Plants vs Zombies Gangnam Style
Having seen it I had to inflict it on others...
Real life has a nasty habit of getting in the way sometimes, and the last
six months plus has been busy to say the least, meaning that I haven't been
posti...
PBB2 - turn 14 results
Misty rushes from the kitchen in to the main living room and hastily raisers her SMG and fires a burst in to the zombie in the door way. Unfortunately the burst has no effect on the undead.
Karen enters the living room, takes up position and blows the head off the zombie that Misty had fired upon.
Dropping to one knee, blink steadies his SMG and fires in to the mass of zombies he sees at the door. He manages to take out the zombie next in line to enter the house.
Robert kicks and kicks and kicks at the door and with a crash the door swings open revealing something unexpected. The cupboard is empty. Empty that is unless you count the hatch in the floor that must go down to somewhere...
Lorenzo begins to look really worried, looking from window to window to door and back to window again. Hefting his machete in his hand as if to reassure himself he keeps watch in his room to make sure no zombies break in.
Vonda manages to bust the door open, and cautiously entering she sees a dead body slumped over a desk.
Not hearing any need for assistance from Vonda, Grom heads to the third door on the first floor and prepares to open it.
Game Notes
I rolled high for the zombie initiative, but the survivors were able to pluck the initiative away with their good dice rolls.
Things are very interesting right now... will the zombies eat brains for dinner? What is the hatch in the floor all about? Who or what has been killing the people upstairs?
Given a few things that could happen with orders this turn, I am prepared to allow players to change orders based on what orders Dan gives Robert this turn. Assuming they give orders before Dan does that is...
PBB game 2 - turn 13 results
Turn 13 Results
The zombies shuffle ever closer around the house, and with a shattering noise their weight of numbers breaks down the front door, and a zombie moans as it enters the house.
Upstairs Vonnie tries to force open the door in front of her, but to no success.
She hears Grom muttering to himself and then the sound of automatic fire breaks the relative silence of the house.
Taking aim through the upstairs window, Grom takes down five of the undead forming in to a hoard outside the front door.
"Hey guys.. Did you miss me?", quips Blink popping a tic tac. "I am going to go upstairs and take you the deadheads from above!"
Leaving the kitched blink enters the main room and is shocked to see the front door smashed in and a zombie in the house. Firing a hasty burst at the zombie has no effect on the zombie.
Back in the kitchen Misty says "Hi Guys, miss me?" Panting for breath she quickly starts to barricade the rear door, with Roberts help.
Having helped Misty, Robert checks out the door closest to him and discovers it is only a toilet. Fortunately nothing nasty is in this room.
Heading back to the upper door in the kitchen, Robert stops in front of it and contemplates the best way to break it down.
Karen silently barricades the window looking out on the road, not wanting to attract the attention of the zombies.
She is not certain if she alerted the zombies to her presence when she calls out "Hey, guys, there's a rocket launcher and ammo on the couch in the lounge if you want it!"
Lorenzo barricades the last window on the lower floor and flinches when Karen calls out.
Even more zombies approach the house, attracted by the sound of gun fire...
Game Notes:
The zombies won the initiative for the turn, but as they failed to notice Karen and Lorzeno through the windows I had those characters hold fire.
I halted Blink's movement and fired a burst at the zombie entering the house, as I figured this would be done given the chance.
In fact it seemed to work out better that the zombies won the initiative, as it meant Blink was able to see them entering the house and is in a better turn to give orders next turn.
Robert ran out of full actions to be able to tackle the upper most door again this turn.
And Vonnie would have opened the door with some better dice rolls on my behalf :-P
PBB2 - Turn 12 results
Turn 12
After hearing some thumps and cries of frustration, Vonnie moves upstairs to help Grom. Noticing Misty and Blink from the upper floor window she calls out to the other survivors 'Friendly approaching!".
Hastily grabbing some items to make a barricade with, Misty darts in and out of the shed and bolts down the path as Robert opens the door for her.
Blink runs down the side of the house and just makes it into the kitchen as Robert slams the door behind him and locks the rear door again.
Lorenzo moves to the south west room and starts to collect items to make a barricade. He is joined by Karen, who starts to look for items to use in the barricade.
Grom kicks the door in front of him in a rage of frustration - the door flies open making a loud 'bang' that can be heard through out the house.
Entering the room he suddenly pales - something is so wrong with the scene before him.
There are hospital beds and some kind of scientific testing computer in the room. Two of the beds had what appear to be corpses in them.
The body of a man in a lab coat lies on the floor, and there is blood pooled around his head. It appears someone or something tried to eat the brains on this body.
Grom is so repulsed by what he has seen he wants that he looses what little food was in his stomach.
The zombies to the North - North East of the house break through the fence.
The front door looks like it might not hold for another turn due to the mass of zombies pushing on it.
