Wild West Gunfight....with Zombies!!

 I haven't had my Western town out for a while, so I invited some of the guys over for a gunfight last weekend.

Here's the scenario for the day:

STRANGE GOINGS ON IN LAST CHANCE CITY

Last Chance City is a small, isolated mining town, essentially run by The Last Chance Mining Company (LCMC). Over the years LCMC has seen a small profit from the mine, which produces poor-quality copper ore and a few other minerals.

Two weeks ago, the mine manager telegraphed head office to say that they had made an important discovery, something the manager had never seen before. That was the last message sent from Last Chance City, there has been no work from the town at all.

LCMC have employed a group of former law enforcement officers to travel to the mine and find out what has happened. They must be quick, a rival mining company, Grabem and Grindem Minerals Incorporated, have also sent agents to try and steal the LCMC’s secrets. Other dangers lurk, reports have come in that the notorious Mexican bandito known as “El Chihuahua” and his gang are in the area.

OBJECTIVE: Locate the manager’s office and secure the mineral reports and samples from the mine.

The view from the south.

And from the north (players entry end).

It start off as your usual, run-of-the-mill gunfight. Running around, shooting people in the back, that sort of thing.

The Mexican banditos rushed ahead and managed to gain a head start on their rivals, moving towards the manager's office.

But then things went a little, um, strange. I'd forgotten to mention that I had started painting up some of the minis from the Zombicide Undead or Alive Kickstarter I got back in the tail end of 2022 (18 months to get started, not bad!!!).

A Mexican bandito thought he'd grab this civilian and use her as a shield....

.....he got a shock when she started biting him!!!

Now a few more random pictures of the game. The Mexicans did get to the documents from the manager's office first, but ended up all dead, either eaten by zombies or caught in the crossfire between the other gangs. 

The Grabem and Grindem agents snatched the reports from their cold, dead hands, and quickly escaped off the table.

And finally, the "Family Photo", a line up of the zombies I have painted so far.

Under Sea VSF

 Now I've got them painted, I'm trying out some underwater VSF games. The first couple of games were just solo ones, trying out different rule systems. So far I've tried In Her Majesty's Name and Mutants and Death Ray Guns, so far I'm inclining to IHMN.

I need to get some of the guys over to try these out now, to get some outside input.

Here are some piccis from the test games. The minis are mostly 3d prints designed by Mr Big Tong, plus a few older metal divers from Tiger Miniatures.

All the kerfuffle has attracted the (unwanted) attention of some other inhabitants of the deep ocean!

Fun in a Dungeon

 No, not that sort!

I had the youngsters around for a few games (well, they are both around 40). Mark was up for his annual gaming weekend away from the kids and I've known Ross for 20+ years, as a teen he was one of the regular customers in my games shop.

We tried out Corey Burger's fantastic dungeon adaptation for Sellswords and Spellslingers using some of my Tenfold Dungeons kit, a mix of the Castle and Dungeons and Sewers. 

This is the layout we used. Mark and I were exploring a goblin infested dungeon (with assorted bigger beasties wandering about). On Friday we got bogged down after just two rooms and decided to bail as most of the party were severely injured and there were a mass of assorted gribblies coming down the next corridor. 

Our party of heroes entering the dungeon.

We tried again Saturday morning and managed to fight our way through to the end, just! Thanks to a good supply of healing potions and my wizard's Heal spell.

When Ross came after lunch we played through some catacombes, over-run with undead. Again we got out the end inalmost one piece, one PC was carried out comatose and most of the others had come near to death at some point or another.

Great fun was had and beer was drunk. Here are a few action shots of the proceedings.