I remember looking at the main book pre-order page thinking this expansion was so far away, and just like that its already September. (cries in corner)
There's some nice stls on myminifactory-- Papsikels has some really nice bugs, marines,and space suits. His patreon for August had hunters and a certain well-known 80s action star. Finally Pascal Blanche' has some awesome space zombies, cryo chambers, and some bugs with alien hunter mouth parts.
Aha - now I'm feeling happy about having my Aliens from Another Glorious Day In The Corps all painted up and a box of Mantic Plague Zombies in the post! I like the new end credits, but darn did it feel weird not hearing about the food over your head and roof in your belly. Or something.
Psyched about this.star grave is a fantastic beer and pretzel he for people who like RPG elements and the simple system and objective based gameplay balances a lot automatically.cant wait to see you play se mate
Man, I love your channel. Do you make your own terrain, if so, could you do more videos on it? Your miniatures are insanely creative and fun. Thanks man
I managed to get a new-used copy of Sedition wars battle for alabaster for cheap. Hoping to use the zombies from that game and maybe the room tiles from it as well. Also super keen to use my Heresy Miniatures Not Preditor mini in my crew
@@yynderjohn I’ve got a quarter done from whenever it came out but then quickly realised no-one was going to play after the cluster of the rules got around so they’re sat on the shelf
Just waiting for my pre-order copy of Quaratine 37 from Amazon, I got it for £16 GBP. Spoilt for choice when it comes to space zombies and bugs. I have Papsikels Alien v Humans, and One Page Rules Alien Hives. For zombies I have PrintMinis Outbreak in Lab, some Mantic Games Plague Troopers and some Reaper Bones minis. Looking forward to seeing what people use as minis, terrain, and battle reports.
What kind of bugs do you use, gale force nine, or starship troopers bugs? Both! Both is good. Seems like they had different bug types, so you can use both! Aliens as "workers" ST as "warriors" or something?
Could you give a rough idea of the total amount of each mini we'll need for the solo campaign? I want to get started on making the minis so they'll be ready when the campaign comes out. Edit: I figured it out
@@gavinm894 for you and everyone else who was interested, I found some clearer videos and skimmed the set up, Special rules, and the tables to figure it out for the SOLO campaign. Here is the least spoilery rough numbers I have gathered for totals. (This is estimations as tables and special rules don't take into consideration how many things you kill per turn so it can be more or it can be less) To reiterate, this is only for the solo campaign, the versus zombie campaign will require more zombies and zombie soldiers, I have no idea for the bug campaign, but I assume we'll need more for that one as well Zombies-(9) Zombie soldiers-(6) Bloaters-(4-7) Queen-(1) Royal Guard-(4-5) Warriors-(8-9) Spewers-(2-3)
More spoilery list for units Scenario 1 at start: [4 zombies and 2 soldier zombies] Lots of chances to spawn more of both in tables so I made it 9 zombies and 6 soldier zombies Scenario 2 at start: [2 zombies and 4 bloaters] 1 soldier zombie and 1 bloater spawn at the end of every round so I put 4-7 bloaters. Solider zombies from scenario 1 should be enough. Scenario 3 at start: [4 warrior bugs] 2 warriors spawn every turn and there is little spawning them in the tables so I put 8-9 total to be safe. Scenario 4 at start: [1 queen, 4 royal guards, and 4 warriors] Tables allow for 1 more royal guard a decent amount of warriors and a dew spewers so I have them at 4-5 royals total, 8 warriors that can be reused from scenario 3, and 2-3 spewers. Hope this helps everyone out.
Considering getting Frostgrave, Stargrave or Five Parsecs From Home for solo games. Do the solo rules apply to all the rest of the missions/scenarios? Are they that generic that I could solo play all the three scenarios in this book for example?
This game really is modular enough that, with some creativity, you could run all the content solo. Honestly a lot of the fun would come from filling in those gaps (gameplay made for 2 player competition) with each missions' theme in a solo game!
After playing Stargrave and Five Parsecs, I think Five Parsecs would offer a better solo experience at the moment. Stargrave has one dedicated solo campaign in Quarantine 37 and randomly made bounty hunting missions in the free Dead or Alive supplement. You can honestly adapt any scenario for solo play in the Stargrave/Frostgrave games with enough work, and Frostgrave is a more mature game so it already has more campaigns. I'd suggest looking at how Frost/stargrave plays compared to Five Parsecs as they play differently. If you don't mind it not being scifi, I'd suggest Rangers of Shadow Deep. It is made by the frost/stargrave dude(practically same rules) and has quite a few fully made campaigns already out, versus Five Parsecs' procedurally generated make your own story adventures. That's a personal choice thing.
