Look To The Future With Osprey’s Rogue Stars
June 18, 2016 by brennon
Later this year Osprey and North Star are joining forces once again to bring Rogue Stars to the tabletop by Andrea Sfiligoi. The game will be an epic Sci-Fi romp where you play as anything from a Human to an Alien Psiconic Knight...
Here are some of the notes from the author on this game...
"The game uses an unusual activation system to represent the chaos of combat. In addition to the characters’ distinctive Traits and equipment, squads have unique Themes (what they are and what motivates them) and Tactical Disciplines (how they fight). Figures are highly mobile: jump-packs, flight packs, personal teleportation devices and even psionic jumps all play a role.
No coherence distance between figures is enforced. There is no facing: figures can move, spot targets and fire in a 360° radius."
Which sounds like it might lend itself to some very interesting cinematic experiences on the tabletop. As well as the rules we also saw some model previews like these painted fellows below you might know from the artwork.
Very cool models indeed and I like that we're seeing so many different alien species here as well as the standard Human explorers and rogues. This is another of their new previews too below for the Gunslinger Bot.
I'm so playing as a group made up entirely of Robots who have rebelled against their masters and are now freedom fighters for the cause trying to win back Robot rights through some nefarious means.
Will you be keeping an eye on this one?
"...it might lend itself to some very interesting cinematic experiences on the tabletop"
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Cant wait to see more of this
This is the first I’ve heard of this. Based on the three or four I’ve seen, the rulesets Osprey are producing are excellent; and this one seems to fit that pattern. The minis look nice too.
Count me in!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’m extremely interested in this, especially if it has some sort of campaign system and the model count is comparatively low. Plus, so far, the minis look great.
Nice. Based on the cover, this looks it’ll be more akin to ‘In Her Majesty’s Name’ than ‘Frostgrave’, which suits me fine.
Wow! I have never heard of this. I really like the rules for Frostgrave and am hoping for something similar. The minis look great.
this looks like a game where 40k players, Deadzone Players, N3 players, and Gates players can all plop down miniatures and have fun.
Agree, but with an amendment; Bombshell’s bubble-helmeted sci-fi figures and aliens would fit in nicely as well.
Osprey publish some great rulesets. I feel like I have enough Sci fi minis to get a game of this in. I wouldn’t mind a gang of funky oldschool aliens tho!
Looking forward to this, have a number of hasslefree minis that I will be able to use. I don’t get on will over complicated rule sets that bog you down and even though it looks great just can’t get into infinity, so this osprey ones looks like it might fit the bill.
Was going to get into infinity but this sounds more my cuppa of tea
This sounds very promising, fitting into a similar niche to sci-fi games I love like Relic Knights and First Law: Override. Hopefully it will be comparable to Frostgrave in terms of the campaign experience.