Escape to the Country (1)

Stafrting point circled; RV in the carpark to the right.

I was lucky enough to be able to coerce my #1 son into playing the follow-on scenario to the Safe House game of a few months ago, wherein the game ended with Jerome, the leader of a now growing gang successfully getting to the "Safe House" only to find it had been commandeered by a rather well armed group of rivals. Jerome also had a sprained ankle which prevented him moving fast (not a good thing in a zombie game)m so the next scenario would take place after a night of rest in the house adjacent to the "Safe House".

The objective

Their objective would be the RV in a car park, spotted during their previous roof-top escapades it was the only vehicle in sight (and on a lesser note it could also hold all nine of the gang!)
The scenario would start with my now usual set-up of six zombie spawn points, spawning either one or two zombies per turn on a roll of a one or two as I set the initial Encounter Rating as 3 for the city (normally four but it was early morning). A roll of a 5 or a 6 would indicate a spawn point had been deleted with the proviso that the first soawn to be depleted would be #1 (in the left centre left of the table-top view above), immediately next to their starting point.
There would also be three Possible Enemy Forces counters set-up on the right hand two thirds of the table, with an Initiative value of 4 (I don't use reps).

The only other thing to be dealt with was whether or not Jerome would hold his gang together overnight, he had lost members during the day (the East Side Alamo) and the Safe House scenario was on the same day but had also gained new meembers during the search of their current house and the Safe House next door for a current modifier of zero. He had however has some form of Bromance going on with Washington so would gain a die to his advantage when dealing with him,
The upshot of all this was that three of the gang snuck away during the night (Bunny, Claud and Leroy -all civilians), leaving  him still with a respectable gang of six !
Here's their stats:
                    Initiative    Leadership   Shooting   Melee   Driving   Fitness
 Jerome:         4                  4                   3              4           3             3     Rifle & BA pistol, Knife
Washington:   4                  4                   5               5          4             5      Shotgun, BA Pistol, Knife
Bubba            4                  3                   2               3          5            3      Chair leg
Chuckles        3                  3                   3              4           3            2      SMG, Pistol
Jax                 4                  5                   2               3          5             2      BA Pistol, Knife
Patience         3                  3                   3               5          3             4      Knife, BA Pistol (no ammo)
(Jax and Patience are Civilians)

Although Jerome still had a single ammo reload he opted not to use it at this point -
Note: Throughout this scenario #1 son threw all the dice and made all the decisions for the gang!


I took over 100 photographs throughout this scenario and have only managed to edit and sort through less than half of the, so that's it for this week! Unfortunately real-life commitments have impeded any further progress in the write-up but the scenario has been played to a conclusion over the course of two sessions and hopefully be written up next week.


For those participating in Zomtober, good luck and I'll be looking forward to what you produce, as I'll not be participating.


My other blog this week features WWE wrestlers as criminals and can be found HERE