Rogue star ,osprey sci fi skirmish rules

[NurgleHH]

Release date is the 15th of December, maybe it is a little bit too early

[beefcake]

I preordered from the book depository

[Vindice]

Amazon's Clark Kent?

[Corporal Chaos]

This is really sounding more and more like what I have been looking for. I'm getting excited to be able to get it.

[palaeomerus]

The Osprey game books are always a treat. even if they aren't quite what you're looking for they have lots of useful little ideas that can move your game table/board along to where it needs to go.

Between Ospey's books and giant discounted box-o-plastic stile tile/board games I'm quite happy lately.




aaaaaaannnnd of COURSE I misspelled that.

[Admiral Benbow]

With Mark Copplestone on board, Rogue Star will be another must-have for me ... 

[NurgleHH]

With Mark Copplestone on board, Rogue Star will be another must-have for me ... 

You are right, thanks Nick for the comeback of Mr. Copplestone. I'm very excited about his stuff. I loved his old Future Wars Range.

[Elbows]

I'm definitely interested but I wasn't blown away by most of the sculpts for Frostgrave so I may pass on the official minis.

[eilif]

You are right, thanks Nick for the comeback of Mr. Copplestone. I'm very excited about his stuff. I loved his old Future Wars Range.

To be fair to Mr. Copplestone, I'm not sure he was ever "gone" from which he would come "back".  He's been churning out goodies for Copplestone castings (and other companies I would assume) for years now.

I like Copplestone's style, but the accompanying semi-official figure lines (or lack thereof) have had exactly zero impact on my interest in any of the Osprey rules.   

I am glad they exist though. Alot of folks like official figs, and for those who don't already have large figure collections to draw from, it's great to have the option of acquiring figs specifically for a given game.

[Agis]

The more I see, the more I like it! 

And after reading that Mark and Mike Owen are in, I am exited...

[AWu]

I'm definitely interested but I wasn't blown away by most of the sculpts for Frostgrave so I may pass on the official minis.

They are hit or miss but Hipster barbarian is what sparkled my interest in fantasy again after 20 years  really

But official minis is least thing that made people do all those strange bands for FG

So probably there will be some hit or miss sculpts but we should remember that Sci-fi market is much worse served in non-military minis
Apart from that all Ive seen was very interesting


Its a little like my personal dream of Khurasan Alien Foreign Legion  in 28mm

[axabrax]

Wonderful figs! Good to see my favorite sculptor, Mark Copplestone, back in action as his output has been down to a mere trickle for years now. Hope to see more soon.

[Bloodbeard]

I'll be buying this book for sure, they are relatively cheap. Bought the Black Ops book, but never got around to playing the game. Bought it to fill a void waiting for Deadzone 2nd edition.

The bits and pieces of information on this has already sold it. Buying able to make small gangs from whatever old 40k, necromunda, random miniatures and deadzone is amazing.

[Elbows]

This is probably why Osprey has been pretty successful.  There is definitely a place for $12-17 books (normally with free shipping on Amazon etc.).  That's around the cost of some PDF rule sets.  I think it was a solid decision to put most of their games in their normal 68-page format etc.  So many rulebooks etc. are $30-40-50 now it's an easy way to put off a possible customer.  $15?  I might pick it up just for fun...and who knows, maybe it'll win me over.

I would be curious to see their sales numbers though.  They've released so any rule sets lately, I'd really like to know which ones are doing well.  I know Frostgrave is huge, Dragon/Lion Rampant are exceptionally well received --- curious how the rest are faring.

[Genghis]

No numbers, but anecdotally In Her Majesty's Name seems to have done quite well (Osprey went as far as to publish 2 follow up books).