@@ZSTE thanks for an excellent answer. I’ve heard of rangers of shadow deep but not checked it out. Will do so. I am actually most interested in a fantasy setting since I’ve been into 40k for so long.
@@robertsvallin3500 Mkay cool, I'd suggest Frostgrave(for mostly PvP) and Rangers(for co-op and solo play only) then. Plus you can use units between both somewhat along with rules being extremely similar. Don't know about the Frostgrave solo content too well though, but I have heard of it.
You're playing up Indifference rather a lot. Restructure Body has a lower activation, no strain cost, and offers a whole menu of potential tricks including the Never Wounded thing you're so excited about. The optional Stun things stacked with Never Wounded is really the only thing that makes Indifference good - barring the fluff aspect of the name.
I dig it! I pre ordered this right when I pre ordered the core book. The sci-fi horror element is absolutely my bag, baby.
Thanks for this spoiler-free review. I've got a copy on pre-order, and I'm looking forward to getting hold of it.
I remember looking at the main book pre-order page thinking this expansion was so far away, and just like that its already September. (cries in corner)
There's some nice stls on myminifactory-- Papsikels has some really nice bugs, marines,and space suits. His patreon for August had hunters and a certain well-known 80s action star.
Finally Pascal Blanche' has some awesome space zombies, cryo chambers, and some bugs with alien hunter mouth parts.
My Sedition Wars Strain are finally going to see some paint!
Aha - now I'm feeling happy about having my Aliens from Another Glorious Day In The Corps all painted up and a box of Mantic Plague Zombies in the post!
I like the new end credits, but darn did it feel weird not hearing about the food over your head and roof in your belly. Or something.
Psyched about this.star grave is a fantastic beer and pretzel he for people who like RPG elements and the simple system and objective based gameplay balances a lot automatically.cant wait to see you play se mate
Game over man! Game over!
Definitely breaking out all of my Starship Troopers stuff!
I hope you do more solo campaign. Keep up the good work.
Starship Troopers! I'd love to find a box or two of those aliens.
You changed the ending credits talk and it feel so strange!
Oh dang, papsikel on patreon/MMF just dropped a whole line of soldiers and xenomorphs based off of Aliens. I will need to print them for this.
I can't wait to get my copy. Sci fi horror is my jam too.
Man, I love your channel. Do you make your own terrain, if so, could you do more videos on it? Your miniatures are insanely creative and fun. Thanks man
Super hyped for this.
I managed to get a new-used copy of Sedition wars battle for alabaster for cheap. Hoping to use the zombies from that game and maybe the room tiles from it as well.
Also super keen to use my Heresy Miniatures Not Preditor mini in my crew
I was thinking the same thing. I can also use the pox walkers from the 40K 8th edition starter box.
Now that’s a game name I’ve not heard for a long time!
Have a fully painted set ready to go!
Have a fully painted set ready to go!
@@yynderjohn I’ve got a quarter done from whenever it came out but then quickly realised no-one was going to play after the cluster of the rules got around so they’re sat on the shelf
Cannot wait to get my hands on this!
Nice review 👍. Guess its time to start building my collection of Sci-Fi minis and terrain
Just waiting for my pre-order copy of Quaratine 37 from Amazon, I got it for £16 GBP. Spoilt for choice when it comes to space zombies and bugs. I have Papsikels Alien v Humans, and One Page Rules Alien Hives. For zombies I have PrintMinis Outbreak in Lab, some Mantic Games Plague Troopers and some Reaper Bones minis. Looking forward to seeing what people use as minis, terrain, and battle reports.
Zombies! Alien space zombies!woohoo. Thanks Ash
I'm thinking the batt.e systems terrain from core space especially with the Infestation add on would be great with this.
Hunter = Inquisitor?
Aristocrat = Rogue Trader?
Is that a fair interpretation?
More like the antagonist of of a certain 1987 film featuring an amazing cast as well as some of the greatest lines to come out an 80s action movie.
