Blog from the Sewers

Our small 40k group held the yearly APOCALYPSE game a few weeks ago and I wanted to share some pics.  In this game Abbaddon returned to the war-torn world of Vigilus to gain some of the remaining Black Stone. The danger was so great - and the rewards to enticing - that the Adeptus Mechanicus Titan Legions of Vigilus cooperated with a Necron Lord also eyeing the Warp-controlling resource for themselves.

I said I also wanted to use this blog to write some fluff for my tabletop games (altough fanfiction might be the better term in this case). The idea behind #GrimDarkVania was "what if vampires and skeletons but in the 41. millenium?", so from the start I had some basic ideas I wanted to put to paper.

Having a tabletop blog to document my current projects is a good idea, but it only really works if I keep updating the damn thing and not just post everything on Twitter. So here's a project I recently had a lot of fun with. Why only make one mutant shark when I can build two?

One of my favourite game systems from the last few years is the DC UNIVERSE MINIATURE GAME from Knight Models. It's a "beer & pretzels" tabletop game about superheroes duking it out with big punches and laser beams. But the reason I really like it, is that the system itself is flexible enough to write a lot of homebrew or house-rules. For example, bringing anime characters in to fight the Western superheroes.

For some reason I really like sewers and similar areas as a setting for action scenes. If I had to take I guess why, it probably has something to do with my love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -Franchise. No matter if its in movies, tv shows, comic books or videogames, I just really enjoy the feel of those cramped spaces, small cylindrical tunnels and pipes, rivers of sludge, old brick walls and more often than not ridicolously large waterfalls into deep caverns. So when I started playing the two superhero tabletop systems by Knight Models (more on those later) I knew wanted to build a sewer-themed gaming table.

At the start of 2019 I had an idea. I had just finished watching the 2nd season of Castlevania on Netflix. It didn't have many of the things I love about the games, but it got me hyped about the franchise in general again. Ever since I played Circle of the Moon on Game Boy Advance, it's been one of my favourite franchises.  And that's when I started thinking... if Castle Dracula can move/teleport... and everybody in it is undead and/or immortal... what would happen if it moved to space? And what if the count just decided to sleep a bit longer than last time? Like, let's say... 40.000 years, give or take? This is my army project where I bring characters and creatures from the Castlevania  videogame series into Warhammer 40.000 .

Hello dear readers My name is Konrad and I'm high on tabletop games. It's been a while since I blogged about anything, but I wanted to share my tabletop content in a more elaborate way than Twitter allows. So here's the obligatory introduction post.