Hello fellow Captains!
The Crew of the 'AZIZAS WRATH' checking in and ready for deployment!!!
After completing a Turnip 28 project I am eager to switch time lines and swap apocalyptic Napoleonic for the ravaged stars, space crafts and high tech weapons!!!
The background is centred on the Crew (DUH!! of course!) all being former inhabitants of a lost planet that fought together in their home world defence either as part of a standing army or civilians protecting home. After the war ended and the merciless raids of the pirates begun, the small band of now friends and family fought their way to the shacky safety of space on a former military craft, newly named as the 'AZIZAS WRATH' (Aziza being one of my daughters middle names) - the WRATH coming from a promise that the fall of their home and so many friends shall not go unpunished - the Pirates will pay one day.....
I begun to conceptualize the project in 3 parts - the Crew, photography, gaming.
For the Crew I settled on some 3D prints from the excellent UNIT 9 Patreon. These miniatures are designed for use with a Cyber Punk skirmish game but their future vibe and weaponary lends itself perfectly to Stargrave. 8 of the 10 crew members are from this range. Number 9 is another 3D print of a Dog that I purchased fom My Mini Factory and the Robot is from GW's Balckstone Fortress.
The line up is:
Captain: Veteran
1st Mate: Mystic
Runner
Sentry
Medic
Gun Fighter
Gunner (Robot)
Hacker
Guard Dog
Recruit
I will mainly be gaming Solo or with my children, so I'm not into min/max etc I set up the Crew based upon the background and what I believe will be fun thematically to play with. As the Crew will be trekking across mulitiple landscapes during gameplay, I opted for one I envisioned they would traverse the most - their Ship, so I settled on another sheet from Evergreen made up of small squares which lends itself to the metallic nature of flooring.
Second part was Photograpy, I settled upon the idea that the Crew are aboard their craft and are approaching a planet that they have picked up a distress call from. The vessel, being ex-Military has lots of Planterary records, but oddly enough this planet is listed as 'Unknown'...... having fled the destruction of their home world, they have little in long term supplies and the ship is also picking up readings of Nuclear power source and fresh water supply....... the Crew is preparing to land..... So I settled upon making a photography backdrop that represents a bay area with a large window. This was constructed by using the 'Space Corridor' sets from Warbases in the UK. I expanded them though to be 4 squares wide as the initial 2 squares wide felt too narrow. I added some details in using some Evergreen polystyrene sheets and strips alongside making from scratch a window. The view is a picture from 'Prometheus' printed on Matt Brochure paper.
Thirdly gameplay - I do love the Undead, so for my first dabble into Stargrave we have selected the Q37 backdrop of course!!!! I like my games to be on the creepy side so I may house rule some different types of 'zombies' to make it tense, Sprinting ones, Mutated ones etc, personally I am not a fan of the Soldier Zombie type in the rules so that will not feature. When the Crew land, they will soon discover the horrors that unfolded on this uncharted planet which is home to a research facility..... I will be making a set of corridors plus larger rooms from the Space Corridors sets plus Evergreen Polysytrene, stay tuned further down the line for the construction of the gaming table.....
Enough words for now, here's the Crew assembled and ready for painting!
21 July 2021, 12:36:31 PM
