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If you are having a rough time being slayed by random high rolls then do what we do...cover the board in hoards of undead! No one will have time to fight each other as you will be too busy being eaten by zombies!!

Does anyone have these in stock in the US? I still don't see them on the Brigade site.

Though I do see a 15% off sale.

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Does anyone have these in stock in the US? I still don't see them on the Brigade site.

Though I do see a 15% off sale.

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/

They should be up in a few days after all of the Nickstarters have been shipped out.

 adamsouza wrote:

 Killionaire wrote:

However, we never over the course of the last 4-player game for example, saw a single model get taken down by attritional damage. It was either meaningless pokes, or full 10+ point hits and kills.

I really suspect you are not determining damage properly.

The cheapest Thug has an armor value of 10. Not only would you have to fail the opposed toll to get hit, but that modified roll would have to be 20 or higher to take him out in a single hit. You subtract the armor values from the modified attack roll. Most soldiers in the game are rocking a whole +2 to that roll, and armor values of 10+. Which would mean that the cheapest human soldier is injured on a 11-17, and taken out on a 18-20 .

That's the first thing I noticed. I don't think Killionaire was actually playing the rules, or his dice are incredibly weighted. It's very difficult to kill any model in one roll, as adamsouza demonstrated. In fact, the reason why having an armor value of greater than 10 or wounds greater than 10 makes a model much, much better because even on a devastating hit the slightly higher armor or slightly higher wounds will make a model only be injured instead of killed. Getting just a few points more in armor and wounds will make models be able to survive even two very damaging wounds.

Frostgrave Day was a lot of fun. Could have done with an official rules pack (preferably in advance), but it was friendly and good-natured, which meant most people didn't mind too much if they were occasionally playing by different rules.

Telekinesis seemed to be the spell of choice across many tables... I did very well with my tried-and-tested Elementalist combo (Elemental Hammer/Elemental Bolt/Wall/Telekinesis/Fleet Feet/Leap/Heal/Absorb Knowledge). The idea is that Ele Hammer is put on your crossbowmen if you don't have anything else to do (+7 damage makes for lots of one-shot kills), but generally you just Telekinese a couple of central treasures towards you, and run up to grab the now 4 available treasures with 7" move people. Next use Leap to get away and/or Wall to obstruct pursuit. Hard to beat... perhaps to the point of imbalance? Dunno.

I'm sure it was FAQ'd that Elemental Hammer only works on Mele attacks.

Do you need to know Raise Zombie already to use a Book of Bones to make skeletons?

 TheWaspinator wrote:
Do you need to know Raise Zombie already to use a Book of Bones to make skeletons?

Yes.


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The idea is that Ele Hammer is put on your crossbowmen if you don't have anything else to do (+7 damage makes for lots of one-shot kills),

ELEMENTAL HAMMER
Elementalist / 10 / Line of Sight
This spell is cast upon a weapon. The next time this weapon
causes at least 1 point of damage, it inflicts an additional 5
points of damage.

overtyrant wrote:
I'm sure it was FAQ'd that Elemental Hammer only works on Mele attacks.

Just checked, the FAQ has an entry for Elemental Hammer, and it does not mention it being limited to melee weapons.

It's not a tactic I have encountered yet. Could be a reason to finally buy a Grimoire for my Wzard

I'm running
Elementalist (Elemental Shield/Elemental Bolt/Wall/Telekinesis/Crumble/Leap/Heal/Absorb Knowledge)

PLEASE KEEP RULES AND TACTICS DISCUSSIONS TO ANOTHER THREAD, THIS IS FOR NEWS AND RUMORS.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/30.page

Cheers.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Does anyone have these in stock in the US? I still don't see them on the Brigade site.

Though I do see a 15% off sale./

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Frostgrave--FGVP02--Frostgrave-Cultists_p_4444.html
Just ordered them, this morning (and entirely forgotten about the coupon code.)

 joseph_curwen wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Does anyone have these in stock in the US? I still don't see them on the Brigade site.

Though I do see a 15% off sale./

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Frostgrave--FGVP02--Frostgrave-Cultists_p_4444.html
Just ordered them, this morning (and entirely forgotten about the coupon code.)

Curses!

You MADE me buy 2 boxes!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 joseph_curwen wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Does anyone have these in stock in the US? I still don't see them on the Brigade site.

Though I do see a 15% off sale./

http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Frostgrave--FGVP02--Frostgrave-Cultists_p_4444.html
Just ordered them, this morning (and entirely forgotten about the coupon code.)

Curses!

You MADE me buy 2 boxes!

Were you able to use the coupon code? I tried furiously several times to get it to work to no avail (yes, it was before the deadline). I very much wanted to order several boxes of soldiers and cultists for Christmas.

It seemed I could.

Try emailing them if there's a problem.

Oh and it was only 10% off, I may have been misled by the 2015 reference in the coupon.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
It seemed I could.

Try emailing them if there's a problem.

Oh and it was only 10% off, I may have been misled by the 2015 reference in the coupon.

Yeah, I emailed them about it. He wrote back a couple of minutes ago and said that Frostgrave items were not eligible for the 10% discount, since they were already "on sale" so you must have gotten lucky. Not sure I'll pull the trigger anymore.

Just looked, I didn't get the additional 10%, I emailed and will see.

Ah well.

I just recieved my cultists and other new minis from Brigade Games when I got home last night. Can't wait to get started on them!

If anyone in the US is interested in trading or selling some of the cultist heads from their Frostgrave cultists set, send me a PM. I have no use for the entire kit but would love to get a few of those heads.

Not to intentionally Piggyback on Vermonter, ... but kinda doing so anyhow..

I ALSO am not interested in the whole kit.. but AM interested in the pointy hood cultist heads.. would like to get all 6 of them.. or as many single sculpts as possible

Got my nickstarter stuff in today from Brigade.
The book is an awesome campaign, the bonus stuff was really nice, and the Cultist figures are wonderfully done.
I can't wait to put them together and paint them.

Totally looking forward to the next campaign Nickstarter in July.

Very well done!

Got my cultists yesterday, and they are a very good kit. Detail is comperable to GW's recent kits, very customizable as well.

Not so many options since it's one sprue and includes cultist and zombie bitz, but if you have a deep bitz box that's not much of a problem.

Pics soon.

Now what's next for them?

Please Amazons!

Into the Breeding Pits is the next major supplement, and there are Gnolls featured on the cover, so I'm rooting for multipart plastic Gnolls, becuase, why not ?

Next actual supplement will be Sellsword, with rules for nonspellcaster captains that level up and you can choose thier gear and abilities, due out in January in digital format, and 2017 in a printed compendium format.

For those who might be interested, the new e-book mini-supplement, Frostgrave: Sellsword is now available. It includes rules for 'captains' a new soldier who gains experience and has a few other special tricks.

You can get it direct from Osprey here: https://ospreypublishing.com/frostgrave-sellsword-38628

But it's also available from WargamesVault, Amazon, Google, etc.

Thanks for the heads up Joe !

I've been looking forward to Sellsword's release.

Hard plastic Gnolls are being released this July.



Very excited about this, they're a D&D/ classic fantasy staple and an excellent choice of kit to make.

Hopefully they keep doing interesting kits like this, some kobolds would be fantastic.

Well that was entirely unexpected.

And entirely awesome!

Looking forward to seeing the models

Really love all the plastic starting to come out for frostgrave.

And it's not even a Kickstarter.

Hope they keep this up with more fantasy kits.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Hard plastic Gnolls are being released this July.

First, this is just awesome

Second, if anyone has Frostgrave's ear, I just wanted to give a bit of feedback that has kept me from truly considering it - whenever people are discussing their new releases or they're showing them off, I seem to only see box art like this. Every other company on this forum shows greens, or resins, or sprue shots, or at least renders...!

Even when I look at their site, for some reason, I can never find pictures of actual models, only box art. Do you guys really buy these things based off the art, or are there model pics I can see somewhere - of past releases at minimum, but ideally of new releases like this?

Sorry if it's obvious but making that easier to find would really help boost sales with folks who are on the edge of being interested, I think!

The box art is usually the first to show up,

but I've seen sprue shots later for their plastic releases so far but I can't remember where (possibly https://www.facebook.com/northstarmilitaryfigures/?fref=ts)

(but having looked at various places selling the kits it does seem odd that they aren't showing sprue shots or renders, although they're not the only company that is frustrating in this regard, try looking for spue shots of Wyrd stuff)

Second that RiTides. And it's not just frostgrave.

I'll never get why it's such a chore for miniature manufacturers so show decent pictures of their sprues or unpainted components.

Every potential customer want to see those and they are almost never available. You have to go search peoples blogs or reviews on facebook to see pics.

That's one thing I have to give GW credit for. They seem to have understood that people like to see pics of their sprues and it only took them a decade or so to start putting those up on their homepage, so maybe there's hope to see such pictures for frostgrave kits somewhere around 2020.

It's one of the unwritten rules of mini manufacturing I guess. Like the rule that you should never show comparasion pictures so people can see how they scale against other manufacturers models,

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
The box art is usually the first to show up,

but I've seen sprue shots later for their plastic releases so far but I can't remember where (possibly https://www.facebook.com/northstarmilitaryfigures/?fref=ts)

(but having looked at various places selling the kits it does seem odd that they aren't showing sprue shots or renders, although they're not the only company that is frustrating in this regard, try looking for spue shots of Wyrd stuff)

As an outsider, I find this is particularly true of Frostgrave, though. I've asked a number of fans of theirs, and no one can easily find pics of the models!

For Wyrd, if I google any of their models I instantly find a render of it. Not as good as a sprue pic, but definitely enough for me to decide whether I should buy it.

With Frostgrave, I feel I just have no idea of the quality of their sculpts / models, because they're never willing to show them to me! And even their supporters can't easily point to a render or really anything to show what the models look like. Maybe a 3rd party blog has pics...?

They really need to fix this, it's a huge barrier to entry... hopefully someone can pass that along . I'm definitely interested in their stuff!!