From a local hobby store I purchased both the rulebook and a set of elementalist wizard and apprentice! Both are in metal and are quite nice sculpts, which I will show off when I get them painted up. The great thing about Frostgrave is that there is no set "colour scheme" to stick to. Whilst the elementalist sculpt seems to picture his hair being almost like flame, and the book pictures his clothes being bright shades of red it never specifies exactly what element he uses in combat, neither in his description or the description of elemental spells. I'm going to try something a little different. It's called Frostgrave after all, so will try various shades of blues and whites to get a frost mage on the field! and I shall be doing a similar scheme for the apprentice!
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| Wizards duel within the Frozen City |
The book itself is quite appealing, depicting two wizards and their warband doing battle within the frozen city...
It certainly tells you exactly what the game is all about! There are also various images scattered throughout the book, using the miniatures to create various scenes.
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A Wizard, Apprentice and their warband battle ghouls
outside of a Sepulchre in the city
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The book contains what you would expect from a rule book. The core rules, optional rules, stat blocks for characters and creatures, a bestiary and a spell section. It also contains a few scenarios, and rules for things like building your own hideout within the city, a chart for rolling to see what beastie turns up during the game and a bunch more.
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Some interesting beasties
in this game!
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The miniatures their selves now, and the as mentioned above Wizard and Apprentice. I can't wait to get these painted up, and I really like the elementalist in the game. He has a few spells up his sleeve, and the elemental school is closely allied with some useful schools (allows to cast spells from those schools without too much of a penalty to cast) such as Enchanter. The demo game I had saw me using elemental bolt (+8 to hit shoot attack) to wipe out many targets from a distance. A few spells I had but didn't quite get around to using included an elemental shield to soak up damage, a scatter bolt which is the multi-target variant of elemental bolt and the ability to call upon a storm, which could be cast multiple times to confer a -2 to hit on all shooting rolls per cast which certainly puts crossbows and archers out of action!. Something worth mentioning here is that "elemental bolt" could be open to interpretation as to which element it actually is, further inspiring my idea to create a frost elementalist.
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| Elementalist and Apprentice |
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£6? Robin Hood himself would be
proud of that steal! ;)
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And that brings me on to my last item, which funnily enough arrived whilst I was writing this post.
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Frost Grave Male Soldiers by Northstar
quite a lot of variety!
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I saw on Ebay, for £4 I could get a sprue which would allow me to build up to 5 varying soldiers. A full box for £20 will give you 4 sprues to create 20 men (or women if you get the right box!) which is a little more than I need. So instead I'll build up these chaps, and I've got lying around somewhere a miniature of the sapient pearwood luggage of Two Flower from Sir Terry Pratchetts' colour of magic that will make a fantastic "medium animated construct"! This will give me enough to play the first few games of a campaign at the club, with a second sprue winging its way to me in the next week or so. As you can see, the models are plastic and come with many different head, arm, weapon, accessory and equipment options which make for some unique models, something I'm always happy for. And of course when kitted out, these fine chaps will make perfect sell swords, mercenaries, town guards etc for all kinds of gaming systems, bonus!
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Sapient Pearwood Luggage, or in my case
a medium construct for FG!
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And that's me kept busy for the next week or so! I've been slowly painting and basing up some Uruk-hai, which will feature in a blog post later in the week, and I aim to get the Frost Grave soldiers assembled and painted up also!
Thanks for reading, and apologies for picture quality. I'm relying on my phone's camera until my partner and I get a camera next pay day!
You have a good day, and I'll see you next time!
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