Conan, What is Best in Life?

To crush your enemies

To see them driven before you

and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Robert E. Howard

It's that time again...The Art of Caesura!

Long-time Caesurian's (and even short term) readers might either welcome the variety of miniatures that I paint, or lament my fickleness - flitting from a few weeks of The World of Smog, to Malifaux, to Silver Tower...but, well...tough. I've mentioned before that the big armies I painted were Black Templars and then Orcs and Goblins. After painting hundreds of Night Goblins, I do not miss batch painting, and on the contrary, I love the diversity of just painting whatever I want these days!

So this week I have something completely new again for you! I was totally planning to show off my Maw-Krusha in all his painted glory, but then something arrived in the mail: CONAN!!!

About two years ago I backed a Kickstarter for a concept that absolutely blew my mind. A miniature board game of Conan the Barbarian!! Unfortunately since then its publicity has mostly comprise of lamentations of it being delayed for a year...but now it's here! I just received mine two days ago, and wanted to share a few pics of it with you.

But first, to make sure everyone's on the same page...for those of you who have never read Conan, check out Project Gutenberg's page. I remember reading my dad's old paper-backs when I was a kid, and gazing for hours at posters of Frank Franzetta's art, a la:

I do not own this image.

More recently, I read the quite enjoyable comic series (re-released by Dark Horse)

I do not own this image

So when I heard they were making a miniatures game of Conan I was instantly sold, when I saw some of the initial sculpts, I was only more so!

Anyway, this isn't meant to be an official unboxing, I just wanted to share the love with you a little and get the enthusiasm going for this wonderfully barbaric world!

Thanks for joining me on this trip to the Hyborian Age on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: The second-to-last episode of Game of Thrones!
Drinking: Pumpkin Ale - Wychwood Brewery
Gaming: Blood Bowl 2 - Cyanide Games

Next week:

Painted glory...

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