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Zombie Dawn
09-27-2008, 03:47 PM
Post: #1
Zombie Dawn
Ok Zombie fans,in LNoE you get to take over
a small town for fun & brains,but is that all there
to your ambition? Is occupying the local diner or
the gas station really satisfy your little Zombfied heart?

Well what if instead of Fly Speck USA you had a City-yes a City-
a whole City to take over-Think About it!

You have ? I know a City,wouldn't the 82nd Airborne
or at least FIMA step in-TV coverage up the wazoo-
its too much suspension of belief to handle.Plus where
are you going to get a City that fits your game table?

The answer gentle Zombie Fans is the City is located
in an alternative Roman Empire of the 3rd-4th Century.
No need now to worry about massive TV coverage
& carpet bombing or even FEMA,you can get back
to a comfortable suspension of belief level(Shit happens
in the 3rd & 4th Centuries)

Now back to the City-it exists in the Board Game Battue'
Storm of the Horse Lords"- 60+ beautiful City Tiles on
a big game board & when its set up,it looks like a Roman
City,from hovels to Temples.Plus its randomly set up
& the game includes more City Tiles than you need so
its a different City every time.

The following is a Battle Report where the local neighborhood
Zombies(in this case the Gotha) attempt to clean the
City of Tarso clock.This is a Test Game for our " Fall of
The Roma Empire"Campaign,City Game.Without
going into the considerable background its an alternative
Barbarian Invasion of the Roman Empire with the Barbarians
being various fantasy races,the Undead being one.I've
modified the Battue rules to give the city defenders a more active role,so lets see how the Zombies due.

Heres the BGG Link for the Game:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27823

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09-27-2008, 03:49 PM (This post was last modified: 09-27-2008 04:10 PM by Old Dwarf.)
Post: #2
RE: Zombie Dawn
Death & The City

Cassius Decius stood on the wall in the pale light of the false dawn,looking out over the great ragged Horde before his City.It was unnerving they were silent as death,which they were.By Jupiter if they would just sound a horn or a war cry,anything but this awful Silence!

The Governor allowed himself a moment of self pity,
only 3 months from an honorable retirement back in Roma & now
THIS-his 15th Legion shattered &
his City now under siege.Could the City Garrison
& the remains of the 15th Legion hold out until reinforcements arrived?

Brainnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss.... the soul chilling hiss from
a thousand dead throats made Cassius realize there was something worst than Silence!!His attention snapped back to the Gotha,whose witch hags had now unleashed the shambling Horde toward the City walls.The City Garrison responded with the call of the
battle horns summoning the garrison,the attack had started!!

Cassius left the wall,passing City guardsmen hurrying to
stations.Reaching his personal guard he sent a Centurion to find the Emperor's Niece & escort her to the Palace.Another twist of fate,to be hosting a member of the Imperial family at a time like this-the damn girl was causing him to divert troops urgently needed for the walls.

Oh well,no sense troubling over what had to be done
& with that Governor Cassius Decius, Proctor of Noricum
Ripense & Lord of Tarso set off to his Palace to direct
the defense. And behind the departing Governor the City of Tarso held its breath for the coming attack!The Dead had came to Claim the Living!.

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09-27-2008, 04:05 PM (This post was last modified: 09-27-2008 04:11 PM by Old Dwarf.)
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RE: Zombie Dawn
The game is still being played at this point-we found that it needs
a bit more tinkering to keep the game from just being a Set Piece
where the players keep their units together & avoid conflict
at anything less than over powering odds.

The orginial game avoided this by having players needing victory points
the City Tiles gave but our varient doesn't use them so working on
some ideas to make players spread out their units more .

So far the Undead attacking the Western Wall haven't made
it into the City being repulsed by the City Guard & elements of
the Legion.The Attack on the Western Eastern Wall has been
more successful with the Undead overunning servral city sections,
but an attack on the Governors Palace was tgrown back by the
Palace Guard.

I get a proper Battle Report up when we finish up.

OD

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09-28-2008, 01:08 PM
Post: #4
RE: Zombie Dawn
But then how are you supposed to use a chainsaw? Watchmen02
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09-28-2008, 01:18 PM
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RE: Zombie Dawn
mqstout Wrote:But then how are you supposed to use a chainsaw? Watchmen02

Well..........yes:shy: I said there were a few things to be worked out

OD

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09-28-2008, 03:38 PM
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RE: Zombie Dawn
The chainsaws are powered by peasants... running around in a circle... REALLY FAST.

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09-28-2008, 04:04 PM
Post: #7
RE: Zombie Dawn
Maybe Ash dropped his chainsaw and left it there. After the middle ages tour he might have popped over to see the romans before he went back to his job at S-Mart Zombie03

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09-28-2008, 10:53 PM
Post: #8
RE: Zombie Dawn
Emp... that's just silly. Totally implausible.

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