Bob’s Hammering Stargrave

Well this was supposed to be a Stargrave Battle report, but  myself and Kevin ended up running a game of 6 players , including ourselves, so lost track of time.

The game was hosted by the redoubtable Vincent at Asgard Games.

The Players were Myself,

Kevin

Vincent

Danny,  Kevin’s Nephew

Keith

Matt

We just about managed 3 turns with Danny/Mattwinning on points though his crew were shot to pieces, including a one shot Kill of his Captain by one of my Holy Orders Initatiate ( my only decent die roll of night) points being achieved by dead crew and actually getting a loot token, Matt by virtue of killing a swamp Dragon and having dead crew.

Anyway didn’t get much to get game shots though game but here are some shots of final positions.

Kevin did learn a valuable lesson don’t shoot Robot Dogs, laa you tend to become a Bullet, Flamethrower and Grenade Magnet.

A bit more Infinity finished 1st he Resurrected William Wallace minus the wode as I’d forgotten and as I’d done a good job of it wasn’t going to mess it up.
3ndly some Caledonian’s with the token English man and then the 1st of my Nomads

So with the Military orders done I has to expand so:

There will be far more to come with more Pan O, Aridne(lots) Nomads etc, plus hopefully an idea for cheap practical sci fo terrain.

For those curious we have played our 1st Stargrave game, the 1sfof the Daleks game from W.I. I was going to do a battle report  but got lost in the action   which had some very cinematic action which included Hadakid crushing a Dalek with his Idej mind powers and a boss ork ripping off the head of a Dalek.

So I then began with a test of the Pan Oceania scheme that I needed to do for my Military Orders. This Time I tried a thinner Tallaser Blue over a base white 2nd undercoat, building up the Blue shade with Subsequent coats to get the desired effect.

Also rather than just coat the faces with Contrast Gulliman Flesh, I thinned it slightly and carefully flowed into the highly detailed faces.

With the above success I found I had entered the Rabbit hole that is Corvus Belli’s Infinty, and ordered the Military Orders Action Pack. I then began watching a lot of the Infinty Content put out by OTT  ( Thanks guys I think I have got my head around the base mechanics from them) and a from a guy on YouTube  ‘Infinity Gamer’ from New Zealand.

Of course I haven’t as is my want stopped there , now having both Operation Kaldstom and Crimson Stone , plus a host of blister packs.

Here are the Completed Military orders , decals provided by Fire Forge and the odd GW decal    for purists I didnt have all the different orders for the different figures so made do with what I had.

Well I couldn’t leave it at that and and!

This started as I’ll get a few Infinity figures for some more unique options for my crews. I had liked the Military orders action box and thought is slightly outside my comfort box and thought that post the war the Holy C  in whatever form it was still in may still trying to reach the remnants of civilisation and is still carrying out the Holy War against the vile bug.

I was also a little curious about Infinity and wanted to see how easy the figures were to paint before attempting the Orders.

Luckily I was able to find a copy of the 2st Code one Infinty starter Wildfire and began painting these   in addition I had picked up to cut price Blisters for Pan Oceania at Games Expo  spotted in a tub by the Eagle eyed Kevin.

I had originally planned to put them on clear bases  but after various failed attempts to get  them to stand on temp bases  gave up and used Star Wars Legion Premier bases with Pennies such underneath to balance them.

The Wildfire starter box was picked because it gave me another type of Alien the Shevasti and with O12 some space cops

I started with the Aliens and found the suggested Colour scheme fairly easy to do with GW contrast Basilcanium Grey and Gryph Hound Orange for most of figure

Then I did a bit of extra shading with a very thin wash of GW Agrax Earthshade (it stiil brings out definition in the crease’s but doesn’t stain Ben)

The faces just got a thinned out coat of GW Aethermatic Blue.

Their followed a little bit of dry brushing of a lighter grey over the black bits and a very orange orange to add a little bit more contrast.

I then did the 012  mainly with thinned  GW Tallasar Blue  perhaps not enough as although they don’t look bad  havent quite got the shading I get with later figures .

