Demonsub goes all in with Sláine

When this game was announced and preorders went live I jumped in and ordered the lot. The miniatures looked great and I’d heard good things about the Strontium Dogs and Judge Dredd miniatures games both developed by Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe. Sláine was to follow in those games footsteps with similar rules and developed by the same people. I also figured that the miniatures would come in useful for other games like Frostgrave and Five Leagues From The Borderlands. I could also use them to add to my celts in SPQR (the miniatures are a little too big to fit in with my Celt force, I later found out but oh well).

Recently I took delivery and can finally get to work reading the rules and assembling and painting the miniatures.

The miniatures are slightly larger than 28mm, more 32mm to eye level so stand quite tall. Most are single piece but one or two need their weapons and hands glued in place. Being Warlord resin or Siocast there are a few bendy weapons but it’s not a big deal.

To start off I’m going to work on the miniatures from the starter box first. Then from there I’ll paint each of the add on boxes. I already have a few ideas for terrain as there is a list of blessed and spoiled terrain in the rulebook but that will be a while off yet. I will however build the two mdf roundhouses that come in the starter set once I’ve painted the first lot of miniatures, this will act as a nice pallet cleanser.

Between waiting for stuff to dry with the miniatures I sleeved all of the cards, and bagged up the variety of tokens from the starter set. I’d also got some extra 2000AD dice which the game uses and a pouch which tokens can be drawn from to determine who activates next (Similar to Bolt Action). I like to keep things organised.

Next time I hope to show off some of my painted miniatures.