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| QUEEN VICTORIA, ZORRO AND FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER BATTLE NAZI ZOMBIES |
This game was played using the ‘Season One’ rules of
“Zombicide” by “Guillotine Games” and as we were attempting the mission C14 “Do
You Want Fries With That?” we used the Tiles 5B, 6C, 5C and 7B. Because I
dislike playing with unpainted miniatures, and have plenty of “Secrets Of The
Third Reich” zombies ready for the table we simply swapped the Survivors, Walkers,
Runners and Fatties with some of my previously finished “West Wind Productions”
models… as well as one by “Boot Hill Miniatures” and another by “Graven Images”.
“The story so far… It is 1945 and in a last desperate
effort to hold off the Allied advance, the Fuhrer has flooded the streets of
Berlin with the Walking Dead. Desperate to protect the capital’s civilian population
as well as oust the Nazi menace, General Eisenhower has deployed a top secret
multi-national commando force to enter the heart of the Third Reich and put an
end to the zombie infestation as swiftly as possible. Consisting of three of
the Allies greatest warriors, intermittently thawed from icy tombs whenever
their countries have need of them, the Free World’s finest have already saved
hundreds of German evacuees lives. But now food is getting scarce as well as
petrol. Fortunately military intelligence has identified not only a huge nearby
restaurant complete with larder. But there is a small fuel depot nearby as
well. Armed with this information, a couple of pistols, a crowbar and a fire axe,
Queen Victoria, Zorro and Frankenstein’s Monster must reach the diner, bring
back some crates of food and if at all possible, raid the fuel dump as well…”
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| THE TABLETOP - A RESTAURANT SOMEWHERE IN WESTERN BERLIN |
Before we began Queen Victoria received a pistol, Frankenstein’s
Monster was awarded the Slippery skill, and Zorro given +1 free move action.
The objective was simple in that the Allied Special Forces Team simply had to bring
back to the Exit Zone six crates of food from the restaurant. All the rules of
the scenario, such as ‘Can Crates Are Heavy’ and ‘The Old Man Said We’d Better
Not Use The Main Entrance’ were followed. This meant that the game started with
Zorro wielding a pistol, Frankenstein’s Monster a fire axe and Queen Victoria a
pistol and crowbar.
The game started with the heroes beginning the mission in
the north-west corner. Queen Victoria immediately therefore crowbarred open the
door to the building right by her and started filling the two zombies inside
the first room with lead. Upon realising there was a third hungry cadaver in
the small building’s other room, Zorro rushed in and shot the putrefying corpse
dead with his pistol. Frankenstein’s Monster entered the building and started
to search for something better than a fire axe. But all he found was another
zombie. Fortunately a quick chop from the huge monster’s hand-weapon took the zed’s
head clean off.
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| QUEEN VICTORIA LEADS THE ALLIED CHARGE AGAINST THE GERMAN UNDEAD |
Searching around the room again, ‘Big Frank’ discovered a
sawed off shotgun and then broke down the premise’s eastern door. Outside he
saw a zombie shambling towards him from the north. Zorro also searched the
two-roomed building and located a pistol. The ‘dashing blade’ then joined ventured
outside onto the street but failed to hit the approaching brain-eater with his
pistol. Queen Victoria joined her companions. But also missed the shambling
cadaver. To their horror they spotted a second zombie behind it and heard a
terrible dog-like growl someway off to the south-east.
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| ZORRO AND HER MAJESTY SHUDDER AT THE FAR OFF ROAR OF A NAZI MONSTER |
Queen Victoria gave the closest zombie a quick bashing
with her crowbar, and before the ghoul’s brains had dried, she had shot the second
one behind it with her pistol. Ma’am certainly meant business and raced south
towards two cadavers shambling towards the noise from the southern end of the
street. Zorro joined Her Majesty, and managed to fell one of the zeds with his
pistol. Frankenstein’s Monster searched the building he was in for a third
time, and finding a rifle stepped east outside and gunned down the last of the
Nazi Undead on the street. Suddenly however another living corpse rose up out
of the sewer beside Zorro and went for the swashbuckler’s brains…
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| FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER SHOWS JUST WHAT A DEAD-SHOT HE IS WITH A RIFLE |
Pressing his pistol to the corpse’s head, Zorro
dispatched the gory fiend. Meanwhile Queen Victoria opened the fuel depot’s
door and was delighted to find no zombies inside. However having found some
gasoline and a rifle, she discovered there was a zed hidden in the small supply
dump after all. Frankenstein’s Monster lumbered up to Zorro’s position. Unable
to help the Empress of the British Empire, they watched as Queen Victoria was
wounded, and then shivered as a second loud dog-like roar issued from the south-east.
