I just got a notifaction for this now! Thanks KZbin --__--

The Sewer Cultists were the heroes all along.

Why at 37:30 he decided to incapacitated himself instead of just being shaken? What's the advantage for the team of doing that? He could have resisted another melee, giving the other player one extra round of shots against the enemy, right?

I've read the comments about heroes point spread and quality stats and I think they're spot on. But my guess would be that the battlefield size doesn't help you as well. You could hide more, use the terrain to your advantage, ambush the enemies, make them follow one guy etc. Anyway, I am really enjoying your videos and you inspired me to play AoF:Quest. I think I might try this game as well as it seems to be much more involving. Cheers!

Your content is great and fun to watch! Keep it up. I agree with most of the other comments. You really want Q5 on all of your heroes at start unless you have 1 caster, along with light armour to hit Def5+ base. That way you can reliably do Difficulty 1 or 2 missions (or even 3s). For reference, I did a DAO battle suit squad for my first game. Ritualist (can be 'tanky' for a caster to get DEF2+ with Dark Warding), Guardian (buff skill monkey), Pathfinder (lots of damage/range; hunting beast for 2 hits; skill to shoot again with Stalker's Flurry or Surge Shot), Commander (Ancient Weapon is so good at level 1 for +2 to hit for friendly unit). No melee but lots of fun shooting =D

I'm starting to see that the heroes need to be relatively similar in point cost otherwise one character throws off the whole equation

Having played through a couple of these missions, I find that the Quality rating of the heroes is really too low at lower levels. Rolling for 6's each time is really difficult. We chose to use Veteran heroes just to get +1 on our attack roles, which helped a little. Making better use of skills/spells will help as well. Any reliable/precise weapon is necessary early on.

My feeling is that you can’t win this game (except at difficulty 1) unless you give quality 5+ to all your heroes. It literally doubles their efficiency. Skill are useful, but you can get them more easily with level progression, whereas quality increase much more slowly

When playing at Dif 2 or above, if the heroes aren't balanced in points, you will suffer. \ If you have 600 pts of heroes, but it's like 200, 250, 75, 75, an enemy wave will be at least 600 points so the 75pts heroes will suffer, and wont be able to handle so many/hard enemies. Also, what's the battlefield size? Maybe try a new Campaign on Difficulty 1?

The difficulty is based on your Heroes point cost. at difficulty 2 each wave is 100% of your point cost. On difficulty 1 its 50% of your points. Your wave size was 465pts and Gucci and Prada was only 75 and 85.pts. Roger was 100 pts. Meaning you had one guy being worth 200pts and he didn't do much for the first three turns because you meleed instead of shooting with him.

It would be really cool to see you play the Story missions for HDF with your characters at lvl 2. But maybe play at difficulty 1

Your guys had cover from the shots of the HDF in round 3. It was only the AP of the Leader that negated it. Also Blast isn't all that good since you can only assign one wound to each model. So hitting the Biker would only result I. Maximum of two hits anyway.

Love the production quality for these Star Quest videos

Yes

when does alertness come into the game?

Regrets of starting beyond the beginner level 😜

Excited to try this with my group. Also, think I’m the 1000th subscriber.

More star quest please.

A little from column A, a little from column B

"Oh my goosh!" "We lost a sub."

Sorry Newbie question: Where is the rabbit like near future mini from?

what minis did you use for the rebel guerillas? they look great. love these firefight videos!

Great video fellas, looking forward to a few more in Starquest in the future! The board looks great too. Terrain looks like infinity. Where's the Matt from?

i like the terrain, where can we get it?

I went thru every single unit and also found the assault unit to be the best. It's really a tie with the spy.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing more!

51:30…. What is the model with the white painted head?

This was awesome to watch! Much more interesting than difficulty one AoF Quest. I would love to see more (of both actually)

Surprised that Star quest isnt a copyrighted term by now

I watched it mostly live. Work kept interrupting. Thanks for the coverage.

