Friday at Julians was a small-scale fantasy/pirate type game organised by Andrew, using some of Julian's Zombicide tiles to define the area of play. Chris, Julian and I ran a band of "pirates" each, and Andrew ran the "monsters"
Here are the pics with a few notes added
My band - its the first outing for my 3 Musketeers "Lady de Winter" figure!
The two musket armed pirates are on loan from Andrew.
The area of operations
All hedges and walls could be "stepped over" at no cost with the exception of the T shaped "crypt" in the centre, with the four doors to define it.
Julians pirate crew - most of the figures were supplied by Andrew
Within a few minutes of starting, the skellies were on Julians trail
The Vampire Queen who was concealed within the crypt, and who was the target of our quest.
Julians band in close combat with the guardians of the crypt
But wait, there more ......!
The Vampire Queen with one hit token
Julian spent the entire game fending off the pursuing enemy - they came on randomly, but every random throw Andrew made, they turned up in Julians part of the table!
The Vampire Queen restored to full health!
My group charge in to confront Her Evilness
Most of my group were pushed back with wounds!
But we went again, and combined with Chris, were able to force the Evil One to fall back, but she was surrounded with no escape route and therefore was eliminated!
Julian in the meantime, having lost his leader and half his force, was still battling the undead!
As we had arrived and started early, the first game was over before 7pm - so we had dinner and reset for a second outing
We all took the same squads of pirates
Chris searching for the key to open the doors to teh crypt
The doors are opened to reveal the Vampire Queen and one attendant skelly
Once again, the "randomly generate" monsters appeared behind Julian - these female beasties were particularly potent, as they had a +2 added to any roll they made- and there were five of them!
We should have killed the Vampire Queen here, but Chris deliberately DIDNT block its exit - because he is like that!
As a result, she managed to survive and escape my group!
But it was a short-lived reprieve
On four hits and caught between me and Julian, she had no escape route and was once more sent spiralling into the fires of the undead abyss!
Now here are a few images of completed stuff from the weekend painting desk ....................
Battle Honours 3D Red Army winter HMG team
I have one more of these to do and will vary the coats and hats
And the first (of six!) winter mortar crews
I think this was an error at the suppliers end as I am sure I only ordered one pack of three.
Mortars are particularly effective in the rules we use for WW2, so six on the table at one time is unlikely to happen!
Despite the two-man crew and weapon being a single print, I did not find painting them too much of a problem
I have two more in grey coats and hats with white fur 90% completed, then I will do the other three in olive/khaki coats and grey or brown fur hats, for some variety
Finally, a few images of the RCW 3D printed Lanchester armoured cars bought off Temu for $NZ16 each - approx US$12 or GBP 7
I am very happy with how these have painted up
A couple of images with Artizan and Copplestone figures
And finally, an image of my high tech (not!) photo booth!
I think that is probably plenty for one day - I do have a solo WW2 skirmish AAR to do but will leave that for a few days. Thanks for your visit (assuming you find this post, the last couple have been down on comments due to the vagaries of Blogger that Jon on PWJ discussed in a recent post.....)
