From JamieM - Carnevale Guild and Rashaar (Glorantha) (48 points)

This post is going to concentrate on some figures for Carnevale that I have finished.

Carnevale is a game now published by TTCombat, who started off as a company that produces low cost MDF scenery. They then purchased the Carnevale game from Vesper-on-Games, which is a game set in an alternate history Venice, where a great Rent split the sky and delivered magic and monsters from another dimension.

The synergistic benefits identified by TTCombat was that it’s a game that plays best with lots of scenery and they were just the people to provide that at a very reasonable price. Without further ado - the figures:

This lot consist of 4 members of the Guild, which is essentially the criminal underworld, and a monster from the Rashaar.

These first two are an Arbelast and a gondolier. Being played in Venice means you can punt gondolas around the table to get around more quickly.

The arbelast provides some ranged support with his crossbow and the gondolier has strapped some metal to her oar to hit monsters harder!

These next two are a shadowy Rialto Assassin and a Fisherwoman. I gave the Rialto assassin a deeper red cloak than the red I used on rest of the mob.

Smashing sculpts and they’ve done a nice job of mixing genders in the figures. These two act as Heroes in the game and are more capable than the Henchmen level characters shown above.

This ‘orrible looking chap is a monster from the Rashaar faction called a Lesser Rhyll. Even more terrifying than the prospect of spending a weekend in the Welsh seaside resort of Rhyl, he uses his tentacles to do unspeakable things to the good people of Venice.

The Rashaar monsters have a set of (mostly) human followers - the Church of Dagon, who spread the word that they aren’t nearly as bad as they look and are actually benevolent and should be our masters. The good citizens of Venice remain to be convinced.

The game itself is great fun, with a simple yet deep set of rules that encourages characters to bounce around the scenery like a giant game of Parkour. These figures are intended to give me a couple of small forces to lend to potential players to draw them in……. Here are a couple of pictures of a game in action.

 

So, scoring wise I make it five figures, they’re probably 32-35mm tall, but I’ll stick with 28mm scoring for simplicity’s sake.

The two Hero characters will hopefully hit the Glorantha requirement as you have to be some sort of Hero (even a criminal one) to face off against the monsters of the Rashaar!

So 25+20 gives me a nice 45 points for this submission.

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Hello again Jamie! Glad to see you back in The Challenge once again. Carnavale looks to be great fun, and your fine brushwork is a credit to these excellent characters. Have to say, your Lesser Rhyll makes me terrified of both Rhyl and the possible existence of a Greater Rhyll!

 

Scoring-wise, these are hefty figures, so I will toss a couple of extra points on to the pile because I am a Minion and I can do that sort of thing now and again! Well done, we look forward to more from you!

 

Greg