Doctor Who versus the Daleks with a dash of Zombies & Kylie!

 Wednesday 13th October 

   

                       Tonight’s ripping yarn found us out on the outskirts of the galaxy investigating an abandoned (or so we thought)space hulk bringing together these famed adversaries Doctor Who and his entourage facing off against the might of the Daleks and what an encounter it was.

All colours of the Dalek rainbow.

The Doc and his gang.

Andrew’s girls who ended up twiddling their thumbs.

               The game was intended to be played by three of us but Andrew was informed by a damsel in distress that she needed to be picked up from a night out so he had to drop everything and pander to her every whim.I’m afraid that is the problem with wives.The game then took the form of a Doctor Who episode with the Doctor against Daleks so what more could one ask for.

All the following pics are of the great Spacecraft that Oor Shug built from a filing cabinet.

             The setting was provided by a spacecraft that had been built but Hugh Wilson for a show game many years ago and has stood the test of time and still continues to amaze people when it makes a reappearance.It was playing a part of a space hulk which was slowly moving through space in the Stargrave universe which was about to be visited by The Doctor and his entourage who in turn were about to be hindered by his arch enemy the Daleks.

The Doc appears.

So does the enemy.

            The game as usual kicked off with everybody heading for the loot caches but this time with previous game experience we now were able to direct the proper characters to the proper caches.My plan for the rest of the Daleks was plain and simple-Exterminate!Exterminate!Exterminate!

A wee bit more than one dalek.

The Doc’s gang finally appears.

No time for niceties.

            My Blue leader charged straight up front with some of his retinue in tow seeking out the Doctor and his lackeys in order to fry them with the white and black Daleks holding back to plunder the ship’s riches.El Presidente’s gang moved straight to the first cache with River Song proving initially lucky by opening it straight away.This was in turn picked up by Foxy who started to head for safety with it.First blood to the Doctor.     

The first zombie appears.

“Oh a dalek on its side!”

          My first attempt at a cache was entrusted to the white Dalek who was classed as a code breaker but his first attempt wasn’t to prove fruitful as my dice rolls were coming up a lot short and meant the dalek and the runner dalek were left twiddling their claws till their next turn which p’d off the yellow dalek who being second in

Not for long though.

charge had to hang around with them in order to give them the benefit of the leadership bonus.

The daleks try to storm the hangar.

Hooray for 7.62 mm Full Metal Jacket.

And the Doc goes down-Send for Mr Capaldi.

“Especially For You!”

            Meanwhile galactical disaster was about to hit the Doctor as himself and Jenny decided to venture out of the safety of their own initial hanger and head for the next Dalek infested one leaving River Song and the rest to deal with other caches and the ever increasing threat from the now not so dormant zombies.Meanwhile the Kylie lookalike who went by the name of Astrid picked up some loot in the nearby greenhouse room and was last seen heading for the door singing “I should be so lucky-lucky,lucky,lucky!”

Take cover!

Jenny fights them off.

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 The Doc and Jenny arrived into the room thinking their luck was in as the Blue leader dalek was on his back for some reason but this was all to change as the dalek proceeded to get back on his feet or something along these lines and start taking potshots at the galactic couple.Jenny dived out of the way leaving the Doc to take everything fired at them.The Doc was out of the game and lying around hoping to be regenerated into Peter Capaldi.This fired Jenny up and she started to take the incumbetent daleks out one by one avoiding death rays in the process.

Revenge for the Doc.

Follow me!

Kylie and the Zombie.

      Meanwhile in another room the white dalek had finally cracked the data code and had delegated a red dalek to head for the nearest exit.One down lots to go.Whilst the Blue dalek and his entourage were trying to do away with the acrobatic Jenny another red dalek had nipped in and lo and behold he had deciphered another data base and was following in the footsteps of the first red dalek and was legging it or however daleks make their escape.This gave the opportunity for daleks to head for Colin’s entry hangar and deal more death and destruction to the Doctor’s cause.

“Take that you sack of puss!”

Oh crap!in dalek speak.

Fighting on all sides.

                      What followed was a grim fight to the death with most of the Doc’s crew trying to stop the Daleks getting a foothold into their hangar. The first dalek to emerge into the hangar was the black dalek shouting “EXTERMINATE”and firing everywhere but he met his demise from bullets from a SLR.Well they were always called elephant guns.Whilst most of the crew were holding off the daleks,River was dealing with the zombies who were appearing behind them.This was the one good thing about failing the initiative dice roll on numerous occasions as it gave me the right to place the random arriving zombies and yes they all appeared behind Colin’s space warriors.River was holding them back but eventually weight of numbers was going to drag her down.Meanwhile her minions had just done away with another dalek.

And the wreckage piles up.

Trying to stay hidden.

Yeh for the zombie.

              Jenny meanwhile in the other hangar was going hell for leather fighting of the other daleks.She eventually got revenge for the Doctor’s’ demise as she went hand to hand with the Blue leader Dalek and lo and behold she done away with him.In the next the Yellow and White daleks having done all their data pillaging were thinking that maybe they should go and exterminate some humans so off they rolled only for  El Presidents placed zombie to appear right behind the White dalek and indulge him in hand to hand or hand to sucker type thing.Once again it was to prove that daleks are not really hand to hand machines and it went down in a pile of diseased poo.

Counting the loot.

