Frostgrave - Day 4

Bringing us up to 290/500 points is another lowly thug.  This is a bondir from the Foundry viking line.  Nothing fancy here - have sword, will slash.

Frostgrave - Day 3

One of the most expensive models we know about is the Apprentice, a second spellcaster in the list that is highly recommended from what play-testers have shared.
This is a sorceress from Reaper that I'm using as my apprentice.  She's 200 gold pieces to hire, so that brings us up to 270/500.

Frostgrave - Day 2

Also from Foundry's viking line is this well-nourished individual.  He'll be used as a thug; I've got three of them in the initial list that I'm playing with.  At just 20 a piece to hire they sound like some all-around muscle to get the warband started.  Yesterday's archer was 50 gold, so now we're up to 70 out of the 500 gold that the gang starts with.

Frostgrave - Day 1

Next week looks to be the week we receive the Frostgrave rulebook!  This has been an exciting one since it was announced, especially considering our local group played a lot of Mordheim when it was released.  We occasionally go back to Mordheim, and it's great, but it's not the same since GW decided to mothball it.  Have you figured out this week's theme yet?

Frostgrave looks like a fresh take on it, and there's a lot of buzz and excitement for it.  Hopefully we can get Brendan to post some pictures of the amazing terrain he's been busy building for it.

In honor of the upcoming release, I'll post a figure a day for the warband I'm taking into the ruins of Felstad.  Let's start with an archer; he's from Foundry's viking range.  Granted, I haven't seen the rules so I don't really have a handle on warband composition aside from Internet rumors, but hey, worst case I got another model painted!

Sage Advice

With all the silliness out there right now surrounding GW's dismissal of Warhammer Fantasy, it's more appealing than ever to go back to the good ol' days of older editions.  A few of us have been flipping through the 3rd edition Warhammer Fantasy rulebook to refresh ourselves on how we used to play games with actual armies!  I'm looking at you, Mind Razor.

 Anyway, this little gem of wargaming wisdom from Rick Priestly jumped out at me as a reminder that Warhammer is every bit about storytelling and imagination as it is about tactics and game mechanics.  That's what made it fun for me all those years ago and that's why I'm excited to go back to it.

I'll Take Schwords for $400,Alex

More work on the Galwegian Highlanders for Infinity last night.  This is the model collection from the previous Highlanders box, plus Mr. Connery.  These guys have been sitting unloved in a half-painted state for way too long, so I decided to just power through.  There's a little more to do tonight, but they look a lot healthier than they did before a couple hours of painting.

Infinity Highlander

Last night's project was one of Corvus Belli's new Galwegian Highllanders for Infinity.  This is from a box of resculpts that are all based on actors, in this case Christopher Lambert.  I wanted to get him done up quickly so he'd be ready for a game Thursday night; this is about two hours of work, including the tartan.  CB made a Sean Connery fig to go with it, which I'm looking forward to doing next.  That'll put me in a good spot to have a half dozen Galwegians led by William Wallace before the new USAriadna boxed set shows up and I have to figure out how to paint a flippin' motorcycle.