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Hi Dakka Dakka!

After looking at the feedback from my posting of the KT:Z rules (version 1.2 click here for link) we decided to play test the scenario and got together for a game at my place.

My volunteer Space Marine player was my good gaming buddy Kev - he’s been working on some Death Watch models for this scenario so he gave them a first outing;

Brother Balik (Chapter: Blood Angels) 30 pts
Codex: Space Marines. Sternguard (25 pts). 5 additional rounds of ammunition for Bolt Gun (5 pts).

Brother Sven (Chapter: Space Wolves) 30 pts
Codex: Space Marines. Sternguard (25 pts). 5 additional rounds of ammunition for Bolt Gun (5 pts).

Brother Azrael (Chapter: Ultramarines) 30 pts
Codex: Space Marines. Sternguard (25 pts). 5 additional rounds of ammunition for Bolt Gun (5 pts).

Brother Xander (Chapter: Imperial Fists) 30 pts
Codex: Space Marines. Sternguard (25 pts). 5 additional rounds of ammunition for Bolt Gun (5 pts).


This is what we thought of as the ‘standard’ choice for this scenario and should give a decent view of how the zombie stats and numbers work against the Space Marines and their special rules.


It was a fun game and I’ve written up a brief batrep with some pictures too...

Turn 1 ... all 20 zombies shamble forwards as the Kill Team switch to ‘Kraken Bolt‘ ammunition for a long 30” range and begin peppering the undead horde with adamantine cored shots.

The zombie horde slowly continue to plod towards the waiting Space Marines gun line, body parts exploding with bolt shell after bolt shell impacting within their ranks.


As soon as the zombie horde got within 12” the Space Marines switched immediately to ‘Hellfire’ rounds. With two shots each, wounding on a 2+ the Kill Team wreaked havoc amongst the zombies.

It takes until turn 13 for 2 zombies to actually manage a charge. Brother Balik, of the Blood Angels, fights off the 2 zombies as the rest of the horde continues its relentless trudge forwards.


Around turn 21 Brother Balik is the first of the Kill Team to be wounded after receiving numerous zombie charges.

The Blood Angel is the also the first to run out of ammunition, the ominous dry click of his Bolt Gun’s firing chamber sounding out with an exaggerated loudness in the desolate zombie filled Necropolis.

The stalwart Blood Angel is then the first to be pulled down to his death as the horde breaks over the Space Marine defences - Brother Sven, of the Space Wolves, is unable to get to the Blood Angel in time as he too fights off the shambling undead.


Turn 27 then sees Brother Sven dragged down under the claws of 4 zombies surrounding him, ammunition counters are showing a bleak prospect and the Kill Team is down to 50% strength. The zombies continue forwards, only stopping briefly to feed on the fresh warm meat of two dead Space Marines.

Click ... click ... click!!! Turn 29 and the Ultramarine and Imperial First are now both out of all ammunition! With cries of “For the Emperor” they charge out of their hastily formed defensive position.

Dropping the now useless bolt guns and pistols, they draw combat blades and prepare for a valiant last stand. Turn 35 and the two Space Marines fight their way clear, earning the briefest of respites and start advancing into the zombie horde.

Totally surrounded, the Ultramarine is the first to suffer a wound while the Imperial Fist continues to make armour save after armour save ... after armour save!

Brother Azrael of the Ultramarines then manages to shrug off in one round of melee; 9 zombie attack dice, 6 hits inflicting 3 wounds. All while on his last wound!

After such heroism, ironically, on turn 43 Brother Azrael kills a veritable swam of clawing zombies on his own and then succumbs to the one remaining zombie! While Brother Xander of the Imperial Fists continues to hack, punch and kick any that come within striking range.


Turn 45, Brother Xander finally takes a wound after spending many rounds of combat engaged with 5 zombies and surrounded by an ever growing horde of the undead.

Turn 46 and it’s all over, the Imperial Fist is the last of the Kill Team to die.

Those zombie in close proximity feed from the genetically enhanced flesh, while the rest of the horde wanders aimlessly ... totally unaware of the heroic battle that has just taken place.


Now for the bit i’m sure you’ll all be interested in, the Kill Count...

