Urban Table WIP

   For a long time I'm been thinking on building a table for modern wargames. Between day chores I fuzz with the table ideia always wondering when I actually will debut a game in it (All Things Zombies would be great!). This week I had a cool idea: What if the table were magnetized? So the chances of overthrowing a miniature or building would be little! I bought some  magnetized sheets and covered the blocks with it. I glued fine sand on the street for texture black paint and than drybrushed gray and white. The table base is hardboard 4mm.



    Já faz um bom tempo que estou fazendo uma mesa para jogos de wargames urbanos e entre os afazeres do dia-a-dia quando sobra um tempo eu fuço um pouco com a mesa sempre sonhando em quando vou realmente estrear um jogo nela (All Things Zombies seria ótimo!!!). Esta semana tive uma idéia bacana: E se a mesa fosse magnetizada? Assim as chances de derrubar uma miniatura ou o cenário seriam bem menores! Arrumei então ums folhas magnetizadas e utilizei para fazer os quarteirões as ruas foram texturizadas com areia fina e pintadas por drybrush. A base da mesa é de chapa dura de 4mm.

 To paste the magnetized sheet, I used the very glue that comes in it and it is horrible but as it was only for testing its ok. If my plan were to be good I would stick with wood glue and paint a concrete texture on it. I printed some of my buildings to scale with the miniatures and put some thin strips of magnetized sheet at its base to adhere to the magnet on the table. I use metal washer for my minitaures and they adhered well on the magnet sheet.

 Para colar a folha magnetizada utilizei a própria cola que vem nela que é horrível e já está descolando mas como era somente para testar tá de boa se funcionasse eu iria colar com cola de madeira e pintar um tom de concreto. Impressos alguns prédios para escala de minhas miniaturas, coloquei algumas tiras finas da folha magnetizada em sua base para que aderissem ao imã da mesa. A base de minhas miniaturas de 15 mm são arruelas de metal e em teste prévio pude ver que elas aderiram bem.

   After i placed the minis and the buildings on the scenario I turned the table 45 degrees and it worked!Nothing fell off the table.

   Colocadas as miniaturas e os prédios do cenário virei a mesa em 45o e tudo funcionou uma maravilha! Nada caiu da mesa.

   Now I can play without worry of  bumping away the minis or buildings of the scenario (I'm worse than Godzilla to take down the buildings LoL!!) The only thing left to do is to glue the sheets with some resilient glue, paint, print more buildings and it will be ready for gaming!!! 

    Agora posso jogar com menos preocupações de ficar esbarrando nas miniaturas ou no cenário (sou pior que Godzilla para derrubar os prédios kkkkkkkkkk!!!!) Só falta colar melhor as folhas imantadas, pintá-las e fazer mais prédios e estarei pronto para estrear.

ATZ Battrep: No D Spare

Sorry for the english errors, I didn´t had time to edit anything and, as I´ve said before, english is my third language. When I have time I´ll look into it and edit any error I can see... Thanks for the patience and compreension.


BATTREP - NO D-SPARE

 Day 4 of the outbreak.

 Three survivors are trying to get away from the big cities and the crawling undead. They are on the road in a pick up when they get a flat tire. Now they have to find a replace tire since they have no spare. Fortunately, they are near a small town by the road where they can see a dinner (Wack Donald´s), a Tire repair shop (lucky survivors!!!) and a peaceful cemetery (darn... this can´t be good...). It seems that a car and a truck crashed not too long ago as pillars of fog atill swirl from the crashed vehicles just ahead of them. They cant see no movement by those cars

7 Zombies generated. 2 ahead of them and 5 on their left jast passing the Wack Donald´s (the survivors can´t see them). Chief is the leader and has a REP 4 (Born leader + Poser) and is carrying a Big A$$ Pistol. Montana and Mamma are vanilla atributed; Montana is carring a crude club and Mamma is carrying a giant bloodied frying pan as her weapon.

Chief: "Better shoot them while we can..."

Turn 1: S1;Z5

Chief shoots a zombie and misses the other. Mamma starts to look preocupied with all the noise. Fortunately the noises are not activating any zombie... yet!

Turn2: S5;Z1

Mamma cries to Chief to be careful with all the noise he is doing. Chief is momentarily distracted by her and that allows the zombie to get closer to them...

Turn 3 S1;Z5

With a precise shot in the center of the zombie forehead and Chief splatter some putrid zombie brain in the road... Still no zombie alerted with the shot fired from his pistol and the way ahead seem to be secure.

