Survivors raiding a zombies town (Picture heavy report)

[Braxandur]

This report in spilt into several posting, to make it less heavy.

We had a special game last night. Bacause of my birthday I managed to invite quite some people and have a dead meat party. We started out with a nice BBQ, some desserts and a few beers. While I was cleaning up and doing the dishes (putting them in the dishwasher, my friends build up a gaming table for the 2nd part of the evening. A nice zombie game

First some shots of the table, taken with a not so steady hands. (must have been the caffeine)





The setup looked very good and was filled with a total of 104 zombies. We decided to play the game without a zombies player and try to move them together. The idea behind the game was the following.

A group of survivors shows up in the zombie infested town wit their cars/mobile homes/vans which had just ran out of fuel. Actually one of the reasons for going back into a zombie infested area was to get fuel. However, the towns power supply had to be restarted for the gas station to function.  However, the town also had a radio shack, which could be used to contact other survivors. In game terms, a helicopter could be brought onto the field if the shack was activated. Furthermore, there was a small Ammunation depot, where players could get better supplies.

We put all our survivors together and everyone was allowed to choose three. This made up a grand total of 18 survivors, armed mainly with close caombat weapons and pistols.

First the survivors showed up as one group:



You can clearly see that the zombies ar just "waking up"


Some other shots show the zombie distribution.




The survivors immediatly formed a perimiter


The zombies however now became aware of them


One group of survivors went into the relativly empty junkyard, which was located next to the gas station.

[Braxandur]

The junkyard is easily cleaned, but some noise is being heared from the other side of the fence that the survivors still have to cross



In the meanwhile, Mr Duke tells some zombies that nobody steals his chicks and lives!



The zombies are now on the move and all zombies within 50 cm were allowed to move towards the survivors.
The wooden fence appears quit usefull for keeping zombies at bay.



Duke however has no fence near him as a zombie shambles towards him and tries to bite him. Duke easily avoids the zombie



However he didn't notice that a second zombies was also moving towards him.



Where is Duke now? Right, Duke went down quite fast. maybe running around on your own is not so smart withlots of zombies nearby



The survivors in the junkyard just let the zombies climb over the fence and easily pick them off one at a time


The streets near the setup are also getting emptier


The other end of the town however still has a few "walking" dead shambling around.


Another group of survivors tries to take a short cut towards the radio shack. Their plan is to cross big open (basketball) field, which will gave them sight to all zombies, which should make it easier to forsee problems.

[Dr. The Viking]

Wow that's nice!

What rules did you use?

[Braxandur]

They forget that if you can see the zombies, they can also see you...


Meanwhile the fence is being crossed and zombieparts start flying around


More "dead meat" arrives


The cunning open field plan backfires a bit, as zombies show up behind the survivors.


If only the way onto the filed was empty...


The Gastation is within easy reach. There are not that many zombies in plain view. Things might get easy


The last survivores leave the vans behind and start moving towards ammunation and the power plant.



The "open field" plan backfires a bit more. The survivors haven't even reached the entrance to the field.



The zombies are nicely waiting (in lin) their turn to get slaughtered.


The last (really?) zombies near the gas station are being dealt with


And the field is finally within reach due to some nifty shooting and hack 'n slash. (though there are even less survivors left)


The gas station doesn't appear to be working yet, but some noises are coming from the nearby buildings.

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Ammunation has been cleaned out and some kevlar suits and better guns were found (assault rifles, a machine gun and a recoiless rifle)


This is a good thing, since the zombies now start pouring out of the buildings


Same thing happens near the gas station


One survivor found a hasmat suit (the lucky git)


The zombies are gone (for now) and the power plant has been turned on.



Fuel has cannisters have been filled.


One group of survivors manages to get back to the vans with just enough fuel to fill it up.


Here they are The priest on the ground just died due to being shot with a machine gun.  Honestly it was his own fault. he tried to make use of the mayhem and take out the depraved goth chick that he could not get along with. Allthough he shot het with a shotgun, her kevlar protected her and she had the bigger gun...


The radio shack is in sight, but what is that behind the glass doors?


More zombies come out to play


Working together, the zombies are easily dispatched.


While waiting for the helicopter that is on it's way, the last of the "locals" get shot.


Another happy ending



All in all, we had a great game and a lot of fun. We used the rules from Combat Zone to keep everything easy and it worked very well. The zombie rules are (again) the rules that Pil has written and can be found in the combat zone chronicles.

What I also forgot to mention. As a present, they guys gave me the Mayhem MegaMall from Worldworks (and Mayhem industrial and mayhem bits) pdf's. An even more brilliant (though I suspect they also hope to benefit from it) they already printed a lot of the pdfs for me. Guys, you're great!!!!

[redzed]

Fantastic

a great game report, especially with all the photos.

[TheMightyFlip]

Any chance of a rundown on what models you used for survivors?

The goth chick, the woman in green, and the lass in blue in the final few shots in particular?

[marrony]

That was brilliant. Thanks for posting. Yep a breakdown of survivors used would be great if possible?

[Ironworker]

Great looking game man!  Is that just a Hotwheels type parking garrage?

[ardbeg]

this is great. I always enjoy those fully illustrated game report

BTW I want the Duke ;-)

[Onebigriver]

Inspiring stuff, looks great!

[Malebolgia]

Cool to see these. We had a real blast yesterday. The rules were simple, which worked very well for the amount of miniatures on the table.
A couple of the survivors were my models I brought along. Some shots:

Jenna Croft (or Lara Jameson):
http://www.paintoholic.nl/images/lara.jpg

The Major:
http://www.paintoholic.nl/images/major.jpg

Ash:
http://www.paintoholic.nl/images/ash.jpg

Don't have shots of the other ones, but here are links to the manufacturers:
http://www.excaliburminiaturen.de/bilder/bilderbig.php?exnr=9220
http://www.excaliburminiaturen.de/bilder/bilderbig.php?exnr=9254
http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/fw26col.jpg
The convict in the jumpsuit was an old GW Fraternis Militia model with a Foundry MP5-K added.

[Braxandur]

Thanks for the kind remarks guys,

I'll try to get some better pictures of all the survivors.

I can at least tell you that the goth chick and girl in blue are from griffin miniatures and the the (bare ass) lady in green is from the fearless line of models from excalibur.

[dijit]

I can't seem to see to clearly from the pictures but how do excalibur minis match up to copplestone?

[Braxandur]

@dijit: they are a bit taller (2-3 mm max), but not really noticable. it can vary a lot though between sculpts

@Ironworker: there is one hotwheel car wash station on the table. it is the strange looking building with the orange girders on the side. My plan was to turn it into a small rocket launch facility, but it often works as well as high tech lab or power plant. There is also a fisher price garage on the table, and some cheap brand off which I don't even know how it's called.