Cast From Hitpoints

 Planetfall offers a trio of tutorial style missions to help get new players to grips with the mechanics, and possibly earn some starting bonus resources without consequences for failing them like pesky injury roles and things.  First of which is the Scout mission; Beacons. I set up a 2x2 board using the terrain rules and disperse 3 points across the board that need beacons set up, presumably for scouting out the initial site for the colony. We then proceed through the basic move and action phase, and instead of active enemies on the Enemy Step, we get dangerous dust clouds of some kind blow in from the centre of the board. It suggests using the tokens that were designed for the game (and that come included with the pdf version) however a little 20-25mm token felt a bit...weedy. We need to go BIGGER. So I whipped some up on larger 40mm bases with some very unhealthy coloured smoke on them.   With the board set up the mission could begin. That said, I found the included te...

 Finally motivated myself to doing a bit more! And by a bit more, I mean a spready of various...stuff. I got a decent supply of new terrain done, which I'm hoping to get some pictures of up when I can start my first tutorial game involving the Scouts as written in the Planetfall book. Until then, here's some pictures of said scouts and how the Journal for the game is shaping up! The raptor alien had a little accident unfortunately, those ankles are very thin. I tried gluing it back in (and an edge of its armour got a little chipped and needs a dot of paint), but I'm not too confident in that glue job. If it breaks again, I might just brute force glue it down and just hide the messy joints with a bunch of tall grass. The handouts were made using  this template.  Also I'll post the employee bios in raw text beneath. Enjoy! Name: Luna S’kra Species: Deinon Position: Chief Scout Officer Bio: Luna S’kra is a highly accomplished reconnaissance specialist and wilderness trac...

 My excitement to start a 5PFH campaign got almost immediately stymied upon seeing that a new side game for it featuring colony founding adventures was in the works, as I may have mentioned already. I still have some ideas for the main campaign in the future, but having a more structured colony style game got me a lot more excited immediately. It also means from a practical perspective I can round out my terrain supply in a more structured way, as well as getting my 15mm models painted up in a way of "I need these ones next" on a slower, more pre-planned way given rather than multiple lists of possible opponents, there's only ever 3 "Tactical Threats" that appear at set intervals. So that helps with a slower more structured collection growth. So having rolled up a colony, we got ourselves a Corporate Sponsored new colony on the planet of Zisa's Tear (the corporate backing giving us extra points of interest on the map before we start). I am armed with both a ...