Thread 96384666

Trench Crusade General - /trench/
Weird love Edition

>What is Trench Crusade?
An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.

>What Trench Crusade is not
TC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.

>What's the QRD on the background?
The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.

>How do I get started?
All the files are free online, but are split between the website and the discord. They have all been collected here for your convenience:
https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ

>third party sources for making trenchers:
https://pastebin.com/YzXPVUAc

>Trench Compendium
Compendium: https://trenchcompendium.netlify.app/
Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/k44MxmJxWu3upDHT8

>Previous thread:
>>96168498

>Thread Question:
What's the latest thing you've done that /trench/ related?

>>96384666 (OP)
Still waiting for the flamethrower focused Pilgrim faction that replaces the prophet with the witchburner. I want to use that unit but its a glory unit that is stupid expensive.

>>96383228
I couldnt find good titty models to convert so intend to just use frostforges female wizards, theyre just women in robes instead of nude though.

>>96384666 (OP)
>TQ
Just finished writing up a summary of some of the most recent battles for our campaign book. Also spent some time painting a Heretic Priest today, though he's still WIP

I'm thinking about using a different ruleset for more massed battles with 15mm models. I like the setting and lore but the small scale skirmish style really irks me. I was thinking about using something like Midgard or Future War Commander, something that's more freeform in terms of the forces so I can just basically port over the factions.

>>96384666 (OP)
You forgot to update the Previous Thread. It's here >>96268995

>>96384666 (OP)
I got my KS models and I'm really not impressed. Warped, filled with supports, messy layer lines, random base styles (PLA and evemodel) and missing a model and the backpack for the anchorite shrine. Conversely, some random printer guy on Etsy sold me a full warband much faster, cheaper, and better quality. Should have just waited for that.

>>96384666 (OP)
Satanic get for the OP, Hell is victorious again!

>>96384666 (OP)
I want to get into TC, the rules are cool and I like the focus on smaller customized warbands. My issue is deciding to start with a faction. I really like the whole model spread for New Antioch, especially the sniper priests and the heavy mech suit guys, but the artillery witch is the single coolest model to me both in terms of looks and in terms of mechanics. I'll probably want to build both Heretic Legion and New Antioch, but can't decide where to start

>>96384666 (OP)
So that's what this pic come from...
You can have it

I suppose this is from the same source?

>>96386576
That’s TC art, yeah.

>>96386576
Yes, OP is a fan art

>>96386313
You could always play a test game or few with placeholders before actually picking and painting your first faction, that's what we did.
If that helps I think the Legion is a slightly easier faction to start with, they're straightforward, versatile and I think on the stronger side of factions right now. Antioch can be very good, but is strongly reliant on good usage of its fireteams and on positioning, which makes it trickier to work with.
But then again, this game isn't exactly rocket science either and the current balance could probably get shaken quite a bit with the release of "final" rulebook

>>96384712
What else would the subfaction need to make the theme shine? I feel like something that can bypass Demonic's Fire resistance like with the Witchburner would be a good start

>>96387288
No limit on incendiary ammunition

Since the variant's name is "The Path of Pious Revenge", maybe a special item that allows you to place a blood marker from fire on anyone who attacks your model, fiery retribution style?

I'd say something that allows them to remove infection markers (cleansing the rot with fire and all that), but I don't like things being too reliant on specific enemies.

Since they're supposed to be dedicated to st Olga, and among other things she's a patron of converts, perhaps you could allow them to have a single model or some equipment from the Sultanate, to represent conversions

>>96386313
Go with HL, easier and jack of all trades

>>96384666 (OP)
Nice trips, this thread belongs to Lucifer and Heretic Legion.
How to hell doesn't that witch burst into flames near the inquisitor?

>>96389224
With the usual movement speed those guys have? She still has plenty of time to run away

I've been wondering. Will they add the child tactician as a mercenary at some point? It could be some type of passive buffing unit. Maybe forcing rerolls or something.

>>96385145
Make sure to post it when you're done. There's a severe lack of battlereports for other to learn from.

>>96389448
Well, it's much more of a narrative, story focused thing than a proper battle report and besides it's in Polish

>>96384712
They are never going to replace the anti-Chud mini. In fact I'm surprised that they haven't turned the war prophet into the face of the game lol.

