I played in a Where Heroes Dare game at Winter War 40 (I also ran one but with only one player I don't feel like posting those pics). This is the first time I got to play, as opposed to run WHD and it was an interesting experience.
The Plot
Dr. Evil was exchanging human captives for Element X from the Zombies of the Stratosphere. It was up to the US Rocket Soldiers, Doc Bronze and his gang of heroes, and two units of Aiship Mercenaries (OK I forgot what the names of the groups really were, so I am making that up) to assault Dr. Evil's Sky Lair. The Airship Mercenaries were lowered from their airship, Docs landed via Autogyro, and the Rocket Soldiers flew to the flaoting sky lair. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil awaited the arrival of the Zombies for Planet X to exchange human captives for Element X. Dr. Fong's Tong was also on the Sky Lair to provide the Dr. with extra muscle.
Here you see the Zombies caustiously exit there rocketships (yeah $1 rocket sippy cups) while at the far side of the lair Dr. Evil and his henchmen await. Between them await the captives, helplessly in a cage.
The Plot
Dr. Evil was exchanging human captives for Element X from the Zombies of the Stratosphere. It was up to the US Rocket Soldiers, Doc Bronze and his gang of heroes, and two units of Aiship Mercenaries (OK I forgot what the names of the groups really were, so I am making that up) to assault Dr. Evil's Sky Lair. The Airship Mercenaries were lowered from their airship, Docs landed via Autogyro, and the Rocket Soldiers flew to the flaoting sky lair. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil awaited the arrival of the Zombies for Planet X to exchange human captives for Element X. Dr. Fong's Tong was also on the Sky Lair to provide the Dr. with extra muscle.
Here you see the Zombies caustiously exit there rocketships (yeah $1 rocket sippy cups) while at the far side of the lair Dr. Evil and his henchmen await. Between them await the captives, helplessly in a cage.
The two groups of Airship Mercenaries (their motto "If you've got the money, we've got the death from the skies") charged over the hill and quickly gunned down two of the Zombies (it's nice to have the initiative). My group of mercenaries is the one on the left.
Then the US Rocket Soldiers dropped in on the ones who had made it to cover.
Dr. Evil met the other group of Space Zombies and turned over three captives to them. My group moved into cover behind a rocketship while the other mercenaries tried to get a shot in, but couldn't becuase of the captives being in the way. So they instead shot two of the "dead" Zombies that had stood back up (these Space Zombies were truly zombies, for death didn't always keep them down).
Meanwhile the Rocket Soldiers snuck back to the other side of the compound, via the underground tunnels (see the hatch), to join up with Doc Bronze and his men.
Unable to stop the Zombies from loading the captives on their rocketship (and unable to figure out how to open the door to the rocketship) my men (and one lady) charged the laboratory containing the Mind Control device with guns blazing. Maybe it was our gunfire, or maybe it was just bad die-rolls, but Dr. Evil couldn't get the device to work.
Doc Bronze and his men charged Dr. Fong's Tong, dropping some with the Mercy Bullets before KOing the rest in hand to hand.
I kept Dr. Evil's men engaged while being fired upon by the Zombies who exited their Rocket Ship (which promptly took off with the captives leaving them behind). Caught in a cross fire two of my brave men went down, but so did all the Zombies that came out to play. With the Rocket Soldier and my remaining men (and one lady) firing at the Lab with the Mind Control device, while Doc Bronze and his men took over the building right to the north of the Lab. Surrounded and out-gunned, Dr. Evil decided it was time to stop trying to get the Mind Control device to work and fled via a convienent hidden exit. Meanwhile the other Airship Mercenaries escorted to remaining captives to freedom.
A victory for the good guys. Dr. Evil's Mind Control device and a rocketship was captured, and most of the Zombies of the Stratosphere and Dr. Fong's Tong were killed or captured. The Zombies did get away with three humans to experiement on, but I'm sure a genius like Doc Bronze can figure out the remaining rocketship and go to free them.
A few things I learned about Where Heroes Dare
1. Remember the Bullet Proof Vest
I was the only group to have such an item (I bought it since the guy running the game had to short me a weapon). With so much lead flying a vest is your best chance of keeping people in the game.
2. Numbers count.
Especially in the early turns the good guys had a great advantage by ganging up on one part of the bad guys. One group of Zombies ended up facing three groups of good guys, one right after the other. By putting out one enemy group right away (Ok sometimes they got to stand up again, but since that was all they could do on their turn they'd get shot back down) it left the good guys with a real advantage. When I ran a multiplayer WHD game at a Con I had several groups, that all had different objactives and different enemies. With just two sides (even if several players) it allowed one side to concentrate on part of their enemies to gain the upper hand.
A few things I learned about Where Heroes Dare
1. Remember the Bullet Proof Vest
I was the only group to have such an item (I bought it since the guy running the game had to short me a weapon). With so much lead flying a vest is your best chance of keeping people in the game.
2. Numbers count.
Especially in the early turns the good guys had a great advantage by ganging up on one part of the bad guys. One group of Zombies ended up facing three groups of good guys, one right after the other. By putting out one enemy group right away (Ok sometimes they got to stand up again, but since that was all they could do on their turn they'd get shot back down) it left the good guys with a real advantage. When I ran a multiplayer WHD game at a Con I had several groups, that all had different objactives and different enemies. With just two sides (even if several players) it allowed one side to concentrate on part of their enemies to gain the upper hand.
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