Another Game of "Green Hordes"

 Another week has passed by without much being achieved hobby wise - I have just had too many distractions! So, the end of the week arrived, and we played another game of the Green Horde Zomicide, with Chris substituting for Andrew this week.

Here are some images I took and a whole lot more close ups supplied by mate John.

First up, a couple of AI generated images of our band of "survivors' as they are termed in the game. You can choose from about thirty different "styles" so here is one each of Digital Art, Fantasy Art and Cinematic

 

             

Plus, an extra bonus one!

The game was a bit of a slog, and we lost a survivor along the way - Asim the Arabic warrior in the blue headscarf - but we finally manged to achieve the mission (recovering keys to the blue and green doors) and removing some of the Necromancers secret artifacts. We also killed off an abomination, several necromancers and a ton(ne) of zombie orcs!

SURPRISE! Its a Necromancer.

Many zombies arriving at a spawn point

I ran this character this week, Megan the Mercenary

Here she is in all her AI glory!

I dont think I got a decent image of the trebuchet last time - a very nice piece of kit!

Megan and Rolf (Julians character) dealing to some Zombie Orcs

I grabbed these two Orc runners' mid game to move them two squares, by pure coincidence, they ended up interlocked, and Julians daughter Charlie cooed "Awwwww, they are holding hands.... take a picture for your blog!" So here they are!

This must be early on because Asim is still alive!

Rolf the barbarian was MVP with a weapons combination that sliced through zombies like a hot knife through butter, although the only weapon that could kill the abomination was the trebuchets, and Berin the dwarf fired the killer shot quite early in the game, which was nice!

 

Now follows a series of close ups from John, I will add descriptions if I can be bothered! 

The Zombie Abomination 

Johannes (Charlie) and Rolf 

Megan 

The Zombie Besties 

Asim the AY-Rab (Chris, till he was killed off!)

SURPRISE! It's ANOTHER necromancer! 

Doors.............. !! 

Berin (John) above and Johannes below 

Megan and Rolf 

That's it for tonight - we are all at Julians again tomorrow for an all-day game of V&F plus lunch to celebrate the big man's 70th birthday, using his original boyhood collection of 30mm Willes Figures, which, as he quipped, are almost as old as he is!

A "Game" and Some More Terrain.....

 On Friday evening we had a game of "Green Horde" at Julians place - which is basically Zombicide but with Orcs etc at the Zombies.

The main reason for playing this rather than V&F was the return from England of Julians younger daughter, Charlie (Charlotte) - and she wanted to play a game with the old men but isn't particularly interested in historics - she does play the odd D&D game back home in Oxford, though - so this game seemed a good match up.

Our group of adventurers

The "enemy"

Zombies' sir, fousands of 'em!

Charlie's character confronts an Orc "abomination"

Julian v's 4 "runners"

Julian and John in a bit of a tight spot! In the end, we failed to complete the mission. I reckon we would have got there eventually but it was pretty much 11pm and I think we had all played long enough - to complete the game might have taken another hour or two!

My character - she has pretty good-looking abs, for an elf! - her bio below:

Survivors found an unconscious Seli among corpses, after a fierce battle against a zombie horde. At first, everyone thought the elf warrior had a bad blow land upon her head and lost her memory. It proved to be worse: for some reason, Seli is unable to remember most things past a few days. So far, no one knows if it is a curse, a permanent injury, or otherwise. The elf warrior keeps her outstanding martial abilities, though, and proves to be a breathtaking athlete coupled with a skilled assassin. Her joyful temper and sense of humor can be a sad thing to behold, though: every other day, Seli awakes amidst strangers, without any hint of her past, and in a ravaged world. Who is she?

And because people have been commenting about AI on their blogs recently, here are a couple of images created by a free AI program with the instruction "create an image of Sel, a red-haired elf character in the Green Horde board game"

I then enhanced the instruction to this "create an image of Seli, a red-haired female elf character from Green Horde board game using a Norse sword and shield to fight a green skinned zombie Orc"

Quite impressive really!

On returning home after the game, I found my dear wife had been busy with a productive Friday!

Today (Sunday) found as at the Auckland Rose Gardens in the upmarket suburb of Parnell

A couple of New Zealand magpies - I have never seen them this close up before - they were basically begging for food, like seagulls - obviously they are accustomed to visitors to the rose garden obliging them!

Parnell Basin (I think!)

A view back into the Auckland CBD

Looking across the gulf to Devonport on the North Shore and beyond that, Rangitoto Island, a dormant volcano

Wherever we go, I manage to find something with a military connection - drives Ruth mad, sometimes!

A few hours later, around 430pm, a couple of G&T in the spring sunshine

We were joined by a friend

That's a nice short post today - next up will likely be the completed Temu 3d church and some more pics from our S Island trip.