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
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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?
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
Started, need drying time before detailing 😺
Oh wow, those tiberium crystals look really nice!
That's sick! I'd love to see the final product once it's ready if you feel like posting!
Thanks! Will be pieces made by me, arranged by friend. About 2weeks to go 😺
This looks great! Post finished cake please, it's going to be epic
Thank you. Approx 2 weeks to go...
If I want to murder somebody it will not be via 50+ years of maybe sitting next to a cupboard of shiny things
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:
Alternatively, the Temple of NOD:
Do a Tiberium harvester!
Ooh, bugs! Fiddly but more fun than a tank
Iconic too!
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.
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
Didn’t expect to have to learn this much
You have activated the Command & Conquer fanbase. Good luck haha
rather than any other hex game
Well, the first thing you should know is that C&C is NOT a hex game. So if you make hexagonal terrain, whoever is wanting the cake is going to be really confused.
That's like making a Halo themed cake and asking is there anything you need to make it obvious other than zombies.
Believe this has been covered earlier. The mobile version is hex. Requested cake is not C&C only therefore not total foul. Feel free to faint when I put Mario mushrooms on it.
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.
Tesla coils!
If it's not a mural of Kane, you'll soon hear the hums of stealth tanks.
I'd say a very good decoration would be a black scorpion fighting a golden eagle next to a tiberium crystal.
There are two aesthetics: C&C versus C&C Red Alert.
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C&C uses Tiberium, factions are GDI vs Nod, iconic Nod structure is the Obelisk, iconic character is Kane.
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C&C Red Alert uses gold+gems, factions are Allies vs Soviets, iconic Soviet defensive structure is the Tesla Tower, iconic character is Tanya.
I'd say mixing aesthetics would look odd to a fan, so probably best to pick one. If you don't know which is preferred, C&C (non-red alert) is probably the safer choice.
Updated info is Red Alert 2. I'm changing goggles to monocle, anything else?
Is the monocle a reference to a particular character? Oh, like the guy on the box art? Hah, I'm not even sure what that character is supposed to be.
Iconic Red Alert 2 stuff would probably be:
- A Kirov bombing some iconic american building like the statue of liberty or white house
- Tesla Coil frying infantry to dust
- GI's deployed in their sandbags
- Yuri's psychic paraphernalia (ex. his headwear with the tubes running behind him, or his phone with a little antenna on it that he uses to mind control people he calls)
- Tanya with her dual pistols
The money you gather in RA2 is mostly gold ore, with some gems. I expect some yellow sprinkles with a patch of primary-colored sprinkles would be good for this.
Ah well, if Red Alert 2 is the game requested, then there are multiple iconic things possible:
Tesla Coil as building
Kirov Airship as maybe most iconic unit
As Easter egg you could put a tree on there as well, as the game has the Mirage tank, which can disguise itself as a tree.
This game has no tiberium and neither GDI nor NOD though, so maybr you hide that at the bottom as Easter egg (since Tiberium and the original C&C timeline is the foundation of Red Alert)