German Witch

 

Joriff the Necromancer

So, having started my Undead army, I needed a Necromancer to command it.

In Oathmark, skeleton forces need a Spellcaster on the table to maintain them. At the moment, I am building small forces, so a low power necromancer will fit the bill (and not be too heavy on points).

Joriff is built using the Frostgrave Cultist sprue plus some details from the Wizards sprue (the skull for instance).

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black followed by Army painter Chaos Red. The hood was painted with Citadel Screamer Pink, the trousers with Citadel "The Fang" blue/grey, gloves with Citadel Steel Legion Drab. The belt was Citadel Rakash Flesh as are the scrolls.

The skull was painted with Army painter Skeleton Bone, the eye sockets were then painted with Humbrol 34 matt white and then Citadel Hexwraith Flame. The potion bottle was painted again with Humbrol white followed by Citadel Aethermatic Blue in a couple of coats. The chains were painted with Citadel Abaddon black and highlighted with Army Painter Stone Golem. Boots were Citadel Catachan Flesh.

Joriff commanding his forces.

CUT! Will you two on the end stop gossiping!

 

Frostgrave Knight

 With Warband Two being led by an Illusionist, one of the spells is Illusionary Soldier. It makes sense to have the most well protected soldier as the figure is dispelled when it takes any damage.

This Knight is built using one of the bodies from the Soldiers II sprue, a Sallet head from the Frostgrave Knights set, an Oathmark Human Officer/Champion  sword arm and an Oathmark Human shield arm.

There might be a scabbard if any of the existing scabbards would take the length of the sword.

Frostgrave Warband Two

So the next work in progress Warband is built mainly from the Frostgrave Soldiers II sprues with one body and a number of bits from the Frostgrave Wizards II sprue. 

This war band is for second edition.

The wizard will be an Illusionist, and the war band is optimised for speed and ranged combat, the archers engage at range, the thieves use their speed to retrieve the treasure tokens.

The Wizard (staff)
Apprentice (hand weapon)

Apothecary (Staff)
Archer (Light armour,, bow, dagger)
Archer (Light armour, bow, dagger)
Archer (Light armour, bow, dagger)
Thug (hand weapon)
Thief (dagger)

Thief (dagger)
Thief (dagger)

Wizard, Apprentice and a Apothecary.

The Apothecary is built from the Wizards Two sprue. I clipped the detail at the top of the staff as she is not a Wizard and so would have a less showy staff. The Wizard's staff still needs detail work.

The archers. The left hand figure's head is actually from the Wizards Two sprue, but has a nearly identical hat.

Thug and thief. The thief's dagger was cut from one of the separate hands (left hand) and attached to a right hand.

Two more thieves have to be assembled.

Frostgrave Warband One - for Frostgrave Second Edition

 Previously I started to build a Warband for the first edition Frostgrave.

And now Osprey Games has released the second edition.

The original warband was as follows:

1. The Wizard (staff)
2. Apprentice (hand weapon)
3. Man at Arms (leather armour, hand weapon and shield)
4. Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)
5. Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)
6. Thug (hand weapon)
7. Thug (hand weapon)
8. Thug (hand weapon)
9. Thief (dagger)
10. Thief (dagger)

Though this is still a valid war band, there has been a slight change in costs, thugs and thieves are now free, but you have less gold coins at the beginning.

The revised second edition war band comprises:

1. The Wizard (staff)
2. Apprentice (hand weapon)
3. Man at Arms (Light armour, hand weapon and shield)
4. Man at Arms (Light armour, hand weapon and shield)
5. Archer (Light armour,, bow, dagger)
6. Archer (Light armour,, bow, dagger)
7. Thug (hand weapon)
8. Thug (hand weapon)
9. Thief (dagger)
10. Thief (dagger)

So now I need to build another Man at Arms (or find one I built earlier).

Oathmark Elf Light Infantry

As mentioned earlier, I recently received an order from North Star. This included the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry.

 There are six identical sprues, each sprue having five different bodies and enough arms to build all archers or all sword and shield.

 There are fifteen heads, five each of bare headed, hooded and helmeted.

 The Elf Light Infantry sprue will build either Elf Rangers or Elf Pathguard.

I built the first two sprues as Rangers, which point up at nearly half the number of points of a minimum army.

 They are in a Renedra Oathmark sabot base.

My starter army can be built from just one box of Elf Light Infantry.

For the shootiest version, four ranks of Elf Rangers eats most of the points (they are very points hungry).

This does leave (almost) two sprues left over.

As an alternative, you can swap one rank of Rangers for Pathguard and buy a level one Spell Caster.

Here is my spell caster built from one of the Elf Light Infantry with a couple of additions from the Frostgrave Wizards's sprue.

The whole lot needs proper basing before being painted.

Not Colours 2020 - part one

What with "One thing or the Other", Colours (along with a lot of other things) has been cancelled.

Having been inspired by my recent purchase of Oathmark and the release of Frostgrave II (though that is a story for another day), I put in an order to North Star for a quantity of Oathmark and Frostgrave goodies (plus lots of bases).

 As I have posted previously, I am basing my human sized Oathmark and Frostgrave figures on Renedra round bases (they are nicer for skirmish games). Oathmark works on 25mm square bases with five figures per rank.

Renedra have two sets of "sabot" bases for 25mm round figure bases, one of two ranks (ten figures) and one of four ranks (twenty figures)

 You get two sprues (four sabot bases) per pack.

Even the Gnolls (probably the most unruly of the Frostgrave figures) sit nicely in the sabot base (even if the "officer" is slightly out of position on the overhead view).

Frostgrave Warband - first build

The Wizard (staff)

Apprentice (hand weapon)

Man at Arms (leather armour, hand weapon and shield)

Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)

Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)

Thug (hand weapon)

Thug (hand weapon)

Thug (hand weapon)

Thief (dagger)

Thief (dagger)

There is still a lot of work to do on them.

Frostgrave Warband - planning

I have a number of posts about Frostgrave, but have not actually built a Wizard's Warband in full.

Planning the war band.

The intention is to build this mainly using the Frostgrave Soldier (I) sprue with pieces from the Wizard Sprue.

So the party consists of:

1. The Wizard (staff)
2. Apprentice (hand weapon)
3. Man at Arms (leather armour, hand weapon and shield)
4. Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)
5. Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger)
6. Thug (hand weapon)
7. Thug (hand weapon)
8. Thug (hand weapon)
9. Thief (dagger)
10. Thief (dagger)

That leaves me with 20 gold coins to play with.

Soldier sprue

Wizard sprue

Still to photograph.