Is FROSTGRAVE the Best Skirmish game? Assembling a warband for my FIRST GAME

Join me as i dig through all my old wargaming rulebooks and finally give Joseph Mccullough's Frostgrave from Osprey Games a try.
We build a wizard, aprentice, and their warband before painting them up and playing our first games.
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[@jmaccsarmiesofmiddleearth]

They all look class. Think my fave is the two handed axe man love that pose! Also great use of the Barrow wight.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks man! And yah he's one of my favorites too, despite being so simple. I'm a big fan of neuteal poses

[@bluebird3281]

@@AndurzTalksHobbies Your armored skeletons look fantastic and you will be happy to know they stay on the board for a while. They are a notoriously dangerous Frostgrave monster even starting with only one health point.

[@maximillianhovar5877]

A channel that I would like to suggest is joy of wargaming. It has almost completely changed the way I viewed the hobby

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

On the list they go!

[@yamichasi]

The system and arithmetic get a lot smoother and easier after your first few games. Once you get the hang of the rules and don’t have to think about them so much it becomes so fun, all the crazy stuff that happens with magic and monsters make for great stories

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yah, the other guys i was playing with had kind of pre written alot of the common plusses and minuses into their character sheet and even that did alot to smooth it out!

[@davidchristie1200]

nice to have you back - keep producing content in your own time :) excited for more.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks!

[@nicholainissen]

Coming to a random gaming hobby channel to see Philosophy Tube, Lindsay, Contra and Harold Bomberguy reccs? Uh yes, please and thank you.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

What can i say... i wear my influences on my sleeve:P

[@ironhammer5708]

Frostgrave is one of my favorite games, right up there with Oathmark and MESBG. Really glad to see you getting into it!

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Its real fun! Makes me want to go back to Rangers of shawdeep too, and to give stargrave a go! Ooh, oathmark's been on my list to try too

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Frostgrave is my second favorite game. Mainly because it's not about killing your opponent but getting the most loot off the table.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Totally, and i definitely focused on killing when I played :P need to adjust my brain!

[@Muron21]

I'm so glad you're back and making our day with awesome videos. Keep up the good work and stay healthy. Many greetings from Germany.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks! Happy to be getting stuff out there!

[@microforgeminis]

Eyyyyy good to see you back mate. Love your kitbashes as always. That wizard is the best use of a barrow wight I’ve seen.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks man! And yah, i love the old barrow wights....but not reallt as barrow wights :P especially since i went a way different direction for mine

[@christopherpeery7436]

Glad to see you back at it!

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks!

[@MrBiggybit]

I want to play so bad I can’t find a soul around interested so I think I will do a solo mission, learn the rules, then setup a learn to play

[@bluebird3281]

The "Perilous Dark" supplement has rules for solo frostgrave.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yeah, that's always the hardest part. If you really can't find anything the solo supplement bluebird mentioned may work, or I would also HIGHLY recomend Rangers of Shadowdeep. Same designer and very similar rulset, but it's a solo campaign game based around a ranger and his warband rather than a Wizard in pvp

[@heleti0000]

Very nice paint jobs on the models - looks great 👍

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks!

[@Warforged117]

Your selection of videos essays/channels to listen to whilst modelmaking is brilliant and mirrors what I listen to! I'd also suggest LadyKnighttheBrave as her stuff is brilliant and similar to LadyEmily's. (Oh and Rowan Ellis' video on Black Sails is a routine relisten!)

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks for the recomends! Never heard of lady knight the brave and have already now listened to multiple of her videos and subrsibed :P

[@Warforged117]

@@AndurzTalksHobbies Amazing! I'm so glad you are enjoying the videos :) Also, thank you for your fantastic hobby videos, your Angmar and Arnor videos have inspired me to do a lot more hobbying myself.

[@ianwilborn8239]

Frostgrave is great! Rangers of Shadowdeep is also great for coop as well. Haven’t played any stargrave but plan to soon. Your Warband is great!