>>96389440
This is not canon, even the guys neae him are not MHI.
He's probably the early concept of a observer.

>>96389440
Franchina was walking on the knife edge when he made that art. It's traced from a real picture of a kid who had some kind of skin graft after being burned, but it's very rare to find online nowadays so he avoided the shitstorm. But if a big youtuber or something finds the picture and spreads the news, it'll be a big controversy.

>>96391451
Why do this to yourself. Reminder that the game is about making your own stuff.

Heres my War Prophet, might swap the sword to a flail or spear.

>>96391476
>you used something real as inspiration, you cant do that!
Yea, and Half Life 2 uses a real photo of a murder victims face for the charred zombie models. Noone cares about that sort of thing anon. The game Dead Space that uses actual car crash photographic to model corpses in game, and some were one to one. This sort of thing happens more than you might realize and noone cares.

>>96391457
It is, there's a lore blurb for it

>>96391476
>Art of brutal and fucked up shit happening to people is okay, but if it uses a real photo as a reference point it suddenly stops being okay
Come the fuck on anon, I know some people would get pissy about it, but such people are retards looking for made up problems out of boredom

dead general
dead game

>>96384666 (OP)
Next time someone makes the general, remember to replace the compendium link with the new app.

>>96389224
>How to hell doesn't that witch burst into flames near the inquisitor?
Her artificussy too wet, it counteracts.

>>96391563
That is, without a doubt, the only time I've ever seen a Bretonnian Foot Knight that didn't look like ass. Well done.

>>96391821
Where?

>>96394278
I think he's referring to "The Synod of Strategic Prophecy Headquarters" pdf, which you can find in the Lore Pdf's folder in the OP mega. It mentions children being highly sought after, and having parts of their brains wired into antennas, amongst other things, to be Tacticians and better hear the voice of God and God's plan.

>>96389224
He cant burn her yet, theres still questioning to be done, then a smoke break.

>>96393265
Thanks, maybe youll like my stormshart conversion for a Black Grail Dirge executor too.

Struggling with what to make the chaff units with for Dirge so have only got as far as making test models for them.
>endless funeral procession
>older than the modern war
>actually use fire arms
>"honor guard" of thralls
>warband ability that lets thralls take free turns by consuming infection markers so there should be a lot of them
Wanted to make them napoleonic line infantry wearing all black with melted and contorted faces but I dont know the ball park for what Dirge is even suppose to look like, I dont know if napoleonic stuff is getting too far from the premise of the setting where even the ghosts wear WW1 gas masks.

>>96394911
Another good model, and I'm particularly in love with that head. Where's it from/how'd you do it?

>Wanted to make them napoleonic line infantry wearing all black with melted and contorted faces but I dont know the ball park for what Dirge is even suppose to look like
Well some guys dress like the Spanish Inquisition or Medieval Knights, so I'd say that mockeries of Napoleonic glory are perfectly fine. Especially given that the French in WW1 were still pseudo-Napoleonic with their uniforms (and early battle tactics for that matter).

>>96395067
Heres what it looks like before it was cleaned up. Its actually a horse head cut in half that I sculpted the teeth and jaw onto and stuck pins in, its easier to see when I dont desaturate it.

In regards to the napoleonic infantry, the perry miniatures I intended to use are thin enough that I wanted to fit 2 per base so it actually looks like a line of faceless men marching forward that dont flinch at gunfire or take cover, which would be what gives them their fear trait.

>>96392857
are you the appfag?
I still didn't test it, but it looks great, gj

>>96396656
Head reminds me of the Mass Production Eva from Neon Genesis from the side.

Found some cool art of janissary

>>96401816
That was my inspiration, the armour is going to be white so the red of the mouth is more apparent.

Compendium/Companion guy here, app is out of maitenance and fully operational.

Nice that this issue was because we had more warbands/users than the system could initially handle.

>>96402406
Awesome, can't wait to see it finished.

>>96404812
Sweet.

>>96384666 (OP)
Are they in love, angrily glaring at each other, where is the kabedon?

>>96409518
The woman is a heretic construct from hell called an Artillery Witch, and the guy in red is a member of the Inquisition and is called a Witchburner. They are not friends.

