Joe McCullough has been a critical part of the last ~8 years of my almost 40 years of hobbying. Keep on keepin' on Joe! (I got to live out some of my sci-fi police procedural fantasies in miniature in Stargrave last year with a Robocop influenced crew. I had wanted to do that since 1987).
@PeachyTips I'm still watching the video, and was delighted to see Copplestone sculpts getting a shout out. The regular plods in the cop crew were all lovely Copplestone sculpts. Stargrave is a great way to get all of those lovely-but-gameless figures on the table.
Cheers Peachy, I never realised that stargrave was so diverse. I really struggle with complex rules such as 40K so I’m so glad that you make these videos.
Joe breathes new life into gaming and makes it fun and the miniatures are excellent and agree they can be mixed and matched with Frostgrave sets to create even more variation. 10 out 10 from me
I really enjoy Stargrave, the dice are swingy indeed, and close combat is a lot more lethal than ranged combat because how you often get stuck in. We played through some "random games" and then through the Quarantine 37 mini-campaigns and we had a ton of fun. Even though some of the scenarios say they don't work great with three players they do, maybe not if you are playing in a tournament for $5000, but if you want to have fun they do. :D We added a few house rules as we played, like you could not shoot at the "back line " without a Will roll, you had to fight in close combat so you just could not send some garbage against a captain, have him not fight on your turn just to make sure he is tied up longer, things like that. We had some more things, adding things to the story, giving the troops some progression if they survived 4 games, also making sure as many zombies as possibly spawned. In some scenarios we just ran right by each other, hordes of zombies swarming in from all around, it was a great experience. My Captain was a biomorph, but for more he was more of a Predator than a regular human and my First Mate was a force user, a Sister of Battle with laser sword named Ashoka Tano. Not Star Wars related, Tano is a last name you find in northern Sweden who had many duels with the Siths of one of the other players. I used two eldar models to make a trophy hunter and two gun fighter and Stargrave miniatures for the rest. Those North Star minis is a beginner kitbashes dream, space gnoll, bearded guy with rusty axe and laser pistol. This game is pure joy, and with interesting terrain in layers it becomes even more fun.
Wonderful. I love these crews. For a simple indie skirmish game that has a surprising variety for warband building maybe try Space Weirdos/Sword Weirdos
Used to be into 40k since 3rd. Haven't played for years. By pure chance I had a handful of Frostgrave games and absolutely loved it. Then I learnt about Stargrave...and looked at my unused, for years, 40k minis. Marriage made in heaven. About to start a 3-4 player long campaign this autumn-winter-spring
Great vid and excellent examples of just how versatile Stargrave is. Played a Coop campaign with 2 mates over a year. The game gets you doing all sorts of stuff like making new terrain, using minis that have been lost to time and having the novelty of play with rather then against friends. Can’t recommend enough.
Couldn't agree more! I think it’s reinvigorating old hobby skulls like scratch building and playing fun games with whatever you have at hand, rather than getting hung up about having the correct miniatures from a very limited range etc. love it
I recall a time where a meaningless nobody in my crew, (he was a runner) manned a crane which was carrying a crate of loot. Well I rolled a natural one on my willpower check to try work the crane, and ended up dropping the shipping crate on my 250 credit armoured trooper. You’d never get that in 40K, for better or for worse…
Kev White's sculpting is so good. Thanks for another great video. The enthusiasm really comes through strong. V thumbnail title, "Peachy says, "Fascists are so stylish!"" 😄
Our club now plays Bolter-Action 40K....9th edition codexes , bolt action dice for activation. each unit takes one move and a shoot or fight. no CP /no strats/ no warlord traits/ no relics. Its fun.
Thanks for this one, chum. I've seen lots of great primers on Frostgrave but there haven't been a lot for Stargrave and I've got some space dwarves I want to raid some ships and stations with. Excellent work!
If you like the 'grave' games you'll love the 'Rampant' games. Dragon Rampant for fantasy and Lion and Xenos. We use Xenos Rampant to pit my kids Space Marines against my Blood Pact Army. I have used the various 'grave' plastic kits to convert my Blood Pact troopers.
Great video on a great game. I love the story building you get with Stargrave, not just in the crews but also in the game scenarios. They are so easily tailored, and adding in scenario specific rules is really easy to do. Also, those Stargrave and Frostgrave boxes are indeed brilliant.
Great stuff peach! I enjoy stargrave quite a bit. This and mordheim are my favourite skirmish games. However your silver bayonet videos have made me want to play a game of that too now 😂
Stargrave is another excellent system like his other games. Being a collector over decades of random Sci-Fi figs from many companies, they have found a home... In a galaxy far down under. Love your crews I recognize too ... Cheers fellow fan boy LOL 😄😃
@@PeachyTips It's very good, easy to get into. You can use any minis too which is a bonus. Plus you're not stuck to a singe race for your army which means you can have some fun combos like elves and goblins in the same army.
