Painted Kraken

This is Kraken, another Super Tactical Droid for Shatterpoint. Perhaps not surprisingly, Kraken plays much like the other droid with this role (Kalani) but is a bit cheaper and perhaps therefore a bit less effective on the tabletop. Kraken still moves other Battle Droids around the place and makes them a bit better, but it is more focused on personal output and (in particular) resilience when compared to Kalani. At least for me, it’s a bit of a moot distinction in that whenever I’m playing Kalani I also use Kraken as I just use the obvious synergy of ‘oops, all Battle Droids’.

The card art for Kraken suggests that it is basically identical to Kalani apart from the yellow markings but I already find it hard enough to tell apart the various flavours of clone trooper in Shatterpoint so I deliberately painted Kraken a darker green to make it clearer which one is which. I did take the opportunity to be a little more heavy handed with edge highlight on Kraken’s torso in particular which I think works well enough. Overall Kraken was a pretty quick paint, except for the yellow lining part of the decoration which took ages because I was being careful and also because getting yellow to look good appears to be partly sorcery. It was a fun little diversion for a game we don’t play a huge amount and takes us another step away from bare plastic on games nights.

Next on the painting table: Hulkbuster.