Anyone have a link for the Sultanate files? My LGS owner is trying to rake me over the coals for printing services. I've bought a few stls but I want the full set made so I can try different forces even if I'm Fid'ai pilled. Also if someone has pic related that would be great. Need that pipe smoker

>>96384666 (OP)
>666
nice

>>96408715
>>96409574
What actually are the artillery witches, since they're not living and not undead?

>>96411424
Artificial life. A machine with sentience. AI

>>96389440
>I'm doing my part!
>I'm doing my part!
>I'm doing my part!
>MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHMMHMMHMMMMMM!!!
>[all laughing]

The trench crusade board at my store is done, maybe at some point when im not too tired to game cos of work ill be able to play on it.

>>96402406
I'm looking forward to seeing this too, hell yeah

>>96389440
I doubt it unless it's really good mechanically. There's so many tiny pieces and fine details, it would probably not turn out well.

>>96384666 (OP)
>TQ
I've definitely finished my warband, at this point I am just adding fluff like additional models with weapons I may or may not put to use so what you see is what you get (I'm addicted + they look cool so fuck it)
Also finally getting around to getting some mercs, partly to paint since they're neat but also so I can put some into play and use the correct models.

>>96386004
i'm sorry you had that result anon.
I got a guy at my LGS to print everything I want, since he's interested in more people getting into the game he does it for real cheap (generally a cool guy too)

>>96385538
I see no issue beyond time constraint with doing battles with way more units. At this point I have like 25-30 models, I could easily do a 1500-2000~ ducat game.

>>96411424
>>96411741
More liek Artificial WIFE! I would slaughter 100000000 x 666 white christian orphans for an artillary witch wife!

>>96414726
You know damn well they aren't building her with mecha-pussy (unless you work under Lust, i suppose).
You're gonna reach under there and get put in a bear trap.

>>96384666 (OP)
>trench crusade has catgirls
Because of course it does. Grimdark my ass.

>>96415365
>You're gonna reach under there and get put in a bear trap.
Bear Trapussy might just be worth it.

>>96415386
They're horns or just the design of her head
I have however seen some cat-eared sculpts online

Just finished my first NA warband!
The Cleansing Fire marches under orders of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada with a sizable force of Conquistadores. Their goal, to liberate Gibraltar from Heretic hands.

Very happy with the results, here's a shitty photo. Better ones tomorrow

>>96418381
Sick. Im not seeing what the units are suppose to be though if they are NA.

>>96416490
Does it have her going 'nya~'
Because it ain't a catgirl unless it goes 'nya~'

>>96415386
It does have the Path of the Beast. While most have been canine-adjacent and fetus-pilled, there's nothing stopping them from becoming feline-adjacent and maid-pilled.

>>96418381
Good stuff, Anon.

>>96421229
And their warband lore is hermaphrodite dot, therefore a anime beastfolk trap

>>96421282
Are you incapable of parsing information outside of references to popular culture products?

Any Anon's at the Nova Open? Gonna check out of the TC stuff?

>>96421300
https://www.trenchcrusade.com/from-the-official-and-true-annals-of-the-church-history/zygotic-lord
You are welcome

>>96421324
No, Anon, I understand what you're referring to, I just think it's cringe you're referring to it via anime.

>>96421337
They compared the artillery Witch to a cat girl, I continued the joke.
This is an anime focused imageboard.
You are cringe.

>>96418381
Looks great anon!

>>96420284
I'm using the dedicated rules made by the community for this subfraction, so a couple of units are "exclusive", plus I can take the smaller Ancorite as a Mercenary. If I had to use them as 1 to 1 proxies of standard NA, I do have like 30 other models from this series that would do the job perfectly, still haven't done em tho.

>>96418381
They're looking superb anon, godspeed as we say. The greatest aesthetic issue with the setting is that everyone does dark washed out brown and green, so it's nice when someone gets some other colours up in there.

Thx guys much appreciated,

Just one more, slightly better shot of the boys for the thread

>>96391476
Anon the whole setting, and the whole art is almost about being as grunge and grimdark and confrontational as possible (while still telling a good story).

