Those 3 kits can create a almost overwhelming variety of models. Very cool idea. I might check this out at some point in the near future as I am getting 40k fatigue a bit
@@jackwilliams4087 Unfortunately for me I have an intense dislike for just about every single infantry kit I have seen. All have weird proportions and goofy heads to me
@@evanmoore2141 Stargrave and Frostgrave are mini agnostic. They are thrilled if you buy their mini's but the game advertises as a "use your own minis game".
I wasn't going to buy these boxed sets when I saw the online presentation of painted examples until you made this amazing unboxing video that showed things on the sprues that I didn't see - I bought a trooper and a merc box! Thank you Naomi!
Not only are these three boxes interchangeable to build unique models, but the many Frostgrave plastic boxes' parts can be used also. The Soldiers II and WizardsII boxes will provide many female heads to use.
I bought a kit of Wizards II to use bodies and heads, in part because I don't expect the Stargrave female bodies to have dresses. And also because the bodies don't have any fur/winter looking gear like the Frostgrave Soldier II bodies does. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Stargrave does with their females in the Crew 2 and Mercenaries 2 kits.
Thank you for keeping your videos as vast as the hobby actually is. It makes watching your channel interesting and I hope the variety makes creating these videos interesting for you too. Big smiles for your efforts. :-) :-)
Nice to see such a MASSIVE choice of parts for a kit of this size. There are STL subscriptions out now (Jan '22) that have groups of 5 or 6 miniatures all with the same single head (pre-set, non modular minis).
Yes!, they're really great minis!. A friend of mine is using those minis to make a Lunar Gene Cult army for 30k, using the Imperial Militia/Cults HH book. Going to be awesome!.
This is a really fun set of easy rules. The minis allow kitbashing heaven across all Frostgrave and Oathmark minis. I have even added WW1 heads by Atlantic minis and from their sci-fi range. Atlantic even do space dwarfs all can be used with this game system.
I had to laugh when I saw the Screenshot of Ash of GMG with subtitles! He is often so hard to understand for non-native speakers, even the ones of us used to watching English movies all the time ^^
They have announced the crew and merc will have a female box. The troopers won't, because they are intended to be both generals (the armour hides the gender on the torsos)
Gumlass1 There are a few female heads on the trooper sprue. I don't have one in front of me, but I think it's 4 or 5. EDIT: Naomi shows them around 4:36.
As was said below, Stargrave is cross-compatible with Frostgrave. That should give you a wide variety of options. Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if their Oathmark figures could be roped in as well, giving us an even larger pool of bits to customize our forces. And Joseph McCullough, the author has written some great games. Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadowdeep are great fantasy skirmish games, but Oathmark, his rank and flank fantasy mass battle game, a la Warhammer Fantasy, is my favorite.
Can confirm that the oathmark kits are compatible scale-wise with all the frostgrave/stargrave kits. I have a lot of oathmark miniatures and bits mixed in with a few of my Frostgrave warbands. That's one of my favorite things about North Star plastics. The cross compatibility makes for basically endless customization and some really cool combos. Just slapped some stargrave arms on some frostgrave cultist bodies for some real sinister and spooku looking space pirates.
I honestly really like the miniatures; they have this cool retro 70's-90's sci-fi vibe to them which I love, but seeing most people dislike them really made me feel guilty for liking them. I really wanna buy them, as I am a huge fan of old sci-fi stuff.
Something to keep in mind about gender variety in their kits: North Star typically likes to release both male and female counterpart sets (their frostgrave soldiers and wizards kits come in both male and female kits which are all excellent). I saw something on the Stargrave facebook page where North Star said that they are most likely going to do all female versions of the crew and mercenary kits like how they did with their frostgrave models, but elected to not do that with the trooper sprue and instead included a few female heads in the sprue as aside from the head (when unhelmeted at least), with all the armor and bulky kit of the heavier armor there wouldn't really be any noticeable physiological differences, so if you are wanting more girls in your crew outside of the few female heads in the troopers box, plastic kits will come out for a lot more eventually. There are also lots of female characters in metal that they sell for specific captain and first mate types. I love North Star plastics. They are awesome and have so much variety for kitbashing and tons of customization.
I've bought one sprue of each of the Frostgrave, Startgrave and Oathmark mini sets. It might be more expensive per sprue but I don't get any repeats and I got a ton of options.
There are going to be two female kits, apparently. If you look at Frostgrave you can see how they might do it. So it might be a box of 20, or a box of 10 with tons of bits. Northstar probably has the most female plastic soldiers out there. Also, all of their kits cross over so you can use the Frostgrave female heads on all of these.
There are some cool 3D printed space ships that are click dungeon tile compatible. Being able to customize your own space ship with Dungeon and Laser tiles would be hella rad.