                         The game was heading for full time and this was preceded by one of Colin’s other assistants heading for the hills with another cache but also by the demise of River Song who had a zombie bite too much.A very narrow victory for El Presidente’s crew albeit with the demise of his captain and his mate.

Enjoying the ambiance.

         A great game played in the usual nonsensical way and alas for Andrew as he missed out on a great evening’s repartee.

           Many thanks to Colin and also the late great Shug for giving us the toys to wile away a dark evening.See You All When I See You!

               This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production!

Friday Night Cracker

 Friday 10th September.  

                 

•                     An unusual evening for a game but due to sheep needing to be shown and wives needing haircuts the only evening spare was Friday so the Stargrave board was set up for an encounter between the crew of the Liberator from Blake’s Seven and a crew of Colin Jack type figures i.e females,from where they came from he can’t remember.He has various gangs made up all ready for Stargrave ranging from Captain Nemo’s crew to the crew of the Serenity with numerous factions in between. 

  

  Another great setup.

  
  

  

  One of the random spaceships.

  
  

  

  Colin’s gang lines up.

  
  

  

  Liberator crew.

  
  

  

  Another spacecraft.

  
  

                      I must admit I had to sit and think about the Liberator crew as I haven’t watched it for a long time and was pleasantly surprised that Glynis Barber was in it and her character in the game was the most successful before her demise which was par for the course of many of my characters due to Colin’s constant accuracy with a grenade launcher .The game once again as these games usually do,started with everybody making a beeline for the nearest loot be it solid loot or a data bank. I have realised in this game that it is a good idea to keep gang members beside the captain and the first mate as any stragglers have to wait till the end for their activation but being together played right into Colin and his grenade launcher’s hands.My team split up up and headed for their respective chosen loot counters with Colin’s gang doing likewise .

Colin’s gang heads out.

My crew being waylaid.

One of his many falls.

Colin’s femme fatales.

    The thing with these games is that they are just games involving shooting and looting so it was a matter of just man (or girl) standing their ground and this was to be the menu for this evening’s play.As my mate’s squad led by Jenna headed down the left flank it was met by an accurately placed grenade from one of Colin’s mob which set the scene for the evening’s play.Jenna took a lot of hits and this was to play a big part in her quick demise which upset my plans and made the rest of her squad be among the last to activate.

Gan goes down.

And again.

This is how it’s done on Danger 5.

         Across the other side of the board Blake’s gang were meeting some serious opposition from two feline like creatures dug in behind a concrete block.Blake himself was having an evening of being the target of Colin’s advances as he kept on falling down and needing to be regenerated to give him some health back.Meanwhile Avon was just sauntering towards the nearest data bank hoping nobody would see him.

Villa goes down.

Blake finally leaves the premises.

The bounty hunter arrives.

               A random part of the game were the four spaceships that were placed on the board and could take off at any minute.This time one did and it was the one next to Jenna and her gang causing singed hair all around.This was the last straw for Jenna and she literally disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving the other three on their “Jack Jones”.As they couldn’t really do anything else they just kept up a hail of fire but this wasn’t to be enough as the next random event saw the arrival of a bounty hunter to which nobody knew who the bounty was.    

The first pirate arrives.

The “wuffians appear.”

Cally gets an Afro.

                                Blake was still going up and down like a tart’s knickers and it was left to the Soolin character and the Deyna   character to do the damage.With one lucky shot Deyna done away with one of Colin’s figures who tried peeking around a corner only to met with a laser blast-Booyah!This wasn’t to last for long as next Cally had her hair permed by another nearby spaceship taking off.This also heralded the arrival of a couple of “wuffians”to annoy my gang even more.The only good thing was that they only lasted a couple of turns before they were turned into molten protein.

“Climb every mountain.”

       Colin’s gang meanwhile were on easy street especially as they had quickly took control of two loot stacks ,one being a data base so it was easier to carry.Actually the one that took control of the solid looked was armed with a dirty great big hammer and looked like she wasn’t going to take any prisoners.Everything seemed to be plain sailing for Colin as he also took care of the materialising bounty hunter only for it to be replaced by the start of hordes of pirates who started to invade the board from all sides.

More pirates arrive.

Colin’s gang dwindling.

           Seeing the arrival of these pirates I decided it was time to head for the proverbial hills as my extra from Danger 5 had finally taken control of a solid loot counter and decided the best form of action was to follow Avon of the board.By this time Soolin had succumbed to laser blast fire from Colin’s gang and Cally had died with her calfskin boots on so it was left for Deyna to provide covering fire for the loot carriers.Avon escaped with his booty but the Danger 5 interloper was gunned down in the back and was last seen slumped over the downed loot box.   

An amazing spacecraft made from a cassette courtesy of Oor Shug.

              That was my game over but Colin was still in the middle of a fighting retreat and although Miss Hammertime had made it of the board the rest of her gang were fighting and dying trying to protect the data that had been purloined from the top of the central building.She managed to finally reach safety but the rest of the crew were dying to a man fighting against the ever increasing hordes of pirates who were arriving.

Danger 5 man -so near yet so far.

           A great game played to the end for once with Colin coming out slight victor due to his ability to do away with my gang using plenty grenades in the process.All figures,scenery and scenario provided by mein host with a pre-game repast provided by Duchess of Garvald.What more could one ask for.The next time we play I think it’s time to bring in Diana and the visitors!

          This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production!

          See you all when I see you!😎