Frostgrave 'Tale of Four Gamers' starting rules.

Hi all, Jay here again.

After some deliberation the guys and I have come up with our initial starting set up and calendar with which to begin our foray into Frostgrave. 

You will notice this is a slow burner. This is due to us all being quite busy at the moment and making the objectives a bit more palatable in the time allowed. 

The Campaign will go 'Live' on 1st of March. By the 1st April the following rules and objectives should (I'm far too chilled to say 'will') be completed.

Month One:

1. Each player gets an initial buy in of £30. This should cover the costs of wizards and a box of plastic soldiers/ cultists. Anyone unfamiliar with Frostgrave; this amount of cash will quite easily get you a full warband. A warband roughly consists of a Wizard, his/her apprentice and up to eight other members selected from a list of the usual suspects such as; thugs, men at arms, knights, thieves and so on. For comparison from North star miniatures, who make the official models for Frostgrave, you can get both wizards and apprentice in a blister pack for £6 and a box of twenty soldiers or twenty cultists for £20. With a bit left for postage the £30 should net you twenty two models, in a game where your warband will number roughly ten. This is a great start as each player will then have ample models to chop and change throughout the campaign, as men are upgraded (or superseded as it were, as other than the wizards there is no experience gain for enlisted men) or killed. Some players may wish to use other ranges or even models from their own collections. Anything added this way will assume the cost of the models, so if I take an old fantasy model as a wizard I can 'cost' it at the price everyone is paying for wizards, allowing me to save some dough. Also some players may want to share a box and get ten models each.
2. Each player by the 1/4/16 should have their warband built and ready to play. I would like to say as far as under coated, but built will suffice.
3. All players by the above date should have painted at least their wizards. 
4. All players by the above date should have played at least one campaign game

As I said earlier, I don't think any of these parameters are hard to achieve, barring Hoops who will be re-dadding (that's a word) in Feb. As a group we have not come up with any specific punishments for anyone who does not. Maybe a booooo or something. Perhaps a gold fine, or just get the beers in. 

As for February, James and I will do a few practice games to get the rules cemented and I will do an unboxing of my cultists and necro models when they arrive. 

Upcoming articles: Wizard, Spell and warband selection. Unboxing and building reviews. Rules overview and first game post analysis. Hopefully some painted minis to look at too.

Let the games begin....eventually.

Jay.