The Battle of Central High

The Battle of Central High

Zombicide - Wanda’s Backstory

Wanda and a couple friends were hanging out on the Quad, 

when their attention was drawn to shouting and screaming 

across the square. 

OMG ! Why is Principal Lemon hauling ass after that Goth Kid? 

Her Rich Kid friend paid her no attention, as he waved at the cheerleader.

Ahhh!! She just ripped his head off! My skateboard friend

yelled “let’s get out of here!” I grabbed a shocked looking weirdo 

and dragged her with us as we fled. Crap! Skater slammed directly

into a mass of ugly and was dragged down. I kept running, pulling

any norms with me as I ran towards my Mazda RX2.

We scooped up a cops shotgun laying near a pile of gore along with

a pipe. We used them to good effect as our group grew in size.

We yelled for the few remaining students in the yard to head for the

parking lot. We knew their chances were small as the crowd of biters

had grown massive.

None of them made it, and quickly rose to stagger towards us and the

parking lot

The five of us crammed into my RX2 Coupe. I raced off campus as fast

as my rotary engine could go. All my passengers asked to be driven to

their homes. I dropped them off as close to their destinations as I dared. 

I should have argued for the group to stay together, but we were too scared

and confused to think clearly.

Not all lessons taught are learned. But I learned a bunch about myself in

those 30 minutes. Lessons that still serve today......

After all of this time fighting and surviving together,

the group was still shocked to hear how it all started

for Wanda. “I’m happy to finally have shared my story.

So who is next”, asked Wanda

We really enjoy bringing our survivors to life. This

origin story was played out with Zombie High School. 

Rick and Carl’s Day Out

The Walking Dead - Rick and Carl’s Day Out

Although I was a Kickstarter All In backer we had not yet played. 

With Call to Arms releasing 7/2019, we decided to play the final

starter scenario. The group had enjoyed Here’s Negan and you can

read our play and review here. 

Rick is out teaching Carl to shoot near a mass of piled up vehicles 

along a junked up section of road. The practice had gone well but

the mass of walkers was growing unmanageable. Just when Rick

was about to gather a few supplies and head back to camp, Carl 

noticed several survivors approaching. The gunfire had drawn

Derek’s band to the area. Noticing lots of usable goods in the area

Derek ordered Sandra and Patrick to gather supplies. 

Derek notices Rick and warns him off from the area

Patrick moves toward some supplies

Rick shoots a nearby walker and draws lots of attention

Sandra is getting out numbered and in trouble

Carl searches the car and BOOM! He finds a booby trap

Sandra gets the car between her and the walkers

Rick sees his opening and moves toward a stash of supplies

Sandra swings in and gets the supplies securing victory for Derek’s side. 

Rick and Carl slide away to fight another day. 

We had a good time and look forward to building our own teams while

using the full rules set. We didn’t engage in any PvP which may have

been a mistake but the 3 to 2 odds seemed tough. Ammo is depleted

1/3 of time on a die roll so that was tough too. Building your own teams

would allow extra ammo cards and melee weapons. 

The system works well solo, cooperative, or competitive. I could even 

see it as an RPG narrative type campaign playing the key events out

with the skirmish game. The Mantic deluxe terrain pack was awesome too!

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Apocrypha - In Cold Blood

Apocrypha - In Cold Blood

Block and Vargas found themselves finally arriving at this small 

Wisconsin town. The Designer had sent them here to investigate 

some strange happenings. Block and Vargas had worked missions 

together on several occasions and we were now the current “Go To” 

team for such happenings in Wisconsin.

We agreed that our first priority was to ensure the town’s children 

were safe. So we headed to the School. Seeing signs encouraging 

blood donations at an elementary school were very disturbing. 

As we entered, we glimpsed coolers containing pints of donated 

blood. As well as too many pasty faced school kids. 

Looking down the hall, we saw the school nurse carrying a cooler to her 

VW Hippie Van. Vargas rushed out to confront the nurse. The situation 

turned hostile and Vargas was hard pressed to overcome the nurse’s rage. 

