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Tony F runs us through a Stargrave scenario set on Planet Earth (before the demolition…).<\/em><\/p>\n

At Maidstone we have a largish group of Stargrave players with games run regularly. We all keep track of the progress of our captains and crews (although there have been casualties along the way) in a series of unrelated scenarios that we take turns to organise. Almost all are run by an umpire who sits out the game and ensures that things run smoothly. I’m a massive fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – I mean, who isn’t? – and I’ve been trying to shoehorn a Stargrave scenario into the H2G2 universe. Last autumn, I finally managed it (and it’s taken almost six months to write it all up !)…<\/p>\n

I set things right at the start of the original book, with Arthur Dent’s house about to be demolished. I didn’t directly tell the four players that the scenario was a Hitchhiker’s one although they all twigged it from their sparse briefing notes. Two of them were tasked with ensuring that the house was efficiently pulled down, while the other two were to try and stop the destruction. But they didn’t know that there were two different sets of briefings, nor did they know that they had a potential ally, which led to some interesting results later on.<\/p>\n

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Arthur’s House, surrounded by bulldozers ready to roll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went rather over the top with the scenery, making Arthur’s house from a Charlie Foxtrot<\/a> MDF kit and giving it a detailed garden. A borrowed Forge World fantasy inn stood in as the Red Lion pub while Sarissa Precision<\/a> provided Cottington Cricket Club’s pavilion. Details such as the telephone box and bus stop were from Blotz<\/a> while Debris of War<\/a> were the source of bits such as the rubbish bins and bags, portaloos, traffic cones, sofa etc. I scratchbuilt details such as the hedges and fences, telegraph poles, road signs and the pond<\/a>, while the post box and benches were 3D prints of models I created myself. The narrow Sussex country lanes were Early War Miniatures<\/a> latex offerings. I raided my 28mm Lord of the Rings scenery for beer barrels for the pub and a high hedge round the cricket pitch, which was last seen as the defensive hedge around Bree ! I really went to town with the details (far more than was strictly necessary) but I had a lot of fun putting it all together.<\/p>\n