You can find part 4 of this battle report over here.
TURN 5
The Hero Phase opened up with Vyvyan rolling a total of 8" for movement, making it to the fourth plot point, the keys to the groundskeeper's cabin. Rummaging through the entrails Vyv grabs the blood-soaked keys.
SPG now makes his move, the hamster rolling only 2" for movement. With zombies waiting at the water's edge, he turns tail and swims back to the small island in the pond. No good going that way, he'll have to try finding another way out.
The Hero Phase done, it's over to the Security Team Phase.
The Sergent, who is still locked in melee with a Zombie Shuffler, lets fly with his fists. But he only manages to roll a single Skull which the zombie shrugs off by rolling a Black Shield on its Defence die roll.
Trooper 3 now slugs it out with the Shuffler that he is engaged in melee with. Tropper 3 rolls a single Skull in attack which the zombie easily shrugs off by rolling two Black Shields on its own defence die roll.
Both the Sergent and Trooper 3 remain locked in combat. Not a good situation to be in as more zombies bare down on them.
Trooper 2 now helps out. He also is engaged in the melee fight with the Shuffler that attacked Trooper 3. Trooper 2 knows that there is another zombie right behind him and that they are in dire straits. Letting fly, the trooper scores two Skulls on the zombie which fails to deflect the attacks and finally gets put down.
Meanwhile, a group of three Zombie Shufflers now spy Vyvyan and being closest to him, meander on over to the med student as he starts shaking off the blood and viscera from his hands.
Next, the Zombie Runner rolls its movement dice for the turn and clearly has enough movement to close in on the Security Sergent and engage him in melee. The Runner is closely followed by two other Shufflers who remain just out of melee. But the zombie firefighter Shuffler that was behind the Humvee moves in to engage Trooper 3 in melee.
As that happens, the remaining Shufflers on the board spy Trooper 2 on top of the Humvee and start to converge on the entrance to the carpark. Amongst them is a Zombie Brute.
The Shuffler engaged in melee with the Security Sergent now attacks a scores a single Skull result on the dice. The Sergent manages to shrug this off with a single White Shield roll in his Defence die roll.
The Runner however proves its aggressive nature pummelling the Sergent with two Skull results during its attack. The Sergent isn't so fortunate this time and manages only to deflect one hit by rolling one White Shield again in his Defence die roll. The Sergent, with 2 Body, takes a single hit.
It's here that I realised that I made a mistake with regards to the Troopers. The Sergent has 2 Body Points but the Troopers themselves only have one Body Point each. As such, Trooper 3 is a dead man walking. So, I elected to have him succumb to his wounds and die outright. Kind of explains why he was fighting so poorly. Anyway, sorry zombie fireman. No dust-up for you today.
And with that, the Monster Phase comes to a close and so does Turn 5. Things are looking pretty bleak for the Security Team and challenging for our Heroes Vyvyan and SPG. Hmmmm wonder what happens next.
