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Post by michael on Jun 21, 2011 18:07:12 GMT -5
I think your math is right. The numbers seem small, but even at 3.32 feet, it is a boulder that comes up to your waist.
However, if Wall of Stone works the way you describe, what if I made a border of small stones around the building site and joined the area in the middle together?
Basically, I lay stones like this...
o o o o o
o.........o
o.........o
o o o o o
then grow a grid in the middle, then fill in the spaces between the grids. Would that work?
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Post by reefwood on Jun 21, 2011 18:55:39 GMT -5
I think your math is right. The numbers seem small, but even at 3.32 feet, it is a boulder that comes up to your waist. Okay, yeah, I kind of figured that but wanted a second opinion to be sure. However, if Wall of Stone works the way you describe, what if I made a border of small stones around the building site and joined the area in the middle together? Basically, I lay stones like this... o o o o o o .........o o .........o o o o o o then grow a grid in the middle, then fill in the spaces between the grids. Would that work? The same idea entered my mind, and I feel a couple different ways about it. I think this should work with the method I described. I didn't want to say it myself and just give the idea away for free, but since you thought of it, I'll allow it. My other thinking on this idea is that it seems like further proof that a wall of stone cannot work with boulders or pebbles because it seems kind of silly to create an enormous stone slab if you can find enough pebbles. Then again, finding enough pebbles to go all the way around could take days. Anyway, I'll let this work for War Stories, especially since we're towards the end, and I don't see this resulting in anything crazy during battle, but I think in any future games, you will need a stone surface (as the spell says) - not just a piece of stone - to create a wall of stone. Skeletor can carry a boulder that is 3.32 ft wide. Ghoul can carry a boulder that is 2.33 ft wide. Each trip they take will produce 5.65 ft in boulders. They will need 40 ft of boulders to make two 20 ft wide "stone surfaces". The Boulder Fields begin 20 miles north of Verdas, and small boulders that the undead can carry can be found in this first section. If they wind walk at 60 mi/hr, that means it will take 20 minutes to get there, 5 rds to demist, 20 minutes to get back, 5 rds to demist, so a round trip takes 41 minutes. In 3 hrs, they can make 4 round trips which would produce 22.6 ft, so enough for one 20 ft wide "stone surface" and one 2.33 ft wide boulder to start the second side. This would be 8:44pm. There would actually be enough mist time to make it 16 miles toward the Boulder Fields, and it would take 1 hr to hustle the remaining 4 miles, and then they could walk back 20 miles with a 5th set of boulders. Walking... they move at 30 ft, and it is 3/4-speed thru the plains, so that breaks down to a speed of 20 ft. If they hustle, that would be 40 ft, so 4 mi/hr, which means it would take 5 hrs to walk there with a light load. Coming back with a boulder at max load, their speed would drop to 20 ft, so 15 ft thru the plains for a hustle of 30 ft, so 3 mi/hr, so walking back with boulders would take almost 7 hrs. Therefore, if they use the rest of their mist time to return most of the way to Boulder Fields, walk the rest of the way, get a 5th set of boulders, and walk back, it will be 4:45am when they return, but this still wouldn't be enough for a 20 ft x 20 ft stone slab... but you could start to create the stone slab and finish the rest later. |
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Post by michael on Jun 24, 2011 19:45:23 GMT -5
If the goal is to make a border, getting the largest boulders doesn't make sense anymore. After all, a boulder 2 feet in diameter weighs 4 times as much as two 1 foot wide boulders, but both cover the same horizontal area.
Really, just a border of bricks would be ideal, if you'll allow it to function off of that. They would need to be at least 2.6 inches tall, and if they were 6 inches long, it would take 160 bricks to make a 20 x 20 square. Would that be easily obtainable in the time remaining?
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