I really don't think Franchina would give a damn about not touching something because it's potentially taboo-ish. If anything, you could use it as bait.

There's a guy in my LGS who's super into TC and I just finished reading the lore. I may get some Iron Sultanate models printed, hope the guy's in the LGS tomorrow.

>https://trench-companion.com/blog/one-month-at-war-patch-0-1-4
Companion guy here, blog post.
Needed 2 weeks to get enough fixes to justify a new update - which is a good sign. Hopefully it'll all be debugged soon so we can get into the campaign mode stuff

>>96426342
Very cool. Where's the big lad from?

>>96427823
Iron Sultanate's a fun faction from what I've heard, but they're the hardest to kitbash unfortunately so they're not as common as the others. Good luck, hopefully you can get the scene rolling.

>>96428437
Awesome stuff, keep up the good work.

>>96428453
God be damned. This slut truly is the face of TC, isn't she?

>>96428801
Ye

Which unit is this?

>>96427823
IS is the faction I've seen the least of, so I encourage anyone getting into the game to go for them if they feel up for it.
I was going to start with them, but I've never done any larger models and the lions+bull were kind of intimidating projects.

>>96428801
She's both hot and a very unique design, she was bound to become the mascot to lure newfags in

>>96430780
Just finished my Fida'i band. I just got into the game myself. I have the entire rest of the IS line showing up at my house on tuesday pretty excited. Playing first games tomorrow. I'm sure speed paints are frowned upon but I like how these turned out. Inspired by the immortals from FFXI

>>96433476
From a distance they look good, only looking close does the color-bleed from section become obvious.

Definitely IS to wear Indigo on the battlefield.

>>96433499
yeah i could spend a lot more time actually cleaning them up with normal acrylics which, i did a tiny bit. But this took 5 hours and I'm more of a 6ft away look good kinda guy for skirmish games especially. I'll spend more time on stuff like the bull.

>>96433508
The indigo not being a single shade and looking washed out in various uneven flows (following the flow of fabric and not across it) gives the impression that these fabrics are hand-dyed and thus more personal just something to wear. I think it adds a lot of character to them.
I am also going to blatantly steal the idea with another color for my own.

>>96433585
Hell yeah, boosts my confidence a bit since i was worried they were too shit and would be condemned.

>>96430661
Alexander Black

>>96433476
>>96433617
they're looking cool anon, blue is a great choice of colour scheme
I wish I could be the "won't look at them up close anyway" kind of painter, if I know I missed a spot even if it's in a place you can't see from the side or above I'll have to sort it out before I can continue with the model.

>>96428813
Still waiting for a Tao Paipai witch.

>>96384666 (OP)
>666
>Unholy trips of the Trench
The boards at Nova look great bois remember to play with real terrain

>>96435988
I'm usually a lot more anal but i wanted to see how fast i could reasonably paint 8-9 different models and have them look good for a game in a day. I'm happy but my next models i'll definitely go slower and i have more assassins showing up i'll try purple and black on them.

>>96435988
I also worry people won't think it's "Grimdark enough" but oh well.

>>96433476
Any tips for how you did the fabrics, I've been thinking about doing my iron sultanate warband green and gold.

>>96436749
Primed them with a medium grey then zenithalled a bright white. Then just used Army Painter Speedpaint 2.0s. Periwinkle Purple and Magic Blue for my 2 fabrics. The only difference is the boots are Faded Ultramarine with agrax earthshade wash.

Thoughts on Anvil Industry's Brodies? They've even got what look like modified Iron Crosses on the brodie helms.

Anybody ever printed Anvil stuff? How are their default supports?

>Warhammer had been completely niggerlicious lately
>Jimmy, we have warhammer at home
>Warhammer at home is just as gay as regular warhammer, is completely vapourwave and has not a shred of irony or self-awareness
>Janny camps this thread and nukes any criticism immediately
Shiggy Diggy.

>>96439362
>why teh fuck are they gatekeeping us, we just want to use the game as a political truncheon
Youve become the trannies demanding the reigns anon, noone wants to talk about modern political shit in their games. Silence is not complicity.

