Heroes, rogues and psychic space wizards are only one part of the Stargrave setting. There is also plenty of room for the dregs of a decrepit mining ship trying to stay alive while bumbling around the void from accident to accident. The crew of Red Dwarf are as iconic as any entry here. This leaves the rest of the crew, who could be other major characters, but I like the idea of casting them as the rebel commandos Han and Chewie lead during their daring raid on Endor in Return of the Jedi. Many of these characters even have excellent models made after them, either for official games or as legally distinct simulacra from third party stores. These would provide a ready-made, themed crew for you to paint and play with! There is also plenty of potential to model characters up yourself from other kits. The new plastic Stargrave models from North Star have plenty of bits and some great 70’s/80’s/90’s popular sci-fi vibes. I was enraptured with the crazy hodge-podge of sci-fi trappings, only to be disappointed at how little they really mattered. Yes the game isn’t onlya re-skin of Frostgrave, but one must question how much its thematic change really matters. Above I listed the entries from the Unwanted Attention Table in Stargrave. A Stargrave Flip Through!!!

Besides Stargrave’s eminently enjoyable tabletop gameplay, one problem persists: it can’t square its frenetic fighting with its roleplaying potential. The sad truth is that I now write games faster than I paint miniatures for games! That's because writing games falls into the more protected 'work time' while painting generally falls into the scarcer 'relax time'. That said, at long last, I have finished my Time Lord Stargrave Crew! Over the last couple of years, I have been quietly working on one other major project – I have been writing my ‘gaming autobiography’. Essentially, the story of my life in games, or perhaps how games have related to my life. It covers my earliest encounters with hobby gaming, the great games and game stores that influenced me, my immigration to Britain, working with Osprey, right up to the writing and publication of The Silver Bayonet. I have now finished the first draft of the manuscript and am slowly editing my way through it. It is the longest single work I have ever written. I don’t know what I’ll do with it once it’s finished, or if anyone will ever want to read it, but it has been an enjoyable exercise in self-reflection, nostalgia, game-philosophy, and writing in a different genre. They’re all brilliantly evocative roleplaying touchstones, but Stargrave rarely, if ever, gives time to leverage them. True RPGs have the benefit of providing non-combat situations, plunking you in the boots of your character to really exploreand experience the imagined world around you. But even miniature wargames with less direct RPG mechanisms, like Warhammer 40k, are more successful in imbuing each battle with a sense of place, person, and persona through their bespoke miniatures.

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Even without custom models you can channel your crew inspiration into how you paint them. Something like the colour coding of Starfleet uniforms will be instantly recognisable on any outfit. And you can communicate a lot through your choice of colour scheme. Painting characters with the relevant hair and skin colours might instil them with a bit of your favourite crew too, maybe a particularly daring soldier can sport a beard like Riker!

As the name suggests. A Bounty Hunter. Typically armed with a Carbine, Hand Weapon and Heavy Armour.

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I think the WGA ancients stuff like the Persians will be similarly too slightly built but don't have any to hand WGA WWI German, WGA WWI German with Stargrave arm, Stargrave trooper, WGA Grognard, WGA Grognard with Stargrave arm, Stargrave trooper, Maelstrom's Edge Broken with Stargrave arms, Stargrave trooper That plot hook along with their infiltration and combat powers immediately put me in mind of Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell. But who in Section 9 would support her and make up the rest of the crew? The answer, of course, is eight Fuchikoma spider-bots (plus Batou). You saw this in the earlier table above. Gang-members, low-level criminals and cheap bodyguards. Basically low level muscle and rough people who live in areas where fights are likely.

Bombshell minis, who do really great sculpts for their game Counterblast. Retro 60-70’s sci-fi. I was very tempted but in the end wanted more modern scifi. Name a more iconic duo than the roguish smuggler captain and his huge, hairy first mate who pulls the arms off people who beat him at boardgames. Yes, it’s Han Solo and Chewbacca.

With that out of the way, let’s take a closer look at those Stargrave Crew Miniatures. A sample picture of the Crew Miniatures for Stargrave. The Plastic Sprues But wait! Are you still unable to get to your LGS or play Stargrave with your gaming group? Never fear. Tomorrow, we’ll be releasing the Stargrave solo rules Dead or Alive so no gamer will be left behind.

Another entry also in the Random Encounters table. As the name suggests. A Bounty Hunter. Typically armed with a Carbine, Hand Weapon and Heavy Armour.

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Is stargrave basically a stand alone game system a bit like warriors of erewhon? In case you've not played Frostgrave, the fantasy predecessor to Stargrave, Stargrave is a minis agnostic skirmish game. There are official minis, including 3 plastic box sets of PYO [pose your own] figures. The new plastics are compatible with the older Frostgrave and Ghost Archipelago plastics. You can play one-off games but the fun in both systems is a campaign. In Frostgrave, only the Wizard gained Exp, and the Apprentice was basically an inferior copy of the Wizard. In Stargrave, you choose a Captain and First Mate; they can have the same Speciality, or different ones, and they each can gain experience. The Captain rolls to activate Powers normally, and the First Mate at a penalty. (It's a bit more detailed than that, but that will do for now.) These monkey like creatures are half the size of a human. They like to eat the energy from batteries that crew members carry and happen to have three eyes. It seems like 3d printing is going to solve my problem, there are fantastic models available on myminifactory for instance. I didn’t really want to open that can of worms, but sounds like it really is the best option for me. For those that have played Stargrave’s predecessor, Frostgrave, the game will feel immediately familiar. Assemble a crew of ten intrepid adventurers, embark upon loot-snatching sorties in competitive two-player battles, and play through a series of interlinked scenarios across a persistent campaign – all the while levelling up your crew, and recruiting replacements for those who meet the nasty end of a carbine.