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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: Mr. Peabody on September 04, 2016, 07:10:09 PM
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This weekend we rocketed through a few turns of our Stalker themed campaign.
Right now things are focused on the struggles of our "Marked Ones" as they begin to explore their starting areas on the campaign map.
Here Mr. Phil, carefully threads his way through an anomaly field.
Discovering the coordinates on a fallen foe, he travels across the map in to retrieve the stash at his feet.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9081/vYpelh.jpg)
But a swarm of vermin have Mr. Phil's scent, and now he is in danger!
Only a few turns into the campaign, our focus is on scavenging a useful weapon and unlocking a skill or two with those first few points of XP.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img921/3150/ZOCDX7.jpg)
A second swarm joins the first, but they trigger a Vortex anomaly and are forced to retreat!
There is never a dull moment... Well armed NPC factions, deadly monsters and powerful anomalies are all part of the story.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img923/6035/cBrwxq.jpg)
Mr. Phil manages to drive the remaining swarm away and loots the stash!
The games are short, limited to six turns and played on a 3'x3' table. Multiple games are played over the course of an afternoon.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9940/ZtFn0a.jpg)
Peabody is out scavenging. He only has is a 9mm pistol and needs to find something better.
Each player starts with only one figure and has gets to build up their force from there.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/5613/XMn0S4.jpg)
A pack of wild dogs are attracted by Peabody's activity. Looks like more are on the way.
Encounters are scaled to the number of units each player fields, but that doesn't mean they are easy.
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Peabody disengages from melee and opens fire with his 9mm.
We use a heavily modified version of Cleared to Engage. Everything is resolved with a d10.
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The dogs are too fast and Peabody goes down. His injuries mean he will miss the rest of the campaign turn.
But he found enough cash to buy a better weapon! The next time he heads out, things will be different!
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/513/KZ2TsC.jpg)
Sorry for the low quality pics, but we were grabbing them with phones and tablets as we played.
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Well posted, Mr Peabody. I can testify those various swarms can be vicious! Looking forward to more updates on your campaign and its rule system.
- Vlad
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Excellent read, very nice table, and Stalker themed too....what is not to like :)
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Great looking game there ;)
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This is great! Looks like stacks of fun.
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Cracking eye-candy, sir.
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Thanks gents! Very happy to hear you like it.
The Stalker campaign has been a lot of fun so far and has really added another dimension to our P.A. gaming.
Hopefully I'll have more to share about this over the coming weeks / months.
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Which rules are you using?
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We use a heavily modified version of Cleared to Engage (https://stalker7.com/cleared-to-engage/) and a campaign system of my own design.
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The lighting in the photos creates a great atmosphere- thanks for posting.
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You are now forbidden to post pictures of games I cannot play ;D
Amazing terrain!
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Finally a post-apocalyptic AAR. :)
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Looks very nice! My group tried Cleared to Engage last year, also with a Stalker-themed game. Glad you're enjoying it!
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Very nice looking game.
It would be very interesting to read further reports about your campaign. :)
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You are now forbidden to post pictures of games I cannot play ;D
Matey, we miss having you at our table and everyone looks forward to your next visit! :D
Looks very nice! My group tried Cleared to Engage last year, also with a Stalker-themed game. Glad you're enjoying it!
I'm very taken with CTE. Our group has put some time into balancing the numbers a bit and we are having some real fun with it.
Very nice looking game.
It would be very interesting to read further reports about your campaign. :)
The lads are enjoying exploring our map of Post Apocalyptic Vancouver, and working out the kinks in the campaign rules, so I hope to have more to post soonish. We are playing another session today in fact! 8)
Here is a LINK to our campaign map (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27271090/ARP%20Play%20Test%20Campaign%20Map%20MkII.pdf), and another to our wee flags (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27271090/ARP%20Force%20Flags.pdf) for marking unit moves on the map. There are way more flags than anyone will ever need... Right now only one player has two flags on the go, everyone else has just one.
If the thing continues to play well, I'd love to invite LAF members to give it a whirl.
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Nice AAR. Reminds me I need to finish getting color on my PA collection. I'm a couple dozen figs from finished. Then that'll be done. (well, that shelf at least)
BTW, I piled all those files together and sent them off to Lulu to be printed and bound. My group will start a play test campaign Oct/Nov as soon as we finish our SOBH games. Looking forward to it.
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Good report! the minis and the scenery its awesome!
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We managed to get in about four more games this past Saturday. Absolute mayhem! A focus for this session was playing with 'area terrain', in this case woods / brush.
The player's team gets ready to move on bounding-overwatch toward the edge of the bushy area.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/4850/ScLvQ0.jpg)
A sharpshooter covers their route from the tower above.
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Poor Peabody actually died and so I will have to start again from scratch, but the other two players who were there on the day managed to move closer to their goals! There was some nail biting fun trying to get artefacts out of anomalies and a nearly disastrous - yet successful - attempt to conquer territory and establish an HQ. Good fun all around.
But the NPC team on the other side is equally cautious and sets up a firing position behind the old wreck...
(http://imageshack.com/a/img923/3739/Bp8qIK.jpg)
Both the campaign rules and the core mechanics of Cleared to Engage got a solid workout that resulted in some clarifications, balancing and even a bit of revision, bringing it all one step closer to being ready for a wider audience.
Confident in the cover the deep brush provides, the player team decides to hold most of their members set up in ambush.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img923/3955/eRPEHW.jpg)
Then begins to probe beyond the edge of the woods...
(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/4470/2qPrTT.jpg)
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Looks fab! :-*
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Looks fab! :-*
It certainly does.
The weathering looks great.
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It looks like a lot of Pixar cars died in the Nuclear explosion! lol
Great work on the Plasticville, I really like the Hotel.
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Looking good, I like the grim and gritty palette you're working with. More sombre than the average fallout/Mad Max type game.
Can I ask where you got the dead trees from?
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Glad you like it! :D
The dead trees - and the little stands of bushes - are Woodland Scenics armatures.
The trees and bases got a spray of the 'German Green Brown' Vallejo surface primer. The tips of the branches were hit with some well thinned Tamiya rubber black and the overspray from doing the tips provided a very nice scorched and sooty look to each tree.
A proper dusting with Vallejo matte varnish and they were table ready.
By the time I got around to doing the bushes I had discovered the 'Parched Grass (Late)' surface primer. Wish I had found it sooner, it would have been a good choice to add variety to the rest of the burnt tree mix.
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Nice work Mr. P. Your figures and terrain all work great together.
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Thank you big guy! I'll take credit for the terrain but the minis are all the work of Bravo Six and Mr. Phil.
Phil doesn't post here, unfortunately but he is a regular at our table. His minis are classic. :-*
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Woodland Scenics armatures
Thanks mate, was able to find them at my local hobby shop with that info.
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Lots of fun enjoying the AAR's keep up the good work.
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Appreciate the encouragement!
We have been hammering away at the rules and details for the campaign. Hope to have some more games and some new stuff to show soon.
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Hi,
after reading your comments in my Stalker thread I popped over here and I must say it looks absolutely Stunning! Thanks to the tons of great terrain the table looks really "full" and like the real thing!
I would love to give this a try!
Thanks for sharing!
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Going to get the Stalker campaign tidied up for a general playtest release so that folks can have a bash at it over the Christmas holidays. :D
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ooohhhh man, ssoo many wild dogs!
it was a rough (ruff? lol) game.