My only issue with the kits is that they're too small compared to 90% of my sci-fi minis...same with Frostgrave kits, but on the plus side, the price point and modularity make them still worth owning!
Thanks for introducing this Naomi, I never had seen Stargrave before. I like the relative simplicity, and the tons of options with the figures. I agree with what you said, who ever made this, had a passion for what they were doing. Did you already had time to assemble one or two figures? Do the models seem to fit nicely together?
Stargrave Captain has follower/s who secretly like her, but is too shy to say anything. Didn't you want to go for something different from real life? LOL Figures look excellent, same style as their Frostgrave stuff, so many options! And affordable... take note GW.
With Killteam '21 doing away with everything I have for Killteam '18... Stargrave has become my SF skirmish game of choice for now. The 'grave series (Frost or Star) certainly scratch those skirmish game itches to replace OOP games like Mordheim and Killteam '18 these days. Great review. Thos miniatures from North Star are certainly a fantastic value and quite flexible (species wise...).
I wouldn’t know if I’d be able to get all games in one match. That’ll be the future Christmas Episode. Warhammer40k, Necromunda and StarCommand all meet on one Board Game Match
Great video. Thank you! Could ask your advice on the best way to get a hold of the stargrave miniatures? Have not had a lot of luck seeing Cdn game stores stocking them. Is direct order from North Star the best option?
Nice, but personaly I'm more interested in "Grimmerspace", minis for that would be cool! And, hobestly, I would realy like something like these games, but as a video game, like "Warhammer Quest" for PS4, though it should be a bit more defined in purpose.
I like the style of the minis and the book's ilustrations; remind me of the Zone 1984 comics, 2000AD comics, Rogue Trooper and that kind, more females would hurt do.
That makes sense. Sword and Steele. You’re really StarGrave Command. That’s the office work that I don’t do. So that you have a safe working environment without me around, other then playing the game
Nice video! I really like McCullough's games, but I think it's a failure of Osprey Gaves to sell male-only figure boxes and other female-only figure boxes. At least that's how it is with Frostgrave. Luckily these are miniatures agnostic games, so it's perfectly fine to use other miniatures.
![Stargrave! - I Like You - [Frostgrave in Space]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aU9OaJSr1BQ/mqdefault.jpg)
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Joseph McCullough also created Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadow Deep, a co-op/solo tabletop RPG (both also mini agnostic)
Rangers of Shadow Deep just might be my favorite wargame.
Those 3 kits can create a almost overwhelming variety of models. Very cool idea. I might check this out at some point in the near future as I am getting 40k fatigue a bit
I went for bolt action for the same reason. About to start a 1k pt British army, 40+ men and tanks only £50 from dice & decks.
@@jackwilliams4087 Unfortunately for me I have an intense dislike for just about every single infantry kit I have seen. All have weird proportions and goofy heads to me
@@martinjrgensen8234 What is great about historicals is you don't have to use their figures! There are other manufacturers around.
@@evanmoore2141 Stargrave and Frostgrave are mini agnostic. They are thrilled if you buy their mini's but the game advertises as a "use your own minis game".
And did a bland job of it
Fantastic that you're covering Stargrave. A great way to use a wide variety of sci-fi minis that you might have collected over the years.
I wasn't going to buy these boxed sets when I saw the online presentation of painted examples until you made this amazing unboxing video that showed things on the sprues that I didn't see - I bought a trooper and a merc box! Thank you Naomi!
Thanks for covering Stargrave :) So excited to see this!
Not only are these three boxes interchangeable to build unique models, but the many Frostgrave plastic boxes' parts can be used also. The Soldiers II and WizardsII boxes will provide many female heads to use.
I bought a kit of Wizards II to use bodies and heads, in part because I don't expect the Stargrave female bodies to have dresses. And also because the bodies don't have any fur/winter looking gear like the Frostgrave Soldier II bodies does.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what Stargrave does with their females in the Crew 2 and Mercenaries 2 kits.
Thank you for keeping your videos as vast as the hobby actually is. It makes watching your channel interesting and I hope the variety makes creating these videos interesting for you too. Big smiles for your efforts. :-) :-)
Nice to see such a MASSIVE choice of parts for a kit of this size. There are STL subscriptions out now (Jan '22) that have groups of 5 or 6 miniatures all with the same single head (pre-set, non modular minis).
Yes!, they're really great minis!. A friend of mine is using those minis to make a Lunar Gene Cult army for 30k, using the Imperial Militia/Cults HH book. Going to be awesome!.
This is a really fun set of easy rules. The minis allow kitbashing heaven across all Frostgrave and Oathmark minis. I have even added WW1 heads by Atlantic minis and from their sci-fi range. Atlantic even do space dwarfs all can be used with this game system.
