ATZ Casino Carnage

“Sarah, you are sure the casino bosses were stockpiling all kinds of stuff in the hidden

safe room before you left to try to find your mom back in DFW?” asked Shane. 

“Yeah, as soon as the craziness started they started stocking up on meds, food, ammo, 

and I swear maybe even gas”, exclaimed Sarah. 

“Well sounds like it’s worth a trip north of the Red River and we’ve got enough gas to 

get us there…I think”, added Tex. 

Mission

Get into the casino and find the master key which didn’t look special so it should

be on his body whether he is a survivor or zombie. Unless he’s locked in the safe 

room of course but positive thoughts. Finding a Luxury Item will represent the 

object we are looking to acquire. 

Group

Shane Rep 5 Star Shotgun

Sarah Rep 4 Pistol

Tex Rep 3 BA Pistol

We arrive!

We enter the map at Parking lot E and it’s Ragers! Ragers are the genius result 

of the government’s attempt at a cure. People who have the cure injected not

only still turned but became fast and super aggressive zombies. There are not 

too many in the world but they are trouble. Luckily in the parking lots we see 

them first and quickly dispatch them. 

We move into the entrance and quickly kill the lone zombie but don’t find 

anything valuable. 

The group heads to the front desk when we spot three other survivors. We cautiously 

engage them in case they have what we need. Luckily Shane passes the encounter 

tests and after a brief interaction determine they just are looking for food. We give 

them some and they head for the exit. We are force to move on and after clearing 

another area head back to the front desk as we couldn’t search after encountering 

the survivors. 

Zombies!!! Where’d they come from? The zombies have the drop on us and 

charge. Shane drops two and Sarah gets one as they move in but Tex misses both

of his shots. Tex manages not to get bit but can’t take out the zombies. I use a house 

rule that after three rounds of melee others unengaged can add in. 

Shane and Sarah each move in and quickly eliminate the zombies. 

Yes! Our loot card is a luxury item. In fact one of the zombies was the boss. 

He must have come out to try and secure the outer doors. 

Our first mission is done. We will regroup and make our plan to get to the 

safe room. 

Final Thoughts

I plan to play the entire campaign to clear the casino. The easy of play and fun

delivered in Casino Carnage was top notch. The rules are a quick read and I 

think the table used if you get wounded by a zombie is awesome. I may port

that to every zombie game I play. 

The game is a good basis for generating your own scenarios as well. The building, 

loot, and encounter decks have endless combination. 

I will play each of the 10 THW board game offerings and post an AAR and my

thoughts. 

Zombicide: Running the Rock

Wanda was nervous as she looked back at the team. This was her first mission

to plan and lead. She considers this team family after all the have survived. 

“Ok, one more time. We get to the control room and open the exterior door

then everyone but Josh heads out. Josh will let us back in when we signal.

Everyone got it?”, asked Wanda. The team nodded and they were ready. If

the notes they found were correct they should find the replacement parts needed

to use the machine shop again. With the machine shop and salvage they can 

get the yacht ready to explore across the bay. They had seen signals from the

coast which were now much less frequent but it had been clear they had been

SOS messages sent by flashlight and mirror. 

The team smashes open the path to the control room

With the door open Wanda moves quickly before the zombies can swarm

Doug and Ned notice that opening the front door clearly opened an interior 

door too. 

The zombies are coming quicker than planned

The prison zombies coming from the rear are endangering the plan

Wanda makes a stand on the pimp car!

Amy links up with Wanda while Phil decides to stay with Josh. Doug and Ned 

will join the effort to gather the items outside the front entrance. 

“Time to improvise, Amy you and me will go get the last items. Doug and Ned cover 

us and keep our retreat path clear” shouted Wanda above the mayhem. 

Phil and Josh keep the area clear

Wanda and Amy head toward the block of offices 

Zombies are closing from all sides. Amy and Wanda prep to crash the offices while

Ned and Doug work hard at holding the egress open. 

Wanda and Amy are forced to escape the other way after grabbing the prize

Doug holds the entrance and Ned takes on the runners

Get those doors open!!!

Ned uses the concrete saw on the Abomination

Amy decides to put our Molotov Cocktail to good use destroying a large part of the

remaining zombies on The Rock

Conclusion

“I feel like I just ran The Rock 10k”, mussed Wanda as she looked through books, notes,

and items they had gathered today. The team was very excited to have survived and

set the table to get the yacht ready to explore the area. As the team sat around decompressing,

Wanda interrupted the small talk,”you’ll never believe what’s in the notebook I scooped

up in the offices says”.

“The secrets of time travel”, joked Josh

“No but almost as good. These notes say the hospital across the bay had a cure they 

were about to test!” exclaimed Wanda. 

“I guess we know where we are going as soon as we make our repairs”, said Phil 

“Looks like we have a hospital to checkout before we look for the source of those

signals we’ve spotted”, added Doug. 

Zombicide once again provided a tense close run game. We were lucky to find good 

gear quickly. Until next time....Old School Gamers Out

Z Day - Doug’s Backstory

Zombicide: Doug’s Backstory [Zombies!!!]

