Thaumaturge reinforcements: Bear and crossbowmen

 For my thaumaturge warband I made a few reinforcements. The warband is a band of witch hunters, who's entering Felstadt to save it from bad magic. Here's the original full warband. 

Crossbow armed shooters are more in line with the theme than bows, I've made these with Oathmark humans, and warhammer bits (probably Empire and Brettonia). I've also painted them in the colors I'm using for my Guilders: A Life In Shadows and Oathmark humans. Same army and it'll let me reuse many miniatures across that. 

I also gave these guys swords (so they can work as marskmen) and backpacks. My frostgrave soldiers are always carrying all manner of gear. 

Bears! I love summon animal, it's my favorite spell. All my wizards tend to have it and gain some thematic bears. I wanted to paint one for if the apprentice (however unlikely) succeeds in summoning one. These are huge scifi bears from Ramshackle Games. I've filed off the scifi tubes and integrated rider legs.

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You should really check out Guilders: A Life In Shadows. It's my main project these days.

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If you enter either side by the following links, some percentage of your buys will go to me. It'll all go towards the Discord Community and Guilders artwork. 

Here's the links (clicking them will remember my account for  14 days, when you enter the side however).

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Guilders - The Guild of the Magi

 Here's another guild painted for Guilders: A Life In Shadows. This Guild has been build for my solo games (that you can find over on YouTube). This was also a good excuse for using a lot of various miniatures. I decided to go with the same color scheme for them, figuring it'll make it a bit easier during the videos. 

The leader os this guild is a Hedge Mage, starting with a few spells. His entire entourage is more that, than an actual guild. He is the top dog and eveybody else is beneath him. An arrogant man. 

Master Darkriver and Ulac

Master Darkriver is the guild master. An arrogant man and a talented hedge mage. Both his starting skill points are invested in cantrips. He can control crowds and absorb sound. 

Ulach is a half-orc pit fighter, that Darkriver bought free from slavery. After that she's fiercely loyal and his enfocer in the guild. The mini is actually an elf barbarian.

Both miniatures are from Blacklist Miniatures Fantasy Series 1.

Three Theives

The female thief goes under 'Offspring' and is the non-talented daughter of the guild master. In the middle is Karl and brutish thief with no finesse. The last cloaked guy is Umbridge. 

Offspring and Umbridge are from Massive Darkness. Offspring is a 'classic' fantasy miniature showing a huge amount of boob. Never liked that. I painted here chest as covered in a shirt and her legs with pants. Though the model is clearly designed for bare skin. 

Karl is a minaiture from Dunkeldorf. 

Street Urchin

These are excellent characters. Very cheap for the guild and can stay out of trouble. Both are Dunkeldort minaitures. They're named 'Stick' and 'Dung'. 

The tinkerer, crone and scum

I wanted a tinkerer for my guild, to gain all those extra free gadgets to use during Heists. His name is Tanner. The old crone is an Alchemist for free potions and a doctor. The dohn't pack any punch, but for a solo campaign I want the items and utility. Then they act as pack mules and carry stuff off the board. 

The scum is called Lemmy, armed with a crowbar for smashing doors and creating distractions. All minaitures are Dunkeldorf. 

Support my projects

Remember to show some love for the SoMe platforms, help Guilders and the blog grow. Jump onto LinkTree and drop some likes all around. There you'll also find the current rules for Guilders and the Guilders Lite Edition for an easier read. 

Affiliate

Wargames Vault / Drive Through RPG Affiliate

If you enter either side by the following links, some percentage of your buys will go to me. It'll all go towards the Discord Community and Guilders artwork. 

Here's the links (clicking them will remember my account for  14 days, when you enter the side however).

DriveThroughRPG and WargamesVault

Terrain: Fully painted 3'x3'

 I've finally taken some photos of my entire 3'x3' city setup. I've finished enough kits and scatter to really fill out the board. Should have enough stuff to hit 4'x6' when (in years) it's all done. 

For now I'm really please with having a fully painted board for all the Guilders: A Life In Shadows stuff. 

There's step-by-step blog for most on this over here and many buildings are covered on YouTube as well. 

And here's a bunch of photos from a setup of all the terrain. 

