Hey all, I’ve never played this game and have been asked to create a cake [edit:partially] on theme. No specified edition. Have made a set of terrain pieces, but what does this really need to be obviously C&C rather than any other hex game?
Tim Curry shouting “SPACE”
If it’s not a mural of Kane, you’ll soon hear the hums of stealth tanks.
There’s always the main factions’ logos:
Global Defense Initiative
Brotherhood of Nod
Great. Never should have trusted images
Yeah, in my opinion these two faction logos are the most iconic images about C&C for me. The idea with tiberium crystals is nice if you want to do a diorama cake, but the logos are probably better.
… And if you want to take the tiberium idea,please use green food colour in sugar crystals and not uranium glass shards XD
If I want to murder somebody it will not be via 50+ years of maybe sitting next to a cupboard of shiny things
Started, need drying time before detailing 😺
Oh wow, those tiberium crystals look really nice!
I’d say a very good decoration would be a black scorpion fighting a golden eagle next to a tiberium crystal.
You write “no specified edition”, meaning the setting? Do you know that C&C has two main separate settings, one being the Tiberium one, while the other the Red Alert one? With multiple games for each setting.
I did not previously, it was just blindingly obvious there was more than one game. Didn’t expect to have to learn this much
Tiberium crystals
You could make them out of shards of uranium glass and shine a blacklight on them for a really awesome effect. Not sure if that’s a good idea to put on cake though.
But this is THE thing that is C&C
You could make them out of shards of uranium glass and shine a blacklight on them for a really awesome effect.
This is in the same realm as using glue to stop the cheese sliding off your pizza. Have you had your daily allowance of three small rocks today?
Har de har har. I’m not falling for that. I can eat as many rocks as I like.
Noted, thanks
C&C rather than any other hex game
C&C is not a hex game
Sure looks like it on google images, do correct me
C&C is a typical RTS. No hexagonal tiles in any of the C&C-related games. One C&C game was even more like a first-person shooter. But none was a turn based hex-tiled game.
Then I have been steered very wrong…
oh god, ye that’s the shitty mobile game. Very unlikely this is what they meant. Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Tiberian Twilight are the games you’re looking for probably. More likely the first 2 than Twilight. it wasn’t as well received
ETA: Shit and Tiberian Wars! Always forget that one! Don’t take my nerd card!
Thanks! Luckily hexes work for many things and there will be other games referenced also. Rude guy gave me a momentary brain blink 🤬
No idea where is that screenshot from. Maybe some mobile C&C fan project?
Do a Tiberium harvester!
Ooh, bugs! Fiddly but more fun than a tank
I like the tiberium approach, but I’m thinking sugar crystals with food dye. A stick of cinnamon bark could serve as the blossom tree in the middle of the tiberium field.
Alternatively, bake a Mammoth Tank cake (somehow). Probably the most iconic C&C unit:
You could look up the flags for GDI and NOD and just make it a split design between those two, and it would be decently representative.
Unless you wanna go all out and make little edible Mammoth Tanks and Walkers and little gold and red guys fighting in a desert filled with green crystals being harvested by Harvesters.
I’m not doing the baking part, just the topping bits. Noted that gold & red are the two tanks to make.
Tesla coils!
Perhaps a simple split down the middle, with a faction on either side (NOD + GDI), and some tiberium in the middle? As if the sides were warring over the crystals.
Depending on how detailed you wanna go, you could research some iconic units and add them. Seeing Kane’s beautiful bald head on a cake would be excellent.
A bit excess for request, I’m just doing toppers. Are the goggles in the posters obvious enough?
Goggles in the posters? I guess you’re referring to the cover art?
Here’s the cover for the original C&C https://www.mobygames.com/game/338/command-conquer/cover/group-61192/cover-165191/
Here’s for the sequel, Tiberian Sun https://www.mobygames.com/game/589/command-conquer-tiberian-sun/cover/group-1028/cover-21861/
Sorry, I’m getting age verify bullshit on those links. I do mean cover art, goggles with one lens gold and one red (now know what these mean thanks to below)
Yeah, I got the bullshit warning too, but you just put 2000 or any other year and you’re good to go. I will note though that neither cover shows Nod (red/black faction)
What you might be looking for (fanmade) https://www.moddb.com/groups/c-c-paradise/images/you-own-us-this-case
Or maybe this (simpler, also fanmade) - https://www.deviantart.com/bioclonex/art/CnC-Dawn-Another-Alternative-Cover-1134978426
The second one is perfect. Hoping to make a set for a mini of Their cat.
