A New Begining - Frostgrave

 

Frostgrave... A Small Skirmish Game using wandering monsters and a campaign system. What more could you really want from a fantasy wargame. Welcome to my most Recent Endeavor.

 

 

Frostgrave is a game that has captured my attention, and the attention of some of my friends, from the Video stylings of Ash from Guerilla Miniature Games, and Owen, from Gaming with the Cooler. Check out thier Youtube Channels... they are Awesome.

 

Rather than rolling a metric ton of D6 dice, for Frostgrave you need a single D20... for each Player. In terms of Models, there are several official models for the game, which i will talk about shortly, but a huge selling point for this game is that it explicitly says ANY RELEVANT MODEL WILL DO. You have a Thug for 20GP? cool... as long as it has a single hand weapon, you are good. The game play itself seems very quick, perfect if you have 30 minutes to run a quick match.  

 

Let me Clarify.... I have not Played.

 

But I am going to.

 

In order to get to that point, I need a few key things. A particularly important part of Frostgrave is Terrain.... so part of my project for playing this game will include making some old city ruins. Another huge part of the game is the warband itself... which i will go over shortly.

 

I have built the list I am going to start with... and have created a start of the Fluff I am going to use for it.

 

Without Further Ado.... and no Pictures.....

 

Veritas Adventure Company

 

E'Vereta Becot - Elementalist

Saval Dormier - Apprentice

Nathaniel Beracome - Archer

One-Eyed Sue - Archer

Sir Oric Velantes - Knight

Dorin Doricson - Man-At Arms

Bob - Thug

 

So I have decided I am only going to buy two models... for now at least. The Elementalist and the Apprentice come together in a Blister Pack from North Star Miniatures. North Star also sells a pack of 10 or 20 Figures to be assembled as various other members of the party. My idea, however, was to fill up the party in other ways. For Example, my two archers are going to be pulled from a Bretonian Peasant Bowmen Group, and a random High Elf Archer I have floating around. As for the knight and the Thug, I happen to have a Paladin Character Model for D&D which I think will fit quiet well, as well as... I hate to say this... my own personal character representation of my D&D character... my bard. Everyone Knows Bards make great Verbal Thugs, so this really makes a whole lot of sense. And Lastly, the Man-At-Arms is going to be a Bretonian .... well.... Man-at-arms. Pretty Linear, Right? I aim for Simplicity.

 

 

- Rob -