Wrecked Cars!

As promised, here are the photos of the wrecked cars sent by Dexter of the UK a few weeks ago. Pretty neat IMO, especially the ambulance and the zombie in the car window.

Enjoy!  And thanks to my lovely wife Lisa for taking the pictures...

At last...pictures!

Ok, despite broken promises we finally got the camera tripod so my wife at last agreed to take the pictures of the figs Dexter (from Board of the Living Lead; a forum that if you aren't on you should be!) painted for me... Next will be some wrecked cars he was nice enough to send along as a birthday gift. Which BTW the zombie pile below was part of as well.

Survivors return....

Hey all,

My survivor figs (along with a few police and soldiers) arrived painted from Dexter in the UK...they look great! I'll get the lovely wife to take some pics to show off the figs in a couple of days. I'm especially impressed by the work he did on the Red Box plastic police and gangsters...RB is notorious for flash and chunky molds; but they're the only place to find 1/72 police, civillians, etc. He went above and beyond the call in fixing these guys up. ;)


Even though the blog has languished, I've been reading (ok listening to audio) some zombie books from Audible. Quite a pile actually, and of the group I've got to reccomendJonothan Maberry's Dead of Night and the Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor. Alison Hewitt is Trapped (book done in the form of an updated blog) is also pretty ok, but has a couple of continuity SNAFUs that bug me a bit. Still each is a good listen if you have the time and inclination....thogh as you can imagine the Zombies of Lake Woebegotten is a Zomody; taking the idea of having a zombie apocalypse in the iconic Minnesota town of Lake Woebegone (see Prarie home Companion on NPR for more). Of course they couldn't CALL it Woebegone, so we get Woebegotten. Still funny, and yet just as plausible zombie story too.

Of course, if you read this blog I don't need to remind you that AMC's The Walking Dead has had its finale and we've got the crew back on the road once again. I look forward to Season 3, though it'll take until Oct for us to see it. :P 

***SPOILERS!***

I'm glad they finally whacked Shane, but even though they did it differently from the comic I still thought it was well done. Especially how they sorta paid homage to the comic by having Carl sorta-shoot Shane after all. ;)  I frankly expected a higher body count from the farm, but its probably best since I liked all the characters that survived. Well, except Dale but they did his death well so I won't complain (much). I just wish they'd work with T-Dog to build his character like they did with Daryl this season. He's had maby 6 lines all season? I'm afraid if they don't do something soon, it'll mean he's going to be red-shirted this Fall. <sigh>

More soon, and I'm going to work on doing a better job of posting from now on. Honest!

Zombie Chow

Still alive....No, really!

Hey all,

Gaming has been on hiatus because I'm getting (most of) my survivors and police/soldiers painted. Once they return via the post I'll start up again. Until then, here's a few questions for one and all.

1. What do you use for dead zombies? That is, head shot but still lying around?

2. What about wrecked cars? Do you just break some models or something else?

and...

3. Do you think having some paper models of buildings set alongside full models messes up the ambiance? As my photos show, I've got several pre-painted buildings but there are some I just can't get either pre-constructed or they don't make in HO scale. So, I'm considering filling those gaps with paper models on cardboard, but am concerned it'll look weird.

All opinions appreciated!

Zombie Chow

Zombies and Apologies

Hello all,

My apologies for taking a month to update this blog... A combination of factors kept me from blogging, though I did finally refight that Quarantine scenario (BatRep & Pics coming soon).

To tide folks over, below are the pics of my new to-scale zombies from the Zombie Survival boardgame from Twilight Creations. As I've mentioned before, unlike the other boardgames from TC these figs are truly 1/72 so will be replacing my earlier boardgame figs. They're also in 4 poses, 2 male and 2 female.

These are painted by Dexter of Board of the Living Lead, and I think he did a great job!

Zombie Chow

I Hate Quarantines!

I tried today to play the Quarantine scenario from the All Things Zombie: Haven scenario book. Basically, its cops trying to hold the line on the board against zombies, infected humans, and all sorts just trying to break quarantine. As such, the board doesn't start with either zombies or PEFs at the beginning. You only have events when you have encounters. The scenario ends when 16 activation turns go by, when the scenario assumes your relief arrives for the next watch shift.

Seems simple right? Well, it is. TOO simple. Encounters only occur when you roll doubles on the activation dice. This happened exactly TWICE during the game. Turn 1, when the streetlights went out (this is a night shift) and on Activation 14, when a sniper took a shot at one of the cops and missed.

That was it. The entire game. In four sentences. :P
I think its taking me longer to write this !@#$ post than the 'game' took.

So, I'm going to replay it tomorrow, but with the rule that encounters happen on either a 7 or doubles. Just to have some action going on! Otherwise, I spent a lot of time setting up my terrain and minis for (almost) nothing.

Have any of my readers played the Quarantine scenario? What was your experience with the scenario as written? Other than Vampifan that is. HIS BatRep had a lot of action! Wonder if its my dice....


Zombie Chow

Pardon my Geeking out, but...

I got an article of mine published in the UK wargames magazine Battlegames!

Its in issue 27, and is called "Wargaming Blind" and obviously covers how I play miniatures wargames. I also give Two Hour Wargames a shout out, especially All Things Zombie.

Details for issue 27 can be read at:

http://www.battlegames.co.uk/index.html

In other news, I'm currently setting up the police scenario _Quarantine_ from the ATZ: Haven book. This will be a flashback to day 6 when Sebastian (the policeman mentioned in Game 4: Dining Out) first runs into zombies. Depending on how it goes, it might also explain why he ended up as only a Rep 3 figure!

More later...

Zombie Chow