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Thanks! And yah i like Rangers too, though as of now I've only played it solo, would love to try coop. Stargrave is a serious interest to me, as i don't really have a scifi game

[@jasoncustomizer56]

Always good to see you upload. I will say that Frostgrave and other games like that are great for hacking. Change whatever the hell you want to make the game more fun for you.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yeah, i could see that! One immediate thought I had was that it might be more fun and fast on a smaller 2/2 board, rather than the recomend 3 or 4

[@manjr]

Woo, Frostgrave! I don't know if there's a "best" skirmish game, but it's a great game if you're looking for campaign progression and a focus on magic. Hey, I recognize a lot of your potential menagerie minis - I hope you'll do some videos on filling out the random encounters.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

May not do in depth videos on them, so i can just casually paint them up on my own time, but a Gallery shoot may be fun once i got a goof chunk done!

[@breandan3280]

That barrow wight conversion really works. The whole warband is pretty boss, in fact. Frostgrave is great, but I prefer Rangers of Shadowdeep. It's by the same author and the rules are almost the same,you pretty much already know how to play. The major difference ( besides playing a ranger instead of a wizard) is it's narrative co op instead of competitive. It's worth a look if you liked Frostgrave. ( also agreed on your KZbin recommendations)

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yah i like Rangers (its actually on the pile in that first section!) And good to know my watch list has been generally approved of :P

[@rDunfee]

It's so hard to pick a good ruleset and Frostgrave is up there. If you're looking for another quick to play skirmish game Anthems of War would use the same minis!

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Will definitely give it a look!

[@popburnsy3207]

Heh, "problem"....

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yep!

[@Valkyrja90]

I didn't like the system bcause its swingy.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yah i get that, it's wild how much using d20s alone makes stuff WAY more chaotic

[@rangda_prime]

It's not the best skirmish game. It's a mediocre resolution engine propped up by a very good scaffolding of the campaign system and scenarios. As in, the set up of the whole thing is very conducive to getting a fun campaign going, but the rules themselves are based on the fickle D20 while the actual window for success in very narrow, meaning your stats are kind of meaningless compared to the need to roll high numbers. Which again is dependent on the fickle granularity of said D20. Your minis look great, and you can have a lot of fun with Frostgrave. But if you want a game with really well designed rules for the actual on table action, go have a look at Trench Crusade by Toumas Pirinen.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Yeah, i was surprised by just how different it felt using a d20 vs a d6, like i get it in concpet, but you really FEEL it when playing. And may give that a look!

[@rangda_prime]

@@AndurzTalksHobbies TC uses the very solid 2D6 as its RNG with some extra mechaincs to create modifiers. It's quite elegant and functional.

[@jeremymurphy7735]

I really enjoy your content but you always have to add stupid comments like that one about Crusaders where you paint an entire group of people who existed close to 1000 years ago as "bad" because of a false narrative that has been pushed down our throat. It is your channel so you are allowed to say whatever you want but these comments have to made intentionally to upset people.

[@redboxtre]

simps gonna simp dude.

[@breandan3280]

As someone with a history degree, no it's not a false narrative. The majority of the soldiers of the Crusades were not especially tolerant of other faiths and ethnicities. And that's something that is bad, and since contemporary people like Roger Bacon pointed this out in the actual Middle Ages, they were aware and knew better. I'd suggest reading some history books.

[@oldKonk]

@@breandan3280 lol so a history degree makes you an expert. Please go away.

[@PiratePyroFilms]

@@breandan3280 As someone with a history and archaeology degree, that is a bold and unfounded claim, you cannot speak for long gone people and many sources do not speak unfavourably of diplomacy between Europe and the East, Frederick II's court was filled with arab scholars and byzantine remnants. The largest source of contentions outside of battle was unrest in the outremer. You, you should read some history books and I'd recommend two cities by malcolm barber for this very topic.

[@breandan3280]

@@oldKonk actually my specialty was medieval history and I did many papers on the Crusades and knighthood in general, so yes I am an expert. And no, I'm not going anywhere. You leave.

[@rogerjakko]

Well .... very interesting what you've done assembling a warband, BUT in the title you are asking if Frostgrave is the best skirmish game, which is what interested me and you've ignored this completely. So, sorry buddy, for me it's a pointless video.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Sorry it felt that way! The hobbying and warband assembly is a pretty key component to FG as a game imo which is why i spent so much time on it. Then once I'd actually played it, i was pretty honest about how i felt about the in-game stuff as well, ending with the fact that it wouldn't replace mesbg as my go-to game, so... that feels pretty conclusive that while i like it, it's not the best skirmish game... ...so... i think i did answer the question honestly...

[@AnhkGuy]

I don't know, that @wittlegoblin seems like a shady character.

[@AndurzTalksHobbies]

Uhoh!