Add (Smelly) Life To Your Stronghold Dark Age Village
May 24, 2014 by brennon
Stronghold Terrain are continuing to do awesome terrain for your tabletop and especially those Dark Age ones with two releases. Both the Dunghill and Dark Age Pithouse are now available for you to use in your very lived in settlements...
Both of these look awesome. I like the Dunghill because it's something that would have been present in every Dark Age village and gives a sense of lived in legitimacy to an otherwise 'fantastical' board. Of course it does also make for quite a funny centrepiece too. Maybe the local warlord has lost his prize circlet in there and it's up to the two warbands on the table to get there first and dig it out!
The Pithouse would have been a different way of building a dwelling. They would also have been known as grubhuts or grubhouses and would have been pretty warm actually. Later on I'm sure they got used as something altogether different and could well have made good storehouses and such. A perfect building to pillage.
What do you think?
I’m a huge fan of Stronghold. Shipping is reasonably-priced and quick and their kits are superb.
It’s also worth noting that on their site there’s a good tutorial on how to make a good looking teddy fur roof. I’ll be using it when I get round to my dark age hovels.
Looks just like a pile of cr@p to me 🙂
But a beautifully-sculpted pile of shite, which is more than a lot of terrain companies can manage 🙂
Yeah they have some really nice pieces. The dung heap is a cool touch.
I don’t know if it’s a peculiar obsession of theirs but I love their thunderbox 🙂
When I saw smell and pithouse I thought it was a typo for sh1thouse… 🙂
Pit house? Dung pile? Ohhhh … Dark Ages, gotcha. I thought for a second someone had built a “nostalgia” game based on our college days. 🙂
This looks like it would suit a game of Saga quite well.