A post-apocalyptic project - yes, Fallout. Update 6-7-10

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Turn 1 started with people moving onto the board.



Super Mutants...


Ghoul Mercenaries (who amused the hell out of the player - about an hour in he realized I had named all of the Ghouls after Family Guy characters).


The Townsfolk - who were the weakest faction weapon wise, but were the only ones who could only leave voluntarily. Necromunda has the Bottle test, which is where, when you have taken 25% casualties, you bug out and leave the board, losing any items you had gathered, etc. Immunity to that test makes you fight to the last man.


And Talon Company...their player hadn't played Necromunda since about '97 or so.


The turns began with everyone just trying to move into position...




The next few posts will be the rest of the game - I didn't get everything, as I was busy answering questions and running random monsters.

[Thantsants]

Absolutely brilliant - looks like you had an irradiated whale of a time! 

My money's on Talon Company as long as they can get their nasty little mits on the Fatman... 

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The next few turns went quickly...




The Townsfolk immediately sent the two little kids, who were armed only with HTH weapons, out to pick up and move the Nuka Cola machine into the building the were going to hole up in. That's using the kids for the dirty work.


The Super Mutant was trying to form a line between the Townies and the Ghouls, who had reached an accommodation involving money and goods, so the Townies sent their kids in to do the dirty work again. The player explained by saying they were smaller, so they were less likely to get hit. Uh-huh. That was also influenced by his shotgun wielding old folk taking Gatling Laser shots to the face from the Super Mutant leader, and going out immediately.



The Townies also formed an alliance with Talon Co., so now the Muties had all three to deal with.




And here comes a wee bug to say hello.


A Super Mutant teaches a Ghoul why hand to hand is a bad idea for the Ghoul.


The kids work on freeing the settlers, with some help from the Talon mercs.



More to come...

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THe bold Super Mutant finds himself in not a good position, as his companions go to light up the scorpion, and the leader finds higher ground.





Having grabbed the captives, the kids grab the cow, and the merc grabs the mini nuke.



Oh geez, where are these things coming from?



The Muties finish the first scorpion.


And the Talon Company make a tactical retreat to the roof - i.e., run like girlymen.


Everyone gets into the center of the board.


For those wondering, the radioactive markers are there to show a danger zone - anywhere within 4" of one of these markers takes a hit from radiation. Here, they blew up one of the cars, but the Super Mutants don't mind. It makes them tingle.


The Ghoul Mercs come up where they can see to shoot...


As a merc gets pummeled to death...


The kids run out to give a rampaging Mutant what for.


And that is the last of my pictures. I got caught up after this, as one of the kids gets whomped by a Mutant, but then the mutants bottled out, and the Ghouls betrayed the mercs, taking out the guy who had grabbed the Fat Man, and then the Talon Company bottled out, having lost another member to the Mutants. The Townsfolk, having seen this coming had left the building, and fled with all the settlers to another building. We ended the game there.

All in all, I was very happy with how the rules work, and I think we got the feel of the universe through. Everyone had fun, and when the lad who ran the Super Mutants left, the gentleman who had talked him into coming asked how he liked it, and his response was epic.

"This stuff is a lot more fun then it looks - I took those Mutants, and I almost won. It was AWESOME."

That right there can make your day.

[commissarmoody]

Looks like it was a great game. Wish I could have been there. How heavy were the Necro rules moded for Fallout?

[Arcturus]

That's an awesome game report. Thanks for sharing.

Where are these radioactive markers from?

[Thantsants]

Good job those Deathclaws didn't turn up! 

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The major mods were just name changes, but I adjusted a few things. If anyone wants a copy, feel free to PM me an email address, and I'll email them to you. I take no responsibility if you don't like what I did, though.  

Also, I know I missed some editing bits that I have not yet found.

The Radiation counters came from Litko Aerosystems, and can be found on their website.

It was a great game, but now I am going to work on another project for a few months - this is actually the longest run of consecutive weeks I have stayed with one project in years, so I need a short break...and then I'll get my Brotherhood of Steel and Enclave painted up for the next fight.

But for now, I am going to go paint some WH40K Tau, and maybe make a few buildings for them.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Wow, that was awesome! 

[Bako]

Wow, excellent board and it looks like you had a straight-up good time.

Someone should be losing some major karma for sending hapless children to be crushed into flat-meats, methinks.

[Anpu]

Looks like a great game!

[Nimrod]

Impressive looking board. 

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Good job those Deathclaws didn't turn up! 

With only 4 players, they were too tough of an opponent to include. I had them at the game, though, to make players nervous.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

With only 4 players, they were too tough of an opponent to include. I had them at the game, though, to make players nervous.

Always a good idea!!!! 

[Thantsants]

I had them at the game, though, to make players nervous.