Frostgrave "It's Friday somewhere"

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So it looks like the official miniatures come with 25mm bases... the rules don't list a basing convention, but has the community come up with one anyway? I could see potential rules cheese with using 30mm (or bigger) bases (specifically with group activation and forcing combats).

Finished painting my first warband. I've posted pics of a few of them before but they are finally all done.

I'm not the best painter and my camera has serious issues with how dark they are but I'm pleased with how they've turned out.

First the wizard.

Wizard's cape

Knight

Infantryman (this guys been posted before)

Archer

Another archer

Theif

Captain

Minotaur 1

Minotaur 2

I use these guys as stand ins for bears summoned with the Animal Companion spell.

Demon 1

Demon 2

These guys were for when my Wizard brewed a Demon in a Bottle with the Brew Potion spell but I see that you can't do that anymore.

It was pretty broken to be fair, the new potions are much more balanced.

And finally some Imps (although they do occasinally serve as hounds too).

Just Base. Most people I've played with use 25mm round, some people use larger warmahordes bases or whatever the fuck sigmarines come on, some use squares or 20.9mm round pennies. It doesn't really matter much.

You could just measure from the centre, base size doesn't matter as much then.

Anyone know when the Gnolls are out?

These guys are drying, since they've been primed.

They'll be painted by the end of the night, and look like they'll be fine when I get that done.

Time to shill some of my Frostgrave sculpts.

etsy.com/shop/CyclopsMiniatures

Can you group up barrels and boxes separately, or combine a few different-sized ones so I can buy selectively instead of from the grab-bag?

Those treasure chests are tempting, I might just. Two of those and you have enough treasure for any normal game. Three and you have enough for whatever abilities and special treasure might influence the number of chests on the board.

Anyone tried playing this on Tabletop Simulator? Any suggestions on good terrain or pre-built cityscapes?

Yeah, definitely, just send me a message on Etsy and I can turn it into a custom order, I price all those at $1/piece.

>Note: these are original designs, not castings from Hirst Arts molds.

Its true though, no reason to lie about it. Hirst allows you to sell his shit just as long as you mention it.

Would be nice if you had it standard, but I'll send you a message eventually once I've got my purchase planned out.

...But he could have also said nothing, and I don't think anyone would have thought twice about it.

Etsy is kind of a bitch to do mix and match like that aside from having a separate listing for each item, in which case fees kill making the money back.

Ouch. Separate listing was what I was suggesting, a listing of maybe five of each time a thing, but I can easily just shoot you an email for a custom order if need be.

Most of shit like this on Etsy is Hirst casts, and I'm just getting it out of the way if people were worried about pieces looking the same.

Ah, that's fair then; I'm not up on the Etsy scene when it comes to wargaming stuff.

Thanks. Can't resist plastic cultists, but I want to do some part swapping even more.

essentially, yes.

Muh wizard.

Actually, they are 20mm. Measuring from the center is the way to go.

Muh apprentice.

That's pretty slick. What model is that?

Dark Sword Miniatures model in the DiTerlizzi line.

These two are amazingly chock full-o character. Would love to see the rest of the warband.
What kind of wizards are they?

Enchanter, which humorously enough ended up being the muscle wizard build.

>DiTerlizzi Line.
Nice.

What are people making for terrain? Examples and inspiration desired.

I'm gona take my old busted up Mordheim terrain, remove the cardboard and make walls out of 1mm plasticard for the old plastic frame. It's gonna be a challenge to get the walls right.

Are none of the cardboard walls in good enough shape to make a good pattern?

I'm mixing and matching.

In preparation for Breeding Pits, I bought three or four things of the Hirst cavern mold casts.

Gotta get those suckers painted.

If I go insane I am going to make a 2'x2' sewer level for coreheim.

That would be cool, too.

I swear, I just want to buy all the Hirst molds and just go crazy.

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I like the idea of underground terrain, especially complicated sewer systems that might connect to overworld structures. A tower with no entrance but the sewers, each game detailing accessing the sewers, fighting through them into the tower, and the frantic looting of the tower itself in a short, three game mini campaign.

Bring in some weird enemies, some terrain rules, and scenery, and you're set for a short scenario like the Golem and Dark Alchemy games.

You can do some crazy stuff with those molds.

I'll use them for reference, but I probably wont make an exact copy of every little detail.

>buy all the Hirst molds and just go crazy.
you will go crazy

Cheap way of doing ruins: buy a couple of cheap knock-off jenga sets. "Distress" them by throwing them around and hitting them with a knife or rocks or whatever. Spray them grey or black, line them up and go crazy with sponge-painting in various greys. You can line them up, do one side on all of them, then turn them all over to do the next, and so on.

There you go, a bunch of big stone building blocks that look cheap and are cheap, but are good for filling space until you build something fancy.

(advanced mode: little almost-squares of thin card glued to the sides so they almost look like each piece is multiple blocks or large slabs for a building, this also helps cover up logos if you bought a brand fancy enough to have a logo (or got official jenga blocks for pennies in a charity shop))

What is the main appeal of Frostgrave? Is it the rules set or the fluff or the miniatures?

I really hate the official paintjobs. Everything looks soft and undefined.

The miniatures are great, but they're not required as you can use what you like. It's the ruleset; basically it's wizard duels plus henchmen in a fast-to-play chaotic skirmish wargame heavily focused on scenario play with enough campaign rules to keep things interesting.

Yes, I like the look of the plastic warriors and cultists, but the official paintjobs don't do them any favours.

That could be said about a lot of official miniature paintjobs.

July.

That's not a bad idea.

The rules. The minis are pretty nice, but...

The rules, a lot of the appeal is using some of your models from whatever game you play regularly, like WHFB or AoS or KoW. I know in my area folks ahve been using it as an entrypoint into AoS, rather than the single hero+unit games that arent particularly exciting.

Scale? Warband games are cool. Warband games with a focus - in this case, wizards - are cool, especially if they run with the idea that your wizards are the protagonists, and the rest are minions who may achieve some fleeting distinction. Warband games with some nod towards a campaign are cool.

It's not perfect, but neither was Mordheim, and that's more or less dead.

Doesn't hurt that there's no requirement to use certain minis, they just released a really good range of wizards and cheap soldiers and so on if you want them. I think the Osprey blog had posts where they were talking about how fun it was playing using Lego minifigs instead of proper miniatures.

The "Dallimore Look" works for some minis and not for others.

>soft and undefined.
It is a light armor setting, for the most part.

If the minis can take a paintjob that allows you to ID them on the table and not look embarrassing when well painted, they are accomplishing their goal.

Let the Golden Daemons die. They've done what they needed to.