...and so it continues...
TURN 7:
All four members cautiously move forward into the gap
between the lorry and the red car, while Xavier protects their backs. Gina,
Adele and Ben decide to reduce the number of zombies coming from down the road
(which are now visible to all) , but they ALL miss (terrible shooting and I
feel another wave of panic begin to spread!!). Xavier tries to slow the mass of
party zombies coming down the and shoots the maid zombie reducing her to a
stumbler.
Since the survivors are moving around a vehicle, some
zombies cannot see the survivors any more, so the zombies who are closest (coming up from the local store)will head towards
the last place they saw the survivors as they don’t know where the survivors
plan to go. Well they don’t have much brains!
Finally, luck is on our side, we rolled a 19 which means no new zombies appear!!
TURN 8:
All the survivors continue to move
extremely cautiously.
Gina moves through the gap in the vehicles and around the back of the lorry,
while Ben moves around the red car to protect Gina’s back. Xavier and Adele cover the others whilst
moving backwards. They all shoot…but miss!!! Arghhh Now’s not the time for bad
shooting with all those zeds getting closer!!
7 more zeds appear at 2 different locations… will this town
ever run out of zombies?!
TURN 9:
With the zombies closing in, the survivors see that the
wooded area (aka Dragon Park) is relatively clear/empty. They need to increase
the distance between themselves and the zombies as there are just too many of
them, so they decide to leave the protection of the cars, pick up the speed,
and jog into the park. They don’t run as the view isn’t 100% clear as zombies
could be hiding behind trees.
Since they are jogging they get a negative modifier, and
unluckily everyone misses yet again, what’s wrong guys? Good job there’s now
some distance between them and the approaching hordes!
The zombies creep forward, but luckily no new zombies
appear. Maybe the town has finally run out of zombies (yeah.. I doubt it…).
TURN 10:
Since there is a little more distance between the survivors
and zombies, the survivors decide to stop jogging, and walk deeper into the park,
while heading towards their primary objective, Grekwood General Hospital. Both
guys manage to hit and kill oncoming zombies, while both women score hits which
only wound. But at least that’s better than the misses they have all been
having lately!
As the zombies move in, 7 new zombies appear at locations 1
and 3. Luckily 3 is on the other side of the table so it most likely won’t
affect them.
The survivors see that the Hospital fire escape is close, so
they head straight for it. Xavier and Adele both miss. Ben searches for a shot
through the woods, sees a nurse, shoots, and kills her… “yes!” he says under
his breath. Gina sees the pregnant zombie, and hesitates, but realises she has
to shoot, and ends up killing her.
All zombies move towards the survivors, but luckily no new
zombies appear.
TURN 12:
The group now move to the bottom of the fire escape stairs
and take a quick look to see if there are any zombies present. Luckily it’s
clear. Knowing there is nothing on the stairs, all turn their back to the fire
escape for one last shot. Ben quickly fires, but misses everything…he doesn’t
even hit a tree (it was that bad!). Xavier and Adele both shoot and kill 2 more
unlucky zombies. With no zombie too close, Gina searches for a visible shot,
and amazingly she spots a zombie through a tiny gap in the trees! She raises
one of her guns, looks down the barrel and through the gap in the tree, and
pulls the trigger. Boom! It’s a kill!
This is our favourite photo (to the right) of the whole game. We used
“line of sight” a lot to determine who we could see, or what we could shoot,
and this just takes it to a whole new level of “real” line of sight! The gap between the trees was SO small, but enough for Gina to see a potential kill.
Because the survivors have reached the base of the stairs,
this now activates the zombies in the hospital wards closest to the survivors
(the zombies we placed on the roof when setting everything up). We do the location
rolls using a 6 sided dice, and determine that there are 4 zeds on the middle
floor in the ward, and 5 zeds in the middle floor day room. Now the hospital
entry points are activated, it means there are now 8 entry points total.
New zombies appear at 4 locations, these now being entry
point 7, 2, 5 and 7 again. 11 zombies total with 2 being on the ground floor of
the hospital.
TURN 13:
After an almost all round successful turn of shooting, the
survivors go up the first flight of stairs to increase the distance from the
zombies. A “normal” walking pace takes you up 1 flight of stairs per move. They
see that the day room on that level 1 is full of zombies, so they have a
choice, either fire, OR use the rest of their “move” to get to the bottom of
the second flight of stairs. Since they only moved 4” it meant they could
either shoot, or turn their move into a run and move a total of 8”.
Not wanting to get trapped by the zombies coming from the
forest, they decide to risk it and to carry on to the next level.
Luckily no new zombies appeared.
TURN 14:
The survivors scrambled up the stairs. Amazingly, the day
room was empty which allowed the survivors to gain access to the hospital. …and
so the game had ended!
END OF GAME
Overall not bad! It’s the first game we have done where we
have actually reached the primary objective and the first game where we never
had any injuries!
The game turned out to be a rather strange one for most zed
reinforcements all seemed to come down the back alley where the party zombies
came from. I suppose [in reality] that’s where the housing estate is so the
game actually gave a ‘real’ result.
When we started we thought we would have been forced more
toward the general store, rather than the straight line option we actually got.
If more reinforcements had come in at the back edge, then everything may have
turned out differently.
With our survivors entering the hospital, the next game will
be to get the meds and scarper! (when this game will happen I don't know... so for now, that's all folks! Hope you have enjoyed it. Stay tuned for the rules which will be posted up on our website in the next week. Everything has been delayed as I have been ill for about 2 weeks, but I am finally starting to do better, so apologies for the wait!
All comments as usual are welcome.
