{"id":4461,"date":"2018-03-28T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2018-03-28T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:33:57","slug":"walking-dead-wednesday-brawlin-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4461","title":{"rendered":"Walking Dead Wednesday: Brawlin’ Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"

See I caught ’em wit a right hook, caught ’em wit a jab
\nCaught ’em wit an uppercut, kicked ’em in his ass<\/p>\n

Ludacris – Get Back<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I have a lot of figures still to paint for Walking Dead: All Out War so I decided to start grouping them and today I have the pair of knuckle-sandwich throwing Survivors, Arnold Greene and Axel.<\/div>\n
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Arnold doesn’t get a lot of page-time in the comics and comes off as more of a meathead than anything else but Axel, he is legit. Axel is one of my favorite characters in the series and it’s too bad we’ll likely only see one sculpt of him.<\/p>\n

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Well enough about them, it’s Pit night and so let’s see how these two do.\u00a0 Arnold ops for “age before beauty” so Axel is up first.<\/p>\n

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For both brawlers, I wanted to try to keep them the same so I have each with the Keepsake<\/em>, Lucky Charm<\/em>, and Bandages<\/em>. After that, I customized their gear to fit their character.\u00a0 I wish the game had brass knuckles but maybe that is a really risky zombie-fighting weapon.\u00a0 I settled on some Makeshift Body Armour<\/em> that Axel could have made at the prison and a Fire Axe<\/em>, which should also prove common there.<\/p>\n

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The lights flicker on, blinding Axel as he gets to his feet. As his eyes adjust, the stark room comes into focus centering on the blood scrawled message in the center of the room: \u201cSURVIVE.\u201d Before he can even think about the cryptic message, Axel sees the walkers.\u00a0 With no discernible way out, the message becomes crystal clear as the dead start to notice they too are no longer alone\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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Axel decides to play it safe and sneak over towards the first search token.<\/p>\n

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The Pit has other ideas though and the Herd event comes up, bringing damn near everyone on top of him.\u00a0 Luckily, Axel wasn’t caught in between a bunch of the walkers so the cop walker leading the herd brought them to her first.<\/p>\n

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And with that, Axel just Fire Axe’s cop walker in the head and takes her down. Axel might have some issues with authority helping to drive his fighting instincts.<\/p>\n

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Axel still has a gang of walkers nearby but overall, a very productive round.<\/p>\n

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Needing to get out of there, Axel hoofs it across the room to a different search token and gains the attention of Shane walker.<\/p>\n

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And down he goes! Axel really<\/em> doesn’t like the authoritah.<\/p>\n

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In the next round, Axel sneaks over to the crate and finds some useless ammo.<\/p>\n

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He purposely drew on trucker walker but didn’t realize he’d pick punk walker as a stray.<\/p>\n

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IT DON’T MATTER! Axel goes into Beast Mode<\/a> and uses his keepsake pendant take down two walkers.\u00a0 That is the first double-tap I’ve seen in The Pit. Axel is on fire now.<\/p>\n

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The Pit is looking a bit lonely!<\/p>\n

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Three rounds and four walkers killed is easily a record.\u00a0 Let’s see where Axel goes from here.<\/p>\n

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Axel sneaks over to the next stash, keeping a walker within the killzone.<\/p>\n

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Sure enough, Guts walker saunters over.<\/p>\n

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And Axel just doesn’t care. He obliterates the walker with a little luck. Five walkers down and two search tokens by round four is definitely putting Axel as the king of the Pit.<\/p>\n

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And then there was one.<\/p>\n

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Axel’s time is running out.\u00a0 He’ll have one more round before the nerves start to get to him.<\/p>\n

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Axel sneaks over to the last bit of loot and finds another mediocre weapon.<\/p>\n

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But gains a friend.\u00a0 Axel is feeling the adrenaline wain and isn’t quite able to bring it home.<\/p>\n

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Almost out of time but maybe there is enough time to finish the last walker off.<\/p>\n

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Axel passes his panic test with only the loss of one action so he engages the prone walker just as Pandemonium kicks in and draws in four new walkers.\u00a0 Luckily, they don’t engage so Axel is free to try and take out the downed walker.<\/p>\n

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With a final blow, Axel kills the sixth walker.<\/p>\n

With the last walker destroyed, Axel hears a faint click and notices behind him that a door has opened, lancing the room with a thin stream of light. Without hesitation, Axel throws the door wide and barrels through into the blinding light…<\/em><\/p>\n

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So… I’ve had an ending for The Pit in mind since I started but didn’t really expect anyone to make it through, at least not until I started using some of the heavy hitting Survivors.\u00a0 Axel’s amazing performance forced me to outline the full rules of The Pit in a little more detail.<\/p>\n

To clarify the rules a little more on The Pit, time had actually run out for Axel but I’ve been running the last several sessions where I let the rounds finish out even if they hit the full threat value.\u00a0 So Threat will end the session but only at the end of a round.\u00a0 Further increases to threat during a round are ignored.<\/p>\n

Also, the Pit will end once a survivor has destroyed a number of walkers equal to what started in the Pit and searched all three search tokens.\u00a0 Most of the time, this will be 6 walkers at the start but that number may move up if I need to push a survivor to more than 75 points.\u00a0 More walkers can arrive and be killed but aren’t required to escape.<\/p>\n

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Axel – 1st Hall of Famer<\/span><\/h5>\n