The Greatests Babel Towers!



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Ponce and I spent 3 days building this masterpiece.

Gabrui · July 25, 2014, 6:56pm

Another great tower, designed by me, built by teamwork.

Click for details

http://s25.postimg.org/czgu26z6n/client_2014_07_25_15_49_26_190.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/crxsjfdlr/client_2014_07_25_15_49_33_375.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/quf4kntlr/client_2014_07_25_15_49_44_744.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/qvp2e2vfj/client_2014_07_25_15_49_49_446.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/qwz07hx9b/client_2014_07_25_15_49_57_546.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/hf3ul70yn/client_2014_07_25_15_51_26_670.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/5eiekgtjz/client_2014_07_25_15_51_32_689.jpg

PS: Is it against the rules to, when taking screenshots of the tower to warn the team that the enemy is attacking it? :-\

hoziontal-vertical-tower.vxl (2.27 MB)

ei8htx · July 25, 2014, 10:51pm

Uh, idk if there’s a hard rule against it. Spectators used to not be able to speak to prevent exactly this.

It’s generally highly frowned upon and you might get muted or kicked if you kept it up.

Gabrui · July 26, 2014, 1:26am

Uh, idk if there's a hard rule against it. Spectators used to not be able to speak to prevent exactly this.
It's generally highly frowned upon and you might get muted or kicked if you kept it up.

Anyway, I would have killed him if I were building, as I would hear the spades…

Another Tower, spaghetti:

Click for details

http://s25.postimg.org/76z9ettpb/client_2014_07_26_17_44_10_870.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/vord2pw9r/client_2014_07_26_17_44_17_433.jpg

diagonal-stair.vxl (2.21 MB)

ponce · July 27, 2014, 4:47pm

I overuse this design these days. Classical boring stair 1-block wide + repair floors from 2 to 4 blocks wide, plus auxiliary stairs.
I finds it slow to build, but hard to stop. It’s usually not possible alone.
A useful trick when doing those is placing a shooting spot at the front edge of each floor.
A downside is that one side of the tower will expose the builders more.
More often than not a member of the team will hide the access to floors so a side stair is almost necessary.

Click for details

http://i.imgur.com/WiLzq61.jpg

Gabrui · July 27, 2014, 10:52pm

Ponce, a good tip is to build the floors using the maximum build able height, that is 7 blocks from de ground (if you jump) making a 6 block space.

Here, made a layout to you: (just got it, i was trying to do it in Autodesk online but it won’t let me align the blocks perfectly when I tried to copy the pattern, so I made it in paint : )

http://s25.postimg.org/xbbza7ixr/Wall_Stair_Layout.png

I think I will make the layout of every tower I posted. (the simple ones at least)

Gabrui · July 28, 2014, 2:17am

I just made the blueprint for my ram tower design.

http://s25.postimg.org/fmotwbwkf/Ram_Tower.png

In paint, I first made a pixel per pixel draw, then resized it and put the measures:

http://s25.postimg.org/kmma4a26z/Ram_Tower_p.png

ponce · July 28, 2014, 7:24pm

Good idea, going from 3 block space to 4 block space was a big win, I’d guess going from 4 to 6 is yet a bigger win .

ponce · July 28, 2014, 7:28pm

Interesting use of scaffolding to save blocks

Gabrui · July 29, 2014, 2:47am

Thanks, I have spent months building these towers until I’ve evolved to this stage, for optimum efficiency, though, I think it is still possible to make it better.
If you have any suggestions, I will be glad to read.
I am also thinking to add sniper’s shooting platforms, but I don’t know if it would be so useful.

Anonymous · July 29, 2014, 4:32am

Who knew that AoS teaches architecture? Because I didn’t. lmao
Such details, much strategy, wow plans.

Scipio · July 30, 2014, 2:22am

Spectator is not for being used to inform your team of enemy positions or what the enemy is doing, blatant abuse of spec will be punished. You may hear the spades but using spec to pinpoint the enemy is against the rules. In essence it constitutes as an unfair abuse of the game mechanism which falls under cheating.

crumpet · July 31, 2014, 3:53pm

I built this one in EU Aloha. Took one screenshot as a test. Lucky I did cos I then got whisked away and came back 2 hours later it was all gone. I call it the Rainbow Tunnel Tower

Gabrui · August 2, 2014, 9:58pm

A Babel tower built by Gabrui (red blocks) and Ponce (grey blocks), and teamwork (other blocks).

Images

http://s25.postimg.org/wj70m521r/client_2014_08_02_18_43_20_362.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/p4hotrg67/client_2014_08_02_18_43_30_307.jpg

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http://s25.postimg.org/bvcyl5673/client_2014_08_02_18_47_51_720.jpg

http://s25.postimg.org/tmokzlllr/client_2014_08_02_18_50_57_331.jpg

RT-Red.vxl (2.47 MB)

Kawada · August 8, 2014, 4:26am

Bored on an empty server: