This week I was able to finish up a couple more items on my Walking Dead to-do list: the Rick on Horse figure and my cheap plastic toy tank.
The tank was exceedingly easy as I try not to spend too much time on terrain if I can help it. After a comment on my initial post about the tank type, I started looking into it and found that it kind of resembled an M48 Patton:
I was priming my new Rick on Horse figure and the walker figure that comes in the expansion kept puzzling me.
from Mantic Games
I was walking through my local Walgreen’s and stumbled upon a cheap little find for The Walking Dead: All Out War- a plastic army man set with some interesting plastic terrain:
Threat is a major force in The Walking Dead: All Out War and tracking it is important. Mantic gave us a threat dial and a spinner but spinners make for a weak way to track such an important aspect of the game, mainly because they are so good at, well, spinning. Let’s see if we can’t change that up a bit.
I saw a user on Boardgamegeek talk about only going with the Prelude to Woodbury expansion to start his collection in The Walking Dead: All Out War and never picking up the Core Set. I think this is perfectly doable but like in most things, there will be tradeoffs and balances to this approach.
I decided to research more into this and find out exactly what you’ll be missing if you go this route and what do you gain.
While compiling all the images from my second comic issue, I noticed that the camera picked up the stock dark trees as actually a bit browner than I anticipated.
A little light update for today’s Walking Dead Wednesday. I started working on Shane and Carl this past week.
Also, I was able to pick up the Prelude to Woodbury and Morgan booster that are retail only.
It’s nice to have extras of the of Killzone template and dice but the ruler is a little off.
As you can see, the Prelude Ruler is shorter than the Kickstarter Core Set.
Comparing it to an actual ruler, you can see the Prelude ruler is almost a quarter inch shorter. Bummer. The Killzone and Threat tracker was the same though so it’s odd they changed the size just for the ruler. Likely it wouldn’t fit otherwise and since the ruler is for a solo set, all the distances will be consistent within your own solo game.
The other little mistep in this set is the Solo Event deck. This is likely one of the biggest draws after the new figures and cards. The Solo Event deck rewords the text to clarify how to execute the event in solo play. Unfortunately, the cards have “Solo” emblazoned on the back of the card so all those great solo missions in Days Gone Bye and future expansions that add new event cards (which don’t have “Solo” on the back) won’t work unless you use opaque card sleeves. Ah well. Maybe I’ll pick some of those up.
Lastly, Mantic is running a Walking Dead week this week on their blog and Facebook page. They’ll be talking about custom templates, a limited edition resin diorama, and more so be sure to check that out.
Stewart Gibbs is a studio manager at Mantic Games and answers questions on Facebook for The Walking Dead: All Out War. I was going through one of the threads and Stewart was kind enough to give details on the scenery for the next three expansions. I don’t recall exactly what thread his comments were in but I did save them for future reference:
For the farm, you’ll need 6 fences around 3″ long, a tractor, a barn around 6″ by 8″, and 4 hay bales.
For the prison, you’ll need 5 chain link fences around 4″ long – that’s it for the prison as the rest is the internal corridors which are printed on the mat. You could build a 3D one to match, but you’ll need to wait for the actual mat if you want to match sizes etc.
For Woodbury, you’ll need 2 smoke clouds about 3″ across, 4 lamp posts, 6 stakes for walkers to be tied to in the arena, and a tank around 7″ by 4″. The rest of the Woodbury stuff is four houses, all printed on the mat. They must be small enough that there’s room on a 20″ mat to have a street between them, and space between and behind them for models to move. They can have a few rooms in each, but all of them must have at least one 75mm square room that is used for certain objective overlays.
With my trees complete, I just had a few items left to finish out my Days Gone Bye terrain- the tents and the campfire. I was able to find a pretty good campfire in an old Warzones figure set but the tents were a little more challenging.
I recently popped over to Sean’s Gaming and Shooting Blog, a fellow Walking Dead: All Out War fan, to check out some of his painting techniques and stumbled across an end of the year post about yearly game challenges. Sean was pulling this from a post he saw at The Stronghold Rebuilt.
(i) Select a list of Six games. These can be miniature, card, board or role-playing games. You may change entries on the list during the year, but game-plays for games you drop should no longer count towards the challenge.(ii) To start the challenge, post the link to your blog.(iii) You commit to play each of your six chosen games at least six times during the course of 2017.(iv) When you play a game in your challenge list, record the play in your blog. This record can range from a one line acknowledgment to a full blow-by-blow report.
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