What's this blog all about?

"Board games? You play board games?" I hear you say... yes, but not unlike any board games you've probably ever heard of. Monopoly? Cluedo? Guess Who? Battleships? No, not by a long shot. One day someone introduced me to a great little game called "Carcassonne" - named after a French medieval town of rambling streets, walls and sections - where the aim is to score the most points using little random squares of road, walls and cities.
I was hooked and so began my, then our - the Bradshaw Tribe, adventure into Euro- and Ameritrash- gaming...

Friday, 9 December 2011

Last Night on Earth? No way! Take that zombie!!

Tonight we were around Brians again for another bash at Last Night on Earth. Tonight we had myself, Brian, Steve, Ruth, Tom and Nigel.Therefore we could have two zombie players - Steve and Brian - verses the rest of us with one character each. Ruth had the nurse; Nigel the school jock; Tom the farmers daughter and I had the drifter. The scenario was a different one for us - find the fuel and keys and escape in the car! This involved a made dash around town looking for the keys and fuel whilst fighting off zombies.

Lucky my character had the ability to pick up two cards whilst searching and choose the best, so I went to the garage and almost straight away found the keys!! This just meant finding the fuel; we spread out and zombies started to appear. Luckily Ruth had a pump action shotgun with her but unluckily every shot except one was a miss! But luckily for us, the zombies were having a bad run of dice throws - Brian seemed to be stuck with always getting a 1 to the point where he was stating Here I through my 1 lol.

It didn't all go the Heroes way - Nigels jock went down under a pile of zombies and Ruths nurse ended up being nibbled on! At one point Nigel and I were on the car fighting them off whilst waiting for the other two to get the fuel to us - some hot swapping of cards and tactical playing of event cards was need. Then we had a pile of zombies surrounding us from all sides and after we fought them off, we had to tactically retreat! Nigel then asked for the shotgun from Ruth and proceeded to fire a blast at 8 zombies in our square! Unluckily only a few went down and a card was played by the zombies meaning it was out of ammo!

The Heroes fought back, even if Ruths character and mine were forced to miss a turn in a square surrounded by zombies because apparently we were more interested in a hot bit of passion!! We made it back to the car and whilst fighting off more zombies, fuelled up the car and were off, running and knocking over stumbling and shambling zombies in our way!! Go heroes!!!

With the keys and petrol in hand, the heroes make a mad dash for the car, but are surrounded by zombies! Fighting desperately, they try to make a run for it! 

Yay! With fuel in the car and the keys in the ignition, the heroes win by driving off into the sun rise!

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