Osprey Reveal Cover For Stargrave Coming April 2021
October 16, 2020 by brennon
Joseph A. McCullough is taking us into a world of Sci-Fi awesomeness with a new 28mm skirmish miniatures game called Stargrave which will be hitting shelves in April 2021. We got a great look at the cover by Helge C. Balzer from Osprey Games which gives you a taste of this world.
Stargrave // Osprey Games
Much like with Frostgrave, the game is going to be supported by North Star Military Figures on the miniatures front and we'll be learning more about those over the coming months. I would imagine we're going to be seeing some great metal miniatures and (fingers crossed) something plastic too!
As for the game of Stargrave itself, we have this little snippet of a preview...
"In a galaxy torn apart by the Last War, vast pirate fleets roam from system to system, robbing, extorting, and enslaving. Amidst this chaos, thousands of independent operators – smugglers, relic hunters, freedom fighters, and mercenaries – roam the dead stars in small ships, scratching out a living any way they can.
In Stargrave, players take on the role of one of these independent operators, choosing from a range of backgrounds each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and associated powers. Next, players must hire a crew for their ship, recruiting a lieutenant with a unique skill-set and a handful of soldiers, mechanics, hackers, and other specialists. Some captains may even recruit strange alien lifeforms with abilities no humanoid could ever possess.
Once the players’ crews are assembled, they are ready to dive into a campaign. Over a series of games, their crews will have the chance to carry out a variety of missions – recovering lost technology, stealing data, freeing slaves, and fighting back against the pirate fleets. In time, as the crews gain experience, they will become more powerful and hire more talented specialists. The more they grow, however, the more likely it is that a pirate fleet will take note of their activities and come after them!"
I like the sound of this already. With Frostgrave going from strength to strength over the years, especially now with its 2nd Edition, it seems apt that McCullough is now stepping into the Sci-Fi ring. It looks like there is scope for all sorts of operator crews which showcase grizzled soldiers, deadly alien killers and big clanking robots.
Are you going to be all over this next year?
"I like the sound of this already..."
So its basically another Core Space?
In the same way that any Sci-Fi skirmish/warband game is like any other skirmish/warband game? At least this gives you another set of mechanics to choose from, especially if you like what was done with Frostgrave.
I was toying with the idea of adapting Frostgrave to SF rules myself using some of my Necromunda gangs instead of of wizards. Also considered doing a wild west variant (more weird).
Seems that half of those ideas are being adapted for me.
Personally, I think Core Space is Frostgrave in space, not the other way around, as Frostgrave is the older system… and based on what I have seen, the better system.
Nice.I’ll have a game for all the WA Deathfields mini’s I have stacking up to actually put into a warband for it.
I am so down… Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadow Deep have given me so much entertainment over the years.
This sounds like a total shoe-in to play games of Rogue Trader. Rival gangs of space pirates going around exploring and battling each other for lost treasure and archeotech?
I dare say this will capture the feel of Rogue Trader far better than the new GW Necromunda mod for it.
Another you could look at is Zona Alfa. Although it’s written with a Roadside Picnic/Metro setting in mind I think it would suit Necromunda to a tee (also Star Wars, Fallout, almost any SF setting you can think of).
That said I’m very excited to pick this up. I might try paint up the entire encounters table (if there is one) like I did the Frosty one.
Or another Osprey game, Scrappers. The problem is there are too many rule sets and not enough time to play them all and with COVID, nothing is getting played. There is a metric ton of good rulesets
Now that’s not true, the ones with solo rules are getting a good dust off.
Sign me up. Never got into Frostgrave but hope to with this one. Reason for not getting in is just too many other projects.
New firefly?
I made this pun elsewhere. Stargrave SG-1?
This could be fun, will have to wait and see, as april seems “lightyears” away 😉
Frostgrave is an awesome system, with lots of flavor and great scenarios.
I can only imagine that a sci-fi version is going to be similarly well done.
Really looking forward to this. He is great at world building and laying out rules clearly. Would be cool to have some scifi plastics from Northstar as well, to mix and match with Frostgrave and Oathmark.
As a big frostgrave fan, I’m very excited at the idea of frostgrave in space.
But also equally excited about the prospect of North Star sci fi plastics, especially since they are often fond of giving lots of alternative heads, my mind boggles at the prospect of all different alien races not just humans.
I guess I just want to see more than the odd token alien you get with Star wars sets.
I just want to get some Necromunda gangs (to justify making of sci-fi terrain…), and its got to have some alternative rules for them! I love Frostgrave, and Im pretty sure, that similar rules will work in sci-fi scenario.
April 2021…so I should be able to check it out at Saulte then, that’s great news!
Well…if Salute goes ahead…fingers crossed.
And I will be getting thiiiis.
Looks and sounds really cool.
I was planning on making done home brew rules for rangers of shadow deep with a metro 2033 feel may just use some of these rules instead
Love to see a Sci-Fi setting for the engine. Biy this will be one long wait.
Not really a fan of that artwork. Rules wise I’m completely without any knowledge on Frostgrave so I can’t tell if this is any good…
I just hope the party building and size of parties is more like frostgrave so we can do “wizard and apprentice with just foot soldiers” parties (really easy to get that with sf sets out already), have Rogue Stars and a couple of others rules that don’t quit fill that bigger team niche.