OUTBREAK released, and GENCON!

GENCON has begun, which means OUTBREAK has been released! Many a demo game has been played, many copies of our rules have flown out the door..

For those who didn't manage to find us, we are in booth 2934, in entrepreneurs avenue. We have many copies of OUTBREAK, as well as Skirmish Sangin, and our zombies and survivor miniatures- that's right, we have some survivors too! 

Below are the survivors, along with some painted versions of the Ragers. Not by me, I only got my set today too!

Survivor 1: Gas mask survivor

Modelled after this banner....

Survivor 2: Priest!

Rager Miniatures!

For those who can't make it to GENCON, don't despair- for our website is now live! Head to www.skirmishoutbreak.com to order yourself a copy of OUTBREAK, and we will start shipping them come as soon as we can, which is early next week.

The survivors and Ragers are not yet in the site, but they will be very soon!

Chris

Walking Dead Wednesday- Rick

Time to have a look at the first of the Studio Miniatures Walking Dead figures. The natural place to start is with the group's leader, Rick!

I promise that the eyes look much less strange in person- I got a weird reflection from somewhere on them!

Rick is a really good figure, Studio Miniatures have done a cracking job in representing Rick in 28mm miniature, right down to his big pistol! I opted to give him a red shirt and his sheriff pants with the stripe down the side. Overall I have to say that I am pretty happy with him.

In OUTBREAK, Rick would have the following stats:

Rick is an Average Joe, armed with a Pistol and the Hero survivor upgrade package. The upgrade package adds two to three of his skills (I chose Firearms, First aid (specialist in limb removal) and Dodge), as well as making him a whole lot better in hand-to-hand combat.

Of course, should Rick not manage to outpace the zombies, Studio Miniatures have helpfully also made a Zomb-Rick!

A really lovely sculpt, just like the living Rick.

So there we have it, Rick and Zomb-Rick. Next week? Carl!

In other news- I am in Indy, it's almost GenCon time!

CP

Studio Miniatures freebie zombie

Just a quick update, with a Studio Miniatures Zombie I finished recently. The sculpt was a freebie as part of their recent Kickstarter campaign.

A Hari-Krishna zombie!

In other news, I am about to start a whole lot of plane travel to get me from little Ol' NZ to the big Ol' US of A. Luckily I have pre written my posts for the next week aye?

GENCON here I come!

CP

Survivor Friday- Felicity

I know the posts are coming thick and fast at the moment, but it's Friday, so don't you be thinking that while posting all these other things that I would forget about completing a survivor!

This week's survivor is a continuation from the last story (here).

... Cooper and his group continued to move through the city.

Around every corner was one of them, distracted trying to break down doors, hunting the living, or feasting on those they had caught.

They managed to make good progress, avoiding them wherever possible, attacking only when they had to.

As they ran down the street, up ahead they saw a figure, a woman. she was running, smacking a zombie here and there, always moving forward. The group followed, thankful for the clear path through the zombies.

She looked behind her, spotting the trio. On seeing that she was being followed, and not by the living dead, she stopped, pausing in her violent running race.

Cooper slowed, motioning Sasha behind himself. Smitty had his rifle raised, taking no chances.

"Don't use that please, don't be loud. Surely you know that it brings more of them?" She said, pointing at Smitty's rifle.

Cooper got a good look at her weapons, a butchers cleaver in one hand, a cast iron frying pan in the other. She wore a bloodstained waitresses uniform, her hair unkempt.

When Cooper remarked on her arsenal of weaponry, she just said "Look I know I am a walking stereotype- but the frying pan really works you know? God, if my gender studies lecturers could see me know...."

Felicity is another from the Wargames Factory plastic boxed set, but with a fair bit of converting done. The figure originally comes with some very impractical strappy shoes, so I replaced them with some much more sensible sneakers off another survivor. The frying pan is a combination of a plastic wargames factory arm, with a new greenstuff shoulder, combined with a metal round, formerly off of the base of a 15mm figure and then held on by Green stuff.

So there you have it, another survivor! I had a game of OUTBREAK last night, so will get the AAR up over the weekend.

And hey, I leave for Gencon soon!

Chris

GENCON T-shirts

Hi All,

Chris has been doing a sterling job with this blog but I have just realised reading his latest missive that I haven't told him the T-shirt design has changed. With me being stateside for Historicon and Chris keeping the NZ home fires burning, communication has not been our strong point :-) 

The T-shirts still have yellow in them but not quite so yellow as we envisaged. So I thought I would take the opportunity to share. We think they look pretty cool, but I am bound to say that as I designed them. What do you think?  We will have a few for sale at Gencon so make sure you are in quick. Don't forget we are at Booth 2934 on the Entrepreneurs' Avenue. I hope to meet as many of you there as I can.

cheers

Colin

Walking Dead Wednesdays 1: Beginnings and Zombies

It seems like it is all go here on the blog at the moment!

With the arrival of the Studio Miniatures pack last week, I decided to stage my painting out for it, so that I will be able to keep up with my other painting goals.

Right- so what is the plan then? Well, Walking Dead Wednesdays will be me working my way through the miniatures which I got from Studio Miniatures, plus whatever else I think of Walking Dead related on a Wednesday.

Sound good?

So to get us started, here is the little girl zombie from the kickstarter. This is her from the show:

Image owned by AMC, taken without permission for this blog.

And this is my take on the miniature:

So, as you can see, I changed the colour palatte a bit, mainly because I don't have a good pink-ish colour. I decided to use the yellow simply because I don't really use yellow a lot at all, which will make her stand out, and plus it was one of the few nice pastel colours which I have readly to hand.

The sculpting on the zombie is excellent (as is, on the whole the whole set actually), in fact if I was being critical, it is probably too good, a bit too realistic!

So all in all, a lovely sculpt, really impressed with the quality Studio Miniatures are bringing to the table here.

Next on the Walking Dead Wednesdays is Rick and Zomb-rick!

OUTBREAK- Gaming the Zombie Apocalypse released at GENCON!

For far too long, I have been remiss in talking about the ruleset which my colleague Colin and I have been working on for our zombie games. I eluded to it once in an after action report I did, but nothing other than that.

It has been in the works for over a year or so, and now it is fast coming up on it's time of release, and so it is time for me to start talking about it with you guys!

It comes in a soft back version and as a PDF, both in Hazmat yellow for easy spotting! I will delve a bit more into the rules in a future post.

Colin and I have been writing rules together for a few years now, including the Skirmish Sangin ruleset (which has just had it's latest supplement released!), and given our love of the Zombie genre, it was only natural that we wrote ourselves a game to play it!

Alongside the rules, we will be releasing a few sets of figures. The first of which you can see in the render are here...

I will go through the rules in a bit of detail, and show examples of how the game works with some demo characters, and will walk through a combat turn or two. What would you like to see?

So all of that is going to be released at GENCON in two weeks time, Colin and I will be there in bright yellow t-shirts (we had to really, given the colour of the book), so if you are going along, come and find us and pick up your copy!

For those who can't make GENCON, or who can't manage to find us (which, given our yellow I think is unlikely), the OUTBREAK website will go live with the books and miniatuees up for sale on the website in early August, as close to the end of GENCON as we can manage.

Chris