Grimdark is written on the flag of GW (between a lot of skulls and £-signs), but who really made this style, was John Blanche (as a GW employee), so its also called blanchitsu. What does it mean? I dont want to write an essay about its core elements (as if I could...), if you're interested in it, I would recommend to read more about it, for example here. But just a sort summary, that we can go on: its a dirty, dark, sinister looking (okay, lets call it grim) painting style.
I already wrote a post about the (at the time new) Frostgrave Knight plastic set. I loved it, my only problem was the low number of miniatures in the box. I wanted more (more, more)! And as I saw the last piece in my local gaming shop, I couldn’t withstand the temptation… And was as amazed, as the first time: this set is superb! I was thinking about building and kitbashing possibilities since the last time, so we (because I bought it with my sons) could build it pretty fast this time. Before the results, lets take a quick look of the former, (mostly, because some of them got additional equipment) unchanged miniatures, 2 knights, 2 templars and 4 captains (1 from every family member):
I didn’t show our family Oathmark armies here so far (this will come later), but I mentioned, that my wife chosen the elves (that pointy-eared…). She mostly has archers (because they are by far the best archers in the game), which limits the tactical options a lot. This needed to be fixed! Any other infantry type would only make the archers harder to reach, wouldn’t really change the overall tactic of the army. So something else was needed. I think that the cavalry can be a big game changer in this, so lets go for it.
