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. 

Stargrave - The Derelict Warship

 This was actually game two in a summer campaign between me and my son.  Game one was a short brutal affair in an urban environment that was marked by some very bad die rolls by my son.  Wasn't sure if he would even be up for a game two....

But, here we were. Our crews leaving Nexus 9 at nearly the same time, and there coming out of warp in front of us, an ancient derelict spaceship....we immediately gathered our boarding crews.  Time was of the essence as sensors showed imminent reactor core meltdown was at hand...

Realizing that this has become a party each captain instructs their men to carefully but quickly proceed into the ship.

I was happy to use my 40k Into the Dark terrain for this, with a mix of Battle-systems and TinkerTurf crates.  Our crews are a mix of miniatures from 40k, Infinity and some random sci-fi mini's I had.

 

 

Captain Nikodemus and crew

 

Captain Oliver and gang
 

The crews fan out...all hatches and door ways are open upon entry...

Each captain leads part of his crew into a large central room and directs their first mates to take the remaining crew into smaller side rooms. 

And suddenly the ship lurches, ship systems coming alive and all the hatches and doorway suddenly slam shut scattering all nearby looters.....luckily no one was hurt.  Repair bots guarding each cache come alive and direct their attention nearby intruders.

Shots ring out as men engage the repair bots.  Each captain moves toward loot caches, also engaging repair bots that clearly have ill intent.

 

Captain Nik moves to engage a repair bot 

 Captain Nik's crew moves to open a loot cache.

 Nik takes his shot as his crewman opens the door, distracting the bot

 Captain Oliver directs his flamer to burn the heretic....oops wrong game...kill the bot!

 Nik's first mate hacks the terminal as a trooper takes out the repair bot, and suddenly a nearby exterior hatchway fails causing a sudden decompression.....the crew scrambles to hold on to anything they can grab as emergency shields come online and plug the hole.

 

 

Oliver's first mate radios in, "We have secured the loot sir, repair bot eliminated"

 

 Suddenly explosions ring out across the ship.  Captain Nik's Pathfinder is flung across the room, landing in an unconscious heap.  Captain Oliver's men somehow go unscathed....(literally six men avoided getting wounded by this blast that laid out Nik's man)

 Captain Oliver's sniper looks on in complete boredom....

 

Oliver looks down in contempt at a slain repair bot.

 

Suddenly alarm klaxons ring out...reactor core breach is imminent.  Count down has started.

Both Captains realize that there is no time to face off and fight for control of loot.  They must take what they have an leave.  Oliver makes sure each of his crew men safely escapes before himself departs into the safety of his ship, Nik doing the same with his wound crewman over his shoulder. 

 

 

 That game was much fun.  The random event at the end of each round added a lot of flavor and I really like a countdown timer starting.  My son cleaned up on repair bot kills too.

Five Parsecs - Starfire Salvage Op

Episode 4

Took a while to play Turn 4.  We last left our crew having discovered a data stick on there recently deceased rival, Drave Spectre that also had coordinates to the derelict ship that Captain Voss had heard about as a possible salvage job.  And a crew of Unity Salvage Operators were on route also!

The crew departed Mirrorshard post haste to the edge of the system where they found the derelict vessel...a Science and Research vessel called the Aetherion Helix and registered to a Vita Synth Corp.  They docked and split into two teams of three with Voss leading Kai and Jax and Lyra "Hex" leading Rax and Ellias.  There was salvage to find and four points of interest that should lead to something interesting.

As they geared up Captain Voss told the crew, "Only pistols and shotguns...the ship is still pressurized with breathable air, I dont want any mishaps."

They made their way into the ship via rear hatchways.  Voss and her crew took to the port side and Hex took her crew starboard.   Very quickly Hex and company discovered some good salve and the first point of interest.  But it wasn't long before Rax's scanner went off along with the thud of another ship docking with the Aetherion Helix...

 The table was set up using a mix of Battlesystems Galactic Core and TinkerTurf industrial terrain on the map from Rogue Trader Kill Team.  40k Navy Breachers played the role of the Unity Salvage team. I did a terrible job not taking enough pictures.

 

Aetherion Helix layout

 

 Lyra "Hex" Tanis and her crew investigate the hanger and docking area.

 

Scanners go off as an exterior hatch is blown open - Unity Salvage team confront Captain "Starfire" Voss

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 Gunfire erupts, Voss takes two to the chest only to be saves by her luck and combat armor. She is knocked into one of the intruders and takes him out with her glare sword. Active ship systems turn to red after detecting gunfire.  Lyra tells her crew to move fast before more Unity agents board the ship.

 

Jax "Cypher" Morgan finds the quest data they are looking for in the still active view screen in the comms room. 

 

Scanners go off as more Unity agents board the port side of the ship.  A massive fire fight erupts as Voss and her team fight tooth and nails.  Lyra manages to make it to the bridge and recover they final bit of data they have been searching for.

 As the team fends of the Unity Savage unit all points of interests are located and data downloaded and the crew manage to escape back to the Starlight Vanguard.

The data that Jax downloaded provided one more clue to the quest they have found themselves on.  The were able to retrieve several nice pieces of salvage and Rax even found a box of Frakk Grenades!  And Lyra had a heart to heart with Captain Voss, thanking her for giving her the chance to lead a team and showing confidence in her abilities.

Onward to Nexus-9......