Wish my store had some elevated stuff. Or just like 2 more trench pieces and walls for this terrain set but I think this is good for a 700 game

>>96440618
Seems fine for a small game, but yea, I feel like a lot of tables for this are not quite doing it right I feel, there is a lot of rules for jumping and climbing terrain, and since everyone has guns it makes melee factions harder to run if the table is so open and lack areas of cover density.

>>96440618
>>96440767
Our tables usually look more or less like that, do you guys think that's a good amount of terrain or is it still not dense enough?
Also please ignore how shit it looks, this is the first wargame for everyone in our group, so we're making and upgrading the terrain gradually as much as limited time and skill allow us

>>96440618
be the change you wanna see buddy, you just need a little bit of styrofoam cut into rectangles and squares can make for amazing terrain if you just make the outlines look like the inside of a trench and make the top look like no-man's-land.

>>96440767
>>96441051
ironically according to official rules you should only use like 6-8? pieces of terrain total, however we use like 40 (10~ big and the rest is fluff like ladders, barricades, stuff to just offer cover and break LOS) and our boards always end up looking fantastic, so we have no intention of changing.

>>96436070
kek that would be fantastic, especially with his stiff pose

>>96436719
fuck 'em desu. it feels like a lot of people just dip their entire minis in a can of mud and call that a day. there are good grimdark or 'filthy' models, but I definitely think colours should shine bright here and there. humans love being flashy and looking distinguished, this is not an exception.

>>96441795
>ironically according to official rules you should only use like 6-8? pieces of terrain total
these rule is absolutely retarded honestly and we choose to interpret it as "at least that many" - really, with terrain this sparse the battle would just change into a shooting gallery for gunners

>>96436377
Plastic kits are now effectively confirmed in the nova reveal, it showed a milking machine making a mold in a 20 second video. There was a lot of pics in the reveal about the great hunger.
nova was a good time highly recommend narrative games over standard 1 offs

Got to play two games at 700 as my first two games. The only problem I had was with the second mission Relic Hunter the scoring is borderline entirely RNG with no secondary. Also I think the only thing that makes the Assassin Kabal able to perform is the super crazy expensive bow and the double attack swords.

>>96442613
>Plastic kits are now effectively confirmed in the nova reveal
Very cool if true. Got anymore info? Sounds like something WGA would get in on.

>>96443939
Nothing concrete only that backers will always come first, but they are actively setting up a vendor portal that your FLGS, can register which will be available soon. Tuomas pirinen is just a cool dude, he seems really down to earth, and plays HL.
Mike Franchina absolutely loved that this project has gotten so much attention, his favorites are the pilgrims
Tuoma is working on a tournament rule set, which should debut at Belgium later this year but stated that narrative play would always come first.
Tuomas encouraged anons to write and play their own factions and that he release the balancing formula he uses soon... TM
The great hunger looks fantastic visitations and a lot of work was done to make sure their play style was distinct and unique which was a not difficult initially because black grail is already so well defined
If you have any questions please ask away anons!

>>96444520
>>96443939
Sorry about the bad swipe text nonsense, I will claim phone posting as reasonable on the commute after a big event
Brotherhood of hebrew knights are WIP but it's taking a while to give their flavor the perfect schyick from their real world counterparts
Likewise they're looking for eastern Asian experts to make sure they do asia justice when that time comes.
The first campaign book comes out later this year: Carcass Front. Where you'll need to stop or ensure that the heretics release the leviathan God chained to the bottom of the sea in Genesis. It comes with a prophecy written for it by no shit a Trappist monk in Vatican city who plays TC with the other monks who apparently love it.
If i remember more stuff I'll let you know anons

>>96444553
Oh there's an official merch drop store on helgoods under trench crusade (Tuomas made a joke about it being in hebrew by default and to just change it to English)
The narrative will also move forwards with time, no infinitely static bullshit where nothing matters like 40k.
They are actively researching for the Americas factions but super tight lipped for now
They'll always support 3D printing
They will support super MINOR named characters on the tabletop (ala Mordheim, the rogue was mentioned explicitly), but Tuomas doesn't wasn't the game to become hero hammer where every faction warband is run by their primarch when the warband is 15 dudes dying in a latrine ditch when they should be leading tens of thousands of men

>>96442309
we came to the same conclusion.
>if there's that little cover, why wouldn't everyone just do ranged-based warbands?