Turn 4 No dice roll (no zombies on sight) 

Mamma says she is going to the car crash to see if there´s anyone needing help (she is so protective...) and Montana is going to follow her. Chief says for them to take care and goes left to the tire repair shop.

Chief: "I can see some tires in front of that shop! And no zombies! This is going to be a walk in the park!"

A soon as he passes the Wack Donald´s Dinner front he see several zombies wandering de dinner´s parking and four zombies moan as they limp toward him... He resist the temptation to straight shoot them (passed 2 On Sight test)...

Turn 5 S5;Z1

The zombies get closer to Chief who shout for help from Mamma and Montana.

Turn 6 S1,Z2

Chief fire 2 shots and two zombie falls to the floor. Mamma and Montana are now by Chief side and Mamma cries once again to stop all the noise or he will atract all zombies nearby. One more zombie is atracted by the fight sounds.

 

One zombie who was lying near the tires get up and goes toward the noises of fight...

Turn 7 S3 Z4 (7 on activation made one zombie appear but the survivors can´t see it as he appears behind the crashed truck)

Ignoring Mamma suggestion, Chief fires his gun twice again, missing both zombies. Mamma gets her frying pan above her head and crashed one zombie skull with a dull noise after oddly swinging her "weapon" 3 times (melee, S1Z1/S1Z1/S1Z0). Montana kill the other zombie with a fast and furious swing of his club with one migth blow in the head (wanting to charge pass, S2Z0) Mama shout angry to Chief  "stop de fracking noise!!!" and then she heard a loud, horrid and guttural sound from inside the Wack Donald´s (the sounds atracted one zombie placed inside the Dinner).

Never forget to carry your frying pan in a zombie apocalipse! It´s silent and deadly and in the end of the day you can also cook your meal!!!

 Turn 8 S1;Z4

One zombie charges Chief but he shot the zombie down (2 passes on being charged test). Mamma gets closer to the Wack Donald´s door as she can see It´s being breaking down from inside. Montana rushes to the zombie that appeared behind the tires engaging him in melee. The zombie fought with Montana and almost managed to bite his arm off, but a blow in the zed neck was enough to kill him (Montana almost got injured by the zombie; S2Z1/S1Z1/S1Z0). No zombie was atracted by the noises.

Turn 9 S5;Z3

The door from the dinner is burst open as the fattest zombie they´ve seen rushes out to attack Mamma. She swings her pan hitting him several times but in the end she managed (hardly) to kill the Zed (S2Z1/S1Z1/S1Z1/S1Z1/S1Z0... close one...). No more zombies on the vicinities.

Epilogue:

 Mamma looks to Chief and see he is panting with horrid crazy eyes but managed to stop the shooting and the noises. She think with herself that he may be loosing his mind... she is full of anger that they almost died but she goes toward him and gently and motherly hug the former police officer as he eagerly embrace the gesture. Montana goes to the tires and get 2 for them. They silently decided not to search any of the buildings feeling they got very lucky with the tires alone. Nobody says a word as they go back to their car, change the tire and get on their way.

______________________ End of Battle Report______________________ 

Time to test it!

 Well... after the spackle was dry (24 hours) the result was not so bad. Actually not bad at all! The building was a lot more sturdier than I tought it would be! After a delicate cleanse with a moist cloth the result was very impressive. I´m so happy with the building that I´m going to test it with the best way I can think of: An ATZ GAME!!!

 I´m going to use some new sculpted and painted survivors too. They are:

Chief - Former policeman

 

Montana - Former car robber



Mama - Fofmer... Mama??? (or maybe the elephant woman since the face result was kinda crappy...)




How they banded together is up to your imagination.

Scenario:

 Day 4 of the outbreak. Three survivors are trying to get away from the big cities and the crawling undead. They are on the road in a pick up when they get a flat tire. Now they have to find a replace tire since they have no spare. Fortunately, they are near a small town by the road where they can see a dinner (Wack Donald´s), a Tire repair shop (lucky survivors!!!) and a peaceful cemetery (darn... this can´t be good...). It seems that a car and a truck crashed not too long ago as pillara of fog atill swirl from the crashed vehicles. They cant see no movement by those cars. They begin at the top left of the scenario photo.

You can see the survivors objective in the center of the above photo (tires). Optionally they can get the hearse by the house at the bottom right of the set. (a black car in black felt may be hard to see...)

On the survivors left we can see the spackled building as "WACK DONALD´S"

Game on! Soon I´ll post the Battrep!