Brother Azrael (Ultramarines) Ranged: 16 Melee: 32 Total: 48
Brother Xander (Imperial Fists) Ranged: 11 Melee: 29 Total: 40
Brother Sven (Space Wolves) Ranged: 11 Melee: 7 Total: 18
Brother Balik (Blood Angels) Ranged: 12 Melee: 6 Total: 18

So, Brother Azrael of the Ultramarines makes claim to the first KT:Z Kill Count lead with an impressive 48 kills.

With an equally impressive total for Kev of 124 zombies killed over 46 turns!


Game Summary
Woot! Zombie goodness ... I actually started slurring "Brainzzz" everytime I got a charge in! And most of the rules worked exactly the way I had hoped.

The Space Marines were awesome, true stuff of legends, with the double wounds meaning none of them went down to one dodgy saving throw and the gun line really only started to struggle as ammunition ran out (as intended).

We found some issues with how to apply the normal 40k game rules to this scenario though and I’ll post these under the rules link (version 1.2 click here for link) in the next few days and update the rules to v1.3.





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Ps. this is my first post with pics and they don't seem to be working - if anyone can advise why?

I made a similar scenario with my friends. The major differences that mine had were A) you could use any codex B) shooting your guns attracted more zombies (1D6 per level of noise -Initiative/2) C) and depending on the scenario you had different objectives (like getting to an escape craft, or collecting objectives) Good to see im not the only one.

Awesome stuff man I really like the Idea. In fact, the whole thing made a friend an me tried a similar scenario, it's quite fun to play! Hope you post more games like these

Ran this with 3 players but we wanted to speed it up so ... we gave the zombies st3 t3 and FNP

Glad we did as it still went about 60+ turns, had Dark Eldar ... Space marines ... Space wolves

hellions and wyches ... hellions perform well here

Reg Marines got eaten up fast, he failed alot of power armor saves fast

Rune Priest with Murderous hurricane and Lliving Lightning took a long time as I kept rolling 1s in my movement ... and than it took like 30 turns of combat to killem

for images you need to host them on imageshack.com or something similar.

Once you got the link, use this format:

[ img ] www.hurr.com/derp.jpg [ / img]

no spaces

Hmmm...

have tried lots of combos but the image still won't show. The link to it is; http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Image:KTZ_PT1_1

The Dakka page itself says; This image can be included in any article by adding: [[Image:KTZ PT1 1]] where you want the image to appear.

Have tried scubasteve04's syntax too and it won't do it that way eitehr;
[ img ] http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/2010/11/KTZ_PT1_1-27145527.jpg [ / img]

Anyone help?

Am sure it can be stored on the Dakka site! :(



Woot ... it worked

Like this?



Right click on image - copy picture adress (possibly other text, my Norwegian text probably won't help you), click the images button in the post menu and paste the picture adress between them like this:

[ img ]http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2010/11/27/158819_md-Inquisitor%2C%20Kill%20Team%2C%20Zombie.jpg[ /img ]

Illumini wrote:Like this?

Yep and thanks ... got it to work now

I think I'll have to try this out. Though when I first read the rules, I thought it meant you had one guy and had to make the stand with him, not a group of individuals.

Juvieus Kaine wrote:I think I'll have to try this out. Though when I first read the rules, I thought it meant you had one guy and had to make the stand with him, not a group of individuals.

Ah, it might need a rewrite then ... the idea is very much that each Space Marine player gets to spend his or her points however she likes, mainly influenced by the models they think are cool and would suite this scenario.

A Chaplin for example would be tough to kill but wouldn't account for many kills at range - Sternguard are good all-rounders, but then with Scouts you'd get a lot more models/ammunition.

Think we'll be banning Terminator armour, it's too good.

Have increased the number of Zombies to 25 per SM player but won't give them FNP as they should die in their droves and have to 'gang up' in order to stand a chance of dragging the Marines down (which is exactly what happened in our play test game).

I now have approximately 90 Zombies, with about 30 glued up and 10 painted so will be posting a larger test game soon. Thanks for all the feed back

This looks like fantastic fun.

will you be doing a 1.3 rules version with restrictions on war-gear and units listed? And other changes you might want to make.