Much like my experience with 5 Leagues, I generally find that the most fun of the 5* games is all the generative bookkeeping rather than the actual battles.
I rolled up a 5 Parsecs crew and got started with their missions:
- Droid Mage and his Thrall,
- Giant robot,
- Pig man,
- Generic Starship Crewmember #2,
- Dwarven Engineer
These were printed to 15mm so I was able to leverage some of the 3D printed scenery I made for Rogue Trader / Renegade Scout and my other 15mm skirmish oldhammer bits.
In a surprise to nobody however, the need for such a large number of NPCs to sustain the illusion of a properly functioning game system was too great – after all, once you start hand-waving the genestealer as a gretchin, why not just hand wave the entire battle?
As per my experience with other games, I find that brightly coloured and well proportioned 15mm figures have all the charm of 28mm with much better feel on a 3×3 tabletop, so that was good – but all else could quite happily have been a pen and paper exercise.
William's Wargames 
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