I organised my friend to come and try out the game last night. He had already painted his warband, so yesterday I spread out my workbench, wrote a to do list, and got cracking. It's at a suitable gaming level, but it could do with a little more. Suggestions? Giant pigeon poo? Rad scorpion tunnels? The rest of the township?
My greatest challenge yesterday was basing the game boards. Since I had a 12 hour window to glue and paint, my usual preference for white glue was substituted for a new combo. Spray adhesive - sand - spray adhesive - sand - spray adhesive - White undercoat spray paint - Paint - drybrush. Ive found it to be much quicker and the layers create a plastic like thin surface. It sticks less well to the black perspex (perhaps i should have sanded it first) but is a flatter surface with smaller detail than excessive use of white glue, which has a more 'muddy' like surface. anyway, enough yapping... some pictures. I took these today, and there was a little cloud cover so the shadows are nice and diffused. Please forgive the spots on images, my camera sensor needs a clean.
The basic terrain to fit in the box. 1 x two storey convenience store, and 1 x windmill.
The pre-war notice board...
and the current noticeboard
The windmill has been based since last time. It's tricky to paint under the wires, I didn't think of that when I was building it.
Scavenging in the hot sun is thirsty work, Time this Vault dweller had a Nuka Break.
And then all packed up to slide into a Pappis box. The windmill vanes are removable to aid storage. Hopefully they wont break >_>
And finally, I've modified the SSS rules to create some fallout themed items, events and characters. We don't have laser/plasma weapons yet or power armour. I picked up some Tamiya 28mm gas tanks, (can you believe a jerry can is a 3 piece kit?! It required tweezers to put together!
) and some Discount store lizards sub in for Rad Scorpions.
Battle images to come, but we played two short games of Scavenger Skirmish Survive, and lets just say though there was a lot of scavenging, there was not much surviving! Bodies and items littered the board.
Game one between raiders and wastelanders saw guns opened up from turn one, a child was killed, the store was raided, and the last wastelander decided to run away rather than face certain death. Leaving the raiders to pick through the debris.
Game Two saw a tentative start as gang A scavenged everything they could, while gang B was without ammo and under attack from 3 rad scorpions. After that it was a calm affair as more rummaging happened, ... until Gang B found some ammo. Then they started shooting instantly killed a chap from Gang A, he was revived with a new found stim pack, before turning the tables and took out gang member after gang member. The funniest moment occurred when the small boy in Gang B tripped going down the stairs and became immobile for the rest of the game. He was the last Gang B member alive, and was almost pardoned... but after a short affair with a chainsaw, a little more loot come gang A's way.
SSS is setup for sneaking, and hiding. An open - small board is difficult to get into a 'safe' place. I may need some more rubble/structures.
Cheers
Matt
05 August 2013, 07:21:28 AM
