I couldn’t let the Traazorites stand alone, so I also picked up this box of Demons of Karelon.
Azalakar is a nice chunky demon, with a big chunky blade. Don’t look at him funny, because he will mess you up.
Every big red demon needs a cute little sidekick.
And a spooky cloak monster.
Karelon seems to have a fun secondary influence of forest spirits. The Saryad gets that started.
Plus some bug-doggies to round it out.
Freeblades is a game that I’ve always seen in the distance at Adepticon, but for whatever reason never gave it a try. This year, I finally got a demo in, and when I saw they had Romans riding dinos I had no choice.
Like Relicblade, the game feels a bit like a D&D party vs party game, but as miniatures.
Unlike Relicblade, which abstracts a bunch of the details, Freeblades goes all in on detail. There are rules for countercharge and then resolving where you meet for example.
That level of detail makes it hard to play just once in a while.
One interesting mechanic is a DCC-style dice chain, where the better you are at something the larger the die you get to roll. Modifiers can change the die size, too.
The only thing better than a unit of weird cavalry is a weird cavalry commander. This guy is a bonus for getting the full army bundle from Black Site.
The model just comes with a banner pole; the construction of the banner itself is an exercise left to the reader. This is made out of an aluminum soda can, with paint a decals.
I’ve recently discovered I love weird cavalry. It might be the mounted gladiators of Arena Rex, or the buggies in Lunar. Today, it’s these dudes on weird birds.
I had some bad luck with the packaging for this set, with a couple of legs snapped. Fortunately, this resin takes superglue well and left a clean joint, so it they glued back together extremely cleanly.
I tried to do two colorations: black and blue. But they ended up pretty much the same.