A (Relic) Knight's Tale - An Introduction

Prologue 

A (Relic) Knight's Tale is the cheesy name of a recent idea of mine.

After waiting patiently Relic Knight's is out and not only am I glad it's here, I am also glad to tell you that the game itself is great and there are some fantastic miniatures for you to see and hopefully get yourself.

The simple idea is, combine:

• The old school stylings of "A Tale of X Gamers"
• Relic Knights
• A amalgamation of people's experiences getting into this brand new game.

For those unfamiliar, "A Tale of Gamers" has been a series that has been repeated in all different shapes and forms, the gist is that a group of gamers start a new force for a game, having a set budget each month and making sure to get these things painted by the end.

Usually this will include some gaming, records of the gamer's thoughts and ideas about what they're collected, why, what they need next and so on.

Previously I have done #ToMB (Tale of Malifaux Bloggers) so anyone who followed that should have a good idea.

The idea of the blog running alongside the collecting and painting is to show to others who haven't yet started themselves how easy it is, how cool the models are and how interesting the game is to learn.

Hopefully, expanding into some new players joining the Darkspace Calamity.

How's it going down?

Every month the team I have bought together will have the task of painting not to a money budget but a box set or sets.

As a "spoiler" the first month will have each player starting off with a Battle box.

These are the best start to collecting Relic Knights and as I may have covered in my introduction piece, if you and a friend grab one each, get them built and a table out, you're ready to go.

Not only do these have a nice selection of models and there's a set for each faction in the game, they all come with an Esper Deck, Dashboard, Tokens and even a rulebook.

With a Battlebox being the obvious start our group has had a little more time considering it's quite close to Christmas and this will be the biggest task in one go.

Following month's will see us add support in smaller boxes, uniques, squads and even the huge Relic Knights themselves.

Accompanying the photos of pretty models everyone will also have a post to make discussing whatever is on their mind, what they're finding interesting, what they are enjoying and much more.

A nice insight into Relic Knights from multiple different perspectives.

OK, so when is it going down?

It's Monday now and this will be the day for a blog each week.

Not just that, but there will also be another blog every Thursday also.

This means you (the readers) will hopefully get Eight interesting articles with pretty pictures from a whole bunch of different angles every month.

The length of the tale itself is yet to be decided, but at the least I can see us going three months and possibly four.

Tell me more!

Where as I am not going to reveal the full team of Knights contributing to the tale, I can tell you that other than including myself the first article with pretty painting (coming this Thursday) will be from Aaron Bailey.

Aaron has been working on Cerci Speed Circuit, the speed racing ladies of Relic Knights and his stuff looks fantastic.

For those that may be asking "what happens when the Tale ends?", do not worry, this is just the beginning as I intend to work on Relic Knights all through 2015 and beyond.

I hope that I can also run some other exciting things via the blog (a Relic Knights painting competition perhaps) and will probably have a lot of things I want to show the Internet and say.

Again, if you are completely confused at what Relic Knights even is check this link for my Introduction to Relic Knights

Finally, for usual readers of this blog, Relic Knights is not taking over and kicking Malifaux out.

These two fantastic skirmish games will be here hand in hand for the foreseeable future.

-Ben (@psientologist)