"Anyone Ever Do A "Shipwreck On Alien Planet" Scenario?" Topic

If so, give us the juicy details . . .

Though I like the idea of something like "Pitch Black", where all of the group goes off away from the crashed ship, I think that having two groups of civilians and other survivors (one group, perhaps the wounded and infirm, staying and expecting rescue, while the other takes a chance at finding help), each presents a completely different setting.

So, please inspire us. Have you ever gamed something like that with miniatures?

What figures? What wrecked ship? What alien flora and fauna?

CC

. . . and do you have any photos?

CC

So, you watched that movie today? ;)

Sounds like a good scenario for gaming though.

Not quite in the same subject but Nazrat and I are going to build a wrecked airship for a Valor, Steel and Flesh (VSF) scenario from the rule system of the same name that will have various parties attempting to capture the wreck and learn its secrects.

However, your idea is a very cool one and I could see using Tyranids for the creatures.

Someone posted a picture where they used a pop bottle as a base for their wrecked space ship. I don't think it was a main scenario idea but a terrain piece.

find a model of the ORIGINAL 'Jupiter II' or the 'Movie version' and you're SET!!!! 8-)

*slish…slish*

I actually got from ebay a few wrecked ship pieces sold as GW "Battle of Macragge" bits (extremely cheap to pass up):

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I figured that they could be used for something else (since I have never played 40k).

What do you think?

CC

Here are other images of those pieces:

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Nice solid pieces too.

CC

Nice pick up Cacique!

BTW, you did watch "Pitch Black" today, didn't you? ;)

Did it play today? What channel?

CC

FX this afternoon. Why is that Van Damme dude incomprehensible? Is he American?

I've had a few games were the pregame situation is that somebody had crashlanded. A very long time ago there was a game using the alien ship model from the Independence Day movie. I forget the exact details except that the ship had figures converted into Predators as the crew.

I think another game used the old Rogue Trader pilot figure with some VIPS and they need to be rescued. I used C3PO and R2D2's escape pod from the original Kenner Star Wars Tatooine set that had the cardboard sand crawler. My Kenner Millenium Falcon got cut up a bit to place 28mm figures inside and was also used in at least one stuck on the planet skirmish game. That was like almost 20 years ago..

In more recent memory a shipwreck was the lead in to a squad of space marines with a Contemptor class dreadnought and techmarine attempting to escort an Astropath to a teleport beacon at an abandoned supply depot. Eldar Pirates tapped into the communications with an Imperial Ship in orbit and tried an ambush in hopes of kidnapping the Astropath as a hostage for ransom. That was last year or the year before and I brushed the dust off WH40K-Rogue Trader for that game. The crashed shuttle was not the focus of the game so was not needed for scenery.

I've got a few other things in the works for downed ships or rescue craft. The Hexagon and Platformer kits have great pieces for making busted up ship components. I've also got a large toy rocket ship that I'm going to convert.

For functional craft I own 3 of the GI JOE Dragonhawks that I'm converting into Starship Troopers style Dropships. I'm also waiting for Mongoose to release their own models later this year. For 15mm I have a resin dropship but it was a gift and I don't know who makes it.

I've always kinda liked Baddawg's "Madman in the Wreck" scenario – IIRC its probably in a post on either (or both of) the THW or Baddawgs Landing Yahoo groups

Cheers Ron!

I did a wrecked ship game with Traveller back in 89-90. The ship in question was a pleasure craft and the players were all non-crew crossing in cold sleep. Pirates bring the ship down on a fringe planet and kill all of the crew. The players travel pod broke away on entry and dropped into a deep jungle/swamp. The pirates leave then behind as not worth it. The passengers are woken due emergency and must make the best of it. Long story short it takes over a year for rescue and that only due to the crew rebuilding the comms equip from over a dozen pods and portions of the main ship. No monsters per say but rather an ERB style alien jungle world. There were native aliens but the crew was unable to communicate and the aliens were part of the jungle so uninterested in the players. The players got credit for the discovery and end up wealthy…they come back and make a floating resort that ends up becoming a favorite of several crime lords….after a great deal of games the campaign ends with the remaining player characters and the new ones becoming stranded on the same planet in the smoking hulk of their resort…with the latest dispatch marking their planet quarantined by a disgruntled politician(crime lord)…

"FX this afternoon. Why is that Van Damme dude incomprehensible? Is he American?"

