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Managed to get 4 players together to start Frosthaven . Such a great game , but tough.

First scenario to introduce every one to the mechanics. Went well enough. Blade spear and Blink blade led the way and we stormed through . Drifter took awhile to get ready . Bladespear finished off the monsters . Blink blade found the new fast and slow concept very tricky and got beat up but was okay . We got the chest and moved on .

Second scenario was much longer and tougher . We ran into trouble getting through the door as the big guys could not reach if and the summons cannot open doors . So blink blade went in and got slaughtered by the archers and the guards . The summoner tried to move up and help but got mauled by a guard . Finally the Drifter moved in and clearly had his cards ready . Moving through the archers and guards he cleared the way. Blade spear then followed with summoner behind . However the Blinkblade had fallen exhausted .

Still with the initial shock dealt with the party were able to rescue two guards and win the scenario.

So the Drifter seemed to be the main player this time whereas the first scenario it was the blade spear . However we did really rely on the blink blade a lot to open the way and he does not have the stamina of the tricks of the old scoundrel to take a room on first . So we will need to rethink . The drifter had definitely got his card system working well which was good to see . Blade spear too got his summons out and played some nice attacks as a result . Blink blade mechanics look really tough to master but hopefully worth it on the end , Summoner is fun with lots of skeletons and a wraith to play with but takes a bit of time to get set up and is vulnerable to lucky hits taking out her minions at the wrong time in the card cycle !

Mantic Games Demons painted with CitadelColour contrast paints.

Warg Marauder

Goblin prowlers

Wolves, Earth Demon and Sabretooth Tiger

Yet more versions of these guys . Contrast paints awaiting next basing session .

A Moria Goblin Blackshield warband. Painted with grey wolf skin cloaks as white wargs are supposed to be rare and white cloaks are not really goblin like . After a short time a white fur cloak in the dark of Moria on a goblin would soon enough be grey.

Legion black armour. Military green skin . Basilica Grey cloaks highlighted with grey then toned down and shaded with basilica grey . Leather brown leather . Highlight steel the armour . Black Templar shaded the shields before gluing into place. Bases with gw technical grey base paint. Bones with skeleton horde then skeleton bone. Drum with gulliman flesh and Kislev flesh then washed and toned down brown.

So I have punched it out (2 hours at least), read the rules, downloaded the apps (the official ones) and watched the videos.

So all good to go. Next I need to find some opponents- and probably win the lottery so I have time to actually play it!

Firefly the card game again. Darryl showed us his card game again. We played for a long time. Bruce tried to win so got beat down. No end in sight so we stopped.

This gave us time to create some characters for The One Ring which I really hope we can play some time soon. I have created a character for Mike too and prepared the first scenario of the campaign.

Some villagers suitable for middle earth such as Bree, or the renaissance period or any suitable setting.

Glorfindel Lord of the West and Elrond.

Decided to give this version blonde hair as I already have dark haired versions for some variety. Basing will follow next basing session.