With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come! - The Merchant of Venice , Shakespeare Welcome back friends to The Art of Caesura! Tomorrow is a special day (well, for me anyway)...it's my BIRTHDAY!! Last week, my inlaws kindly came down to look after our kids, and my wife wisked me away for the weekend (at time of writing, it hasn't happened yet, so I don't yet know where we're going...uh...went...confusing and exciting!).  Tomorrow, my actual birthday happens to fall on the third KillCon - we're moving on up from Combat Patrol to 750 points. So that will be a good bit of craic! Thanks as always for reading - it's always nice to have you here! See you next week on The Art of Caesura! Gaming: Darktide Reading: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus Next Week:   Autumn reading list 2023...

 Load up your Boltgun and unleash  the awesome Space Marine arsenal  to blast your way through an explosion of sprites,  pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000,  frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters. - Steam Hello all, I don't really talk about many video games on The Art of Caesura, outside of mentioning what I'm gaming at the moment at the bottom of most posts. I don't want to draw the focus too far away from painting and playing with miniatures and I also feel a bit of extra pressure writing such posts because video games enjoy much broader and more thorough online coverage than miniature painting does so it is more difficult to add something new or find my own voice. All that being said, I have gone into a bit of depth about some video games - but I have tended to keep them miniature-related. Over the span of 3 weeks, a few years ago, I did some posts on Storm Ground , Necromunda: Underhive Wars , and Necromunda: Hired Gun .

Initiates aim jets of fire from their pyreblasters  or swing crackling power fists into their foes,  while hard-eyed Neophytes fight furiously  to prove their martial worth. - Games Workshop Welcome one and all to The Art of Caesura! Last week we saw the last of my Primaris Crusader Squad - the Initiates. Now with the squad completely complete, we can see them altogether! It feels great to have this iconic Black Templars squad finished. I've already used them in two games and they performed very well!  I love heterogeneous squads like this! Visually, they're much more interesting than a regular Intercessor squad. Not only do they have fully body tabards and other Black Templars trappings, but just having the mix of lightly armoured, unhelmeted Neophytes, the bulkier Initiates and then the properly pimpin' Sword Brother leading the squad gives a nice visual diversity to this collection.  The other nice element of models from a painting perspective, is that across the three

Infused with the post-human  might of the Primaris miracle,  these Crusader Squads storm  into battle with bolt rifles blazing  and Astartes chainswords howling. - Games Workshop Hello one and all and welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! We've had quite an action-packed past month or so on The Art of Caesura with the coverage of KillCon and Combat Patrol. Now it's time to get back to our roots of painting fun minis.  Today we shall set our sights upon the unit which most epitomises the Black Templars: The Primaris Crusader Squad! Crusader Squads are unique in that they are comprised of a Sword Brother (like a sergeant), 5 Initiates (regular battle brothers) and 4 Neophytes (the chapter's new recruits who wear lighter armour but are otherwise indentical in ability to their more experienced comrades. They are kind of mirroring the idea of midieval knights having a squire who aides them and whom they train.  As it happens, Primaris Crusader Squads are actually