Having done these, I had been given and idea for Pirates by the Stargrave Facebook group for using GW.S Gene Stealer Cultists, as pirates, , I still had a a pile to piant up for my Ork Hulk, so I dived into painting these.

Now originally the painting of these pre-contrast had been a pain, but with contrast they were quickly completed.

The figure once sprayed in Greeyseer, where give a coat of GW Apothocary White, Trousers and robes in Basilicum Grey, faces were a thined out variation of Skeleton bone or  very thin Gulliman flesh tinted with a bit of green .A bit of gun metal and black wash an they were pretty much done in batchs of about 5 figures.

Thrse figures with the various mutations give me a whole host of figures for some of the future Stargrave releases.

Well for anyone that thought I’d finishd with this project… well I havent!

Life got in the way but in a good way , The fully re-opening of Asgard, to me painting up more crewman and a 2nd more Mel and Firefly orientated crew, mainly as Vince had got me a box of Plastic Gunfighters from Dead Mands Hand. so a lot of customizing prior to his alt Games Expo event went on , this couple with preparing ship sheets for the Naval Game at his Historicon last month bit into any spare time I had for updating this project even though I have been hobbying like mad. There will be updates , particulalry with regards to terrain, and the use of plastic storage boxes.

I initially started with a Sniper  something missing from Military orientated crew.

Then there was a lot of mixing and matching bits from the Cowboys box and various Stargrave, Frostrave and other plastic kits, to convert a series of figures for my Stargrave crews.

Starting with the Redoubtable Malc and his 1st Mate Pyche Hadakid Drinkwater fallen Idej Knight. His head is from the Frostgrave Barbarians.

There had to be some animal morphed figures  so we had Cheech the Gunfighting Chimp and his Tech Wizard mate Ben the Badger

Then it was just a case of mixing and matching bits from the set for the rest of the moseley crew.

So for those that are interested, here is my bumpf on

‘The Adventures of Captain Sharde in the 25th and a half Century (for those lovers of Certain Cartoons) Kabooom!’

To say that the Galaxy had gone to the shit house was a bit of an understatement, even shit up to the neck would be better than this. The Fragile Economies of both Human And Alien worlds , had just had held together under the cost of the various border/Trade and which way up you should eat your egg wars that had fractured the galaxy both Human and Alien, what few worlds that hadn’t plunged themselves into years of debt, from the ruinous cost of Mercenaries in wars to stay alive , were unable to survive the extra pressure  sudden and massive Bug Incursions of the early 25th centuries ( as measured by Earth). Whole worlds, civilisations and species pretty much were wiped out by the bugs, not helped by many of the major players in the galaxy using the threat to try and settle old scores ,

The upshot of all this left very little centralise power, what few worlds that were left were down to scattered settlements with enough tech all small enough to evade notice of the remaining bug swarms , pirates etc.

What little was left was only salvaged when various mercenary units banded together to beat of the bugs, but the cost was great, resources that used no one could afford  or now build . and by the end all the great mercenary units were but shadows of themselves , most had slowly been merged and cobbled together ramshackle units of Droptroops, Infantry , Genetic bred warriors and Warrior houses, with various wpns from all over the galaxy with barely a platoon or armour between them.

So Mallet broke up his command, now made up of a Hodge pot of  units, Raumjager, Manglers, East Riding , etc ,  most dropped into obscurity but a few were able to gang together and buy beg or steal a ship to carry on , one such being Captain Richart Sharde , originally  members of Manglers East Riding Constabulary’s Raumsjager , , only he and Corporal Hangman surviving out of his whole original company, other survivors of various commands joined his battered platoon which had been merged with the remains of Manglers Mallots 1st Armoured Battalion, for the final campaigns,, the redoubtable and hulking Sgt Harker the only remaining Genetic Trooper from New Ireland, and Sister Teresa lone survivor of the holy order of the Red Rose, an female warrior order from out of the sector.

Various members of the old Manglers ‘Forlorn Hope’ had attached themselves, and add in a few civilian ‘useful strays’ and the odd Alien .

Stay flying was the plan , and if you could still find tech and kit all the better. Mangler had warned all his survivors the bugs were beat but not down and could return , so if they could, keep hitting the bugs were ever you could.