Tales from the frozen North

Recently my main gaming buddy and myself started following Guerilla miniatures gaming Coop's Battle Reports and found out about Frostgrave. The main man at Guerilla miniature, Ash Barker, was really excited about this new game and have been working hard to get his warband and terrain ready for the camera. As soon as we started watching those Mordheim-like real skirmish treasure hunts between bands of hired mercenaries led by a wizard and his apprentice in the ruined, frozen city of Felstad, we were hooked and ordered the rulebook right away.
Although Forstgrave have its own line of minis, a lot of players are getting all sorts of miniatures to represent their warbands. From games Workshop Fantasy range to Reaper's and many more. This concept brings a lot of variety to the game and is even encouraged straight in the rulebook.

We played a couple of test games with proxies lately  and had a lot of fun. However we were playing like there's no tomorrow, sacrificing our wizards and apprentices in order to get the most loot. In a campaign we would have been more cautious in order to live another day! You can read more about those games on my buddy's blog here: https://miniaturesandmeanderings.wordpress.com/

Rulewise the game have a good pace with its alternate activation system, keeping the players on alert all game long. All rolls are d20 and many, like shooting at someone, are face-to-face rolls, reminding of Infinity (which I like a lot). Of course, d20s can lead to all kind of weird misses and very unlikely successes but it's always a lot of fun. Quite unpredictable but fun nonetheless. Although I'm pretty sure we're going to find broken rules (I'm looking at you JV!) so far we've been doing fine on this side of things. It's a no bullshit/keep it simple kind of ruleset and as long as players are good sports no rule argument should arise and waste it.


For my models I settled on Tre Manor's Red Box Games's superb miniatures to start my Warband.
I'm still to receive them after 3 firm weeks of waiting. Here the models I ordered, images taken directly from RedBox's website (http://red-box-games.com/):

A little halfling thief

Crossbow Dwarf

Treasure Hunter!

Knight

Tracker/Ranger

Archer/Ranger

Rogue/treasure hunter

My Chronomancer

...and his sultry apprentice

That's it for now, more to come as soon as we get the chance to start the campaign!