Please, could you make a video on painting any of the minis? Thank you !
I had to laugh when I saw the Screenshot of Ash of GMG with subtitles!
He is often so hard to understand for non-native speakers, even the ones of us used to watching English movies all the time ^^
I love it when you cover non-gw stuff!
If they follow the Frostgrave pattern they will make a female Crew and Merc box. Then Captain/First Mate boxes in both male and female.
They have announced the crew and merc will have a female box. The troopers won't, because they are intended to be both generals (the armour hides the gender on the torsos)
Gumlass1 There are a few female heads on the trooper sprue. I don't have one in front of me, but I think it's 4 or 5. EDIT: Naomi shows them around 4:36.
I love that Stargrave is totally mini-agnostic so you can use any vague sci-fi minis. Time to dust off those 1990s-era 40k Space Marines. :D
I love this game so much. Both the creative freedom you get, plus reuse of old minis is so fun.
Awesome stuff. We're so glad you enjoyed it!
I just got my Mercenaries! Looking forward to making them up as a bunch of space pirates!
Thanks for this and all your other videos. They are good painting background entertainment.
As was said below, Stargrave is cross-compatible with Frostgrave. That should give you a wide variety of options. Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if their Oathmark figures could be roped in as well, giving us an even larger pool of bits to customize our forces.
And Joseph McCullough, the author has written some great games. Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadowdeep are great fantasy skirmish games, but Oathmark, his rank and flank fantasy mass battle game, a la Warhammer Fantasy, is my favorite.
Can confirm that the oathmark kits are compatible scale-wise with all the frostgrave/stargrave kits. I have a lot of oathmark miniatures and bits mixed in with a few of my Frostgrave warbands. That's one of my favorite things about North Star plastics. The cross compatibility makes for basically endless customization and some really cool combos. Just slapped some stargrave arms on some frostgrave cultist bodies for some real sinister and spooku looking space pirates.
I honestly really like the miniatures; they have this cool retro 70's-90's sci-fi vibe to them which I love, but seeing most people dislike them really made me feel guilty for liking them. I really wanna buy them, as I am a huge fan of old sci-fi stuff.
Something to keep in mind about gender variety in their kits: North Star typically likes to release both male and female counterpart sets (their frostgrave soldiers and wizards kits come in both male and female kits which are all excellent). I saw something on the Stargrave facebook page where North Star said that they are most likely going to do all female versions of the crew and mercenary kits like how they did with their frostgrave models, but elected to not do that with the trooper sprue and instead included a few female heads in the sprue as aside from the head (when unhelmeted at least), with all the armor and bulky kit of the heavier armor there wouldn't really be any noticeable physiological differences, so if you are wanting more girls in your crew outside of the few female heads in the troopers box, plastic kits will come out for a lot more eventually. There are also lots of female characters in metal that they sell for specific captain and first mate types. I love North Star plastics. They are awesome and have so much variety for kitbashing and tons of customization.
I've bought one sprue of each of the Frostgrave, Startgrave and Oathmark mini sets. It might be more expensive per sprue but I don't get any repeats and I got a ton of options.
I was tossing up between this and corvus belli infinity!. But i just loved the infinity minis
The figures look great! Never heard of this game, thanks for showing it off!
We're really living in a golden age of minature and tabletop games, love the review.
Those boxes are amazing. So much variants. Thx!
speaking of modularity this kit are compatible with most of the frostgrave /oathmark set :D enjoy
Thank you , Lady Naomi .
Left a like. Will watch it this weekend.
Stay safe hun 🌲
I've been kitbashing Strargrave and Frostgrave kits into Warhammer 40k civilians
There are going to be two female kits, apparently. If you look at Frostgrave you can see how they might do it. So it might be a box of 20, or a box of 10 with tons of bits. Northstar probably has the most female plastic soldiers out there. Also, all of their kits cross over so you can use the Frostgrave female heads on all of these.
Thank you! 🤩👍 very helpful!!!
Just found this game, great review, shall seriously look at getting this.
I picked up the North Star Frostgrave Cultists which add a bunch of options for my Star Reavers (think Firefly) baddies.
Awesome review; the plastics look really nice. There is going to be two more plastic box sets: a second crew and second mercenary box, all female.
North Star has been previewing their female crew plastic box set. So hopefully they should be out soon.
There are some cool 3D printed space ships that are click dungeon tile compatible.
Being able to customize your own space ship with Dungeon and Laser tiles would be hella rad.
My only issue with the kits is that they're too small compared to 90% of my sci-fi minis...same with Frostgrave kits, but on the plus side, the price point and modularity make them still worth owning!
North star miniatures makes some really nice stuff! Their Frostgrave range is great! :) Keep an eye out for "The Silver Bayonet" too!