The "Hope Eternal" solo campaign is a lot of fun. Definitely do a "V" batrep. I can remember seeing that miniseries when it came out as a teenager; I was righteously angry at their perfidy.
Evening mate, it's great to see you covering Frostgrave and Stargrave! Thank you :) I've recently discovered both of them after meeting Joseph at Salute 2024 (so happy to chat with him and get my 'book fresh' stargrave rulebook signed). I'll be watching your content with extra interest on these front so please continue sharing your journey. I fully support your 'V' battle report idea! Hopefully chat again soon (just we need to play some war on terra).
Defiantly more Stargrave and Frostgrave content to come, though this coming month will be very much a bone Joe related month lol, so much other stuff to cover
It is a really great system and I love these miniature agnostic rulesets. I appreciated the overview of your potential crews.. however, I would looooooooooobe seeing your ideas for the various enemies/encounters too. That's where the real fun for me is😊
I've got a lot of Frostgrave miniatures - including a selection of monsters and "baddies". stargrave is next on my list for my sci-fi skirmish game. love your enthusiasm and I admit I'm a bit of a Joe fan boy too!
Yes! Both StarGrave and FrostGrave are awesome imho because they focus on basic fun. I’m back to actually making my own terrain and kitbashing a lot more because of it, like you know, I used to? It somehow woke up this inner child in me and the fun I used to have when fomo was less of a thing.
Frostgrave and Stargrave having similar rulesets is brilliant. means you can jump between games without needing to do a refresher on the rules. Another benefit of the Grave games, you aren't locked into a particular range of miniatures. Which is great if you live in a country that pays a 'distance' tax for their 'workshop' gaming supplies. 😁 You want to use kit bashed Nepoleonics? Go for it. Your crew of soldiers are WW2 era commandos? Nothing is stopping you. Cyberpunk street gang? Stargrave has you covered. Sidenote: Looking forward to the V battle report. Loved the original show as a youngin', way back when. 👍 Edit: Ragnarok is another small scale skirmish game. Similar-ish to Silver bayonet, but vikings. (or whatever you substitute is). Also published by Osprey.
I love stargrave! I have three teams (but no one to play with) My first team is made of rebels from star wars legion. I plan to repaint them and add some droids and even a jedi. I have my Space-Judges, made from the enforcers from necromunda, with heads and eagle shoulder pads from puppetswar. And my work in progress is made with the victorian guard from Victoria Miniatures.
These sound bloody awesome, well you have at least two crews, so hopefully you can try and persuade someone to try it with your stuff….once you’ve jumped that hurdle spreading the love gets easier
I always loved the games frostgrave and stargrave in passing, Maybe my idea of a seedship of convicts/penal class people from a long destroyed terran colony planet. The decendents of the ships security, adminitstators and wardens being the "upper class" and nobility of the ship while the decendants of the criminals are the expendable lower class that are utilised for whatever the nobility needs.
A great vid. I’m an ex-Warhammerer and love StarGrave these days. It can be brutal and unforgiving😅but it’s great fun. I don’t mind the simple weapons list and it means that when you do manage to bag some loot and get a special weapon, it’s a real treasure. The options for captains and first mates are great. You can put together pretty much whatever you can imagine, and the powers can be made to fit (my cyborg captain uses ‘burrowing’ to phase through terrain, like MCU Ghost). And the expansion books add some great adventures and characters. With Bold Endeavours you can even bring your ship into the table!😆 The fact that you can play SG against another player, co-op or solo, is really attractive. Your crews look excellent. The CrookedDice retro-SciFi models are great.👍
I got massively hyped when I saw all the Hasslefree Miniatures in this video, as I used to be one of their main painters... Big grin on my face, which then turned to a frown of sadness when my name wasn't on the video 😢
Now that’s a smart approach to kitbashing and hobbying in general, I’m going to take a leaf out of your book on this one, for Stargrave and frostgrave 😍👍
Im still building my own Stargrave crews and extras. Using Fatewinders, Timewalkers, Mystics, and Psionicists primarily. But I always take the Aristocrats Investments. Major fan of the free Brawlers. (Recruits with only melee weapons.)
Love Stargrave, have a look at 5 Parsecs from home as alternative combat system to Stargrave, it's more tv action orientated. Also easy to swap ideas between the 2 systems.
I played Stargrave and Frostgrave for a bit like them a lot, some of the first I played after stepping away from GW. Also you might like “Don’t Look Back” as well is another I enjoyed getting into.
