Jade Bight 12: Ostbuttel
The Jade Bight: 12
Ostbuttel
I have yet another offering for you from The Jade Bight. This time we get away from all that lovely seaside scenery and look in on a small farming village. Ostbuttel is a bit different in that it is not intended to be a small German village with those lovely European-flavored buildings all the tourists come to see. Nor is it supposed to be "small town USA" right out of the movies. There are a lot of members doing some really great work depicting small, Mid-Western farming towns with loving detail -- because that's where they grew up -- or it's where they live. I think I'll leave that act to the players who are already filling the part so well.
Ostbuttel is, simply put, like any other town you might find on the shores of the Jade Bight -- just without water -- and with farms. This is my first map without an ocean -- so that is a bit odd for me. And it is my first attempt at using farms. In the old game, people just ignored farms because Sc4 was really not designed for farms. It was not intended to support an agriculture based economy. Luckily, the wonderful people at PEG gave us SPAM -- and now we can treat farming just like any other industry. It also means I had to learn an entirely new set of crafts in order to make a nice-looking farm. The SPAM farms are beautiful little things and deserve to be handled with respect.
As usual, it was difficult to try and squeeze everything needed into a small map -- and just as difficult to maintain some sort of scale. The farms probably should have been larger, but there was little space -- and I was just happy to see them actually grow where I wanted them. And, I had to work out entirely new methods of landscaping to go along with farms. But -- I digress. Without further adieu -- I give you Ostbuttel --
OSTBUTTEL: Two views
TOWN CENTER: Two views
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL:
WEST END OF TOWN:
CHURCH & PARKS:
EAST NEIGHBORHOOD:
THERMO FISHER HOSPITAL & LIBRARY
NEWMAN INC. GRANARIES:
SMALL WHEAT FARM: First ever farm
TWO FARMS: Barley & Rye - Switch Grass
LARGE FARM: Rye & Fruit Trees -- Two Views
HORSE RANCH & PEACH ORCHARD: Three views
That wraps this one, folks !!
I know it was short, the small maps don't have as much stuff to cover. If you have any questions -- feel free to ask. I answer all comments -- most of the time! (lol)
Also -- I thought I'd dispense with the elaborate "back-stories" -- some may get a laugh out of them, while others think they are a bit "over the top". Either way, that's a lot of work just to explain why you put an obelisk in a certain spot. Maybe I just like obelisks! All statues and monuments are "window dressing" anyway -- and in real life you find them in some of the most outlandish places. There's a little town in north Georgia -- Dalton, by name. And they've got a statue of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston smack in the middle of an intersection. Was probably put there when people were still driving a horse and buggy. Makes you wonder why they didn't make a roundabout. The way it is now -- some drunk comes through on a Saturday night and they'll be picking up very small pieces of the General on Sunday morning!
Next time:
Aurich !
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