You mean Vin Deisel? Yes New York New York, just a little foriegn.

Last week we had a VSF game that centered around a downed airship in a ruined Martian city crawling with Tharks and the Prussian troops sent in to rescue it. We called it Schwarzefalke kaput!

Well, Van Deisel sounds like Sly Stallone with a mouthfull of Shredded Wheat!

How can they cast someone who can only grunt one syllable words?

And why did that blonde who got killed at the end have a square face?

Ok. Back on track . . .

Has anyone else gamed a shipwreck on an alien planet? What figures? What wrecked ship? What alien flora and fauna? Any photos? Any juicy battle reports?

Thanks.

CC

Hi CC,

I've not gamed a crashed ship scenario yet, but have been thinking about building a skirmish board with a crashed Flash Gordon style rocket ship. I even got around to building and painting the rocket ship – photos can be found at;

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Go to photos section and then Flash Gordon, the rocketship is about 3/5th of the way down.

The reason I have still to model it is that I am unsure of the playability of such a sculpted board with a rocketship in the middle of it (I was thinking of a 2ft x 2ft board – maybe a little bigger).

I would hope that one day I will complete the project.

Tony

Years ago (back when I did RPGs) we played the Star Frontiers module Crash on Volturnus.

The most hostile creature we had to fight was a Sathar attack monster a Quickdeath, one was bad enough as it was. We didn't have the miniatures to do a full game scenario then, also considering the area we had to cover it wouldn't have been practical to game it out that way.

In a later module the situation got worse when the Sathar returned and brought a pack of Quickdeaths with them, as well as some Cybo-dragons. That game would have been awesome if we had miniatures.

I did a crash landing scenario with my mixed S-F figures, with GW Space Marines and my horde of dinosaurs. The ship was a re-painted smoke alarm (flat top saucer with a four legged base added)and the rules were cobbled together stuff on the "Saurian Safari" frame. The planet was inhabited with all sorts of dangerous dinos. The Space Marines were the rescue crew, and there was a very important cargo and crew to make it a vital mission. The rescue group had techs to fix the downed craft, or they could try to fight their
way to a hilltop for extraction. The most dangerous dinosaur turned out to be a Brachiosaur with a bad attitude that kept stampeding into the ship whenever the rescue team shot or got near.

No pictures, because my smoke alarm flying saucer is just to cheesy for human consumption.

"No pictures, because my smoke alarm flying saucer is just to cheesy for human consumption."

Aw, c'mon. Nothing's too cheesy for us here! :)

CC

For video inspiration on flora and fauna . . .

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CC

I should get around some photos of my dinosaurs. A nice group shot of the whole family. I have a nice selection of "Boilersuit" saurians, including a flock of Compys, as well as many repaints of Safari, British NH, and other plastics. But no photo of very cheesy fire alarm saucer. Someone will post a modified one with full interior, retracting legs and internal lighting and engine that allows it to hover over the games table.

One of my favorite early Atlantis episodes did a nice variant of the crash site scenario. The team finds a crashed Wraith ship where one crew member was feeding on the others. Sheppard is trying to take back the jumper with limited ammo from this very powerful survivor, while other team members are in desperate need of medical help.

I had not seen that episode. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

CC

Stargate Atlantis episode #112, "Defiant One".
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(in the photo you will see two "new" team members that should be wearing red) :)
This is an RPG or miniature setting I've always wanted to do, as the action is small scale, and the problem is time-sensitive.

Ship stuck in a desert planet works for me!

Thanks.

CC

I am planning to use the crashed 40k ships for a Doctor Who game, should work very well. Any tips on painting them?

Brian

BrianH: Here are some pics of a painted Aquilla shuttle. The guy detailed it (glass in the cockpit, for instance); added sand to the base and painted it:

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And here are other examples of crashed ships:

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Great pics!!!

CC