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The Trench Crusade Log
Entry 1, November 26, 2025: The Beginning!
I started playing Trench Crusade in the Summer of 2025! For those unfamiliar, Trench Crusade describes itself as "a skrimish tabletop wargame pitting Heaven's Faithful against the Fallen of Hell". I figured I would use supbuddy to show off some of the neat stories coming out of playing and painting Trench Crusade with my friends.
We started building up warbands and discussing the game in April. I was all in on the Cult of the Black Grail. An army of tough, nasty, plague manifestations from Hell was too cool of an opportunity to pass up. Our small play group has also got an Alba warband from New Antioch, Heretical Naval Raiding Party and the Knights of Avarice from Heretic Legion, and a Trench Pilgrim warband. One of the players was kind enough to 3D print lots of models for us to get started, and coordinated with some people doing resin printing to make some of the models that would benefit from the higher fidelity. Now was the scary (read: Creative) part, the painting!
Painting for the first time is so scary. I was full up to my eyeballs with fear of doing something like "wrecking" a mini. It's so silly in hindsight because it's just a little guy! Worse case, he gets another coat of paint! And it's going to be fine if he looks a little funky, most of my army is little disease freaks. They're supposed to be funky. Painting my first army has been a lesson in trusting the process, and allowing myself to explore with a new and unfamiliar task to see how it works. It's been great fun. Here are a couple of pictures from our early paint nites working on minis as a group.
