Five Parsecs - Return of the Starfire Scoundrels

Episode 5

Sort of took a break from Five Parsecs.  Got caught up in a game of Stargrave with my son (blogged here ) and then a sort of hyrbid game combining Stargrave with One Page Rules Grindark Future Firefight/Star Quest (not blogged for some reason).

After the salvage op (Episode 4) the crew of the Starlight Vanguard traveled to Nexus - 9, a bustling Starport on Nexus Prime.  Story wise this is where the crew originally met be prior to Turn one.  The trip was uneventful, Rax repaired some salvaged weapons they had on hand.  Upon landing Captain Voss proudly marched over to Voidreaver Vaults (a front for the syndicate for sure) and paid off the ship dept in full.  They did not seem very happy about it (no more interest payments).  As she was exiting the bank her private comms chimed.  Message informing her that Starfire's Freelance License had expired and 6 credits were due if they wanted it re-instated....that seemed highly suspicious...damn criminals ran this star-port, hell the whole planet.  She complied and immediately sent queries for job opportunities.  Other crew went about training and exploration and some trade. Two of them got in such a vicious fight that I had to spend a story point to avoid serious calamity and a long stay in med bay.

Not off to a great start.... 

 Voss quickly heard back from a wealthy business owner...urgent job offer with danger pay.  Local K'Erin criminals putting pressure on her fast food operation...wanting protection money.  Could the Starfire Scoundrels let them know this was not appreciated?  Benefit...more jobs to come (persistent patron).  Stick it to some criminals...indeed.

I was worried about this job as I rolled up some pretty tough adversaries, K'Erin Outlaws with a Heavy that was a Unique Individual a specialist and a lieutenant. One even was toting a rattlegun.But it turned out to be a pretty short lived but fierce firefight with the K'Erin breaking in the 3rd round as their reinforcements arrived. 

I had just finished building some color printed terrain from Warsenal (can't recommend enough) so decided to use the Xiguan Vendor Flat as the building we were protecting (Fight off mission)

This fight went fast as the dice were with me.  We seized the initiative (security training paying off) and Lyra "Hex" Tanis took out the  rattlegun operator who was exactly in her range.  The rest of the crew moved into pretty good positions.  Round One I rolled very well on the reaction roll and four members of my crew went, Hex moving up and dispatching the lieutenant, Voss shooting and stunning the unique K'Erin and Rax and Elias making it to the top of the Vendor Flat.  Voss got lit up but some how survived just stunned twice. Round two was a blood bath, leaving only two pistol wielding K'Erin hunkered in a shop doorway.   Reinforcements arrived but did not stay long.  Jax sprayed one of the two in hiding in the door way with her machine pistol, killing him and Voss finished the other with her shotgun.  One of the reinforcements was downed by one of our snipers and the other reinforcement moved up, had no shot and then made a tactical retreat in panic.  I think Voss got shot at 7 times and only received 3 stun markers.  Wow.

 

The field of play

 The K'Erin taunt the crew, their last mistake...

 

 

 

 

Captain Vox and Hex take cover, trading shots with the K'Erin

 

 

 Rax and Elias provide sniper support

 

Reinforcements arrive and promptly get taking down with sniper fire.

 

This mission paid well, and somehow rolled the rattlegun on my battlefield find and got 3 story points plus made friends with the locals (how appropriate) for one more SP.  The crew event was disastrous and I had to spend a story point to re-roll (fought over the rattlegun?)

 

All and all good fun and onward to more adventures in Nexus -9! 

 

Stargrave in Frostgrave

 

So, this game happened in August and I didn’t take an overview picture or really anything other than close ups of the action.

The end of the previous game/scenario found our two groups fleeing a reactor core meltdown of the derelict warship they were fighting over.  Little did they know that I third set of looters, Skulker brigands had arrived but not boarded the ship before the massive explosion.  All three ships were flung into a rift in space created by the explosion.  They found themselves in orbit around a mysterious planet.  Sensors indicated intelligent life below.  After many sensor readings, probes and images of the planet, the crews gleaned that there was quite a bit of activity in the far frozen north around an area the locals called Felstad…or the Frozen City of Frostgrave.  And the ship of Skulker brigands that had been flung here with our two crews were already planet side and looting!

Captain Oliver and Captain Nik convened a quick meeting, formed a tentative truce and gathered landing parties and down to Frostgrave they went…would the truce hold?.

This game was born out of my sons desire to use all of my fantasy/medieval city terrain for a game.  And the bad guy Skulker rats where my kitbashed space skaven I use for 5 Parsecs From Home.

It was much fun….

Captain Nik deploys and scans the area...

 

Captain Oliver also deploys and scans the area...
 

 Nik's crew eyes Oliver's flama Ork with apprehension...

 

 

 After eyeing Nik's crew, the flama Ork cleanses a Skulker rat that jumped at in from the nearby building

 

 Nik's crewman jumps the wall and takes out a rat about to shoot the flama Ork....let's be friends!

 

 Oliver's crew surrounds the Skulker banner rat....this turned into a laughable turn after turn of them trying to take him out and him hitting back....the crew kept rolling literally 1 thru 5 on a d20 and the rat kept rolling around 20....so dumb....

 

Die rat, die! 

 

 Hearing all the gun fire, Nik's sniper aims and takes out the banner rat..

 

 

 

 Nik (top pic) and his space dwarf champion (bottom) go in for the kill to stop the Skulker rats from making off with the loot!

 

 

 Gotcha!

 

 

 All and all a fun end to a summer Stargrave campaign!

 

Thanks for looking! 

 

Infinity and Warsenal

 

For some reason and I really don’t know why, I have not posted to my blog in forever.  And somehow, I gained two followers?  Wow, thanks. 

So here is a little update as I need to post the final Stargrave campaign battle from the summer with my son but also need to get those images ready first.

My painting has tapered off a bit, but I have also gotten more into the Infinity/ Corvus Belli line of miniatures.  They are perfect for my 5 Parsecs game (need to get that back going too) and I generally just really dig the aesthetic and lore.  I’m not sure I will ever play the game though.

I also got a bit obsessed with cool sci fi cyberpunk-esque terrain and bought a bunch of Warsenal color printed buildings during last years Cybermonday sale (yup, a year ago) then some more in the summer and finally have it all built. 

So below are some of the mini’s I painted over the summer along with the buildings from Warsenal - 

Zoe and Pi-Well, Special Clockmakers Team

The backdrop is an image on my laptop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These guys are some bots I printed for a game I am playing with friends....Eclipse Phase.  These are supposed to be basic case-morphs.  

 

They are from Skull Forge Studios 

 

The Warsenal terrain looks really great on the table top and is easy to assemble.

 

Going to try to get the finaly Stargrave battle up this week, was a really fun one.