In October 2025, Bryan hopped the passenger ferry across the Georgia straight and visited for a weekend. With local gamer Garret we played out a 3 way frostgrave game. Considering the 8 months since I played it I don't have a lot of recollection of the event. I *do* remember having the worst luck (I think 50% of my force was taken out, and possible non at all for the others).
The pillars (printed by me) were magical constructs and would turn into chests when touched. The game was to rush forward, grab what you could and escape (which is the general theme for frostgrave in general TBH). In principle there are 2 chests per team.......but that is so unlikely it's hardly worth noting.
Small table and tight quarters meant some definite clustering to start.
Hard to see with white on white, but I'm a big fan of using mist (cotton fluff) to control long ranged fire and wandering monsters. It usually works quite well....
But not in this game. One of my henchmen gets a wandering monster charging him as soon as an opposing team activates a pillar/chest. These GD toads are slow but have a really impressive bite. Out in a single roll.
The pillars are all converted at this point and we are dragging them away. Plus flinging spells at chests and henchmen to complicate and/or steal them from the other sides. Lots of red 'dead' markers can be seen (blood ringed bodies) in my area of the table. There are lots of square ish red x's showing damage.
The GD toad just keeps on hunting my team.
It's probably subjective but I feel like Garrets archers are usually both effective and annoying.
It was a total rout for my side (I'm not sure I even got a single chest), but Bryan and Garret did all right. Fun times despite the rough handling by dice rolls.
Good looking game, even though it seemed luck was not at all with you. I like the pillar mechanic. Did they block line of sight until touched and turned into chests?
ReplyDeleteYes. Although I'm not sure it wildly changed the line of site anyway. Garret has a lot of good ruins terrain that is liberally sprinkled around. You also needed to win a fight against the pillar (I think it had +0 so was a...mild hazard). I have suspicions I lost a model to a pillar fight.
DeleteGreat looking set up, ages since I played frostgrave
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to visit old stuff. We got some newby gamers to try it out one night as well. I only snapped a single picture though.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking game Dave. Lady Bad Luck always seems to pick on one player per game. 😁
ReplyDeleteStill if you remember the game as fun despite your luck it was well worth playing.
I don't get a lot of games in, but this one was memorable despite that. It helps when you can laugh about the result (it was a one shot game, so not a whole campaign result riding on it).
DeleteGreat set up keen to play Frostgrave again been a while.
ReplyDeleteMost of the terrain is my buddies setup. It is pretty great, and plays on well too. I see you have a post on frostgrave minis! Maybe you'll get in a game soon yourself.
DeleteYour Frostgrave game inspires me to dig out all my Mordheim terrain. I'm pretty sure it would work for Frostgrave (despite the lack of snow; we could call it Cometgrave or something...).
ReplyDeleteFriend Thomas in vancouver referred to his game/table as Thaw-grave for a similar reason.
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