Humanity was not destroyed by the hammer of war, the gnawing of plague or the slow decay of time. It was strangled. Choked by root and rot until the Deepwood became its grave shroud. The trees have consumed the land.  The great cities that survived the coming of the dark age now stand alone, islands in a sea of death. ~ Oathsworn Rulebook Welcome back, one and all, to The Art of Caesura! I hope you are all well and that you've enjoyed this miniseries over the past few weeks of me revving up for my first game of Warhammer 40k in the modern era. You can read about the game itself in last week's post , and read about a noob preparing an army list in the post before that .  Today we are shifting gears from the grim darkness of the far future to...the grim darkness of The Deepwood! Now. Back in, I believe it was October 2019 a new company, Shadowborne Games (made up of a circus conductor turned Games Designer, Jamie Jolly, and an engineer turned 3D sculptor, Toby O'Hara) release...

Two forces have dug in and fought to a stalemate... - Warhammer 40k Core Book   Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Frequent readers will know that, over the past couple weeks , I've been building up to telling you about my first game of Warhammer 40k (well my first game in a decade and a half - 5 or 6 editions ago!), today is the day! So, I had my 500 point Black Templars army and JP had his Necrons (you can check out our lists in last week's post ).  Here is the board we played on. I used two of the mats that came in some of the Imperium magazines that I had picked up. JP supplied all of the terrain - much of it he had made from scratch.  The mission that we randomly selected was Incisive Attack (see below). This mission has our armies setting up in a "French Flag" configuration. We started off on opposite ends of the table from each other with the four objective markers (the coin-like tokens on our board above) equally spaced around the board. Our main objective wa...

Hello again good friends of the Caesura! I am glad to report that I am feeling much better than last week, recovered from most of my COVID symptoms. Continuing from last week's post , I'm ready to tell you more about the lists that JP and I took for my first game of Warhammer 40k in over a decade and a half.  I have tried to write this post for those who know very little about playing Warhammer 40k (which was me when I started preparing for this game).  So, I knew that I wanted to keep things straightforward for my first game and that we were playing to 500 points. For those non-warhammerites, this is basically the smallest game you can play - less moving parts to keep track of.  Here is my list again, but this time I will discuss what it all means, and my thought process behind each choice: + Stratagems [-1CP] + Stratagem: Revered Repositories [-1CP] This just means that before the game I used one of my finite resources ("Command Points") to buy a very fancy weapon (...

Make time for planning: wars are won in the general's tent. - Stephen Covey  Hello all and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! I'm not going to lie. I'm still recovering from COVID-19, and though I'm back to work, I'm still not firing on all cylinders. So I don't think I'm going to go into immense depth with today's post. Rather I will set things up to dig in deeper when I'm feeling sharper next week. You'll see what I mean when we get into it.  Today, we have something completely different. Obviously my main jam in this hobby is painting, but that doesn't mean that I don't actually aspire to play the games for which I paint models. So when the opportunity came up to play a game of 40k with a random guy on Facebook...I jumped at the chance! This "Random Guy" is JP, a really nice member of a local tabletop Facebook group that I have only recently found. He openly offered to run an intro game and I bit.  I haven't...

The city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the  mystery and beauty in the world. - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) Hello fellow Caesurians! HAPPY CANADA DAY TODAY!! Today we're going to be talking about Canada's neighbour, south of the border.  Back in November, when I celebrated my own birthday for the first time on the blog, I mentioned that I will try to bring a bit more of myself into the blog. Well, I'be been a bit remiss to date, so let's mix things up! A few weeks ago I travelled from Ireland to New York for my uncle's wedding. It was my first time visiting New York, my first time travelling since the pandemic started, and my first time seeing my parents since Freya was born . So an important and exciting trip to be sure! A couple hours after I landed at JFK, I found myself on the 23rd floor of a skyscraper in Brooklyn at a mingle time to meet and get to know some of the other friends and family who would be at the wedding the ...