate, there are two Wall sections, one long, one short, and two Towers, one ‘solid’ and one with an archway (see above) for the access of minor roads… (They’re Romans, remember - never attempt anything without sufficient roads.) All archways are walkable.
A sprinkling of not very authentic Romans are provided so that you can judge scale. Precise sizes of structures are estimated from images and a Xanten site plan which brilliantly had no actual scale on it.
Thanks are due to my mother however, for some useful guidance and measurements from other similar Roman sites. My mother’s the historian of this family, I’m a zoologist and thus more familiar with grappling animals who do not wish to be studied than I am peering at pot shards and thus gaining unbelievable insight into how the pot’s owner lived a thousand years earlier. Me, I just say they were damned careless with their pots.
Inner sides of the Walls are a bit more interesting than the outer. Inner sides of Gate and non-archway Tower have doors for legionaries to go in and out of… or they could if the doors actually opened, which they don’t, but…
Probably nobody’s noticed - especially given the repugnantly low quality, crushed to a paste jpegs seen here - that there are no doors leading out from Gatehouse or Towers onto the Wall walks. I did put them on, but they proved to be a hideous impediment to placing Walls and Towers exactly how I wanted them in the Toolset. So I ripped them off again, stamped on them and threw them away. Having to line up the Walls exactly to the doors limited the way the Placeables could be used considerably. And besides, nobody’s likely to ever notice - or wouldn’t have done if I hadn’t just drawn colossal amounts of attention to said portalesque deficiency.
Tested all walkmeshes by the unsightly and undignified means of throwing myself madly at solid Walls and, to nobody’s surprise, bouncing off again like a rubbery whassname. The archways all work for the going in and out of. I may make a few minor chages and there’s at least one texture I want to hit with a giant brick. But, essentially, the basic defensive structures of a Roman town are done and I’m sure even Trajan himself would approve - if not, I’ll push his own Column over onto him.
Shall make final tests and then dump them all into an unfeasibly massive kind of Big Sack or Bag and nail them to the Vault in the likeness of a big heap. Then you can see if they’re any damn use to you at all.
