The Dead Arise!

 So, I am not Dead.  Just in case anyone wondered.  I have been "sequestered", but not expired.  I am sure that Anton will have a suitably amazing list of accomplishments for this past quarter, but I decided to break mine out into sections, because I have set a fairly blistering pace for this quarter.  

This section will focus on what has been my pet project for this quarter ZOMBIES!  I discovered a game that was highly rated for solo play and decided to persue the matter.  Unfortunately the rules were only published and sold in Britain so it took some tome to get the rules in hand, more on that in a later post.  

While I awaited the arrival of the rules I got started on figures.  The particular set of rules is set in the post Napoleonic era known as "The Regency".  I quickly discovered that there were not many figure ranges in this era so was a bit concerned as I started, but proceeded boldly in any event.  I started painting from stock, and collecting where needed - Zombies.  

The game includes three basic types of zombies, these are my leader types called 'Drovers', one per "Drove" of "Dreadfuls".  The figures involved come from several games, The fellow in Blue on the right is from the Carnevale game.  The hanged man next to him and the fellow on the extreme left without a head come from a board game set in steampunk Victorian times.  The other four are wild west zombies from the Dead man's hand range.  

The Second class of "Dreadfuls" are the "Veteran Unmentionables" (the terms 'Dreadfuls' and 'Unmentionables' are used interchangeably to refer to the zombies in the game).  These Unmentionables had some military experience in life and thus are tougher than the standard 'Dreadful'.  All these figures come from the same Victorian Steampunk game as above.  

Here are some Militia or Fencibles, and line troops who have been turned into 'Dreadfuls".  There is no game difference between types of "Veterans".  The front row figures are from the Wellington in India range, the back row a British casualties from the Warlord games Black powder series.  

These are standard "dreadfuls" and more figures from the victorian game.  

These are some more of the Victorian Zombies, they all came on fire, but I trimmed some of the fire off on some to try an avoid repition.  

Most of these are once again from the Victorian game, although the woman crawling front row far left is from the Dead Man's Hand game.  

These are two sets of ten each Dead Man's Hand Zombies.  

These are to 70 Zombies that compise the general horde.  

As I went through the figures I found a few that were fairly close to some of the zombies and decided to paint the figures matching, sort of a 'befor and after' thing.  Here are those paired figures standing next to each other.  

Here is a close up on "the Preacher"

And the lad down the lane.  

The game naturally involves heroes who defend the weak from the Dreadful menace.  In the game these Heroes are called "Player Characters", all are named after major chanracters in a certain series of books.  

Here are some of the next group of figures are the "leaders".  Player Characters are visiting elite fighters who have come to help out.  Leaders are leading figures in the community with the "Dreadful" outbreak, they organize the willing and able locals to form a "Hunt" to go combat the "Dreadful menace".  

Here are some members of the Hunt with guns.  These are all Brick Lane Commune figures from North Star Miniatures.  

These are more members of the Hunt, armed with rustic farm implements.  

This last batch are the members of the hunt who volunteer to go out with out rememberng that they did not bring a weapon with them today, yes some of teh Humans go out to fight zombies without any weapons.  

When the going gets rough we can always look the Bobby Peel's boys, formed in 1828, the "Metropolitan Force" can always be called upon in time of need.  

When the problem gets more serious then the local Militia can be called out when needed.  

For those most dangerous circumstances, the "Bloody" Grenadier Guard can be called in the save the day.  

Here we see all 55 normal figures for the game.  All totaled 133 figures prepared for this game.  Next time, a review of a session with this game.