STARGUARD! (Finally!)

[grubman]

my eyes hurt! 

Very alien planet. Have you checked out Matakishi's site for alien plants and other scenery?

I'm getting a lot of that   I've always wanted to do a purple based alien world since Star Wars Miniature Battles D6, and I'm fianally getting around to it.  It'll all come together inthe end...I think.

I haven't done much poking around yet.  I sort of like to keep my mind clear of outside influences untill I come up against a wall.  I have all kinds of "unique" ideas I want to try out before I start looking for inspiration.

Hopefully some of what I do here will end up on that site when I'm done.

P.S: Would it be possible for a Starguard "The GAME" review at some point? What's the rules like and so on?

Part of this thread will be a full review of the rules...when they arrive.  If Starguard sales start to rise becasue of this thread, well COOL, more potential people to play with.

[grubman]

Continuing my journey to be a cheap-ass terrain builder, I search through junk I already have around the house and pulled out the last of these Jurassic looking trees I got from a neighbor who was throwing them out.  Not sure what they came from, but their cartoony looking features have kept me from using them for much else.  A trip to the dollar store yielded these Easter party favor Frisbees (6 to a pack, I picked up 4 packs), and a jar of stones (because all the real stones are under 5 feet of snow hereabouts!  Total cost $2.00.



A little bit of Elmer’s glue to affix the trees to the primed base (I also scored the base, so the glue would stick better), some sand, a few pebbles collected from outside earlier in the year (I used to use kitty litter, but we recently switched to an expensive fine-grain clumping kind…because it smells so nice) and we have some trees.



Once again, a loving paint job, some wild colors, and a few odds and ends to finish it off…and we have a forest worthy of an alien planet.

[shhhhck]  Um, sir, there is something strange about these trees! [shhhhhhck]

[The Gonk]

I love those trees!

[artshiraz]

yup that

Never heard of Starguard before. The Colonials remind me on those Star Wars Naval Personal on Leia's Ship in "A new Hope" 

[traveller47]

 I have been playing Starguard since 1976 or so and its still my favorite wargame. At that time it seemed cutting edge, now its retro. In playing it always feels like an old Sci/Fi movie from the 50's and 60's. Thats what I like about it.
 The rules are such that you can make up any game you want, you are only limited by your imagination. And you don't need a lot of figures to play a game. I play with 50 to 70 figs on a table at any one time and thats works out to be 3-4 hours of play.       


            Jeff B.

[matakishi]

Just getting better and better.

[Skunkape]

Once again, a loving paint job, some wild colors, and a few odds and ends to finish it off…and we have a forest worthy of an alien planet.

[shhhhck]  Um, sir, there is something strange about these trees! [shhhhhhck]

I like the trees, very alien looking!

[Ray Rivers]

Just getting better and better.

Indeed... in a most strange and twisted manner.

Wonder what is coming next... 

 

[Argonor]

Nice trees, but shouldn't the rocks have been brick red or fiery orange or something...?

[grubman]

Nice trees, but shouldn't the rocks have been brick red or fiery orange or something...?

Believe it or not, I'm not being totally random with the colors. A random array of bright colors would not only be too much, but also ugly IMHO.  You need some base colors, and even some balancing "realism" to pull the thing off IMHO.  I figure there is something in the soil and water that causes the purple tint.  Some of that is absorbed by the plants and such...but the composition of the rocks are pretty much normal.  The grey tree bark makes the trees look like they could be possible, and not just weird.

I don’t want to be bright and wild just to be bright and wild, I’m actually trying to create something that looks goofy…but looks like it might actually exist on an alien world.

...at least that's what I'm trying to do.

[grubman]

I have been playing Starguard since 1976 or so and its still my favorite wargame. At that time it seemed cutting edge, now its retro. In playing it always feels like an old Sci/Fi movie from the 50's and 60's. Thats what I like about it.
 The rules are such that you can make up any game you want, you are only limited by your imagination. And you don't need a lot of figures to play a game. I play with 50 to 70 figs on a table at any one time and thats works out to be 3-4 hours of play.       


            Jeff B.

That's what I've been hearing, and I'm certainly looking forward to getting the rules.  That's a lot like what (WEGs) Star Wars Miniatures Battles used to be like for me.

Sometime after that I got in groups hung up on wargame "rules" (*ahem* Warhammer *ahem*).  At first we made up a lot of scenarios and new rules, then, the group became more competitive and playing the game simply became a practice in using the rules and tactics to win a game, especially when some members started going to RTs and GTs.  Needless to say, that's about the time I quit and went back to role playing.

I'm looking forward to not only playing a cool mini game...but a flexible one where you can run true scenarios.

[grubman]

So….I had this vision in my mind of this really cool looking totally alien plant, a giant bird eating plant that attracts it’s prey through a mixture of color, scent, and mild hypnotic sonic waves.  Of course, the plant eats birds on the purple planet because they are abundant…however, it isn’t above a tender morsel of something else every now and then.

Cool huh?  Well, building terrain is always trial and error.  I’m not sure if I’m in love with how this turned out, and not sure if it’ll have a place on my table.  But we’ll see how it looks when everything else is in place.

This one was build out of modeling magic, a foamy sculpting substance mainly for kids.  I love the stuff for terrain.  It’s easy to work with and super light.  At about $2.50 a package, it’s pretty cheap too.  The flower and leaf bits come from some plastic flowers I picked up at Joann’s on sale ($1.49 for this one).  A few toothpicks finish it off.




[kzzzzk]…blblblblb…master, it’s sooooo beutifull..blblblblblb….[kzzzzzk]

[zzt] WAIT, DID YOU SAY RED WITH YELLOW SPOTS?  GET AWAY FROM IT NOW!!! [zzt]

[kzzzzk]…blblblblb…but why master, it’s so YEEEEEEEEGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[kzzzzzzt]

[raskal]

I'd like as my Rep-com come on this purple planet to met your bugs 

Splendid !

[dijit]

After seeing the models I'd written this thread off, but on a whim I came to see how it was looking and wow! Have I changed my mind. I'm still not sure about the models (they look a little dodgy), but the terrain and the imagination going in here looks fantastic!

[Pil]

Very nice vegetation. I wasn't too fond of the purple soil but with the complementary plants it starts looking pretty cool