Back in the Hood

Part of the East Side district of Perdition

This scenario is the first Gangers' scenario from the ATZ supplement Haven.
It's a very basic scenario and I used their encounter table from the scenario, rather than the normal decks of event cards, sticking as close as possible to the original, but using my own rule addenda.
There were to be no PEFs (Possible Enemy Forces), nor would I have zombies spawning onto the table, but they could be attracted by gunfire and other noise.
Rather than go through a blow by blow account, I'll let the photographs tell the story, with only minimal editorial interjection.

Map view

In this scenario a lone gang leader (Jerome) had to visit 6 houses in his hood and recruit member of his gang from six buildings.
His starting position is the red star in the bottom left and the six buildings are numbered in the order he visited them, even though his original plan was exactly the opposite !
His route is shown by the blue arrowed lines.

Starting Position, within 1 move of the first building.

The buildings he had to visit also had vehicles outside them, for quick reference.
He was armed with a BA pistol and knife and had fairly modest stats:
Initiative 4, Leadership 4, Shooting 3, Melee 4, Fitness 3 and Driving 3, but he could hot-wire any vehicle almost at will (an attribute)







 

Turn 1 and an event !

 Yep, before even having a chance to get started Jerome was faced by the infamous barking dog and his gang of zombie groupies

No plan survives contact with the enemy

 Faced with this, Jerome did the sensible thing and legged it in the opposite direction

Like Jerome, the dog legged it too !

The zombies soon gave up chasing the dog

At the first house - phew.

 At the first house he was confronted by a civilian armed with a shotgun, but luckily the dice gods were benign and the civilian fled at the sight of the ganger (his die roll was a '1'), so Jerome lived to fight another day. The second house proved more fruitful and the sugar-tongued Jerome convinced one of his bros to join him. (usefully armed with a machine pistol and knife)

Jerome and his new ally

Another event - a single zombie "Run for your lives !"

 Once more Jerome quickly took to his heels followed by his new but not-so swift companion as a zombie appeared across the street from them

"Oh shucks, he's got a gun !"

"Oh bother, so has he"

Seemingly now dogged by events a rival ganger ( a white supremacist we suggested) rounded the corner of a yard to confront Jerome armed with an assault rifle ! After one shot each (part of the scenario rules), the rival ducked-back stunned behind the cover of the fence.

Note the zombie attracted by all the racket.

 They bravely rushed to the corner to confront their cowering opponent and shot him dead.

"Take that you cad !"

(the white counters indicate noise - in this case one 'noise counter' per gunshot)

"Yay, we're bad-asses"

 Once more, at the trot, they moved up the nearby alleyway,  having stopped briefly to relieve the corpse of its assault rifle and pistol 

"And now we are three"

 The next house proved to be as fruitful as the last and another ganger was recruited, who turned out to be quite a shot, (or so they thought) and was therefore immediately given the assault rifle.

"Quick run this way"; "If I could run that way I wouldn't need the talcum powder "

"It's empty chaps"

Arriving at their fourth house they discovered it to be empty but they also attracted the zombies still around from the start of the game.

"Is it time to run yet ?

As the zomies pounded down the street they opened up with a fusillade of shots, taking down two of them !

"What about now?"

They backed off and formed a firing line and whilst their last two targets stood up the others stumbled on.

"It's time now. - Run !"

They  manged to knock down another two zombies and even kill a third but all their gunfire was going to attract more zombies eventually and two more appeared close to them.

"Just keep running"

Their shooting improved sufficiently to kill the two newcomers who were quickly replaced by another from the same place and yet more out of their view behind the building they were alongside.

"A little help here ?"

 A passing family was given little interest (another event)  and they continued their jogging practise past them, leaving them to their fate.

"Come back "

At this point we called it, the gangers had got as far as they were going to and fled to safety.
The scenario had said Victory was increasing your gang in a limited amount of time, but failed to say how long or how many turns that time was. We'd been playing a little over two hours and had had
twenty five turns.
For the next scenario, again taken from the 'Haven' supplement the gangers wold start in the same position as they had finished, with the same gangers, but with a clean zombie-free board.


It was an interesting scenario and enjoyable enough, but not one that I'd be repeating

That's it then for this week, as always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.