OK, please excuse this shameless promotion, but I just can't stop myself because it seems to me that SPACE CADETS: AWAY MISSIONS fulfills many of the requirements laid out in the OP.
Upside: Lots of minis to paint for a relatively low price. Rules are easy and intuitive, yet do require a good deal of strategy and thought. More scenarios in the box than most people will ever use, yet still very easy to create your own.
Downside: Minis are nowhere near the quality of GW or CMON (but they are still cool!). Since it is cooperative it's hard to call it a "skirmish" game but it does involve a "small team" taking on a host of baddies.
Colorcrayons wrote: So after a few more games, I think converting Frostgrave to use hexes is gonna need a fairly major overhaul.
I'd have to make new spell cards (minor since I'm already in the process of throwing that through the photoshopatron) and a crib sheet for everything else.
It's either doing that, or buying a whole new slew of terrain and mats to play the game with. I think the effort in Photoshop will be easier and cheaper in the end.
I would just do what Stoic is doing and use Heroscape while measuring, except that the spaces confuse the kid, since he is so used to counting spaces and not measuring.
I got one of those big rubber mats that come in 4 puzzle pieces at Harbor Freight. (
www.harborfreight.com/4-piece-anti-fatig...m-mat-set-94635.html
) and then I used a sharpie and marked it with 1 inch squares. Now we just count squares (1.5 inches if we go diagonally).
SuperflyTNT wrote: GET THE LONG OVERDUE EXPANSION OUT
OUCH!
But yeah, the delays have been endless. STRONGHOLD has been overwhelmed by the success of some of their recent games. Good for STRONGHOLD, but bad for Rocketeers! Stephen did post on TOS recently that the expansion "Mission to Planet-X" will be a 2018 release, so the wait shouldn't be too much longer!
We used the Ulterior Motives deck twice today while playing Frostgrave.
Its the best bit of kit I have used so far for Frostgrave. I think if you have the rulebook and this deck of cards, you'd be set on enough content to last you a while.
I have all supplements so far now, but nothing has made the game as enjoyable when simply adding these cards. They should be considered compulsory since they integrate into the game so smoothly.
Colorcrayons wrote: We used the Ulterior Motives deck twice today while playing Frostgrave.
Its the best bit of kit I have used so far for Frostgrave. I think if you have the rulebook and this deck of cards, you'd be set on enough content to last you a while.
I have all supplements so far now, but nothing has made the game as enjoyable when simply adding these cards. They should be considered compulsory since they integrate into the game so smoothly.
I have the Frostgrave basic ruleset. How would you rank the necessity of the other expansions?
This game is so easy to set up. For example, when we played the first scenario, Mausoleum, we used a Kleenex box for the building and then scattered the MTG: Arena of the Planeswalkers walls for the ruins along with bits of Heroscape tiles stacked on top of the MTG: Arena of the Planeswalker's cardboard flat hex terrain. Those walls from MTG: Arena of the Planeswalkers are so useful since the setting is ruins.
Y’all are some terrain hobos...I’m putting together some terrain just for Frostgrave now. The Pringles cans and cereal boxes don’t do it for me. I’m doing a 3x3 setup for it, got one of the Deep Cut mats and some older GW terrain pieces (Arcane Ruins, Ruins of Osgilliath). Going to mix that up with some Christmas village hills I stole from my mom, a couple of Citadel Woods, the Sigmarite Mausoleum, and the Pegasus stuff. Should have a completely packed board. I have some of the Fat Dragon paper stuff printed, not sure if I want to bother with it though.
Game is REALLY fun- fast and simple. It’s missing the massive lore and setting of the GE stuff of course but the exchange is a much more laid back, old fashioned kind of game. I sort of reminds me of the time I went back to playing Tunnels and Trolls after a long Dark Sun campaign. I actually really like how generalized a lot of it is- “hand weapon” could mean a mace, sword, or axe; a Man at Arms has the same stats regardless of race, that kind of thing.
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