Some of you opt for Eagles' nests on the Mogollon Rim, others choose a few bucolic acres away from the madding crowd to set up Battlefarm Collectives and run chicken operations. Fair play, nothing wrong with that, at all, but I want a tower.
A tower with good overwatch and a commanding view of plain and sea, a tower which serves as a bastion of Faith and Civilization in a world fast descending into barbarism. On the ground floor there'd be a Hall, with massive fires and frequent feasting, also armories.
Upstairs you'll find bedrooms, Ladies' Living Rooms, more fires, and on the top of the thing, serious armament and maybe some kind of radar, perhaps a sound system to boot. This would play patriotic tunes to dismay third world savage invaders whilst the miniguns cut loose.
I believe you can buy these towers in Ireland or, in Texas, build them yourself.
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A nice flakturm works, too.
I like the idea of a castelated tower, except... VERTIGO. I'm unstable (shut up, peanut gallery) on a stool, let alone 40-50-60 feet in the air on a chunk of stone or concrete.
Holes. Holes in the ground. I want an Atlas C or an Atlas E facility. If I wanted to live in Maine there's a nice Nike Ajax facility for sale, hardened buildings and all. Then there's a Safeguard facility (ex Sprint ABM base) with hardened above ground buildings and a huge underground facility for sale. The occasional AT&T underground cable building comes up for sale, too.
All of the above have land, good fences, water, power (and provisions for various power backups.)
Though, ideally, a nice facility with an underground shooting range (I have... plans, yes, plans for using box culverts to make a partially buried building and a shooting range. Key is to be above the water table, and the flood table, and the 100 year flood table...)
I saw an Irish tower up for sale on one of those House Hunters International shows. Sadly I think that tower is the LAST REMAINING home in Ireland. All the rest were given away to Ukrainians.
+1 on the shooting range. Back around 2012-ish, I was employed at Huntington's in Oroville CA. When Fred Sr. built the place, he put in a 100-yard underground tube built with 5 ft. diameter concrete culvert sections. The shooting room was downstairs in its own little basement. My duties included installing and sighting in optics for customers.
Targets were on a 3 ft. wide continuous roll (like paper towels) scrolled vertically, and were well lit. Fresh targets were just a flip of the toggle switch away as the paper scrolled down. Hits were easily seen with a spotting scope. Errant shots (rifle bore off axis) produced a fog of cement dust, but that was pulled down range and cleared by the ventilation fan.
Miss that place, and certainly not least, the history there. Such notables as Elmer Kieth and John T. Amber shot down that tube.
I'd like to re-open the Tower of London and restore it to its original purpose. Traitor's Gate would be busier than the Strait of Hormuz...
The original purpose of the White Tower was as a residence for the King of England, at that time being William the Conqueror and his descendants.
The more 'prison' version is more Tudor of origin.
Ah, Beans, the old underground missile silo fix! Hey, down with that.
RHT, had a great shoot today, wish you'd been there. Try and break free from the 'sprawl.
Yes, Infidel, and Somalians. You are happy about that, aren't you?
nbc, the Tower is most neglected.
Beans, perhaps the Tower could hold especially egregious traitors, like Two-Tier Kier? Yes please.
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