Last year Mark of HeresyOfUS sent out a number of these cool looking skull stacks to hobby blogs for review. Naturally I wanted to do something suitably exciting with it, and as a piece it lends itself naturally to being used as an objective marker. However despite being a strong believer in the importance of thematic objective markers the fact that I almost never actually play games meant I never quite got around to it. Enter the one game I do play from time to time; Necromunda. In the Underhive the Chaos Cults construct dark shrines at which to conduct their maddening rituals, and which can drive the unwary quite insane if they stumble upon them.
Naturally the Necromundan authorities regard this as both disturbingly heretical behaviour and a waste of perfectly good skulls which could otherwise be ground up to make corpse-starch, but hopefully youโll be a little more forgiving.
Anyone interested in Mark’s wonderfully strange take on the grim darkness should take a look at his online store. He’s also recently created a game, in collaboration with Alex of Leadballoony, and right now they’re running a competition with a giant bio-mechanical skullspider as the prize. The game is free and, if you win the competition, so is the spider – and what more does anyone need to tempt them!
August 17th, 2018 at 8:14 am
Looks fantastic. I think I forgot to send Mark my shipping details for a skull stack. If I’d remembered, I’d no doubt be digging it out now to copy your idea here! ๐
August 18th, 2018 at 11:46 am
Cheers ๐ You could always try asking him nicely ๐
August 19th, 2018 at 7:01 am
I don’t understand all of those words! ๐
August 19th, 2018 at 7:02 am
More seriously I think it’s a little bit more than too late now. It wouldn’t feel right.
August 17th, 2018 at 10:52 am
Nice idea mate – looks great as an underhive shrine to the dark powers!!
August 18th, 2018 at 11:44 am
Cheers dude ๐
August 17th, 2018 at 5:58 pm
That’s pretty cool and a great idea. And something that will likely be stolen by all of us, yet again, haha! How big are the skulls, do they match the head size of the Necro minis? Would be nice to see a scale show with a mini….maybe when you get them painted up? ๐
August 18th, 2018 at 1:18 pm
Well, as you asked so nicely, and because I’m a considerate type who’d do pretty much anything for a compliment, how’s this for a size comparison…

August 19th, 2018 at 2:43 am
Nice, I could envision stacks of them scattered around the map. Because Chaos ainโt so organized! ๐
August 18th, 2018 at 11:04 am
Awesome use of the skull stack mate. I may do another free bit in the future.
August 18th, 2018 at 11:45 am
Thank you ๐ I’ll keep an eye out for any future freebies and next time I’ll try not to embarrass myself by taking so long to do something with them!
August 18th, 2018 at 1:13 pm
That’s cool mate we all suffer from project overload ๐
August 19th, 2018 at 2:29 am
Looks cool man
August 19th, 2018 at 9:04 am
Cheers dude ๐