Support my projects

Remember to show some love for the SoMe platforms, help Guilders and the blog grow. Jump onto LinkTree and drop some likes all around. 

Affiliate

Wargames Vault / Drive Through RPG Affiliate

If you enter either side by the following links, some percentage of your buys will go to me. It'll all go towards the Discord Community and Guilders artwork. 

Here's the links (clicking them will remember my account for  14 days, when you enter the side however).

DriveThroughRPG and WargamesVault

Guilders - Lite Version

Guilders - Lite Version

The rulebook is getting pretty big and I realise that can be daunting to read for someone checking out a rule system (especially in a pure word-doc format).

 
So I've edited a Lite version of Guilders: A Life In Shadows. I hope that some of you will check it out and offer some feedback on the rules - or try out the game.

 
The Lite version is condensed to ~30 pages. It includes all the basic rules for the game, a scenario and three premade starting Guilds. It's filled with page references (for easy flipping back and forth) - It's perfect to try out the game.

 
All campaign stuff, skill section, marketplace have been removed. References to rules not used are gone as well. Instead the skills and gear is referenced directly in the starting warbands. It can't be easier to try out the system.

 
The Lite rules and the starting guilds are all uploaded to the public drive.

Find it all here: Google Drive

Guilders - Let's Play and Logo

 Hello hobby people! 

A few news about Guilders: A Life In Shadows. Work continues - but it's slow. Sommertime is different hobbytime for me, it's all outside stuff. So miniature hobby is always on a slow burn this time of year. 

That being said, there's a few news regarding Guilders. 

Logo

I've comissioned a logo for the game. There's some minor tweaks being worked out - like switching the scales, so the illegal part is heavier. 

But I don't want to wait with putting out new stuff, so here's the first official logo. 

Youtube - Let's Play

New youtube video as well. 

I've edited the second solo play video and uploaded it to youtube. In this scenario my solo play guild is going into a temple, to rob all the old relics. They are however protected by paladins. 

Go check out the movie - it covers everything. Lots of rules, guild, skills and the entire end game sequence. That's also why it's rather long. 

Show some love and hellp spread the word. I want Guilders to get out there. I plan to do a larger amount of SoMe stuff over the summer. So please help out by growing the various platforms. Go to the linktree and drop follows all over the place. 

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Guilders: More Inn Patrons

Back when I started Guilders, I found and build all manner of various civilians. Old Reaper Bones minis, some 3d prints and a lot of kitbashing. A bunch of them were done with an inn / drinking theme. Let's check them out. 

First up is an excellent inn keeper miniature from Blacklist, I really like this miniature. It was a bit hard figuring out the whole apron design, what was what. Also painted up his wife, a reaper bones miniature. This was originally bought for bloodbowl as a bloodweiser babe.

The monk is a 3d print I was gifted as part of another order. The guy carrying a tray with mugs is a kit bash. Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago head, body and arms from Fireforge peasents and mugs from old GW dwarfs. 

I think the barrel and mug on his back is from an old bretonnia men-at-arms kits.

These drinking patron are mostly Fireforge peasents but with added GW dwarf mugs. The pipe smoke is a tiny bit of teddy bear stuffing. The huge guy on the right is a Dunkeldorf resin miniature, a promo for one of their campaigns. 

And here's my entire inn patrons setup. I've written blogs about the sitting miniatures and terrain as well. 

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Terrain: De-watered Water Mill

Here's a quick little post on a buildings for Guilders and other fantasy stuff. The kit is from a now defunct sellers (who had bad health and decided to scam some people). I've seen the kit from other players since, so the files at least out there somewhere. 

This building was painted quickly by my mate Lau. Then I gave it a few upgrades afterwards to make it fit better with the style of my board. 

The kit is originally a water mill. But we don't have any water stuff made for the board yet, so the wheel has simply been removed. 

The roof got a quick fix for a flat top, allowing miniatures to balance on the top of the roof. 

The railing were originally brown, like the other wooden areas. After trying it on other buildings I decided to add bright green railings instead. Getting more colors onto the house with little details like that. 

All the windows have added coffee stirrer ledges for a bunch of different flower tufts. And there's some grass flock on the roofs for extra color as well.