Quarantine 37 – Stargrave

I wanted to change a few things on the board to give it the trashed lab scene shared in the book. There are some StarSaga terrain tables in my collection. Some look like canteen tables and some look like lab tables, but none of them are painted well so you’ll only get to see them in passing when I do my battle report. I am happier with my Volvic water caps Sci-Fi storage efforts and the doors. The armoury racks and the lab furniture aren’t great, but just want to get through them. “What were they messing with in this lab that required guns?” Sadly I think they are going to find out the hard way.

The book says that decomposition gases as a by-product of the plague often just float away into filtration and out into space, but when they are trapped in clothing or armour than can build up and become explosive. I picked the poxwalkers because they are bloated. I painted up one ages ago and another today, but I think they are the only two I have. So as a nod back to the original story I made a bloater with a Crewman body a Plaguebearer arm, a Bolt Action arm and added green stuff for bloating. Maybe I should have gone bigger and bolder with the bloating, but I don’t mind the end result.

The next mission sounds like it wants a few bloaters, but I hope three will be good enough once I start exploding a few during the scenario.

As this is a mini campaign and half a crew the experience was capped at 200.

Wasn’t too tough getting there, but forgetting to roll on the encounter table every end of full turn was a mistake that probably taints the result.

Lifts opened – 20xp each = 40xp

Game completed = 30xp

Crew members surviving – 5x 15xp = 75xp

Loot tokens collected – 20xp each = 40xp

Creature kills – 5xp each, max of 20xp = 20xp

I could also have added 5 or 6 successful Powers being used worth 10xp each but that would take me over the 200.

The loot was rolled for and the Data was valuable info and netted me 100 credits.

The physical loot was an advanced weapon. So I rolled on the weapons chart and got a new pistol with an improved range of 14″ and a +1 Damage. I think that will go to my Captain, but not sure.

The experience helps the Captain level up and got spent on one stat improvement and one power activation roll improvement. I change my Heal power activation TN to +11 and a +1 to my shoot skill (up to 4)

The next mission is in a lab. I will need more exploding zombie bloaters and more terrain as Captain Vars’ brother and First Mate tries to escape the reanimated corpses in a biohazard lab with the other half of the crew.

At the start of turn two I realized I had placed my Captain in danger of getting mobbed and was only close enough to group activate one of my crew.

Wanted to make difficult terrain as variety for my games. The gross spill and the threat of that tentacle seems difficult enough to me.

Sprue for the tentacle, my standard flooring with strips of packing strapping, some flock hit with PVA and paint and a cap from something to act as the pipe. Nurgle’s Rot as slime and some Deathguard Green and Athonian Camoshade washes to give the slime effect I wanted. I also sprayed a touch of dunkelgelb yellow spray just off the far edge and added some drops of a deep green contrast paint here and there to keep it being just a uniform green puddle.

I suffer with diabetes. The devil tempted me with cakes and the god’s abandoned me to my sinful fate. Nurgle loves me though, he hit me with psoriasis for good measure. Lol.

But… The insulin caps are a great Sci-Fi shape.

This terrain was bought to you through the medium of diabetes insulin needle caps and something left over from an IKEA box (plastic leg, coaster, stopper of some kind?) making a fun piece of Sci-Fi terrain. Perhaps a generator, perhaps a substation, perhaps an art installation. I will let my opponent decide when I finally get playing.