Gladiator Khepros Takes To The Sands Of Arena Rex
June 29, 2016 by brennon
Arena Rex have now added their latest Gladiator, Khepros, to their webstore after an initial small release at AdeptiCon. If you're looking for the next Morituri Gladiator then he might fit into your roster...
"A scion of the Ptolemies of old, Khepros lived a youth of wealth and leisure. As he grew and pursued his studies, however, he developed a taste for the philosophy of his ancestors, and eventually joined a Pythagorean cult. Such blasphemy would go unremarked for most, but for one with ties to the royal family the consequences were grave.
Khepros has sworn an oath of silence to keep such philosophies from passing his lips, and toils upon the sands to redeem himself in the eyes of his family."
The sculpt here was done by Benoit Cauchies based on the illustration by Yasmine Putri, and finally he was painted by Benjamin Williams. A very nice looking model mixing in a bit of the Egyptians and Romans.
We also have his stat card here too...
Those of you who are interested in getting stuck into this game will be able to get stuck into this and let us know how good he is at battling his foes in the arena.
What do you think of Khepros?
"A very nice looking model mixing in a bit of the Egyptians and Romans..."
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nice.
We were just talking about this game last night. All the minis I have seen are very beautiful and might need a ‘Dave’ paint job to do them justice.
Khepros is awesome. Love the weapon and shield and I think you can use any mini for any faction so useful anywhere. Looks like he make a good ally too. Stunning pose – the muscles look perfect!
@zorg – you go on too much in your replies.
yup. Lol
I especially like the lower back of the scuplt. Not too drastic and something between muscly defined and “normal” (how ever anyone might define that).
Btw, I despise medieval (or other historic times long gone) associated depictions sporting muscles defined like sraight out of a nowadays bodybuilding concentration camp ( I apologize for that analogy but I do feel that stronly about that ). That is in fact poor emersive design. Be it computer games, films, illustration, written words or sculpting.
Looking neat.
I mean, the very Egyptian inspired parts rival the clearly Roman arena basis in an amalgamation sitting not quite comfortably. At least to my eyes. But, still, a pretty good overall impression, which basically says a lot in favour of the quality of it’s parts considering the two main themes don’t fit that well t start with.
I’m rather interested in this game after listening to a review, seems to have some similarities to Guildball with the combat system.
Great looking minis, plus the opportunity to build an arena as a modelling project.
The only problem is that it appears to be really difficult to get hold of the game in the UK – if anyone has any clever ideas, I want to know!
There’s a store in Scotland called Common Ground Games which stocks Arena Rex. They import the minis direct as there’s no distribution so the prices are pretty high, though it works out cheaper than importing yourself.
The minis I got from the Kickstarter, where top notch. … might have to get a few more …. I have yet to get a game of it in, here is to hope
Very nice.
This was really great to look at and watch it played at Adepticon this year. If you are interested in game play we have a demo game filmed http://www.beastsofwar.com/liveblogentry/arena-rex-demo/
I’ll watch it. Thanks!