>>96442798
there are some changes coming to VP afaik, though it being rng in Relic Hunt remains an issue. then again, every single roll of dice is rng, so maybe it's what we deserve.

>>96444553
the mental image of monks rolling dice and moving their little figures around is comfy kek

>>96418381
Those look great! Especially the shrine, the glowing faceplate looks rad

>>96421391
>/tg/
>anime-focused

>>96430780
I feel like they're liked by plenty of people, but always like second or third most liked. I really would be interested in running their alchemist-focused detachment

>>96439362
You likely meant vaporware and not vaporwave. Given this misspelling and spelling it the gay british way I'm guessing you're ESL, a phoneposter, or both, all of which invalidate your fagginess. Get ye gone

>>96444520
>>96444553
>>96444621
>Tuomas encouraged anons to write and play their own factions
Based.

>he [will] release the balancing formula he uses soon... TM
Extremely based.

>tournament play comes second after narrative play
Basedtacular.

>Brotherhood of hebrew knights are WIP
>eastern Asian experts to make sure they do asia justice when that time comes
Wonderful. I expect that the Asian theater will be another expansion, give how large of an area it will be covering.

>Where you'll need to stop or ensure that the heretics release the leviathan
I presume between that and all the lore documents, that Carcass Front will likely add Path of the Beast.

>It comes with a prophecy written for it by no shit a Trappist monk in Vatican city who plays TC with the other monks who apparently love it.
Utterly esoteric yet completely wholesome.

>Tuomas doesn't wasn't the game to become hero hammer
He really seems to have kept his fingers on the pulse of tabletop wargaming. He really seems like a smart designer and cool dude.

Utterly happy to hear all this, thank you Anon.

>>96430780
At the narrative event in Nova I played two IS, NA, TP, BG, and HL.
From anecdotal evidence they seem pretty popular, though I and about a full third we're playing HL

>>96446143
You're welcome anon, if you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask.

If any if you guys can make it out to events I highly recommend you do so they're a phenomenal time
In my last match there were dueling arty witches bombing everything from crosses on the trenches

>>96446178
>>96446143
Man this game has such a grassroots feel and great dudes in charge. The fact anyone can get into the game for like 50 bucks or less if they have a printer available to them is really refreshing especially in CURRENT TIMES. When we run a campaign at my LGS we have literally bigger turnout than any other game except the mega yearly Malifaux tournament. Because the games awesome, it's easy to learn, the fluff is awesome, and our store owner will literally print people models if they ask for a small fee.

>>96444553
>Trappist monk in Vatican city who plays TC with the other monks who apparently love it.
That's crazy if true lol
What's the source on that?

>>96446589
Tuomas himself, he put out a community call to find experts in the specific Latin the church uses (middle rennaissance or something that). And he got a couple candidates, but one memtioned that he used it daily for his job
So Tuomas's interest got piqued and asked him how he'd learned it
>well I learned it in seminary
And the discussion went on that he was a trappist monk in the Vatican.
So Tuomas did abit of digging and validated that yes there had been orders from the Vatocan fir the Kiclstarter though previously it'd been assumed they'd been for the Swiss Guard lol

This could all be bullshit, but it definitely falls into what feels real on the truth is stranger than fiction scale

>>96446638
It sounds fun but I'm not sure how true it is, I think trappists live in their monasteries and there's none in the Vatican. There's Tre Fontane in Rome (they also make trappist beer) but it's a few km from the Vatican.

>>96447043
>I think trappists live in their monasteries and there's none in the Vatican
NTA but the Abbot General lives in and works from Rome, and probably spends a lot of time in the Vatican. He probably has a few staff as well.

>>96444553
>It comes with a prophecy written for it by no shit a Trappist monk in Vatican city who plays TC with the other monks who apparently love it.
That's hilarious.

>>96444553
Now I'm wondering if the monks all play faithful factions against each other or if there are monks painting heretic minis out there

>>96448747
I'm surprised they have the time, if that is true. They wake up early to pray, and unlike laymen, their church services last hours. Then they eat, work and pray some more. They do that until sun sets, and its time for bed.

