New Warband for Frostgrave

Using the figures I received from the Nickstarter, I decided to put together a second warband. This one though is in the service of the Lich Lord. As a start point I have used the Lich wizard and apprentice figures. These will be the focal point of the warband as the wizard searches for the secrets to becoming a Lich. I have deliberately gone with a limited colour palette as I wanted to add some uniformity to the warband.

Wizard and apprentice

So far I have put together nine of the plastic cultist figures to represent some of the less specialised henchmen such as thieves and thugs. I feel such henchmen as rangers and barbarians would not keep to the colours of the cult / warband.

Archers and Crossbowman for missile support

A thief and thugs for collecting the treasure tokens

The heavy hitters of the warband

The Warband together

I have to say that I enjoyed putting together the plastic cultists, very easy and I can see many uses for these figures in other genres such as Pulp and even 40k. I've also put some finishing touches to some of the treasure tokens as well as a snow troll.

Treasure tokens

Snow Troll

Snow Troll

Well hopefully I should be putting together a full review of my progress this year as well as some thoughts on possible projects for 2016

More Frostgrave goodies

After only a couple of starter games I committed myself for a level 3 Nick starter for the Thaw of the Lichlord supplement. In between Christmas shopping I have slowly started to add to my collection for use in the game.

First up is some bugbears I picked up from the Reaper Bones range. Very easy to paint up and quite impressed with the quality of the figures. I will likely write a scenario just to use these guys as I have 2 more to paint up.

Bugbears

Bugbears

Next up is the Frost wraith that was one of the rewards that I picked up. I love this model, very spooky and took very little time to paint up, consisting of a blue ink over a white base coat then re highlighted with white. I still need to add some snow to the base.

Frost Wraith

Frost Wraith

Lastly I painted up some animals that I picked up from the Border Reiver show at the Warbases stand. Very nice figures and at a very reasonable price. May pick up a few more of his range.

Wolves and Brown bear

Luckily on Thursday night we also got in another game to give us a run through of the rules as we look to start a campaign in the New year. I think the Campaigns add another level to the game. I've added a few photos of the game. We still need to add some more terrain pieces to the collection for variety

Table layout

The cotton wool represents fog from a successful spell cast

Archers in cover

The War-hound named Dog

I've now got to put the finishing touches to a snow troll before making a start on the cultists. Half of these will be used to form a second warband

Extra figures for Frostgrave

After playing my first game of Frostgrave at the club, I really like these rules. Excellent for a pick up and play game at the club. So much so that I have committed myself to a level 3 pack as part of the northstar Nickstarter for the next supplement Thaw of the Lich lord, I also added in a snow troll and a deck of the spell cards.

This week at the club we will be giving the rules another run out so I decided to make more progress on suitable figures within my lead mountain. First up are a pair of wizards, The left is a metal figure from Midlam miniatures and the one on the right is from the Reaper Bones range.

Pair of wizards

Next up is a couple of vikings press-ganged into the retinue as soldiers. I added cloaks to both figures, one from a spare Fireforge Templar sprue

A pair of soldiers

The rest of the retinue is made up of two thugs, using spare saxon figures from Musketeer minaitures. There are also two Huns from Foundry miniatures that I can use as Trackers. These were from a Hun raiding party set.

Thugs

Trackers

The whole retinue

In readiness for this weeks game I have a bear and some wolves from Warbases that I need to get painted up.

Frostgrave Warband

When I attended the Border Reiver show at Gateshead/Newcastle, I picked up the Frostgrave rules and a couple of blisters as part of my show loot. I've seen some reviews across the blogosphere and thought they would prove useful as a quick pick up and play game at the club.

For my blisters I chose the Thaumaturge and apprentice and the tracker with the hound for no other reason in that I liked the models. I did think of purchasing a box of the soldiers but after a few moments thought i was sure I would have enough proxy models in my lead pile that could be drafted in. So here they are, I'm still reading the rules and my warband so far is made up of available figures that i located straight away.

Wizard and Apprentice

Tracker and hound

For a Knight and a Templar I have used 2 men at arms figures from Black tree design. These were left over from my Lion Rampant armies

Templar and knight

Next up is a barbarian, a Gripping Beast special figure from their Age of Arthur release. The other 3 are 2 Musketeer miniatures early Saxons and a foundry early German warrior. They looked particularly suitable as thugs/warriors for the frosty setting.

Barbarian and thugs

The whole Warband together

I've already mad a start on a second warband for some solo games at home. Next up I'll need some scenerypieces as this game needs plenty of it.