Frostgrave: The Well of Dreams and Sorrows

 The wizard Nikodemus surveyed the snow covered ruins.  Somewhere in that mess was the well, and he intended to drink from it....movement caught his eye, there a 100 yards away.  Another wizard with a warband no doubt.

He directed his band to move forward.  He advanced beckoning his captain to follow, his tracker to take position on a nearby ruin and to provide cover with her bow.  His apprentice followed with that greedy treasure hunter and a couple of thugs hired on the cheap.  The rest of his group fanned out looking for treasure.  As they walked, Niko chanted enchantments upon his captains sword with his apprentice doing the same but directed at the trackers bow.

He caught sight of the other wizard through the snow covered trees doing the same...a lass with blonde braids and a twinkle in her eyes even from this distance.

They converged on the well at about the same time.  She had a tall woman at her side huge axe at the ready, a captain taking cover in the ruins with a crossbow....and two very large warhounds, growling and menacing.

Niko spoke "I want no trouble, just here for a drink, likely same as you", As he said this his captain stuck her sword in the ground next to her and casually pulled out her heavy crossbow.

Without heeding what Niko had said, the lass began a cast as her warhounds pounced on two of his thugs that had moved up into position near the well.  Her spelled fizzled, but the hounds bites were true and one of Niko's thugs was mauled almost to death.  A fast and furious melee ensued...ending by the thrum of bow and crossbow string. One of the dogs lay dying as did her barbarian who had tried to sneak into position to take out the tracker watching from above.

She smiled and raised an eyebrow..."Perhaps you're right old man, a drink is all we are here for, no need to spoil it with blood"

The two wizards eyed each out as they both drank from the Well of Dreams and Sorrows, their apprentices following suit.  Then both warbands retreated back into the encompassing forest.

Two wizards suspiciously eye each other as the drink from  the Well of Dreams and Sorrow

A snowy and frozen well

The melee was fast and furious

This was the first in what I hope to be a long and fun campaign of Frostgrave with my daughter.

Frosthaven - Banner Spear Proxy model....Stormcast style

 So one of my current monthly (sort of) games is Frosthaven.  We played and completed Gloomhaven and were excited about Frosthaven.....but not as much anymore I think.  The scenarios are still fun, if not a bit harder and longer (grindier?).  But the town building is a complete drag.  And I was really disappointed in the miniatures.  I think of Gloomhaven and Frosthaven as sort of bespoke games and they just should have better miniatures.  My first character was a Deathstalker and that mini was terrible so I printed a much better proxy for it (really should do a post for that).  When I retired that character I chose the Banner Spear and my next character class, but the included miniature was just terrible looking.  Enter Stormcaset Eternal Gwynne Ironsoul -

 

I then went crazy with magnets and made the banner removable and a couple of left arm swaps with an actual banner model for a banner summon.

I really like how this turned out and actually like the placed banner a bit more than the one she is holding.  Was sort of making that up as I went along using contrast paints and a bit of panel lining.  

Gynne wasnt actually my first proxy I made.  I kitbashed one from a Questor Soulsworn and some Stormcast parts and came up with something that I think was a good representation of the Frosthaven box art of the Banner Spear.

Forgive the pictures, those are my first attempt with a light box.

I think this actually is a great Banner Spear especially when looking at some of the Banner Spear art out there.  But the miniature presented a very large footprint that I thought would take up too much space on the board.  And in the end, Gynne Ironsoul turned out better than I could have imagined, both as a kitbash and the paint job.