Welcome one and all, back to your usual Friday edutainment on The Art of Caesura! Today we're going to embark on a journey; a journey of 3D printing! I wanted to get a 3D printer for a few years and then in November, with my birthday looming, and buoyed by the awesomeness of Trench Crusade (a game, one of the selling points of which, is that it could be entirely 3D printed). I finally pulled the trigger. Today is the beginning of a multi-part series on 3D printing, but rather than crack in with the nuts and bolts of 3D printing, I thought I would ease us into the topic by approaching it from a different direction. One of my oldest friends and I, have spent the past year or so, sending each other long, wonderful voice messages a few times per week. My friend is not into 3D printing or miniature painting, but she listens kindly and asks insightful questions regarding my extollations on the topic. It was her that made the connection between Resin 3D printing and alchemy. ...
A daring raid against an enemy transit terminal is a superb way to acquire valuable resources for your own war effort and deny them to the foe. - Boarding Actions Book (p. 158) Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Last week we read my short story "The Cost of Knowledge" which was based on a game of Boarding Actions that two friends and I played a couple months ago. Today, I want to share some photos and some fun moments from that game. This being the first game of Boarding Actions that any of us had played, we chose quite a straight-forward mission [The orange objectives were worth 5 points and the Supply crates were worth an extra 5 if you controlled more than your opponents, they also gave the chance to gain an extra Command Point (a valuable in-game resource)], we went through all the usual pre-game activities of choosing a board edge, determining first turn etc. Boarding Actions is played at 500 points each, I brought all melee Black Templar...