>>96449415
I don't think monks have any kind of actual "free time". At best they have relax hours where they garden, read or do things for the community. Maybe they play Trench Crusade with local young people as a way to build the church community, who knows.

>>96444553
i neeeeed hebrew knights
there's just so much stuff i want from this game lmao

>>96450673
>i neeeeed hebrew knights
>there's just so much stuff i want from this game lmao
Lol anon, these things take time, and I think we'd all prefer them to be done properly so that when they do come out we're wowed by how awesome they are desu

>>96450779
Definitely. I'm just an impatient widdle baby, tbqh

Can't decide what flavor of IS I want to play in the next campaign at my store in a month. Assassin's are my favorite but not being able to bring the BULL and how basically required the 50 ducat bow is make the list super top heavy and low body count. Strong Siege Jezzail sappers are sick however.
Alchemists seem really fun with some goofy stolen weapon options but I lose the giga chad captain and assassins. Azebs really aren't good here and only having 2 janissaries is rough. Lions just can't carry as hard as I'd like but they are fast.
Defenders of the Iron wall are too ranged/campy for my tastes.
So that leaves vanilla IS which seems like the way to go if i want to use assassins and bull in the same faction but I don't get any real spice. The yuzbashi being a fucking giga chad of a leader helps too and he's a lot cheaper than an assassin built out.

>>96451747
If you've not tried it house of wisdom can do really funny things with takwyn homunculae. And because it's only 40 ducats too replace him if he dies, playing top heavy is less damaging
You also get all the abominations you could ever want

>>96444553
>It comes with a prophecy written for it by no shit a Trappist monk in Vatican city who plays TC with the other monks who apparently love it.
I just want to let you know this is the single most batshit sentence I have read in over a month.

>>96453501
Yeah I saw that you can kind of basically make 2 lesser brazen bulls, and they both only cost 40 bucks to replace. I just love my spacetime assassins...

>>96455833
How the fuck do they play? Write down their intentions because these dudes hardly speak outside directed commands from.a.higher up.

>>96446638
There was a call for Latin translators in Discord, and Tuomas got a few applicants. The map and the prophecy might not be the only things in Latin in the rulebook.

Nobody at my lgs is interested in TC.
I asked on the lgs’s discord and nobody responded.
Guess I’m making tc models only for them to collect dust on my shelf.

>>96459633
>Nobody at my lgs is interested in TC.
>I asked on the lgs’s discord and nobody responded.
Maybe see if anyone is willing to try a demo. It's hard to get people to try new games when they've not had a chance to try it out, and harder to get people to invest in a new tabletop game

>>96389440
I am still yet to get any models for TC because I'm still holding out on the Synod getting stuff, they're fucking excellent conceptually.

>>96444520
>>96444553
>>96444621
Sorry lads I'm retarded, I forgot something
There was an image of the stl for the official goetic warlock model, so that's coming in the super near future
Likewise rules for the combat biologist are coming very soon, he will be more dangerous based on the blood markers of the guy he's attacking
Thanks for putting up with me anons!

>>96459633
>missed the campaign at my LGS because I didn't know about thr game
>apparently the local mega lardass (who is a weird sycophant to the owner) and boomer owner are the only people who can run TC campaign/events
>They don't want to run one right now
Lowkey thinking of going to another store and seeing if they'll let me grass roots TC there. The problem is this other LGS feels like it's corporate run. Random new workers every few weeks and the only games they cater too are MtG and 40k. They also have an obscene amount of dice for dnd. I'm talking like a wall and a showcase just for dice

>>96461388
>apparently the local mega lardass (who is a weird sycophant to the owner) and boomer owner are the only people who can run TC campaign/events
Man that goes pretty counter to TC in particular and FLGS's writ large. If there's another store nearby it's probably worthwhile to go elsewhere instead, but if not well just run games from home with whatever minis you can find

>>96461388
Just ask for some one off games. You don't have to do a whole campaign.

>>96455940
>>96453501
Homunculus are an interesting model since they become more cost effective in a campaign but are rarely worth it in a one-off.

It will pretty much always cost more to turn a Homunculus into a second-X than it would be to just buy X - but the resurrection feature and the larger sizes of end-campaign warbands means that becomes a much better value for money.