Before meeting up with you folks? Well, to be honest, I sort of 

welcomed the apocalypse. Not many people get to see the jerk 

that “downsized” you get munched! Yep. That was a fine day. 

I’d just left my old office for the last time and was standing out

on the street. Demoralized. Angry. Worried about the future.

Little did I know the next 30 minutes would clean my slate of

issues.

The sirens at both ends of town, fire station and police station,

began blaring at the same time. Hard to hear the screams over

those.

It took me a few looks to buy into the zombie apocalypse. But

when a saw a few shamblers enter my ex-boss’s building, I had

to smile. I decided to make towards the Police Station on the

outskirts of town. 

Started to regret that choice as I passed the retail stores. Must

have been easy pickings for the zeds in those places.

It was tough going with only my pocketknife, but fortune favored

me when I was able to quietly loot some much needed upgrades

from the surplus store. The managers dog took a liking to me.

Guess his ex-master must have been a scary Zombie.

One block to go. My brand new semi was a great help in cutting

a path. Dog raced towards a specific zombie up ahead, ignoring

my shouts.

Dog didn’t stand a chance. Too many biters. Well, I cleared the

path to the Police Station.

Lucky choice on my part. Found two officers that had a barricade

set up while running comms to the few remaining officers trying

hard to Protect and Serve.

We hunkered down for two weeks. After the first three days, no calls

came in. The two officers told me to pick a cruiser, some reloads,

and wished me luck. They headed out hoping to find family before

heading into the country.

There are so many fun zombie games out there and playing out

The backstories of our main survivors in the Yacht Campaign has

let us get those to the table again. 

Negan Claims the Sanctuary

Here’s Negan Game Overview 

We played scenario one in Mantic's Here’s Negan from their 

The Walking Dead line. The games is perfect as a solo or

Cooperative game and the rules cover both. Each future Savior

Lieutenant has a unigue skill that makes each special and different. 

Negan runs himself and acts per his own set of cards and action. 

I’ll say keep Negan happy or you pay a price. 

The game contains a wealths of event cards and items to be found. 

We used less than a quarter of them in the first mission which

will add to variety and replay value. The game can be played 

episodically or as a campaign where damage and items carryover

to subsequent missions. The game also contains the character cards

for each lieutenant in case you would like to play them in the All Out

War skirmish game. 

The action is driven by the threat tracker which builds based on

events, noise, and survivor actions. The walkers have entry points

like Zombicide or Space Hulk. The walker blips added a cool

unknown feel to what was wandering the sanctuary. 

Mission One Photo AAR

We completed mission one with the loss of one lieutenant as a result of

Negan’s encouragement! We under appreciated the impact of noise

easy and thus spent lots of actions trying to keep the threat level from

hitting auto defeat. 

All in all Here’s Negan is a fun standalone game in a great universe. 

We will have more AARs and game reviews up soon. We great appreciate 

your visit and would love any comments and follows. 

Patrol Z - Warfighter WW2

Warfighter WW2 - Patrol Z

It is 1945 and our mission is to capture some nefarious German scientist named 

Albrecht  Schmidt. Sergeant DeLay would lead the mission. Corporals Scanlan and 

Taylor were also going. Along with two new replacements, private Roble and 

private Owens

We came out of the fields into a cratered forest. We heard strange noises. We were 

suddenlyattacked by some strange looking German SS. 8 rifleman. Sergeant DeLay 

used his sub gun and grenades to mow down these attackers. Private Roble using his 

M1 shot down more attackers which came wandering across the field. We inspected 

the bodies and had to report that they  looked like they had been dead for months. 

On the other side of the crater we came into a pasture. We stumbled upon a platoon of 

weird looking troops. Corporal Scanlan opened up with his BAR and began mowing 

down the  officers and troops armed with flamethrowers. Roble and DeLay took out the 

remaining rifleman and ambushers.

Clearing the open pasture, as we approached a wooded area, snipers opened up on us. 

They nailed PVT Owens before we could hit the deck.

 

After we clobbered the snipers and cleared  the woods, we ascended to the high ground. 

There we were attacked by storm troopers with flamethrowers and machine guns. DeLay 

called in mortar support. Using his sub gun he destroyed the storm troopers while the 

mortars took out the machine gun nest. But not before the machine gun nest had cut 

down PVT Roble.

From the hilltop we could see the village where the doctor was holding up. The place was 

crawling with unarmed zombies led by Commander Z. Commander Z was truly a super 

soldier and took everything we had to kill him. These must have been recently zombified, 

as they withstood several well aimed attacks before toppling over.

 

The three remaining squad members, entered the village and searched for the doctor. 

But he was nowhere to be found. What we did find horrified us. Some insane laboratory 

of smashed beakers, burnt rooms, and torched remains. HQ would want a serious debrief on 

this place. And we would want replacements with bigger guns.....

 

Conclusion 

The Zombie deck is a really tough opponent. The Nazi Zombies have high cover and

are fearless which is a brutal combo. Thanks DVG for giving us fun options like this 

in so many of your games. We look forward to the Japanese and German Supernatural 

deck in Warfighter WW2 Pacific. We appreciate your visit, comments, and follows.