Tagged: zombies
More Houses- 4Ground Samuel’s House and Shotgun houses
I recently finished a few more 4Ground kits to build up my suburban neighborhood. This is the Samuel’s house, designed by 4Ground for The Chicago Way by Great Escape Games. It is 2 stories plus an attic, and has an accessible crawlspace as well. There are lots of nice details, including acrylic windows. Removing the ... Read more
The Scenic Route: A Walking Dead Campaign- Interlude 1
Excerpt from the diary of an unlikely survivor… I used to move a lot when the world was alive, towns, cities, new countries even, but now that the world’s dead I’ve probably moved even more. Not in the beginning though, no, back then I pretty much holed up in my house hoping it would all ... Read more
Converting Dark Imperium Poxwalkers for Variety
I have been painting the chaos figures from the Dark Imperium 40k box set lately. With two sets of these figures, I have 40 poxwalkers in 10 different sculpts. Almost every sculpt comes in two pieces , but can only be assembled in one way. I decided to do some quick conversions- rough swaps of ... Read more
The Scenic Route: A Walking Dead Campaign- Chapter 1: Chicago, Overrun
You’ve been holed up in downtown Chicago trying to survive but that all changed when the dead blew through the city like a bad wind. Now you’ve got to keep moving if you want to stay alive; you’ve even been thinking of joining forces with the other survivors instead of going it alone. There’s strength ... Read more
The Scenic Route: A Walking Dead Campaign- Prelude
Excerpt from the diary of an unlikely survivor… My parents used to say there were no monsters under my bed or in my closet. Now there’s no parents and monsters everywhere. What’s left of my home and neighborhood is not even worth mentioning. They also said that time was the greatest resource we had. Now it’s ... Read more
AAR- Walking Dead: All Out War
Tim and I got in a couple of games of The Walking Dead: All Out War. I wanted to get some practice in before our upcoming Halloween campaign starts, and we needed to test out the game’s new campaign rules. We set up a simple city block, and decided to play a standard “recover the ... Read more
Review: 4Ground Woodbury Rise 227
This is the last of the 4Ground buildings that I picked up at Gencon. Woodbury Rise 227 is part of 4Ground’s Homeland Apocalypse line, perfect for games like Walking Dead: All Out War. This kit has a fully detailed interior and exterior. The back door has a nice set of unattached steps that could be ... Read more
Playtesting The Walking Dead: All Out War- Impressions Part 2
Tim and I ran an 4 player game of The Walking Dead: All Out War at the Tabletop Minions Expo. We ran a test version of the event on Memorial day to get some game practice and feedback on the scenario. We had 4 test players, who each controlled two survivors. The zombies controlled themselves. ... Read more
AAR- The Walking Dead: All Out War at TMX
Tim and I ran a Walking Dead: All Out War scenario while attending the Tabletop Minions Expo. Kevin and Chester faced off against Glenn and Eric. Each team controlled 4 heroes as they explored an abandoned army base deep in the jungle, looking for supplies to bring back to their survivor camps. The base was (of ... Read more
Tutorial- Speedpainting Zombies
Tim and I decided to run a large scale game of The Walking Dead: All Out War at next week’s Tabletop Minions Expo (come see us there!), and I decided this would be the perfect excuse to paint up all 33 Walking Dead zombie models I own. I decided to speed paint them to make ... Read more