Game notes
The new map meant I had the moves done in under 10 mins. This was awesome.
Ok - I tweaked players' actions for this turn a bit, as again if the players were on hand to use knowledge given to them, then I feel sure they would have done some things slightly different.
Misty & Blink - I allowed them to both gain entry into the house, as they had a slight bit of movement left, and I figured a fear boosted shot of adreniline would have helped.
Lorenzo & Karen - most of your turn was taken up in moving, so I deemed there wasn't enough actions left to actually barricade the windows in this room. Between the pair of you you should be able to barricade this room completely next turn - provided the zombies outside the windows don't get the initiative next turn. mwahahahahahah
I used Robert's actions to let Misty and Blink into the house and lock the door behind them.
Misty grabbed enough nails, tools and wood to barricade one door, but enough extra nails to help out elsewhere.
PBB - One Map
No, not the name of a crappy boy band that can't sing to save their lives, but something that will make my life even easier for a PBB.
I have learnt how to 'stitch' images together so that I only have to use one map (well, two counting the upstairs area of the game) - this means fixing the game will be very fast, and I won't have discrepancies between maps if I miss moving a survivor or zombie.
I have divided my work load by 1/4 in doing this.
The map isn't perfect as I have only just learnt how to use the stitch feature, and I need to add the barricaded doors and windows onto the map, but it is well on the way.
With every one having submitted orders I hope to post the results for the next turn tomorrow - a few days earlier than normal.
I only wish I had learnt that my image editor program had this feature a whole lot earlier.
I have gone from editing nine maps and compiling them into four maps, to using four maps, to now only needing one map. Happy times!
PBB game 2 turn 11 results
Blink turns and first at the 'good old boy' zombie coming up behind him. Maybe it is because he is startled that he needs to fire burst after burst into the zombie before it goes down.
Grom heads to the next door in the corridor to find it locked. The third door is also lock, and he attempts to break it down, but it doesn't budge.
Robert can't find the keys to this re-enforced door, so he begins to barricade the window in the kitchen.
Karen moves into the kitchen and helps Robert barricade the window.
Von crosses the room to the base of the stairs and stands prepared to defend herself or others if needed.
Lorenzo moves to the window near where Von is standing guard and quickly barricades it.
Misty, completely zombie free for the moment moves to the shed in the back yard. The handle on the door is a bit stiff, but she is able to open it with minimal effort. Inside the shed are a lot of tools and equipment such as hammer, nails, boards, and any number of gardening tools that would make useful anti zombie weapons.
The zombies at the fence near Blink really make a mess of the fence, and he is sure they will break through very soon.
Game Notes:
The attack rolls for Blink went really badly, and I used his third action to fire at the zombie again, thus why he didn't move.
Grom - I rolled badly for his attempts to open the door. Trust me when I say you can break this door down by yourself, provided I roll above a 5.
I took a slight liberty with Karen's movement and placed her in a position that placed her close to Robert when they barricaded the window.
The maps now have yellow text next to the doors and windows to show which ones have been barricaded and or locked.
PBB Game 2 - Turn 10 results
First of all an apology for the time taken between turns. Not only has 'real life' managed to get in the way of having fun, but I have done a lot of work on the maps I use to make them a lot simpler to use for each turn.
As it stood I had to open up and arrange things on 9 separate mini maps, then join them together into bigger maps to get the images I post in the blog. On top of that, I would spend a lot of time getting frustrated when the program I used would play "silly buggers" and delete my maps so I would have to start again.
This could take anything from 2 to 3 hours for each turn to be processed depending on how temperamental the program was going to be.
To fix the problem I have copied the larger maps and found a way to save them so I can move the characters and zombies around them each time I open the image file.
This took me between 3 and 4 hours of work, but I have finally finished the work I needed to do on them, so hopefully this means I can speed up the game a lot more.
This 3 or 4 hours of work should mean 10 to 15 minutes per turn of work for me, so it is worth the time I have put in.
Anyway, enough rambling... on to the parts you all want to get on with, assuming I still have players that is.
Turn Results:
Blink opens up on the two zombies near the red car, putting both of them down with multiple hits to each.
As the path is now clear, Misty rushes to the car and is disappointed to see there is nothing of interest in the car.
Vonnie looks around near the door and sees a board for holding keys on the wall near the door. Locking the door behind the survivors she and Lorenzo begin to pile furniture around the door to make a stronger barricade.
Karen moves into the centre of the room and stands guard for those barricading the front door.
From the kitchen area of the house, Robert yells out, "We've gor a friendly upstairs I found hiding in the closet. His name is Grom. Could one of you bring something to help barricade the back door."
Listening at the door, Robert can't hear anything. The keys he has doesn't fit the lock in the door, and the door appears to be a lot stronger than any of the other doors in the house.
