What Is Stargrave? Exploring Sci-Fi With Creator Joseph A. McCullough #StargraveWeekOTT
May 24, 2021 by avernos
We talk with the creator of the Stargrave Rules, Joseph A. McCullough, about exploring Sci-Fi with his newest game from Osprey Games.
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In this video, we discuss the Stargrave Rulebook, how to make your crew, the different options you have to choose from and how to get started playing the game. We also look at what some of the influences were for this expansive Sci-Fi skirmish wargame.
This is a brilliant rule book packed with cool Stargrave artwork which really gets the creative juices flowing when it comes to working out how we'll build our own crews!
Are you going to be diving into the Sci-Fi world of Stargrave with us?
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Stargrave Week Schedule
Here is what you have to look forward to throughout the week...
- Monday 5pm BST - An Introduction To Stargrave With Joseph McCullough
- Tuesday 5pm BST - Let's Play Stargrave #1
- Wednesday 5pm BST - Stargrave Sci-Fi Table Build VLOG
- Thursday 5pm BST - Stargrave Miniature Painting Tutorial
- Friday 5pm BST - Unboxing New Stargrave Plastic Sets
- Saturday 5pm BST - Let's Play Stargrave #2
- Sunday 5pm BST - What's Next For Stargrave With Joseph McCullough
In space, no one can hear you scream… but they can watch you flail about helplessly 🙂
I fancy a chance at winning the competition
Great run down, I’ve been looking forward to this one as I’m a big frostgrave fan.
Definitely gonna grab it and hopefully get some games in soon!!
Now I can finally find a good use for my Legion figures 🙂
Recently received my Stargrave rulebook and boxed sets, so going to be watching a lot this week. Haven’t done anything with my Stargrave stuff yet as am painting up some Core Space figures. Seems like a leaning towards sci fi crews and their adventures! Core Space and Stargrave should be quite interchangeable. Stargrave troopers would make good Galactic Corps figures for Core Space and vice versa.
Core Space crews are perfect! I’m considering using a few of the lower-level Purge as robot crewmen as well.
Enjoyed GA, and tend to feel fantasy doesn’t have enough Plasma weapons.
Watching with interest.
I’m curious to see if the core book has a campaign in it. I always like the look of things like this but without a definable end to a soloable campaign I know I either wont start, or I’ll play one game, work out how everything works, and then not go back to it. Even two player, campaign play benefits from an end goal.
Just great…. I’ve just settled in to stay with my two main games (SW:L, Battletech and Blood Bowl) *three* main games (SW:L, Battletech, Blood Bowl and maybe A Billion Suns *DAMN IT).
Frostgrave already looked very tasty and now a game with not-Han Solo and Space Hobos with glowing sticks?
You won’t get me unless I win yet again…
Speaking of: Does this entry count double or do I need to make another one as CoG Member in the green room over in the forums? 😉
counts double, and Han Solo doesn’t have a skull on his jacket
that’s how you can tell
Noice.
Nice interview, great way of getting Stargrave Week up and running. It was interesting to hear about some of the design differences required from Frostgrave by the introduction of ranged weapons for all.
Been excited for this for a good little while!
I haven’t been excited about something like this, for a long while.
My head is melting from the endless possibilities of making my crew. Must just get the glue out and decide
Looks like you can play Stargrave with Core Space’s maps, scenery and figures!
Definitely. I’ll be picking up some Core Space gear for exactly this.
LOve the miniature agnostic part. Get to play with all those mini’s I’ve had lying around for years
Just one of the many joys of Frostgrave was for finally finding a purpose for some of the random miniatures I had acquired over the years. I now get to do this for a whole new genre. Rummaging through quantities of Lead and plastic finding figures I’d forgotten I owned. I also feel good about myself for having the foresight to buy them in the first place.
yeah … gives me a whole new reason to buy more.
Recently backed a kickstarter with 80’s scie fi style minis *because* of Stargrave.
All that is missing is something I can use as ‘the enemy’ in games.
Maybe Genestealer Cultists and Orks ?
Been enjoying talk of Stargrave on the Weekenders and also on Ash Barker’s channel. I’ve been playing Zone Raiders for the past 6 months or so too, and it is a close cousin to Stargrave. Also been playing (and collecting) a lot of Core Space so will soon be lured by Stargrave too.
Sci fi Frostgrave ,what’s not to like and prizes too!
Like that it’s agnostic but have to say the ones mercenaries and troops do look great (though the mercs seem better to me)
Oooo, Frostgrave in space
good interview. I can see alot of people using all kinds of minis for their crew. also in all the different universe there still is only one GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.
Citizen Kane? 😉
A ship’s engineer is the modern wizard.
All new recruits get a free set of red shirts.
Looks like it’s going to be a great week guy’s.
Love the Matrixy music.
I have been doing a project on Stargrave building up different crews from the models I have from the Nickstarter and other sources. What I like about stargrave is you can tailor it to suit your own universe. I takes me back to watching the original Star Trek every thursday evening. The crew would land on a new planet and each adventure would be different from the last. Well it is a bit less Kirk trying to make out female aliens and a lot more red security guys dropping dead but the idea is the same. What is great is… Read more »
I’ve got a few Star Trek away teams from Modiphius … just the thing for this game.
Captain + First mate pretty much write themselves.
Red shirts are a given as well.
All that is missing is a sufficiently big collection of Trek enemies to use and the Star Trek skirmish game is ‘done’.
I don’t have a rulebook yet. What sizes are the bases? Or does it matter? I have an idea for some custom bases and want to know before I order any.
I’m still a bit torn as to how to structure my crew. So many possibilities!
doesn’t matter, I threw them on 25mm as there was a set with the plastic kits
Joe McCullough is killing it with his designs the last few years. I’m really looking forward to diving into Stargrave in the future — unless I win the contest in which case THE FUTURE IS NOW!
I’m going to use you guys this week.
to get my son to start stargrave.
it’s not going to be easy as he is still sad to have lost almost all of his figures and board games when his basement was flooded last winter.
I am curious if I will be able to get him back into the hobby.
I’m hoping I can find some people to get into this with me ☺️