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Title: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: sunjester on 09 December 2017, 02:04:24 PM
Mark and I played a couple of games of Frostgrave at club last week, my Necromancer and his orcs against the diminutive hobbit warband, which turned out to be a bit of a bloodbath for the magic users.
As usual a write up and more picis on the blog http://tringwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/frostgrave-not-good-night-to-be-wizard.html

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Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 09 December 2017, 03:36:10 PM
Great report! Love be the halflings!
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 09 December 2017, 03:40:10 PM
A game I keep meaning to try..nice reports.
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: Techno on 09 December 2017, 04:24:55 PM
Excellent !  :)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: sunjester on 10 December 2017, 09:07:41 AM
Thank you gents.

ianrs54 - give it a go, Frostgrave's a lot of fun with the right players. It's strength is playing it as a campaign and progressing your wizard and warband, rather than playing one-off games.
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: toxicpixie on 01 January 2018, 04:59:26 PM
That sounds a cracking couple of games - I do like Frostgrave :)
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: Raider4 on 03 January 2018, 07:51:11 PM
Enjoyable reports.

Must admit though, I bought the Frostgrave rulebook with some my xmas Amazon vouchers, but reading it through just makes me want to dig out my Mordheim books.

Cheers, M.
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Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: toxicpixie on 03 January 2018, 11:11:56 PM
ITs a different flavour of game to Mordheim. You only really care about the two lead characters - everyone else is a disposable mook, if push comes to shove :D

IMO it's a better game, partly for that and partly because it plays so well with so little faff either on table or in the campaign.

Your mileage may vary ;)

If I was writing it I would have used three d6 instead of a single d20 - bring things to the "average" more reliably, but the big swingy dice is very much a part of the fun tbh :D
Title: Re: Not a good night to be a wizard!
Post by: Roy on 08 January 2018, 01:00:59 PM
 :-bd :-bd :-bd

Only played a couple of games of Frostgrave against Bodvoc and it is an enjoyable game. First thoughts were that I wished that all models earned XP, but on reflection - like toxicpixie says - having such only creates more book keeping and faffing about, so now I'm not so sure. I played Necromunda, but not Mordheim, so don't know how they compare.