Column Bashing

Game 5 of our 7 Week Frostgrave campaign was underway and after a pretty horrible start, my witch Krigast had become quite good at his job.  At this point in our campaign he started the game at level 10, had the full bonus to his fight attribute, could cast curse, strength, and bone dart at fairly low casting values.  I was feeling that he was up to the challenge of Ben's goatmen.

We were playing the scenario Forgotten Temple.  We jokingly referred to it as "column bashing."  The joke would be on us as those columns put up a much better fight than we expected...

Here we see the section of Frostgrave from Krigast's side.

 The columns were represented by my children's toy blocks.  Good thing they went to bed because they can become territorial when I play with their stuff.

Krigast won the initiative and quickly ran with his templar and man-at-arms body guard toward the center column by the theater house.  He cast strength on the templar making him a very formidable foe in hand to hand.

On the other side of the board, Krigast's counter part, (he isn't named as far as I know so I'll just call him Maaaaa...) advanced to the safety of the trees where he raised his zombie buddy.

Both apprentices advanced as well getting themselves into supporting positions while casting buffing spells.  My newly acquired knight received a strength spell at the cost of a few hit points for example.  Krigast won initiative again and took the opportunity to strike a column.  He very handily knocked out some treasure which a nearby thief was all to happy to escort away from the board.

Maaaaa, didn't move from the comfort of his trees and waited for his cronies to arrive to back him up.  He apparently didn't have much confidence in the zombie bodyguard.  Maaa's apprentice on the other hand raised a zombie too.  They were apparently going for the outnumber your opponent approach to the game. His thief then galloped into the house and struck a column receiving a treasure token in return.

Both treasures that we had picked up triggered some wandering monsters.  2 (wolf) spiders and a ghoul arrived.  And they arrived behind Maaaa and his kids.  (I know, bad goat joke)

Krigast's scrubs were able to secure a second treasure from a column, but his ineffective  treasure hunter, who was trying to attach a column which happened to be only 2" away from a board edge for an easy escape mind you, was having difficulties fighting the column.  The column lashed out and struck him for about 4 wounds.  Then Maaa's archer spied him from across the canal....

Splat!  Struck down by an arrow.

Luckily for Krigast, his faithful apprentice was over there with an archer and a knight.  They should hopefully be able to get some treasure out of that column!  Krigast was on the move up the center.  he was feeling confident that he could capture the treasure at the center column nearest Maaa's deployment,  Maaa quickly hoofed it away to fight the column first, promptly fluffing his attacks.  The templar made short work of the raised zombie and was closing in on Maaaa.

The wandering monsters finally caught up to Maaa's apprentice's zombie who rocked out killing both (wolf) spiders before getting beaten by the ghoul.

While the apprentice's zombie was busy fending off the wandering creatures, he quickly attacked a column.  Unfortunately the column rolled a crit and turned the apprentice into dog food.

Once again Krigast rolled initiative and rounded a corner to spot Maaa wildly hacking at the last column.  He ordered his templar and man-at-arms across a wooden plank to prepare to engage Maaaa, however Krigast cast bonedart at him killing him outright.  Krigast's first wizard kill!

With that last blow, Ben conceded the game.  Krigast jumped 5 levels and now sits at level 15 for our last campaign game before our royal rumble event in a couple of weeks.