Finished - Frostgrave Warband

It has been about a month since I acquired the terminal Frostgrave bug and I have yet to even play a game!I have spent the time waiting for the host to prepare the game board by painting some of the Zombicide: Black Plague minis for my warband. I don't know that I would have ever found the motivation to paint these minis if it were not for Frostgrave.

I have already talked about my spells, so how about warband composition.

Tim the Enchanter is running the show and his Apprentice is Milo in the pointed hat next to him. I picked two ranged folk Arya the Huntress and “Deadeye” Joyce Dahl with the crossbow. In addition, since my Wizard and Apprentice are armed with crossbows since they really lack good ranged attacks compared to the damage-dealing Elementalists. Backing up the ranged contingent are the thugs of Candy, Bruce the knight of insufficient light, and Bruenor Stonebreaker each just carrying a single hand weapon despite Bruce having two axes and Candy having a dagger tied to her apron strings. The heavy hitter is the Infantrymen known only as the Ax Man armed with a two-handed weapon. I have two thieves for the smash and dash named Locke de Carr (in purple) and Brother Joe (with the green hood and torch). I also have minis for Completely-Headless Carl for the "Raise Zombie" spell and the Gmork for when I get a kennel. If you are keeping track, that is 12 members which is the maximum that I can see.


My long-term strategy is to enchant weapons and armor at every opportunity and then try to make as many of them permanent as I can. The goal is to have every member of the warband to be carrying enchanted weapons. That way, I can sell the redundant weapons or swap them around to give Soldiers more attacks with better weapons or better armor.

All that emphasis (three starting spell slots devoted to Enchanting) leaves me a little weak on offensive capability. I went for spells that were not in my School that had a low casting number and those are not on the offensive side. The good part of that is my Warband is going to get stronger faster than other folks. The bad part is that I am going to be hurting for damage dealing early in the campaign.

For the bases, I used Greenstuff World's Cobblestone and Wood rollers. I used air-dry clay and my wife's silicone baking mat to roll out the clay. The key is to get the clay as thin a possible. I adhere it to the base with super glue. Once that dries completely, I soak the base with watered down wood glue to help harden the clay and make it resistant to chipping.

After that, it was painted dark blue, either with spray paint or Kantor Blue, then drybrushed Dawnstone. It is then washed black, drybrushed grey, washed Agrax and drybrushed grey again. To paint the water, I used the "toxic blue" that I had used before.

My first game is scheduled tomorrow and I am excited. I went a little overboard and started painting some more zombies and heroes as well as a monster.