Grom beats at the door in front of him, but thinks he needs some extra help from other survivors to really break it down.
Game Notes:
The dice rolls for Blink were the best I have ever rolled in a zombie game. All but two rounds were killing blows, so those two deadheads burst apart when hit. This was done with only two attacks, so I used the third action to take a shot at the zombie coming up behind him, but wouldn't you believe it, they all missed.
The front door is now barricaded. This will slow the zombies down for a little bit, but there is still the other door and the windows to go.
Grom can spend extra actions smashing at the door - it will break down with a good dice roll (unlike the ones I made), and if anyone helps, it will go down faster.
PBB Game 2 - Turn 9 results
Thank you to the players for being patient for this turn. So, with out any fanfare...
Grom heads up stairs - everything is very quiet on the first floor, and to his frustration, the doors seemed locked.
Misty fires two bursts into the zombie at the fence before it goes down. With relief she heads to the corner of the house.
Blink fires a couple of times into the zombie approaching from the south east. Most of the rounds strike the zombie before, it too, goes down. He proceeds to pop a tic tac as a reward.
Robert grabs the keys from the table, checks that the rear door is shut and then attempts to open what appears to be a cupboard door. The door is well and truly locks, and it even appears that is is made of stronger materials that you average broom cupboard.
Karen moves up to the child zombie and thrusts a gun against its head. The resulting pink mist leaves very little of the zombie remaining. Without skipping a beat, Karen enters the house.
Von and Lorenzo move into the house behind Karen, closing the door behind them.
More zombies appear, and the hoard to the south seems to be getting larger as it makes its way to the front door.
Game notes
The zombies rolled so bad for initiative that I didn't need to roll initiative for any of the survivors.
Note the upper floor has very little detail. I made the mistake of letting everyone see what was on the ground floor, but this time you have to find out what is on the next level by exploring.
PBB Game 2 turn 8 results
The zombies shuffle forward towards what ever their rotten brains tell them to do.
The zombie closest to Misty moves to the fence and starts to shake the flimsy wooden structure. It doesn't look like it will take too much to brake the fence at all.
Misty moves and puts a burst into the zombie at the fence, but the damage in minimal.
Blink moves up next to Misty and fires at the zombies coming towards them from the back yard. he kills the closest one easily enough, but doesn't take down the second closest one.
Robert opens up the door to the bath room, and to his relief he only sees a few bags of canned food in bags on the floor.
Going to the next door he notices a set of car keys on the table.
Grom leaves Robert to deal with what ever he comes across and heads up the stairs by himself to the first floor.
Karen, Vonda and Lorenzo move towards the front door of the house - the little girl zombie is scratching on the door and hasn't noticed them... yet.
But the trio are now sandwiched between two zombies as another one appears opposite the front door, but this shouldn't be of too much concern to them.
Game Notes:
Zombies won the initiative for this turn, and it looks like a nice little hoard is starting to form to the South East.
Things will start to get very interesting soon, as I dare say there will be some gun shots about to happen, as it is not nice at all if a hoard gets to the survivors. It is easy to take a single zombie down, but quite the opposite when a hoard is involved.
Studio Miniatures Global Funding Project
For those of you that are not aware of it by now, Studio Miniatures from the U.K. has a global funding project on "Indiegogo".
Who are Studio Miniatures?
Studio Miniatures produce zombie (including WW2 German zombies) and survivor miniatures, and as I found out to my delight the other day, they also produce some British Colonial figures. You can see what they produce here
What is Global Funding?
Global funding is where people that want funding for a project can list their project and anyone interested in the project can donate towards the project to get it up and running.A lot of these projects on the internet use Amazon's Kickstater system, but Studio Miniatures have gone with Indiegogo.
This is important for me - Amazon only accepts credit cards, and after being a victim to credit card fraud I no longer us a CC online.
Indiegogo allows you to fund a project with a credit card or paypal.
So, to all you people acting lick sheep with your funding projects - use a system that offers a variety of payment options!
What is Studio Miniatures wanting funded?
Very basically, Studio Miniatures has posted a project to have plastic zombies made. There is a goal of $5,000 to get the project up and running. The project ends on 8 September 2012, so at the time of writing there is just over two months left to go.
What do you get?
Depending on how much funding you pay for you will get X number of plastic zombie sprues.
If you fund the project you will also have your zombies posted to you anywhere in the world for free. This is a good thing to note. Free postage. World wide.
There is also a free metal zombie figure on offer for those that fund the project - provided the project is fully funded.
What if the project isn't fully funded?
Good question, and one that I asked Studio Miniatures (as well as asking them about the postage).If the project isn't fully funded, don't stress - you will still get the zombies you paid for, so you wont lose any money.
So what are you waiting for? If you haven't already, please back this project. If you have backed it, please do what I am considering and fund a little bit more.
To learn more about this project please click this link
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