Every Sword Brother has earned their place  among the Marshal's household  through acts of unswerving faith  and spectacular violence.  On the battlefield, they are a reaping whirlwind,  unstoppable, uncompromising,  armed with a lethal assortment of  powered blades and thundering pistols  that they turn upon the enemy in the Emperor's name. - Games Workshop Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! This post has been a LONG time in the making! I built these guys over a year ago and painted them back in June, but I held them back until I had turned my attentions back from Hellboy to Warhammer 40k.  Today we're looking at the grizzled veterans of the Black Templars: The Sword Brethren! Before 40k's last points update, Sword Brethren were considered one of the best units in the whole game. Number crunchers had shown how, with the right buffs, they could take out an Imperial Knight in one round of combat! I am not a meta-gamer - I don't just hobby to ...

  Birthdays have become kind of a thing on The Art of Caesura! I've always celebrated the blog's birthday (we're nearing it's NINTH in January), then I started celebrating my daughters' birthdays, and now, in recent years, I've started marking my own on the blog too!  So, happy birthday to me (in a few days)! I'll see you next week for our regularly scheduled programming.  Reading: Recursion - Blake Crouch Watching: Alien Romulus (again) Next Week: The brethren's barber...

This is for all you new people.  I have only one rule.  Everybody fights, no one quits.  If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself!  Welcome to the Roughnecks! - Starship Troopers Welcome back, one and all, to The Art of Caesura! I hope you are all holding in there. Work has been heavy of late and with 3 young kids (hard to believe Isla is almost 10 months old!) it can be a tiring time of life. But for those of you with kids, when we are locking horns, I try to draw on some of the ideas from 5 Times More Love . It's great to have this hobby to help find stress-relief and a creative outlet! Last week we high-lighted the disturbing yet awesome Kickstarter (from the minds behind Mordheim) Trench Crusade. At time of writing the Kickstarter is in its final 24 hours and has raised over 3 million dollars! But TWO weeks ago we were looking at my mood board for Hive Fleet Klendathu - my plan for a Starship Troopers inspired Tyranid Hive Fleet.  Today we shall look...