If you want one bull, you'd be better off buying a bull, but HoW can get you 2 almost-bulls.

Posting my dudes again, just because i can.
I should really take a picture with the other 14 minis.

>>96436719
Bright is good sometimes.

>>96459977
So far I've loved every faction. The lore and aesthetics. Except hebrew knights, which I will use only to create minis with very large noses. But who knows, maybe they will surprise me and be interesting.

>>96462838
>Except hebrew knights, which I will use only to create minis with very large noses.
I've found your hebrew knights anon

>>96461937
I have been. But I want the full thing the game was designed around.
>>96462696
Look awesome anon.

>>96463074
Not bad idea, anon.

>>96462696
If everything is various shades of green, brown, and grey, then it just gets boring. Even on a darker model, it's best to include some splashes of colour. And of course, as yours show, going a little brighter is great too

Oh?

>>96466346
equine dildos

>>96466359
Maybe...

>>96466447
Nah just all my extra IS

>>96466550
I'm getting a touch grumpy, I ordered from only games 2 months ago and hw advent heard a damned thing for my extra heretics
Were you a kickstarter adopter or did you order after?

>>96463842
They're quar fidwog infantry from wargames atlantic, if you do doll them up all in mud and trench gore make sure to post it here it'll be fun

>>96461388
Yeah if they're shuffling employees no way you're gonna get a good vibe going for a community. If the people ostensibly running the show dont know who anyone is thats a problem.

>>96462696
these are looking supreme, down to the highlights

>>96461388
>only some people are allowed
why? are they not letting you run one? it's genuinely not that hard.

>>96466550
very nice.

>>96384666 (OP)
> TQ
Trying to get some writing done for my warband - Greed Court.

>>96476529
>Trying to get some writing done for my warband - Greed Court
I too need to draft up a bit of backstory for my Heretics warband. A guy I played had a little pamphlet for his doods and it's just fun, I need to do the same

I have a feeling the combat medic will be near useless but I like this model anyway. Still WIP.

>>96478976
Funnily enough, the medic has a quite good record of scoring objectives in our campaign so far, since nobody ever pays her much attention or targets her until suddenly she's already at the objective.
Having a decent healer next to a model that's guaranteed to draw plenty of fire can be quite handy though

Is Wayne Barlow still kicking? Would be nice if they had him make some art for the setting as he already did so much incredible stuff for his Hell series. Seems a lot of the Trench Crusade are borrows from him already

Some of my dudes

>>96478976
>>96479545
getting an important unit up from being Downed before their next activation can be super useful

>>96412207
Those are some deep trenches

>>96478976
Yeah I sort of feel the same, looking at the rules, no practical experience though. I have theorized she might do well cost effective wize against hard targets when fireteamed with something else that can knock em down and have her ignore armour and clown on them.

The flaw in this plan is kinda the fact that she still rocks zero +dice to hit meaning she's nothing special there, -but- if her fireteam friend can dunk something down she can use markers for it, given she gets +D to injure non-demonic/grail units that is certainly not nothing. But also shits the bed when the court comes rolling with their big dick monsters. But again, HL are popular and war wolves very common, mech infantry as well, anchorites or just whatever that is well protected.

That's just my thoughts on the matter, she would come in cheaper than a heavy mech base, even more so when accounting for equipment. So with something that can bonk something down in melee, I think she might do ok.

Just got an email saying my models are on the way.

Oddly my friend, who lives like 20-minute-drive from me, already got his models weeks ago.

>>96478976
Honestly when I was first looking at the game I thought Heretics not having a way to medic off blood counters would be significant, but after playing I've come to realize that having mooks that close to actually use amedic bag is just not useful. Though maybe it's useful when too greasy herself off in bfe yoinking an obj

Sneak Peak from the WGA newsletter. I presume it's a stl, but them making terrain would make sense if they're the ones doing the plastic kit for TC that the other Anon mentioned. They've already got a weird war 1 sprue out, and I imagine a lot of people bought their stuff for kitbashing TC soldiers.

>>96478976
>>96480752
Very nice stuff, Anons.

>>96481084
You might achieve something similar and more flexible with shocktroopers and gas grenades.