Worse a shrill howl to the south alerted the heroes to the sudden appearance of
a werewolf.
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| QUEEN VICTORIA CLAIMS THE FUEL DEPOT FOR HERSELF AND COUNTRY |
Taking the crowbar in her Imperial hand, Queen Victoria
bludgeon the zombie attacking her to death, grabbed a shotgun and stepped back
onto the street alongside Zorro and ‘Big Frank’. It was clear that the team
were never going to quickly fight their way round to the restaurant’s eastern
door, so they decided to break in through the diner’s western door [Point One] even though
they knew it was alarmed and was thus bound to attract additional attention.
Frankenstein’s Monster kicked open the eaterie’s door and turned around to see
just two zombies, attracted by the noise, emerging from the far western street edge [Point Two].
Inside the restaurant, the dining area was thankfully clear of the undead but
from the groans it was clear two of the ravenous cadavers were in the toilets
to the north. Determining that the werewolf was the greatest threat ‘Big Frank’
blasted the lycanthrope with his rifle. Meanwhile the ‘Flashing Blade’ slipped
into the restaurant and gunned down the two corpses in the bathroom with his
pistol.
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| THE NAZI UNDEAD START TO SWARM THE ALLIED FORCES |
Realising that they needed to clear the street of the
undead before they could grab any of the food, Zorro emerged west from out of the
diner and fired at the two zombies approaching from the far west table edge. Unfortunately
he missed both. Fortunately Queen Victoria joined him and blew both of the
shuffling cadavers away with her shotgun. This brought Her Majesty’s experience
up into the yellow zone, and gave her another action. A moment later and she
had bought down a zed far away to the north with her rifle. Confident his
companions could handle any zombies outside Frankenstein’s Monster readied
himself to break down the toilet’s northern door. Suddenly however the streets
around the restaurant were simply packed with the walking dead as four walkers
appeared from the south and three from the north.
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| 'BIG FRANK' BREAKS DOORS AS ZORRO AND QUEEN VICTORIA TAKE NAMES |
To make matters worse ‘Big Frank’ bashed open the bathroom’s
door and found four more zombies behind it. Frankenstein’s Monster fired his
rifle three times and two of the fiends dropped to the tiled floor. Queen
Victoria aimed her rifle at the group of shuffling cadavers approaching from
the south and stunningly ‘killed’ all of them. Zorro moved south to confront
the other brain-hungry corpses but then only brought down one of the fiends
with his pistol. A moment later saw the undead close in upon both ‘the Spanish
Fox’ and Frankenstein’s Monster.
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| THE GERMAN UNDEAD START TO OVERWHELM ZORRO AND FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER |
There was still hope for the heroes however if they could
battle through the next turn and take down their putrid foes. But they never
got the chance as all walker’s were awarded another activation and both Zorro
and Frankenstein’s Monster fell before the undead’s clawing hands and snapping
teeth. Sensing defeat was near at hand, and spotting a third Were-Rottweiler and
its two long-dead German companions nearby, Queen Victoria hastened north-west
to the extraction point. Next time she’d bring more soldiers…
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| TWO HEROES FALL BEFORE THE NAZI ZOMBIE HORDE |
Disappointingly the Allied Forces had failed to recover
any food for the starving German evacuees. But at least Queen Victoria had
survived. This medium mission is actually recommended for four survivors or
more. But if it hadn’t been for the extra walker activation card being drawn both Zorro and Frankenstein’s Monster should have
been able to cope with the foes before them, even with the horribly high zombie spawns.
For those interested in finding
out a bit more about the new "IDW Publishing" comic book adventures
of Frankenstein’s Monster then my reviews of the first couple of issues can be
found here:
Joe Frankenstein #1 Joe Frankenstein #2
Joe Frankenstein #1 Joe Frankenstein #2