Those were the most Space Marines that ever Space Marined. Seriously, for the first time since I started Space Marining back in ‘96, these angry boys finally lived up to the fiction on the tabletop. I guess we can see why G-dub never quite has them dialed up where they should be to match the lore. It just ain’t fun. When Fox’s 20-wound guy finally died, you forgot to strike back at the marine, but of course you needed 6s to hit, then he’s saving on a 2+ so it hardly matters, but in a game like this, you just can’t give those f’ing Vampire Bros any extra advantage. Trying to fight them in close combat also seemed like a huge mistake when they’re shrugging off your attacks with ease and then hitting back with 6 dice, wounding on 3s. Yikes. No thank you; you’re just straight up not gonna win with those horrible odds. It was *sort of* cool to see Marines FINALLY performing like bad-asses, but it doesn’t make for any kind of a fun game, so… yeah, I think after watching this I would be more likely to play Stargrave. Thanks for making the video, though! I always enjoy seeing what you guys are getting up to.

i need that model in the thumbnail to the left, a man needs a name

Guys, new to the channel. Thank you for this really nice bat-rep and the amazing attitude (and the quality of the video). Not a player yet (I am collecting rules for almost 20 years now but never rolled a die... yet) but I believe that you "missed" some (semi-) important details. Cover... Cover gives you +1 Defense so some of your 5s would be saves (for your players) Also, playing against "Brothers" with lvl 1 Heroes can be pretty hard. I believe that until at least 2 of your heroes hit lvl 3-4 (so you can raise their quality and possibly get some defensive equipment to lower your defense target number to at least 5+) you should stick to difficulty lvl-1. Especially against "Brothers". Quality can be a "b!tch"! But please keep it coming!

Looks like it's going to be a tough fight! Love your guys podcast!

Shane is my favourite character

enemies were really tough. At low level, your quality is very poor. It helps to stick to range weapons with Reliable to get those cheap hits. Also, having one hero effectively face tank 3 really tough enemies is kinda suicidal.

First Star Quest video, I think! Great stuff!

This is great! Keep it up.

Thanks for this! As a longtime Five Parsecs fan I've been interested to see how this plays. Please keep these reports coming!

Really enjoying watching all the OPR content from you both, had me actually laughing out loud through a lot of this one! look forward to trying some Fantasy Quest or Star Quest myself some day soon. Made a note to not had Blood Prime Brothers as the AI though.

What is the shirt Fox is wearing? Is that a SM in the void?

You guys most try stargrave. That game is awesome and the campain mode is super fun.😂

Painful! Just painful! Fun game though. Yes! You messed up! Difficulty ONE! No Blood Brothers

I wonder if you'd do better against a less elite army, Alien Hives, maybe. Battle Brothers feels like an army you need to come prepared for

3:25 I believe what he actually said was "no one expects the inquisition" Looking forward to more of this series! I wonder if you might also revisit the age of fantasy version with some different enemies

Good effort boys, not much you can do when those battle brothers just keep coming... I'm sure you'll just blow them away next time.

Great OPR stuff!!! Keep it coming. Things to note: In the app the default class settings usually give characters light armor (+1) Def with thier credits. We can see its importance now! You could've utilized Stress as a resource to get extra actions. This highlights the Endurance stat. Utilizing the Skill action for Push/ Scurry instead of just hero skills might have kept you out of charge range? High point heroes skew wave generation. We had an assualt assassin too, ended up having a 770 point wave. I don't feel like it was unbalanced but you HAVE to use the Stress mechanic to get those extra moves to even activations out. Blast(X) in Starquest and Firefight works differently than normal Blast. It hits units within 3" of target. So yor hammer attacks would've hit both Prime Brothers.

@47:53 \*flashback to the setup episode saying that difficulty 1 was way to easy*

This is exactly the kind of solo/coop game I hope for! I love it when it's brutal but victory is possible.

With their quality and defense of 3 the blood brothers are better than the heroes and somehow less points 😅