The Hunter background is more like an archer/ranger with guns.
Great video! Thanks. Are the solo rules the same as the free download?
No, it’s a full campaign.
Starship trooper aliens!
What kind of bugs do you use, gale force nine, or starship troopers bugs? Both! Both is good. Seems like they had different bug types, so you can use both! Aliens as "workers" ST as "warriors" or something?
Could you give a rough idea of the total amount of each mini we'll need for the solo campaign? I want to get started on making the minis so they'll be ready when the campaign comes out.
Edit: I figured it out
I'd like to know this too please!
@@gavinm894 for you and everyone else who was interested, I found some clearer videos and skimmed the set up, Special rules, and the tables to figure it out for the SOLO campaign. Here is the least spoilery rough numbers I have gathered for totals. (This is estimations as tables and special rules don't take into consideration how many things you kill per turn so it can be more or it can be less)
To reiterate, this is only for the solo campaign, the versus zombie campaign will require more zombies and zombie soldiers, I have no idea for the bug campaign, but I assume we'll need more for that one as well
Zombies-(9)
Zombie soldiers-(6)
Bloaters-(4-7)
Queen-(1)
Royal Guard-(4-5)
Warriors-(8-9)
Spewers-(2-3)
More spoilery list for units
Scenario 1 at start:
[4 zombies and 2 soldier zombies]
Lots of chances to spawn more of both in tables so I made it 9 zombies and 6 soldier zombies
Scenario 2 at start:
[2 zombies and 4 bloaters]
1 soldier zombie and 1 bloater spawn at the end of every round so I put 4-7 bloaters. Solider zombies from scenario 1 should be enough.
Scenario 3 at start:
[4 warrior bugs]
2 warriors spawn every turn and there is little spawning them in the tables so I put 8-9 total to be safe.
Scenario 4 at start:
[1 queen, 4 royal guards, and 4 warriors]
Tables allow for 1 more royal guard a decent amount of warriors and a dew spewers so I have them at 4-5 royals total, 8 warriors that can be reused from scenario 3, and 2-3 spewers.
Hope this helps everyone out.
Considering getting Frostgrave, Stargrave or Five Parsecs From Home for solo games. Do the solo rules apply to all the rest of the missions/scenarios? Are they that generic that I could solo play all the three scenarios in this book for example?
This game really is modular enough that, with some creativity, you could run all the content solo. Honestly a lot of the fun would come from filling in those gaps (gameplay made for 2 player competition) with each missions' theme in a solo game!
After playing Stargrave and Five Parsecs, I think Five Parsecs would offer a better solo experience at the moment. Stargrave has one dedicated solo campaign in Quarantine 37 and randomly made bounty hunting missions in the free Dead or Alive supplement.
You can honestly adapt any scenario for solo play in the Stargrave/Frostgrave games with enough work, and Frostgrave is a more mature game so it already has more campaigns.
I'd suggest looking at how Frost/stargrave plays compared to Five Parsecs as they play differently.
If you don't mind it not being scifi, I'd suggest Rangers of Shadow Deep. It is made by the frost/stargrave dude(practically same rules) and has quite a few fully made campaigns already out, versus Five Parsecs' procedurally generated make your own story adventures. That's a personal choice thing.
@@ZSTE thanks for an excellent answer. I’ve heard of rangers of shadow deep but not checked it out. Will do so. I am actually most interested in a fantasy setting since I’ve been into 40k for so long.
@@robertsvallin3500 Mkay cool, I'd suggest Frostgrave(for mostly PvP) and Rangers(for co-op and solo play only) then. Plus you can use units between both somewhat along with rules being extremely similar. Don't know about the Frostgrave solo content too well though, but I have heard of it.
@@ZSTE I had a look at Rangers of Shadow Deep, liked what I saw and placed an order. Gonna 3D print models for it.
You're playing up Indifference rather a lot. Restructure Body has a lower activation, no strain cost, and offers a whole menu of potential tricks including the Never Wounded thing you're so excited about. The optional Stun things stacked with Never Wounded is really the only thing that makes Indifference good - barring the fluff aspect of the name.
I hear there might be some space bugs that like chewing on inquisitors.
Hey ash!
Could you do a lets play quarantene 37 please?
I need bugs and zombies
Great review! I just took over as the mod for r/frostgrave. Do you have any battle reports that are good highlights?