Great ! What I M looking for are miniatures that are at one end Star Wars troopers and militia poorly armed and armoured. Also something in the middle, body armour, helmets with breathing apparatus and weapons to match.
This looks amazing peachy! Brought my first lot of miniatures and rule book for Frostgrave the other day from Northstar in Notts and now I think I’m going to have to get the rule book and some miniatures for these 😂
I've been waiting in this video since the frost grave intro. Already shared it with some friends, too. Awesome stuff, Peachy!! For your stargate team, they can be SG-Tea or SG-Peach.
That’s incredibly kind of you to say, I can’t possibly take that compliment though, the pics in the book are great, mine are just different in style is all. 👍 And excellent news trying to get you mad to play too, I hope he enjoys playing it with you 😍
Excellent video, sir. Thanks for doing your part for the hobby. Also, while the 'Grave games are great, should you or anyone prefer a more narrative and procedural skirmish game experience in a similar vein, I must recommend the Five-From games. "Five Parsecs from Home" and "Five Leagues from the Borderlands". Cheers.
Honestly it's the D20 system that kept me from trying this game but if it can be converted over to 2D10 simply and effectively I would definitely be interested. Thanks for sharing!
Great video, I did jump into the deep end with Stargrave when I watched your Frostgrave video, and I'm excited to build up some crews and hopefully find some peeps to play with.
Thanks for the excellent video. 5 Parsecs from Home is worth a look for solo and co-op games. Also good for a painting and kitbashing challenge due to the randomly generated aspects of the game. Wargames Atlantic kits are also good and can be kitbashed to a certain extent with the Northstar kits. Their Deathfield kits are mainly sci fi, but some of their other kits have sci fi options like the Landsknecht Ogres and the Giant Spiders. I hope there will be a V baby glove puppet making an appearance for the battle report.
Forgot to mention Heresy Miniatures. Andy has some interesting figures, but sometimes needs a reminder if your order hasn't been sent after a few weeks.
Stargrave is a lot of fun. We have run some great campaigns. In one mission we had Darth Vader fighting a Xenomorph Queen. Are your green female squad the 7tv captain scarlet angel pilots.
I've not bought Stargrave yet but I did buy the rules and a bunch of minis for Rogue Stars. A lot of those would be perfect for Stargrave. They even have not-Jedi minis.
@@PeachyTips hahaha well from what i saw on that site, her little furballs come armed and dangerous! those reptilian bastards will have messed with the wrong little varmints!
Stop it…. I’ve only just eased myself off buying bits for silver bayonet and now you’re showing me these…. Damn you Just binged watched Mandolorian and thought 🤔 wonder if there are figures and a set of rules I could..DOH !!
Hahaha! Sorry Nigel. 😂🤭 Honestly it’s the perfect set of rules for stuff like that. And there’s plenty of miniature companies for Star Wars…..just throwing that out there 😂
@@PeachyTips great that really really helps…. Not ! Andyrecommendations for reasonable priced fantastic models ? I mean you are responsible so you are now duty bound ha ha .
@@nigelbetts1745hahaha! Yep that’s a fair cop. So most of my starwars related minis I get from www.darkstargames.co.uk/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtsy1BhD7ARIsAHOi4xbqckCn8ZDWvxY4HxUB4MTPNw970YtiRldXr3DJ58LPxTTxTKGrIowaAqdVEALw_wcB They do loads of minis for a game called legion which is 28mm size and then shatter point which is a lot more expensive but the models are larger and really well sculpted too. But this site has great discounts on all
Thank you very much for this video. I find myself in a lot of what you said. I love narrative, writing stories with my games and I am increasingly turning away from competitive / games with confrontations for cooperative. Stargrave is part of the list of games that I want to try (and make my entire set of Battles systems scenery profitable ;) ) even if I would prefer that the SF version of Rangers of Shadow Deep comes out. For the beginning I will already focus on Space Station 0 and its campaign which makes me want to play
I really like Stargrave. Space Weirdos, Space Station Zero, and Planet 28 are fun alternatives that can use the same crews. If you can gather some crews together up to about platoon strength, Xenos Rampant is great too.
Name suggestions: for Green Berets - Chosen Women. Pulp ladies - Battenbabes. For Chinese Honour Guard I get a feeling of them all being one hive entity in lots of bodies called S.H.E or even go back to your roots....they look like daughters of Ventrillia to me. Thanks for the video Peachy, always enjoy your content!
CarparkGrave! Build a team of miniature painters to throw hands in the brutal parking lots of 21st century Nottingham! No matter your color schemes, you'll end up black and blue! Great video, cheers all!
