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"Shambling Shoggoth" - Amalgam - Part 2

Anyone or anything unfortunate enough  to be in [the Amalgum's] path is crushed  into a disgusting pulp beneath its elephantine feet. - Trench Crusade Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Happy Hallowe'en tomorrow! One of my favourite times of year! If you want to get even more Hallowe'eny, check out my Hallowe'en quiz from a few years ago, and then learn about the history of Hallowe'en from a Professor of the subject, whose talk I attended last year.  Ooohh pretty scary picture above! Now let's get on to some other scary pictures as we look again at Trench Crusade's Amalgam.  Wow! This model is huge! A human-sized model probably comes up to around his waist! Imagine that thing lumbering towards you on the battlefield! Speaking of his lumbering feet, I think I was pretty successful blending them into his base from where I left off last week.  Though he looks like a mix between a 40k obliterator and a Mutilator, he is more like a dreadnough...
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"Corpulent Mountain of Flesh" - Amalgam - Part 1

An Amalgam is a huge, shambling mass  of dozens of bodies of fallen enemy warriors,  insects, mammals and any other living creatures  that had the misfortune of succumbing to the  agonising blessings of the Black Grail.  - Trench Crusade Hello everyone and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope you enjoyed reading about our first game of Trench Crusade last week - it was a lot of fun to play and I think it will get even better as we polish up on the rules and get more terrain together and painted.  Today, we're looking at the largest model in my Black Grail warband: The Amalgam! I had really high hopes for my Amalgam in the game: he's shooty AND he's choppy but he didn't do any shooty or choppy in the game we played! Anyway, we'll talk about his rules next week, for today, let's look at painting this big boy! Before we start the painting, there was a bit of a repair job to do. At some stage his big thick sword had snapped off and I had managed to keep ...

"Into The Trenches" - First Game of Trench Crusade

During the Crusades, a heretical band of Templars  dared defy the Almighty,  unleashing the hordes of Hell upon the Earth.  Over 800 years later, this merciless war  between the forces of Mankind and Hell still rages on. - Trench Crusade Hello readers all, welcome back to yet another Friday on The Art of Caesura! We're right in the middle of looking at my first Trench Crusade warband - The Folly of Nudd. But, today we're going to take a pause from our regularly scheduled look at the next member of the warband, to report on my very first game of Trench Crusade! My first game of Trench Crusade ever (after having been there right from the start - following the first Kickstarter) was a great bash-up between my Cult of the Black Grail (The Folly of Nudd) and my friend Eoghan's (pronounced Owen, for our non-Irish readers) Eire Rangers (An Taoide Dearg - "The Red Tide"). We cobbled together a battlefield with a mix of Warhammer terrain, and a few printed and handmade Tre...