These miniature sets look great!
This game system reminds me of the original rogue trader. Large scale space d&d. Looks worth a visit. Stay safe.
Now these look fun to put together and make a custom squad!
Thank you for this great review.
I think there's a mercenaries and crew 2 in the works, which would be female. Check out Frostgrave Wizards 2, this is my absolute favourite box.
The Siren's call for more mini's!!!! Must... resist... the... urge.... to... BUY MOWER STUFFF!!!!! AAGGGHHHHH!!!
Thanks for introducing this Naomi, I never had seen Stargrave before. I like the relative simplicity, and the tons of options with the figures. I agree with what you said, who ever made this, had a passion for what they were doing. Did you already had time to assemble one or two figures? Do the models seem to fit nicely together?
Melody and Naomi should play a campaign I want to see the sci fi war muffin
Stargrave Captain has follower/s who secretly like her, but is too shy to say anything. Didn't you want to go for something different from real life? LOL Figures look excellent, same style as their Frostgrave stuff, so many options! And affordable... take note GW.
With Killteam '21 doing away with everything I have for Killteam '18... Stargrave has become my SF skirmish game of choice for now. The 'grave series (Frost or Star) certainly scratch those skirmish game itches to replace OOP games like Mordheim and Killteam '18 these days. Great review. Thos miniatures from North Star are certainly a fantastic value and quite flexible (species wise...).
I wouldn’t know if I’d be able to get all games in one match. That’ll be the future Christmas Episode. Warhammer40k, Necromunda and StarCommand all meet on one Board Game Match
Chack out the Stargrave sub-Reddit. It has some fantastic kit-bashes, model builds, and terrain ideas.
these look like great kits if you also want some heads on pikes scatter terrain
Yup played the Campaign. Caught up one what’s going on with the office.
Great video. Thank you!
Could ask your advice on the best way to get a hold of the stargrave miniatures? Have not had a lot of luck seeing Cdn game stores stocking them. Is direct order from North Star the best option?
Hmmmmm I will look into that for you :)
The guy on the left of the stargrave mercenaries looks kind of like the guitarist from TWRP, Lord Phobos
I hope you do a stargrave bat rep : )
When I saw Quarantine 37 I definitely thought you were being facetious about you guys going into lockdown again or something 😂.
Nice, but personaly I'm more interested in "Grimmerspace", minis for that would be cool!
And, hobestly, I would realy like something like these games, but as a video game, like "Warhammer Quest" for PS4, though it should be a bit more defined in purpose.
How do those stack up to North Star's metal range?
How does the solo play compare to Five Parsecs from Home?
Battletech minis are great for robots in 28 mm scale
I like the style of the minis and the book's ilustrations; remind me of the Zone 1984 comics, 2000AD comics, Rogue Trooper and that kind, more females would hurt do.
That makes sense. Sword and Steele. You’re really StarGrave Command. That’s the office work that I don’t do. So that you have a safe working environment without me around, other then playing the game
Those kits look great
Yup yup. That’s how I really read those books
Queen
I'd like to set this in a Steampunk world and call it Steamgrave.
It appears to be a Necromunda kind of spin/bridge up department
I wonder if there's rules for totally original, non copyright infringing laser swords?
Yes there are and if you check out youtube you will find quite a few bat reps where people are using those laser sword wielding personnel
Where I can buy it?
Corporate Warfare while Necromunda is Workers Warfare
Skirmish Wargames channel have some fun play through videos. Check ‘em out for Stargrave
I can only keep track of y’all by playing the game
It’s gonna look like Trouble the Boardgame
Actually. That’s how i work. Meaning it’s going to happen.
😊👌
It’s just a matter of making this a Warhammer40k product. Adding Stargrave to Warhammer40k
Look like great kits but shame almost no females. But as you said, shouldn't be hard to use your own female heads.
Great variety of weapons.
I'm Jealous as Fudge! How the Hell you get free stuff from the Company, when I have to buy each myself? Videos?
If you’re reading this comment you should go like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 😁👍🏼❤️
Because then a minor zombie miniature game can be created so that y’all can play someone else’s game
You are GORGEOUS Milady ♥️💜❤️
;)
Nice video! I really like McCullough's games, but I think it's a failure of Osprey Gaves to sell male-only figure boxes and other female-only figure boxes. At least that's how it is with Frostgrave. Luckily these are miniatures agnostic games, so it's perfectly fine to use other miniatures.
Nah. I want my warriors to be men. No girls allowed.
Y’all would much rather be about Office Space Warfare over fighting Zombies
Spare the details. I’ll just play the campaign
6:04 the lack of female figurines is now solved with the "II" mark boxes!
I saw! :)
That box art / design is absolutely dreadful, does not do justice to the sprews.