The Zoidyssey - Adventures with Warriors of Athena

The first quest needs 3 cyclopses as the main opponents for the warriors.  I’m in the group for the game on facepage and another member there, Wojciech Walichnowski has created lists of the opponents needed for each quest.

I have the animals already.  I’ll work on the satyrs and harpies next as they are present in other quests.  Here are the 3 cyclopses:

The one in the middle is a Reaper miniature and is listed as a giant goblin who comes in a pack with a goblin shaman rider.  The other two are by Alternative Armies and are resin casts, not the most detailed but very inexpensive.  I converted one by changing his right arm position and covered it up with some shonky greenstuff work to rebuild his shoulder which isn’t particularly noticeable in the finished miniature.  Painting was the same as the giant cyclops.

The game uses objective markers and tokens but none are provided officially.  Clues are marked onto the board and the warriors then test by drawing playing cards to see what they have discovered.  As there are a few other things which might need tokens (like marking temporary status injuries like poisoning) I have bought a generic set.  I chose the 7TV markers by Crooked Dice.  These are pre-coloured MDF and are small and unobtrusive as well as having a good selection of generic symbols on them.  Great price too, only £7.  The blue ? ones will be used to mark clue locations.

The first scenario of this quest calls for some specific objective markers which may or may not be found by the warriors. For those who don’t want spoilers look away now.

The cyclops skull is from Crooked Dice.  They do a fantastic range of objective markers, more of these later.  Bony Matter Speedpaint highlighted with Bonewhite acrylic.

The large bloody stone hammer I had to make myself as there isn’t something this specific available to buy.  It is easy enough.  I took a piece of sprue from the giant cyclops kit.  Clipped out the section I wanted.  I carved the surface with a craft knife to give a rough-hewn look.  The stone head and strappings were made out of greenstuff.  I find it easier to make a long thin snake which is then wound round into position and flattened to give the look of leather strapping.  Painted with acrylics and some Blood for the Blood God effects paint after it was varnished.