But she did. Looking inside the van we saw pamphlets labeled for the 

town’s homeless shelter.

We raced to the shelter, Block’s anger at what he had seen was building 

exponentially as we covered the two miles.

Block rushed in and spied the Shelter’s cook making blood pudding. 

Literally BLOOD PUDDING! Seeing Block racing towards him, the 

Cook pulled out some strange artifact and began chanting. Block 

leveled him with one punch. Damn Cultists. As we turned our two 

cultists over to the police we noticed that a Dr Lazarus had an office 

at the shelter.

We headed to the Hospital to look into Dr Lazarus. 

We were taken to his office and felt the strong commanding presence 

this Dr had. We tried to pin him down, and began to sense his involvement 

was key to what was happening in this town. In fact, the events began 

only three weeks after his arrival. We played our cards. And Dr Lazarus 

bolted! Hurling beakers of blood at us. Before Vargas could grab him, 

he was gone.

Block want to seal the hospital to prevent his return, but Vargas was 

too eager to finish this cult off. Now we’d have to retrace our steps 

to see if we could find where his ritual site was. We split up. 

Never a smart move.

But this time it payed off! Our time to clear this mission was quickly 

winding down. So it was fortuitous that Block found the Dr ten 

minutes after Vargas had lost him. Block was miffed over Vargas 

not following procedures to seal venues. He was miffed at the Dr 

escaping from his partner. And he was miffed over having had 

too much garlic in his spaghetti last night.

The whooping Dr Lazarus endured was enough to turn any crazed cult 

leader back from the dark side. That and a stay at the county lockup.....

Now too report back and get our next assignment.

Conclusion 

Apocrypha is a fun co-op or solo game it has really good flavor 

and mechanics for improving your character as the campaign progresses. 

The rules are not well organized or written but you can definitely 

figure it out. We always try and stay in the spirit and when in doubt

keep having fun and don’t get bogged down. We will definitely get 

more pictures of key events next time 

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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. 

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Jungle Patrol - Warfighter PTO

Warfighter PTO

Our copy of Warfighter PTO arrived and we decided to play

a learn your enemy game before we build our campaign 

Jungle Patrol

We selected the Jungle Patrol mission which gave us 62 RP

to build our Marine force. We selected 2 Player Soldier (PS)

and two squad soldiers. Our patrol had 6 grenades, 3 rifles,

and a BAR. 

Our team deploys for jump off

We advance into the Native Gardens and are struck hard by two

stout units. After hard fighting and tossing a few grenades we clear

the garden. We lack good terrain cards so spend a few turns hoping

for something good but in the end to have any hope of succeeding 

in our mission we advance onto the beach. 

The beach is a brutal fight and even expending all of our remaining 

grenades we are barely holding on. One of our Player Soldiers is

on the jump off point trying to deal with Ambushers. After several

turns of back and forth we have eliminated most of the beach forces

as well as the Ambushers. We did lose one of our Squad Soldiers

Time is running out so we decided to risk pressing onto the Native Village

From the frying pan into the fire. We are now strung out and in

trouble. We failed to take out the Kamikaze and in fact didn’t fear 

him enough. He ran in a took a Player Soldier out with him in the 

Native Garden. The others survived the turn a retires from the mission

We rolled and amazing both Player Soldiers we good to return to duty,

one Squad Soldier was KIA, and the last was a medical discharge 

Conclusion 

The Japanese were a brutal foe and the terrain was unforgiving. 

We definitely accomplished learning more about what we want

in a force. Definitely load up on grenades and canteens. We should 

have game one of our campaign up soon. 

Warfighter is one of our favorite games and can be enjoyed solo

or cooperative. We greatly appreciate you reading our post and if 

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Zombicide: The Rock

It seemed like forever but in fact it took three days to get

the yacht roped into the tour dock. We spotted a few zombies

and no living as we approached the mooring. The last effort

took Otis, Ned, Doug, and Phil swimming a line in to tie off

and slowly over several hours get the yacht close enough to

drop the plank. 

