Welcome to Fort Estrella, the mighty Imperial Guards stronghold!
Bring your pirate or rival imperial fleet to bare and lay siege to the fortress, blasting your way into its treasury, or sneak into the fort and steal it with a small group of brigand infiltrators! Perhaps you will gather your fleet and start your anti-piracy campaign or new conquests here under the leadership of the ambitious and temperamentful Governor Tempest. Maybe you will find your dreams of pirate ambitions reduced to the small, damp brick, pardon, brig of Fort Estrella and you need to find a way to escape... Perhaps you want to wage war between two imperial factions with their own port cities or you're in need of a safe port to restock or find shelter from a storm, with several bastions guarding the entrance to a bay.

Whatever your fancy, you can create it with Fort Estrella!

Its 10 main sections as well as a target practice buoy and parrot/pidgeon cote provide countless options for replay. The sections can be displayed individually or in small groups, but when put together the size of the fort is approximately 92 by 94cm. If put in line with the bastions stretched to its 180° angle, the city wall can reach 1.6m in length or if you only stretch some sections, you could create a large protected town square to place your other buildings. Aside from creating a huge imperial port wall, you could also use this to store it on a shelf.

What changed from BDP9?

You may remember the start fort from BDP 8 and 9. BDP9 was already significantly altered compared to BDP8, but this version too has been given some significant upgrades and revisions.

Compared to BDP 9, I've tried to make the fort more visually interesting, bright and coherent by reducing the degree of dark and light bluish grey used, especially on the outer wall and introduce a bit more colour on the façades. The balustrades use a more similar design to increase the coherency. More plants, white and coloured bricks were used to decorate the fort with more colourful details. The bricks to do this were freed up by replacing, simplifying or removing little bits all over. Further changes included:

Some interior detailing of several sections was altered to either use fewer parts, while maintaining the aesthetic.
The BDP9 clock tower was removed in favour of a larger lighthouse tower.
The BDP9 lighthouse was mirrored and turned into a watchtower and given a door.
The governor's quarters were updated with a new triangular feature. The gatehouse got a better gate system.
More battle damaged areas.
More and more intense use of plants.
Made the cascading waterfall in the cave transparant.
Changed uniforms
An additional minifigure (purple Jaeger).