"My commands shall echo forever in their dusty skulls" - Xathrid Necromancer (MtG) Hello and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Last week we took a little break from our Zombicide: Green Horde coverage to look at Painting Tutorials that I have found useful. This week we're right back at it and cracking into the baddies of Zombicide: Green Horde. The boss of the baddies (but by no means the scariest - that spot is reserved for the abominations) are the Orc Necromancers. When they appear on the board, they bring a new spawn zone with them (meaning they invariably spawn with a few other gribblies).  Call me traditional, but I like my orcs green, so I wasn't a huge fan of the box art for the Orc Necromancers which painted them with a mauve skin-tone. When I painted this guy, the only green paint that I'd ever owned was Warboss Green (well, and its "Goblin Green" precursor) both are quite pure greens, and I have found that I could mi

Dear friends of the Caesura - far and near, Today we are going to take a brief intermission from all of our Zombicide: Green Horde coverage to welcome our second ever Comma-Community post. You may recall, that our first such post venerated the illustrious, and very community minded, 2 Ps . While I will be applauding other individuals  for their contributions to the hobby community  in future Comma-Community posts, today I want to spread the net a bit wider and share with you some of the great people in the community whose tutorials I have used, that focus on the area of the hobby that most interests me: painting miniatures.  I have emphasized in the past that this blog is intended to be a fun break from the worries of the world. Sometimes however, wholly distracting ourselves from global issues is not the correct course to take. Racism, whether it be casual or aggressive, is its own pandemic. While our attention has rightfully been drawn back to this issue by the recent atro

Roses are red, ale's drunk in litres trebuchets fire rocks over 300 metres.   - Adapted from internet memes Hello fellow Caesurians! Welcome back to our weekly post on The Art of Caesura! We've been looking at a bunch of the survivors from Zombicide: Green Horde over the past few weeks. We've had: Rolf, the barbarian ; Berin, the Dwarf ;  Seli, the elf ; and   Johannes the engineer .  Today we're going to look at their best friend: The Trebuchet. In the game, the trebuchet is epic. It can kill up to 6 guys with ONE SHOT!! It is also capable of killing a few fatties or one abomination (which are the scariest zombies, that can kill your dudes with one hit!). If, however, you fire it in a spot that contains one of your survivors, any misses automatically hit your guy! See Rolf . RIP.  When I first saw this miniature I noticed that it is so highly textured, that it would lend itself really well to being painted with Contrast Paints. I

Johannes is too humble and focused to admit it,  but he is one of the smartest engineers  of these dark times.  His native tongue is science. Zombicide.com Greetings, brave survivors, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today we have a very special survivor - he's my fave - the absent-minded professor: Johannes.  It's funny, in our games even though he's my favourite character (or, more accurately, because he's my favourite) I play super conservatively with him because I don't want him to die. While this is probably thematic for being an engineer / inventor, rather than a soldier, it means that he doesn't usually get up to too much in our games.  Painting this mini was a lot of fun. I like his pose, he's kind of in an awkward, closed position which suits his character. Impressively, even though his belt is as busy as can be (with daggers, sextants, scrolls, an hour glass, pouches, belts, buckles and more!) his upper body is muc