(Star) Saga of a Deadzone
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About the Project
Because I don't play enough game systems already and keep looking at it, let's dust off this copy of Star Saga and get into Deadzone 3rd edition!
Related Game: Deadzone
Related Company: Mantic Games
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Make things playable
While I’m probably going to get more use out of these minis in Deadzone, I do still want them to be playable in the Star Saga boardgame. Most of the minis come on 25mm bases which is what Deadzone uses, so cool.
The big Chovar squid thing needed a 40mm base which I could just glue on without changing anything as the model is meant to be occupying 4 spaces on the board anyway.
The Plague Aberration, however, needs a 60mm base. That would interfere with things in Star Saga so I decided to magnetise it. The Aberration has big meaty fists so I drilled into them and popped in some magnets.
Star Saga...or Mazon labs?
About 18 months ago I came across a bargain copy of Star Saga, which is a sci-fi dungeon crawler that I have had an eye on for ages. At the time I was also having some thoughts about trying Deadzone 2nd edition out as I kept hearing it was a good refinement on the 1st edition which I basically demoed but never got around to buying into.
I had also heard that all of the minis in Star Saga now had rules for Deadzone and that the enemy minions & bosses formed a playable Mazon Labs list. Great, I thought, this is an easy entry point and a complete board game too!
So naturally I bought it, read the rules then put it in a cupboard because it was 2020 and I had no prospect of actually getting it to a table.
But now Deadzone 3rd edition is out, I have met some local players and tournaments are coming back! Hell yeah, let’s paint this!
The blue minis on the left are the heroes and not part of Mazon labs. I'll be doing them last.
