Even though I bought all of the original wizards and companions with the first Nickstarter, I did not get the opportunity to paint any of them. I will try to remedy that fairly soon though, when I am able to get to my paints and figures after the recent house move.
That said, I do have plenty of adventuring types in my collection of miniatures that I painted several years ago, and detailed elsewhere on this blog, to be getting on with. I will take a look at the types of soldiers available in Frostgrave and match my old miniatures to them; I have plenty of wizardly types, clerics (not sure if they can possibly be used as soldiers of some type?), thieves, fighters and barbarians, as well as loads of historicals that could double-up as fantasy soldiers.
Some wizards for me to choose from...
These are re-used images of the wizards I painted way back. Luckily, I have two or three painted in each colour scheme; perfect for a Frostgrave wizard and his/her apprentice.
I also have penty of soldiers to choose from...
And some thieves...
And barbarians...
Looking at the paint-jobs, they are not that great. I was pleased with them at the time but now I am looking at them several years later...hmmm. I won't repaint them as they are usable, but going forward I hope to make a better hash of the paint jobs on my "official" Frostgrave miniatures.
I also have plenty of Roman and Norman troops to use as cannon fodder soldiers, so these might put in an appearance, as well as a variety of peasants with farm implements - this might make for an interesting skance. I am very tempted to try several different ways of representing warbands on the tabletop; the traditional mix-up of fanatsy tropes, a couple of wizards and their hired men-at-arms (all in the same livery), or a couple of wizards and their peasant followers out to seek their fortune/vengeance on the ill that came from Felstad.
Over the last few days I have been putting together an Excel version of
the Wizard Sheet. I have amended it a little to allow automatic
calculations of some fields (just basic Sum calculations etc.) in order
that I can get a new warband set up and statted more quickly, so it can
be printed out and I don't have to rely on my awful handwriting. I am hoping to get my first warband statted up by tomorrow. Hopefully I can blog my wizard sheet and the figures I will use to represent them, then prep for a scenario to try to play over the weekend. It will have to be a solo affair, but it should allow me to learn the ropes of the rules system.
Unfortunately, I do not have any great stock of scenery at the moment. Several years ago, my cat decided he would use my paints and scenery boxes as his litter trays and basically destroyed the majority of it. I have a few items left but I have decided to try to make some of my own going forwards. As mentioned whilst I was summarising the Battle Games in Middle-earth magazines, there are tutorials on how to make scenery for Gondor, Rohan etc. I will put some of this to the test over the following few months and make some ruins. I will use anything else I can get hold of in the meantime; cardboard boxes, toilet rolls, yoghurt pots etc. just so I can at least get started and get a feel for playing the game.
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