A Trench Crusade Deep Dive
5/19/20261 hr 14 min
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On this week's episode, Brad and Eric step away from Warhammer to talk about Trench Crusade, the new Warhammer killer!!! …or so they say. They managed to make an entire wargame based on the Festus the Leechlord model and I don't know how to feel about it…
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First 90 secondsBrad· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome to the Former Podcast, episode 216. I'm your host, Brad. This is my co-host, Eric.
Eric· Host0:20
How's it going?
Brad· Host0:21
And on this week's episode, we're not covering Warhammer. [dramatic sound] Today we are going to cover Trench Crusade. We're doing a full deep dive review. We're assuming you know nothing about it going in. If you know everything about it, why are you at a review of it? That's weird.
Eric· Host0:35
I mean, it could still be fun, and you can tell us how wrong we were in certain aspects in the comments below.
Brad· Host0:40
Don't worry. People who don't know anything about Warhammer tell me how wrong I am in the comments all the time.
Eric· Host0:45
As they should.
Brad· Host0:46
[laughs] Sounds good. [upbeat music] All right, we've got a huge topic at hand, so we're gonna cut this up into a couple segments here. First things first, let's do a 30-second breakdown, what is Trench Crusade? And then we'll go into the lore of the game and the setting of it, then we can cover the models, which is a big topic with this one, and then we'll talk rules, how they work, and then we'll get into some gameplay talk, 'cause we've played a few games of it now.
Eric· Host1:27
So the quick elevator pitch is it's