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NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:

piperider361 wrote:
Got a review copy of the book in. It looks pretty awesome...especially the effort put into the campaign setting. Looking forward to playing some games this week!

Are you under NDA or can you give us some insights?

Spill the beans!

Hah, no NDA...Osprey sent us the book to talk about it and hype it up after all

BUT, I also don't want to spoil my entire review right away either! Plan to push it out next Monday (I'll link it here as well).

If you're looking for gameplay details, there are a few posted earlier in this thread on various blogs, which I'll happily help promote here, and the creator gave a quick outline on warband building here.

I can't speak as to the Northstar figures - I intend to make my first warband out of the WFB/Mordheim Skaven I currently have. A Grey Seer for the Wizard, and a Warlock Engineer for the Apprentice. I'll use pistol and Jezzail armed models for Crossbowmen (there is no black powder in the rules, but crossbows have an appropriate penetration modifier), and various Clanrats/Stormvermin as various types of troopers.

A big difference from Mordheim is the stress on the wizards, and to a lesser extent, the apprentices. They are just THAT MUCH better than the soldiers (the catch-all for all the rest of the hired mercenaries), and in the campaign setting, will survive a lot longer as well. It's almost like Warmachine/Hordes casters in comparison. The rules are very simple and clean - very few "special" rules to get muddied up. Scheduled to test drive the rules Wednesday evening!

Haha I think I saw your copy over the weekend sitting on a table while you we're playing a tourney. Spent the next few minutes looking on the shelves before I realized it must be a prerelease.

Jerram wrote:
Haha I think I saw your copy over the weekend sitting on a table while you we're playing a tourney. Spent the next few minutes looking on the shelves before I realized it must be a prerelease.

Small world it is! But yeah, I was there with said book running a small FoW event!

The final push is on!

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Yesterday at 8:58am ·

The Frostgrave Soldiers plastic box set.


Nickstarter currently at £34,861!

North Star Military Figures added 3 new photos to the album: Frostgrave.
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A new range of figures by North Star and Osprey Games. A joint project, these miniatures are for the game Frostgrave. Due out in July, Frostgrave is a Fantasy Wargame set in a frozen city.

From Facebook

"Spend Goal 8 of the Nickstarter has been achieved. Some really nice Frostgrave Wallpapers will be available to all Level 3, 4 & 5 Wizards."

Total at £35,936.65

Sweet - I think £40K is still a real possibility here!

Anyone know, incidentally, where I might contact the game's creator? I have my pre-orders in, but was actually hoping there would be a way to get a .pdf of the rules as an option, as well.

As a disabled gamer, any chance I can get to bypass needing to flip through a physical book, I will usually take, while still enjoying having a nicely bound book on the shelf. :-)

No idea about a PDF - but that would be nice!

More updates:

The final Frostgrave Nickstarter newsletter.

http://downloads.northstarfigures.com/newsletter/newsletter066.htm

North Star Military Figures added a new photo to the album: Frostgrave.
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Small Imp Demon
Imps are generally the smallest and least powerful variety of demon. In appearance, they could be anything from a little blob with a giant mouth, to a spindly insect creature with vestigial wings, or anything in between.

PDF and, I believe, ePuB versions of the book will be available through Osprey when the game is officially released on 20 July.

joe5mc wrote:
PDF and, I believe, ePuB versions of the book will be available through Osprey when the game is officially released on 20 July.

Perfect. I'll gladly buy this twice if the rules are solid. :-)

Nice little write up in the new Wargames Illustrated, might get the historical guys interested!

This is one hell of a nice paint job!

North Star Military Figures added a new photo to the album: Frostgrave.
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Snow Leopard. The largest and most vicious of the big cats around Frostgrave, the snow leopard is a dangerous hunter. They have no fear of humans and will attack if they are hungry of feel threatened.

Saw that earlier and drooled!

Total now £36399.78

Thanks for the update - total in the title now updated!

Can we get £3700 in the next 4 days?

I think so - and I hope so!

Up to £37,185.15.

I can't afford to add any more but think it will hit the 40k now!

Remember - the Nickstarter ends on the 29th!

Currently at £37,776!

North Star Military Figures added a new photo to the album: Frostgrave.
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Lectern model, to use as a superior treasure token in the game.

North Star Military Figures added a new photo to the album: Frostgrave.
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Large Construct
These are constructs that are somewhat larger than a human. They are often still humanoid in shape, but can also be found in the form of living vehicles such as wagons or carriages, or large animals such as bears.

I'm in at the 'lvl 4 wizard' with this one.

Really looking forward to re-igniting the old Mordheim type campaign I used to play with my gaming buddies!

The Large Construct is lovely. Great feel from this range!


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 RobertsMinis wrote:
The Large Construct is lovely. Great feel from this range!


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Those look nice and will work great for a game of FROSTGRAVE!

Thanks for posting them here!

Ordered the rulebook via Brigade and will use my Bones minis for it.

Manorhouse MUP KS should work well with this!

The Nickstarter is over!

And it looks like it ended at £39859.87!

Damn!

So close...

Still, a good run, and looking forward to when this one ships...in about a week and a half!

Went in on this on Saturday, order went through ok but no confirmation email. Is that normal or is it justa consequence of a busy weekend for them?

They have to manually input all CC etc so it's often a few days before you get an email for any orders etc from them

Ah - let's home there a few stragglers in there that push the total past £40K!

Our review of Frostgrave.

Gotten a chance to play through several games of it now and really enjoying it, especially the campaign system. Gameplay is very simple, and I've been able to teach folks how to play in under five minutes, which is a big plus in my opinion. We should have a decent crew of a dozen folks to play when the book releases, and I'm already planning my next warband!

Seems like more fun than mordheim, as I love the subject matter of wizards of different schools of magic.

I'll definitely pick up the book and start up a campaign with my buds if I can get them interested.

Alpharius wrote:Ah - let's home there a few stragglers in there that push the total past £40K!

Or, if they have any decency at all perhaps North Star will just count it at £40k anyway!

piperider361 wrote:Our review of Frostgrave.

Gotten a chance to play through several games of it now and really enjoying it, especially the campaign system. Gameplay is very simple, and I've been able to teach folks how to play in under five minutes, which is a big plus in my opinion. We should have a decent crew of a dozen folks to play when the book releases, and I'm already planning my next warband!

Cheers for posting the review

Love how flexible the rules seem, really cool that you can sub in other miniatures so easily. Sure that will make it popular with Mordheim players for that reason!

This looks like a lot of fun. Couldnt afford the game atm but will certainly look to pick it up further down the line.

We came so close to getting to the £40K spend goal. That would have released a free model of a new Templar. I've decided, because we got so close, I'm going to send a free Templar model to every Level 3+ Wizard after all! What we'll do is include a free Crusader Miniatures model of a Knight with a two handed weapon. The model Giorgio is making of the Templar for Frostgrave will be finished, and made available later on.