Thaw of the Lich Lord Nickstarter launched

[Nooblord]

Smith - thanks for the links, that first shipwreck at 29cm long looks promising.

Davies - another thing about the Crowmaster is that you essentially get to field 2 figures for one warband slot, which is nice. Also, if the crow gets killed but the master survives, the crow gets replaced for free at the end of the game. The Bard gives a bonus to willpower for nearby friendly figures. Javelineer is a bit meh - poor at fighting and shooting but cheap. The Mule can carry 3 (iirc) items and exchange items with nearby friendly figures which opens up a lot of possibilities of you are lucky enough to have more items than available item slots in your warband.

Death Cultists are weak in all respects (stats-wise not the sprues) but some of the other creatures are downright nasty.

The new magic items bring in quite a few new features and seem to be well thought out.

The scenarios all look interesting with environmental effects, special terrain, monsters and so on.

For those wishing to get a head start on preparing terrain for the new scenarios, here is what you will need:

At least one wrecked ship and preferably a few more smaller ships or boats.
A cart or wagon.
A cauldron.
A throne.
6 doorways.
4 pillars.
The strange one is a 6 inch diameter wheel (think something like a bicycle wheel lying on its side but made of bones!). I'll probably make one with 6 or 12 straight sides rather then being truly circular, mounted about an inch above the ground with a few spokes coming out from the central mounting.*
You could also make 2 3 feet by 6 inches sections of riverbank if you really wanted to but this isn't at all essential.

Monster-wise some of the scenarios require Armoured Skeletons, Frost Wraiths, Death Cultists, 2 Banshees, the Ghoul King, a zombie troll, and another uses 6 Ragnifiers (hybrid reindeer beast thingies).

There are probably a few things I missed out but those are the ones I noticed on first reading.

* if you wanted to go the whole hog you could get some 'casualty' figures (Gripping Beast make some) that could be tied/strapped to the wheel!

[Davies]

Thanks! Very useful information, it gives us time to build the new scenaries (Is there a river in Frostgrave?!!)

The Crowmaster will be a welcomed addition to my bands (and it will give a chance to some miniatures of my collection...Owlmaster...Batmaster... Falconer...).

[Nooblord]

Yes there is a river. In the scenario it features in it is frozen so playing on a white table would handle that quite nicely

[ElOrso]

I'm too late 

[Zinkala]

Thanks for the info, Nooblord. I'm hoping to get my Lichelord stuff soon and can't wait to see what's new. Looks like I won't need to expand the bestiary except for the Ragnifiers. I'm getting 2 with the Deal X but might want more. For some reason I like the creepy elk critters.

[Darkson71]

Had a card through the door yesterday to say I'd missed the postie and there are two parcels to be collected.
I'm hoping one is the Liche (or even both), I fear they may both be for the missus' job.

[richstrach]

When are the rangifers on general sale? I can't see them on Northstar, so presume they're still a while off?

[weirdocollector]

Hi everybody, I've just registered to this wonderful forum 

I'm a Level 5 pledger, and I've also pre-orderd all the additional packages 

A question: what about the content of the DealX pack (which includes the Rangifers) ?

I understand it will be shipped at a later date, correct ?

[Helznicht]

I thought I remember reading there was a dungeon scenario also?  Is this in there?

[tyrionhalfman]

Welcome to the forum weirdocollector. Yeah I think the deal x stuff we're not going to be ready to order individually before the nickstarter ended so they decided to add them as a bundle which would be shipped at a later date.

I thought I remember reading there was a dungeon scenario also?  Is this in there?

I think it will be the next instalment Into the Breeding Pits that includes dungeon style adventures

[Helznicht]

I think it will be the next instalment Into the Breeding Pits that includes dungeon style adventures

I would say we already have one in the form of the Library.  Just thought there was another like it.  It does sound like the breeding pits will be dungeon (actually caverns) centric.

[Awesome Adam]

The only real spoiler we got from the breeding pits is it's dark in there and that visibility is limited to 24". Although people have on more than one occasion have said that dungeons are an eventual locale that will be explored.

[Paboook]

I guess the Breeding Pits will be good opportunity to dust off the old Mage Knight Dungeons maps

[Helznicht]

I found at least one scenario in Lich Lord that is in a dungeon, and another that is in a huge castle.

[Paboook]

I found at least one scenario in Lich Lord that is in a dungeon, and another that is in a huge castle.

Cool! I have a package at post office - really hoping it's my Nickstarter stuff