Lion God

The Lion God, a 1.6 Expansion for the Kingdom Death core game, is a Node 4 monster you can add to your late game. A monster’s node helps provide an idea both of when you might encounter a monster in your campaign and details its difficulty – as a Node 4 critter, you’ll face the Lion God later in your campaign, and it’s a blessing in disguise as this creature is fairly powerful. You’ll want strong survivors equipped with decent gear to take him on.

But, before we can think of challenging him, we need to build him. Luckily, his build node is fairly weak, and most of the pieces are pretty intuitive. Below is a quick guide to help you build this monstrosity.

The Sprue

The sprue itself is pretty clear-cut. Three separate sprues bundled together in a plastic bag, though with how early this expansion is there’s none of the typical A1, A2 numbering we tend to see in later expansions like the Gambler’s Chest.

Torso and Legs

For the torso, I found it easier to glue the small back piece to half the torso, then gluing the second torso half on. I didn’t trust my skills on snapping the triangular back piece on, hence the approach – I could definitely see myself dropping it into the torso like a guitar pick gets lost in the body of a guitar.

The legs themselves were also simple with the smaller bits of the back legs fitting easily into one another. The front legs are also close fits to the torso, as shown in the gallery above.

Face & Back

The head and chin portion was a little frustrating, as I had a gap. Luckily the biggest part of the gap (which was still small) is hidden by the model when looking at it face on.

The six small arms on the back are also easy. The ones on the monster’s left side have indentations that make it simple to connect. The right side was a little more difficult, but a quick dry fit of the pieces made it simple enough to figure what went where. I included photos of the back as each arm was attached to help visually.

Base

For the base, it took a bit of dry fitting to determine where things went. You could arguably line up the base walls with the bottom base piece, but I found it easier to glue all the walls and top together prior to putting the base bottom in. Either way should work, and the above gallery includes the various photos I took during the building process to hopefully narrow down the guesswork on your end.

The Lion God in All His Glory

Look at that handsome boy! Ready to look haughtily down on survivors and crush them like the worms they are.

Happy Hunting, Survivors!