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**Shadow Walker**

Mortal Enemies monsters.
Blood Crow, Murder Crow, Animated Corpse & Corpse Wrangler.
Painted by Kev Dallimore.

**toasteroven**

Crows seem like nice fellas.

**Shadow Walker**

Undead model made from Cultists 2 box.

**Gallahad**

I don't understand what is on its head.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Gallahad wrote:
I don't understand what is on its head.

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

Nothing a good hobby knife can't take off.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Gallahad wrote:
I don't understand what is on its head.

I think they are meant to be antlers, but they are not well done if that's what they are supposed to be.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Brigade Games (USA) has the Cultist II set up for preorder. $30.75 for 20.

https://www.brigadegames.com/frostgrave-cultists-ii-fgvp11-box-set

**Shadow Walker**

''Frostgrave Cultist.
Built and painted by Kev Dallimore from the plastic kit Frostgrave Cultists II''

**Shadow Walker**

Something unexpected, from their FB:"Frostgrave, Cultists III are on the way to the tool makers, the next plastic box set. "

**Smokestack**

Shadow Walker wrote:
Something unexpected, from their FB:"Frostgrave, Cultists III are on the way to the tool makers, the next plastic box set. "

More cultists is nice. They are useful in a ton of things, but I wonder why they are going with a 3rd box of cultists over say female knights. A Knights II set would be appreciated. Or if they are planning on any more Ghost archipelago stuff... a Crewmen II set would be great too.

**Dawnbringer**

I am curious what they are going to do in terms of differentiating them from the other boxes of cultists.

**Gallahad**

That is great news! I've gotten so much mileage out of the cultists box for cultists, undead, conversions, etc. Excellent kit. Detail isn't the best, but so many useful heads and bits.

**lord_blackfang**

Maybe it's a straight up replacement? As nice as the heads are, it's dated kit on a small sprue.

Just yesterday I was building a Cultist... and in the end, I only ended up using the belt accessories from the Cultist sprue - body from Fireforge Peasants, head from Dead Man's Hand Gunfighters, arms from FG Wizards.

**Shadow Walker**

Wasn't there some mentioning in one of Frostgrave books about animal cultists? Maybe some feral ones are coming?

**privateer4hire**

Smokestacks idea for crewman ii is the best idea I have heard in a month.

**lord_blackfang**

I suspect Ghost Archipelago didn't sell well enough to justify more plastics.

Blood & Plunder stuff might be useful tho?

**Ancestral Hamster**

Kromlech produces the official line of Frostgrave terrain. There are some new releases. I am strongly tempted by the Ancient Archive despite my dislike of painting terrain and realizing that painting and gluing in place all those books will be a royal pain.

https://bitsofwar.com/10344-large_default/ancient-archives.webp
https://bitsofwar.com/130-frostgrave-official-terrain-series-ts

**Gallahad**

The Ghost Archipelago kits are the worst of the Frostgrave kits. The Crewmen don't look very piratey and have strangely long arms, the Snakemen have absurdly short arms. The detail and sculpting on the Snakemen is also pretty poor with strange irregular/sloppy scales, structureless worm heads, and listless weapon design.

I suspect that is why they didn't sell particularly well.

**Da Boss**

Yeah, I agree that they're not the best, but hard plastic snake men are hard to say no to!

**Smokestack**

I liked the crewman box, but I used the bodies to absorb left over WA conquistador arms and heads.

**Shadow Walker**

Yeah, Snakemen are a wasted opportunity. How could they even be approved with those tiny arms?

**KidCthulhu**

Ancestral Hamster wrote:
Kromlech produces the official line of Frostgrave terrain. There are some new releases. I am strongly tempted by the Ancient Archive despite my dislike of painting terrain and realizing that painting and gluing in place all those books will be a royal pain.

https://bitsofwar.com/10344-large_default/ancient-archives.webp
https://bitsofwar.com/130-frostgrave-official-terrain-series-ts

I really like this kit:

**lord_blackfang**

I'm not going to disagree with any of those Archipelago kit criticisms. But they got the job done at the time. Now, I would pick Wargames Atlantic lizardmen (with muskets!) as a strong contender for a "native" force tho!

**lord_blackfang**

**Daba**

Was there any rumbling about Knights 2?

**zedmeister**

Advanced Spellcraft has appeared:

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=19347

Expand your spellbook with Advanced Spellcraft, featuring new options for wizards and a ten-scenario competitive campaign.

While today's wizards are not as gifted as those who ruled Felstad, the recent discovery of the fabled Bibliosepulchre promises to change all that. It was in this great library-crypt that ancient librarians were interred, each clutching a rare grimoire. Who knows what strange energies have seeped from those tomes over the centuries or what shadows and ghosts stalk the dark catacombs? Only those truly obsessed with magic and the power it offers would dare to find out!

Advanced Spellcraft offers numerous new rules and ideas that bring more spellcasting possibilities to games of Frostgrave. Critical successes and failures for each basic spell are introduced, as are spell-specific flourishes that can be learned to enhance your magic. Create a Furious Quill that leaps from target to target, cast a Draining Word that affects an entire school of magic, or ensnare multiple zombies with Control Undead. Such flourishes take their toll, however, and to even learn such secrets will require you to venture into the Bibliosepulchre itself in a ten-scenario competitive campaign.

With hundreds of new tricks for wizards to learn, Advanced Spellcraft is the largest supplement to date, and is presented in celebration of Frostgrave's 10th anniversary.

EDIT:

Also from Northstar: Cultist III are planned to be released in August

**lord_blackfang**

þat was annoying to read

**zedmeister**

lord_blackfang wrote:
þat was annoying to read

Huh, that was odd. Not sure what happened with that copy+paste, but sorted

**Kid_Kyoto**

Cultist III?

Let the wishlisting begin!

I vote for evil children!

**Porsenna**

Ages ago I was talking over email with somebody there, back when cultists II was still in the works, and suggested they do a kit for thier cultist knight and templar metal sets.

My hope is that is what's coming down the pipeline - but I'd also be happy for a re-do of the regular male cultists to bring them up to the more crispy digital sculpting for plastic kits standard.