Howdy folks,
Welcome to the last installment of my Battle Reports for Cangames 2026, for this we will take a look at a classic Tod Creasey run game. Tod always puts a little extra work into the planning of his games, along with a bunch of tongue-in-cheek, and is known for big games with lots of players. This year was actually the first time I had a chance to try out one of Tod's games...I've bought a bunch of Stargrave minis and the books, but hadn't had a chance to try it out. Making it a Star Wars themed game...Tod left me little option but to try it out.
In terms of extras, Tod also made sure to tailor each Faction or team choice to the players that signed up for his game, and I even had a custom made Black Suns card complete with a suitably edited pic of me that Tod grabbed from social media.
As far as the game went, and unfortunately we are over a month since, so my memory is starting to fail, Tod's scenario was inspired heavily by the first couple of episodes from Andor Season 2. If you haven't seen Andor yet, you really must! It's a great view on some finer details within the Star Wars verse, and as Stellen Skarsgard says "Its Star Wars, but for adults." You get an excellent feel for the rebellion, the espionage elements that go into developing an insurgency as well as countering, and you get that feel while still having an individual story. Anywho, check it out if you can.
For this game, we had 3 main factions with 2-3 players per faction. The Empire of course, the Rebels also of course, and the Independents. In this case, I think the independents were Black Sun (me) and maybe some Mandalorian players. Each player had their victory conditions and objectives...each leader of the team had their special capabilities (ala the Stargrave crew Captain)...which I promptly forgot about. For me, my objective was to secure the debris of a crashed starcraft which was loaded with my "legitimate" cargo and get it off table. Other players were tasked with taking out team leaders or securing the pilot (Andor).
In the end, there was a lot of action going around, tough to log for each player...but I was able to get a large amount of 'product' off the table with my Captain taking a hit for the team and getting taken out by the Empire. I was able to use a LandRaam (ala old school Battlestar Galactica) and drove it off table, and taking out a droid crew that tried to bump me off along the way...I think they were liberating the machines or somesuch.
All in all, a good intro to Stargrave...the mechanics were very Frostgrave'y...and the setting was fun.
Enjoy the pics.
Focusing on my part...the layout of the table is as such: random bits of terrain on the table, the spacecraft (looks very similar to a Colonial Raptor) is to the Black Suns 12 o'clock, there is an Imperial patrol over in that area as well, the red crates are the 'legitimate' cargo, and you can see a new TIE fighter to the top left of the pic (this is the fighter that Cassian liberated in Andor Season 2)
Better view of the left side of the field. You can see more Imperials, the TIE fighter, and some Mandalorian Clans, as well as an AirSpeeder at the lower end of the pic (think escape vehicle for Cassian). The coloured puffs are smoke grenades going off.
My crew slowly and deliberately making their way to the aircraft - making sure to stay in cover.
Overhead shot...Black Suns making their way to the cargo, Imperials chasing Rebel commandos.
Same sequence, but better view on the Speederbike chasing down the Rebels.
Black Suns get a Landram making its way onto the board. One of my guys jumps into the turret...which proved very helpful later on. Several others of my dudes are securing individual crates
There seems to be a ruckus around both the Airspeeder and the TIE fighter...and no, I cannot describe the ruckus, but they better watch it!
The Black Suns leader takes one for the team as an overly aggressive imperial speederbike gang jump an innocent legitimate business man on his way to his place of employment.
Cassian works hard and I think makes it into the cockpit of the speeder.
The Black Suns load up their goods and make their way out of another neighbourhood that has gone to pot thanks to gang violence.
