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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: Xintao on March 01, 2016, 02:06:22 PM
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In 16 days I head off to the wargaming convention, Cold Wars, In Lancaster PA. I'm running an 8 player game of Frostgrave. Here are some pics of my work so far.
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4 boards that are 2'x4'. Two of the boards I had from my game I ran at Fall In, but this time I'm adding 2 feet to the table lenght.
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Boards are textured and painted.
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I love using foamboard to make things. The Dollar Store brand, the paper is easy to peel
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The foam is easy to "carve" stone patterns into
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Games Workshop Age of Sigmar terrain, awesome. The game...not so much...
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Some hill building
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Bridges to special areas on the board
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A Wizards Tower built my good friend Lou
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A small castle in the center of the board
More pics and write up of what I'm doing on my blog:
http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/building-frostgrave-table-for-cold-wars.html (http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/building-frostgrave-table-for-cold-wars.html)
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That looks really promising. Can't wait to see it completed.
cheers
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Wow! I am running a 6 player game at Huzzah in southern Maine in May. My table is 3X8! Your terrain looks top notch!
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Great start to what looks set to be an immense board. Thanks for sharing
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I've made some progress on my Frostgrave table that I'd like to share. The convention, Cold Wars is only a week away, yikes.
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The Numinous Occulum from Games Workshop on a hill above Frostgrave. The Pink Insulation foam is awesome for terrain building but, boy does it make a mess.
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Bridges from the Inner Citadel to Key points on the table.
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My good friend Lou made me a Wizards tower inspired from the Rankin-Bass animated "Return of the King"
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Starting work on the Inner Citadel
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Adding Battlements
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Using the GW Model, Wood and foamcore, I fleshed out a four walled ruin. The Gw model out of the box is about 1.5 walls worth of ruins. This will be my Astrologarium.
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The Inner Citadel, dry fit before the glue gun burns my hands.)
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Walls are textured and glued into place.
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Figure shots for scale.
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It's really coming together now.
More pics and write up on my blog: http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/building-frostgrave-table-for-cold-wars_10.html (http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/building-frostgrave-table-for-cold-wars_10.html)
Thanks,
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That already looks gorgeous! Keep it up!
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Really enjoying watching this thread develop. Keep up the good work.
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Well I finished the table and ran 2 games of 8 players each at Cold Wars last weekend. Here are pics from the games.
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Finishing terrain 3 hours before the game begins.
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Ruins inside the castle wall, painted just in time.
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I gave out chocolate gold coins when players picked up treasure.
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The player got a nasty surprise when the chest he was about to pick up, tried to eat him
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PELA Award for best terrain during my time slot.
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Pretty good chocolate gold coins.
I ran 2 games, with 8 players. 4 players on a team. Treasures down low were worth 1 point, and treasures on all the raised areas were worth 3 points(changed to 5 points on Saturday) Friday night it was a dead tie, 27 points each. Saturday night was Good 27 and Evil 23. It came down to one of the good apprentices casting Mud under an evil player at the board edge preventing him from getting off the board with a 5 point treasure. Each game was a great group of players and we did about 8 turns in 3.5 hours. Pretty good for 8 people, a huge board and monsters trying to kill the players.
More pics and write up on my blog:
http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/cold-wars-frostgrave-game.html (http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/03/cold-wars-frostgrave-game.html)
Cheers,
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Love it thx for sharing and totally awesome board.
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Wow, that board is great. :-* 8) :) Obviously individual raised areas like walkways and buildings are important to have in the game, but how much did you think having a whole section of the board raised added to the gameplay? I've been considering something similar.
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Great looking table. I would just recommend adding few pillars under the long bridge.
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Wow, what a board, just awesome :-*
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Very cool table.
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Awesome looking table!
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Fantastic table. Well done fellas
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A question for you guys that ran Multi-player games of 6 - 8.
I'm shortly running a campaign that looks like it's gonna have about 12 in it. We're going to be playing 1 night a fortnight, and 2 or 3 games a night so I'm thinking of splitting the 12 players into two 6 player groups, or three 4 Player groups.
How did your games go with multiple players involved? Did you have to increase the table area significantly? Were the players hanging around waiting for your turn to come around? Did players get mauled or miss out if they went last?
C J = )
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We ran our initial campaign as 4-player games, on 4'×4' tables. Each player's deployment area was a 12" square in the corner (so the warbands started 2' apart like they do in a standard game). Worked great.
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Cheers. I'll give that a go.
C J = )
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There is a bit of hanging about ...especially if some players are slow or new to the game. Any more than four and it does not work well. The one game we played with more than four we splt into factions so all the Group A warbamds who were in a loose alliance moved then all the Group B.
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That's a good idea. I've got 14 players now and I was hoping to run at least 1 game with eveyone in it, but that would be (literally) hours between goes so the Group idea is a good way to go.