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

Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

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

FPW French marines II

I have finally gotten around to posting these guys on the blog, they were painted up and based just over a week ago. As usual at this time of year preparation for Christmas is taking precedence on any spare time I thought I had. These guys are the 2nd Marine Regiment for Vassiognes' division. The figures are all from Outpost. The spare figure was painted up as i needed markers to represent low on ammo.

Now I need to get cracking on the last two regiments and then i can start on the two Hussar regiments that I want to paint up.

FPW French Marines

I've finally made a start on my next French Corps. I've chosen XII Corps under Lebrun, simply because it includes Marines in Vassiogne's division. The Corps was present at the Battle of Chalons. I will also need to go back to III Corps as I need to add a 4th infantry division to it. So here they are the 1st Marine Regiment. The figures are all from Outpost and bases from Warbases.

I've already got the second regiment partially painted and enough figures for the other 2 regiments. I will need to add a Mitrilliause as well. At some point in the future I will also need to complete at least 1 Prussian infantry division

'Oldhammer Elves

After the big game up at Micks in October I have found myself in a bit of a rut when it comes to painting, it has probably come down to a lack of focus and no project to aim for. So a long search through the lead pile unearthed some Elves and Melnibonean figures that I have had lying around since the 80's. I also did a quick search on E-Bay and visited a local hobby shop to pick up a handful of figures to round the force off. Now I had some focus, but which Elven force, High Elf or Wood Elf. In the end I chose neither and plumbed for a Sea Elf force defending and outpost in the New/Old world.

First up is a unit of Kinband led by a level 10 Hero Cormac Moonblade, he's the one with the hawk. This unit consists of 20 warriors with Cormac. The majority of the figures are from the 80's with a couple of the more modern sculpts lurking in the rear rank.

Cormac Moonblade and retinue

The next unit is composed entirely from the Melnibonean range. I think as these guys as the crew of a Sea Elf warship with their Dragon masks. Makes them look rather fearsome. I would love to pick up more of these figures but the price on E-Bay is exorbitant. the unit is led by a level 5 hero Idrynn Brightmantle (I'm using the Dylvim Slorm figure)

Idrynn Brightmantle and retinue

Both of these infantry units are supported by a detachment of archers, 2 units of 10. The figures are a mix of Melniboneans, 80's Citadel and Marauder as well as some of the current LOTR range from Games Workshop. I do realise that I will need more archers for this force.

Archer detachment

Archer detachment

to provide a hard hitting unit to this force I have gone for a small unit of Shore riders, led by the Army General Falerien Eaglewing. The figures are composed of 2 Melnibonean troopers and 3 early versions of Silverhelms I think. I mounted Falerien on the only armoured horse, just so here stands out.

Falerien Eaglewing and Shore riders

The only other additional troops I have added are a small unit of 5 sea elf wardancers, I could ideally do with another 5 models to make them more useful. For magic support I am using a plastic mage from GW, he will be replaced by a more suitable model once I can locate one and then be named. So not bad for a months work with the main emphasis being on getting a small force completed. I might even get to use them in a game in the coming weeks, just have to wait and see. Now back to some historical figures.

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.