Due to work commitments, Friday night Frostgrave has become Wednesday night Wizards- last night saw the first game of a brand-new Campaign, and even our more resolutely historically-minded member has finally cracked and got into the game!
This meant a full five-player game, which saw two Elementalists, a Sigilist, an Enchanter and my own Witch take to the field (some fudging of deployment areas was required...).
Another change we made was instead of rolling for monsters when a Treasure was picked up, we rolled before the game and placed each creature (or group of creatures) in contact with each of the six Treasures! This meant there were already two Wolves, two Ghouls, a Giant Rat, an Ice Toad, a Wraith and a Werewolf lurking amongst the ruins...
The game was absolute chaos as usual, with a couple of almighty scrums going on that lasted almost all game as the respective players just kept feeding more bodies into the fight! Meanwhile my Plague Doktor and his rag-tag minions crept about nicking Treasure under everyone's noses and forming a hasty alliance with the Sigillist. The final turn of the game saw my goblin Thieves making a break for freedom carrying their loot, only for the Enchanter's gunline (or should that be bowline) of Archers to come around a corner and fill them full of arrows- instead of the glorious hoard of four Treasures, I had to content myself with only two! Doktor Schreck will have his revenge...
A high point for me was an 'epic' combat between my Infantryman, Mungo, and a Wolf- try as he might, Mungo just couldn't land a blow with his scythe- I decided he was just playing with the beast, and he only killed it accidentally when he petted it's head a little too hard! Dejected, Mungo stomped from the field to look for a new 'friend'...
Special mention must also go to John, who was taking part in his first ever Campaign with a newly-painted Warband (also his first ever non-historical figures!). John has actually used glitter and decorative brocade on his Wizard to create a Paul-Daniels stage-magician type fellow, and it works very well indeed- my ham-fisted attempt at a photo doesn't really do it justice...
More from Frostgrave next week!
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