Amy walked over to a bulletin posted on a sign. “Uh guys,

not good news. This notice states tours will end March 1st. 

Alcatraz will resume active prison status as the civil situation

is deteriorating in the Bay Area.”

The team is glad to be on land but it’s a blow that it doesn’t 

seem like we came to a deserted paradise. We are low on ammo

but gather what we have and move toward the prison to find the

machine and repair shop. 

 

Let’s go to work

The team has gotten to within a few blocks of the prison entrance. 

It seems quiet so hopefully the police cars hold some treasures. 

Amy checks police car one.....Zombie!

With Josh and Ned covering her Wanda inspects car two. 

Zombie! Ok, our luck can’t be this bad. Doug moves to check

A room for the a badge card for the prison and Wanda moves in

and covers the search. 

Abomination!

The commotion has caused zombies to start filling the exercise

yard. The streets are filling with zombies in both prisoner and

police gear. It must have gotten ugly here quick. More than 

likely an infected guard, prisoner, or heck an infected tourist 

hidden on the island. 

The team works with urgency to find a key or key card while staying 

quiet so that Wanda can lead the abomination the long way around. 

Phil and Doug try to escape path open. 

The abomination pummels the car as it pursues the team. It wants

to destroy!

Amy finds the wardens apartment and strikes gold. A set of keys

labeled and a key card. She signals josh and he understands. He

will lead the group of zombies away so Amy can slip out. 

Josh and Ned have left Amy a manageable escape route but the

other half of the team is getting cut off. 

Amy make her move to link up with the team as the make their 

play to break the zombie envelopment. 

Through sheer will, determination, and luck the team regroups

just ahead of the horrific horde. 

The exercise yard continues to fill. 

Ned, Josh, and Doug try to thin the persuit as the other hack around

the side alley. 

We punched through and now it’s a mad dash to the prison entrance. 

As we run, we pour everything we have into the exercise yard to

thin the build up of zombies. 

We are in and the key works!

Josh joins the team as we pull the security door closed ahead of 

the growing hordes. 

The team inventories their weapons and ammo. They can hear noises

of the undead in the prison but at least they’ve got a secure room 

to take a quick breathe. 

Conclusion 

Once again this was an exceptional game of Zombicide. Several times 

the teams fate road on a die roll or two. The early discovery of the

Abomination seemed bad but really worked better than finding it later

between the team and it’s goal. We used the stand alone Prison box set

 other than using our original base team. Thanks for reading our story. 

The next episode should be played and posted soon. 

All Good Things....

“Hey Phil! Ned says it’s no go on repairing the engine again.”

“I guess 3 isn’t a charm. Damn this overpriced yacht. She’s been great up until now.”

“Lets rig some kind of sail and see if we can make the coast near San Francisco. 

Maybe we can hop another ride there. Have Josh and Phil rig up some sails. 

Doug, find stuff we can use for rope and cables.”

We were running low on food stuffs anyway. Hopefully we can make it to the coast 

before the water runs out. No engine. No water purification.

After 4 days, we sight the golden gate. Amy and Wanda snap a few selfies!?

“Otis, did you say you did contract maintenance for tours to the Rock when you 

got out of the service?”

“Roger that. But it was a lifetime, 2 office jobs, and 50+ zeds ago.”

“Did they keep any gear for patching the tour boats should they have problems 

while docked on the Rock?”

“Yep. But pretty limited. Major stuff was brought over by the next tour boat. 

Still, I see where you’re headed. Could work.”

“If we’re lucky, no tours were stranded on the Rock, and it’ll be deserted.”

So it was decided. We make for Alcatraz.......

The Road so far

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

We are excited to continue our epic campaign. Look forward to the next

episode very soon. Thanks for stopping by and reading our tease.