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 Pacific wrote:


Some consideration for your opponents is always important, regardless of what the rulebook says

It's alright. His Germans and my Fungi are going to have to fight no matter what, it's just a matter of determining which ruleset the clash eventually ends up in.

 notprop wrote:
Yeah yeah that plastic boxset is what I'm after. I'm not that fussed by most of the Wizard sculpts, though they would have been nice to get on the cheap. I find allot of them a bit plain for what should be a centrepiece model, but that's something that's easy to fix.

One thing that caught my eye were some skeletons used in some of the WI article and possibly WS&S too. Were there any Skellies in the Nickstarter?

I think those were the Wargames Factory skeletons.
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/myths-and-legends/wgf-ml002

 notprop wrote:
Isn't there an expansion book out this year. I think the author said in WI there are three books ready in the pipeline. Sooner or later I'm guess one will be for non-humans.

The expansion book is called thaw of the lich lord and is due out in November.

@ Albino Squirrel - Cheers mate, i'll check them out.

I meant to add, for whomever it was asking about snow effects.

Snow flocks aside I would suggest brilliant white tile adhesive/grout. It's ultra fine so works well as snow at scale, easy to work with (dilute with white glue and/or water) and won't discolour over time. It takes paint well, indeed you can mix paint into it with no problems (I usually mix brown in for FoW bases), though you don't necessarily need it as its already white obviously. Finally it dries hard so very resistant to gaming. I got my last pot in a Poundland, so a ready mixed tub for £1!

Also I would suggest Vallejo pumice. I found this one by accident but it makes a good slushy snow when dry without the need for paint - see some test pieces I did on a FoW base here (incidentally the mud on the base is also tiling grout + Paint );

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-16689-15374_Test%20British%206th%20Airbourne.html

That looks really good actually Notprop.

I've tried a variety of specific snow basing flock, none of it ever looks particularly like real 'snow' (more like they are standing in sugar in some kind of a Grimm Brothers fantasy nightmare!)

Just putting my first warband now (although haven't decided on a magic school yet), hopefully get the first game in over the next week.

Book came today. Gonna thumb through it later.

I see the regular retail sales are up on the North Star website, but they are not available yet on the Brigade Games website. Guess that's what I get for dragging my feet and not buying into the Nickstarter...

Amazon.com also doesn't seem to be preparing any orders to ship... so you're not the only one stuck waiting. :-p

That said, thanks to Amazon's pricing I plan to buy the digital and physical editions, for less than I have spent on some really abysmal games from supposedly top-tier studios. :-p

WAyland told me Frostgrave is available from the 20th July. Not long either way.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Amazon.com also doesn't seem to be preparing any orders to ship... so you're not the only one stuck waiting. :-p

My preorder of the rulebook from Amazon still says guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, July 21st so here's hoping.

 notprop wrote:
WAyland told me Frostgrave is available from the 20th July. Not long either way.

I hope that's true. The Brigade website has a statement that they would be available for pre-order in a couple days. I'm worried it will be the end of the month or later before we can actually get our hands on the retail minis.

The ePub file is now available from Osprey. Can anyone recommend a good ePub reader for a windows laptop?

Oh good. I've been waiting for this for at least a week (since this one started floating to the top again)

I've been toying with minis to repurpose, this is going to be fun.

 Stormfather wrote:
The ePub file is now available from Osprey. Can anyone recommend a good ePub reader for a windows laptop?

I use both the EPUBReader Firefox plugin, and Calibre. The former for quick reads and the latter if you want all the "features".

I put it on my kindle, but it's too small to read. So I wouldn't recommend the kindle...

Maybe an ipad, which is easier to zoom and you can rotate to landscape.

They actually took down the ebook? It gives me an error message.

All I know is my book is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, and I'm eagerly anticipating it!

Might grab one of those Ophidian Gateways for my Sigmarines and Mushrooms to fight over this weekend, since my family should all be getting together for dinner.

Is this going to be something distributed at hobby stores?

Also, is there any indication when the rulebook/miniatures will be released in the U.S.?

This does seen like an ideal game to repuprose old minis as well as a perfect way to get use of of a bones pledge

Still waiting on my book from Brigade. If I'd have known it would take basically until retail release to get it, I'd have ordered direct from the Nickstarter. Price was about the same.

Brigade had some of their parcels held by the lost for inspection but they have recently received them. I hope it is no later than a couple of more days since they were at historicon

And it was back on the website last night. I bought it post haste. It is well laid out, easy to read even as a pdf (thanks for doing a single column of text, editor!)

I was a bit disappointed to see the list of soldiers. It is a bit restrictive, but I'm sure expansions will give us more options so we can use a broader range of miniatures.

cerealkiller195 wrote:
Brigade had some of their parcels held by the lost for inspection but they have recently received them. I hope it is no later than a couple of more days since they were at historicon

Sigh. Really starting to wish I'd just jointed the Nickstarter with North Star. I'd have taken a hit for shipping but at least I'd have the miniatures.

The rules remind me a lot of Mordheim. Is it just me? Don't get me wrong, the use of a d20 is refreshing and the magic spells are a very welcome addition.

All in all, happy with the purchase.

Still waiting for Brigade to ship my stuff.

Could have bought it retail by now...

Mine arrived a few days ago from Amazon.

I'm thinking I'll use a bunch of Deadzone and Mars Attacks terrain materials to make a nice and ruined townscape.

Looking at those latest Renedra ruins makes me wish Mantic would hurry up and do some medieval battlezones and their rumored Fantasy Deadzone.

I'm liking the really trimmed down unit size. Since size/ races doesn't seem to have much impact (from what I've read at least), I'll be putting together a few warbands to try it out this weekend hopefully.

Well, for the moment the rules seem to assume humans, but there is nothing stopping you from fielding ratmen, orcs and goblins, saurus warriors...

Got mine yesterday, and very impressed with the book! Nice quality hardback, good paper, lots of nice artwork. The layout isn't so great, but eh, I've been gaming for 30+ years and have gotten used to having no intuition on where things will actually be. That said, and index would have been smart, and possibly a quick reference sheet. Using a bold font to make the rules segments pop out would have helped too, and sometimes rules are sort of buried at the bottom of a section that didn't really seem to be relevant. It took me a while to find out whether Wizards can wear armor or not, for example, or how much non-magical weapons cost.

All in all though, very nice. I kind of like how only the Wizard and to a lesser extent the apprentice matter, the rest being largely expendables you don't even want to name for fear of attachment. I also really like how the rules are meant for a campaign, and the bases/improvements etc really flesh out the "out of game" game.

I kind of wish they had mentioned basing guidelines, given that all the models they show just use the built in foot bases apparently, but eh, it isn't that big of a deal to just say 'what ever base the model happens to be on is the right one.'

All in all, excited to throw some models on the table and give it a try!

I ordered through Brigade Games too - I've sent them a message asking for a shipping estimate/update.

I'll let you all know what I find out.

 Alpharius wrote:
I ordered through Brigade Games too - I've sent them a message asking for a shipping estimate/update.

I'll let you all know what I find out.

I sent one too.

First time ordering through them, currently not impressed.

Totally glad I just pre-ordered through Amazon. I kind of wanted the box of plastics, but the huge piles of models I never get to use held me back. Thank you, giant pile of models, thank you.