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Welcome to newsletter #68

I know this has come hot on the heels ofnewsletter #67. Newsletter #67 was so full of products, I kept Frostgrave out of it. This newsletter is all Frostgrave.

The Nickstarter is over, thank you to everyone who participated, you should have your order now.

The Frostgrave line is now available to buy, both directly by mail order and through Game Shops. This newsletter lists all the packs, books and the box set you can buy. At the bottom of the product list, I have given a thanks to all those people who put together Frostgrave, both the game and the miniatures.

Cheers

Nick Eyre

FROSTGRAVE Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City

Osprey FROSTGRAVE downloads


Wizard Sheet	Spell Cards

FROSTGRAVE BOOKS


BP1471 - Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City	BP1480 - Frostgrave - Tales of the Frozen City

FROSTGRAVE WIZARDS

FROSTGRAVE SOLDIERS


FGV201 - Thief & Barbarian	FGV202 - Knight & Templar

FGV203 - Apothecary & Marksman	FGV204 - Tracker & Warhound

FGVP01 - Frostgrave Soldiers

FROSTGRAVE BESTIARY


FGV301 - Ice Toad & Snow Leopard	FGV302 - Imp Demon & Minor Demon

FGV303 - Small & Medium Constructs	FGV304 - Major Demon

FGV305 - Large Construct	FGV306 - Flesh Golem and Stone Construct.

FROSTGRAVE EXTRAS


BASE7 - Frostgrave Plastic Bases	BF4136 - Tundra Tuft	D20 - Frostgrave Dice

FGV300 - Undead Encounters	MT-109 - Frozen Ground flock	MT-112 - Snow

FGV300 - Undead Encounters

Frostgrave Soldier box set A Frostgrave Soldier frame contains 5 different bodies, 10 different heads, 25 different arms and a selection of equipment like shields, ropes and packs. There will be 4 frames per box set, plus 20 round bases. That gives you an almost infinite number of possibilities, no two Frostgravewarbands need ever be the same!

Frostgrave Soldiers painted by Dave Woodward

Ranger. Bow, Hand Weapon, Leather Armour with all sorts of extras from the Frostgrave Soldiers box set.

Treasure Hunter. Hand Weapon, Dagger, Leather Armour and a load of treasure! Made from the Frostgrave Soldiers box set.

The parts that went to make up the Treasure Hunter and the Ranger

Frostgrave Soldiers Sprue

FROSTGRAVE SOLDIER POSSIBILITIES!

Frostgrave Soldiers Box Set

GALLERIES

LOADS OF PICTURES FROM THE FROZEN CITY

Free Knight, Templar and Marksman take on the massive White Gorillain the snow of Frostgrave.

Barbarian and Thief encounter Snow Trolls in the frozen city.

The Enchanter, with his trusty apprentice, and his warband including a Barbarian, acrossbowman and two men-at-arms beat off a frenzied attack of Ghouls in the ruins of the Library.

A Summoner, his apprentice and soldiers confront a Chronomancer with her apprentice and party in the ruins of The Library.

Necromancer and his apprentice raise skeletons to attack the soldiers of another wizard. While necromancers are not necessarily evil, there are few that have delved deeply into this school of magic without giving in to its corrupting influence.

Chronomancer with her warband in the ruins of The Library are set upon by Ghouls. Most of the ghouls currently dwelling within Frostgrave are actually the undead form of former adventures who have visited the city since the great thaw.

Summoner. Designed by Mike Owen, painted by Kev Dallimore. Metal figure designed for use in the game Frostgrave.

Frostgrave is at last ready. The Books and figures are on their way to expectant customers all over the world. It's been a tremendous project, and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved, for their commitment to making this a great product.

The first person to thank is of course the author and Osprey Games man Joseph McCullough.

Medium Construct. These are constructs that are around human size and generally are human shape. However, many were also forms of machine created specifically to chop wood, wash clothes, or serve as mounts.

Then thanks to:

Making Frostgrave The Game:
Phil Smith, manager of Osprey Games and editor ofFrostgrave.
Richard Sullivan, Osprey Supremo.
Stewart Larking for the rulebook design.Chris Raine for producing the rulebook.Steven Meyer-Rassow for the box design.Zorana Rzanicanin for enthusiasm above and beyond the call of duty.
Martin Spear for getting Tales of the Frozen City sorted out.
Alice Milner for everything digital.
And, especially, Dmitry Burmak, for bringing it all to life.

Enchanter & Apprentice. Enchanters are hands-on wizards, who work their magic by implanting it in objects or people. Many Enchanters are also craftsmen, such as carpenters or sculptors, who work their magic into the pieces they create.

Chronomancer & Apprentice. Potentially the most powerful of all wizards, Chronomancers use magic to manipulate time itself. As the youngest branch of magic, it is less developed, and less understood than any of the others, and is thus potentially more dangerous.

Making Frostgrave the Miniatures:
There are a group of the miniature designers I work with, the best in their field, who I approached with Frostgrave last July. To my delight, every one of them said ‘yes’ immediately. This meant I had the wonderful problem of having to break up the range into ‘who wanted to do what, who was best at this figure, etc’. They are:
Mike Owen
Mark SimsMark CopplestoneNick Collier
Giorgio Bassani
Richard KempAnd Bob Naismith for the plastic Frostgrave Soldiers
Plastic Design and Production:
Terry and Joan Ardener, plus the whole Renedra Team.

North Star Military Figures Team:
The following not only put their full efforts into Frostgrave at work, they took it on the road to demo at various UK shows:

Dean Winson
Paul Anson
Karl Tebbutt
Christine King The rest of the team:
Mark Wheatley
Phil Tonge
Tony Slocombe
Ros Rots
Ben Wheatley
Frances Eyre.

Special mention to Dave Woodward, he not only worked to get the orders out of the door, he also painting lots of the pre-release Frostgrave figures.
Dave King for running the demonstration games.
Kev Dallimore. Where can I start with Kev? He not only painted the majority of the promotional figures, but he prepared the scenes and took the photos for the rulebook, he designed and maintained theNickstarter page and provided all the graphics you see for Frostgraveonline and in the magazines.

Resin Production:
Darryl Ballam
N-FX
Skytrex.

Printing:
Print Revolution
Midland Regional Printers

If I’ve missed anyone out, it wasn’t deliberate, thank you as well!
Lastly I’ll not forget to mention myself, as I’ve managed the Frostgravefigure range from initial design concepts to putting the last figure in the lastNickstarter box. (well done Nick! Kev)

I hope you’ll enjoy the miniatures and playing the game, this isn’t an end of course,Frostgrave is now a regular product line to order as normal, and we are already working on Frostgrave: The Thaw of the Lich Lord, due out in November.