{"id":8515,"date":"2019-09-27T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2019-09-27T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:11:35","slug":"take-me-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=8515","title":{"rendered":"Take Me To Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With trees and rocks and walls and more complete, I moved on to finishing up my target scenario’s bits. This meant a rather easy paint run of the figures needed. I really cheated on this goal as what really interested me out of all the scenario options in a sea of expansions and content was something from the smallest set: the Ars Nova expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m intrigued by it because it is likely more board game-like than the combat and narrative games. It is also one of the few purely co-op or solo scenarios and so it may appeal to a wider audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also features almost exclusively drab-colored monks and damn if that ain’t easy to paint up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course what is a bunch of monks to do without a house of worship so the ease of the figure painting got ratcheted up to paint up the big church scenery piece. This piece isn’t even required by the scenario but I really wanted to see how it would paint up and I wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I airbrushed what I could but all those timbers and grey bricks took their toll. It was a lot of monotonous detail work but I really like how it came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the church done, it also means I only have three smaller buildings to finish and all the core set scenery will be painted. That will really help expand what scenario options I can explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ars Nova expansion is loosely based on the novel\/film The Name of Rose, a story about a series of murders at a medieval monastery and the unorthodox monk that battles medieval prejudice while trying to come to the fact-based conclusion of who is responsible for the heinous crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the expansion doesn’t follow the story exactly, it is a non-combat based deductive game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the players play the monk and his two young acolytes, other nefarious members of the monastery secret their dealings and hide their crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like maybe these two shady brothers, hiding in the shadow of the old church ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the oldest member of their sect visits a shrine to their patron saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the new Arch Bishop attends to the needs of the monastery at large. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps the young acolyte’s curiosity will help find the clues to unravel the hidden plots and counter plots of a complex cross-section of pious individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll find out soon enough now that everything is complete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With trees and rocks and walls and more complete, I moved on to finishing up my target scenario’s bits. This meant a rather easy paint run of the figures needed. I really cheated on this goal as what really interested me out of all the scenario options in a sea of expansions and content was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[863],"tags":[905,733,591,516],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joan-of-arc","tag-ars-nova","tag-scenery","tag-terrain","tag-time-of-legends-joan-of-arc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}