Deadzone painting and gaming

They had received reports of the discovery of one of the fabled artifacts on Nexus Psi, Intel from the the pathfinder had indicated it had already been activated, causing the rapid outbreak of “The plague”. In light of this the planet was declared a deadzone, cut off from all outside communication and all reference to the planet scrubbed off of the gcps records. The enforcers were sent in, Kilo squad was sent to investigate rumoured sitings of the stage 1A. Little did they suspect they would be cut off by hordes of stage 3Zs or “zombies”.

Seargent Thoth cursed as he took in his surroundings, the vantage point they had secured showed they were surrounded by the lesser non infectious plague stage 3zs. “Arcturus, radio command, tell them no sign of the Stage 1A. Everyone else, fire positions! We’re going to have to hold off until we receive orders!”

Aleph, Serpent and Arcturus stood on the highest vantage point, with Brick and Seargent Thoth securing the second floor of the Shensig building.

Aleph combat conditioning  from “The program” kicked in, he opened fire, precisely killing one of the infected before he quickly turned his gun on another. Serpent opened fire herself slaying another one of the mindless wretches as they slowly converged on their position.

Brick then loosed with his sidearm, his defender shield occupying his other arm, easily he pierced the skull of an infected as another cleared the wall of the building and charged him, reacting swiftly he pushed the beast back and brough his pistol up under it’s chin slaying the beast. Another one from behind him lunged forward his vicious claw cutting a tear through his armour.

Meanwhile Seargent Thoth was battling two more infected behind Brick, using his monomolecular wristblade he decapitated a beast and kick the other back.

Arcturus realised she needed to draw the beasts away from her companions, activating her jetpack she flew deftly over the top of the Zs who were clambering around the building Kilo squad was holding. She brought her rifle to bear and slew another one of the infernal monsters drawing the attention of three more of the beasts who advanced towards her position.

The melee continues as brick bashes the stage 3Z to death just as Seargent Thoth skewers the Z in front of him. A Z catches up to Arcturus grasping at her as she holds the beast at bay with a few deft kicks.

A clear voice is heard over Kilo squadrons comms “team sending coordinates for extraction, the infection here is far more advanced than we thought, get out of there.”

“Confirmed” replies Seargent Thoth.

“Everyone move”

Arcturus turns her back on the Z in front of her and activates her jetpack but not before the creature slashes at the back of her leg. 

Brick follows suit along with Aleph; Seargent Thoth and Serpent begin to make a break for it but Serpent is quickly overrun by the hellish ghouls. Seargent Thoth turns to help, but he is too late.

“Your service has been noted, Serpent”.

With those final words Seargent Thoth clears out of the area.

This was my first proper attempt at the free solo rules from mantic Nexus Psi deadzone supplement, the battle was well fought and my strategy of stopping the zombies from piling in seemed to have worked except at they very end when “Serpent” was overrun. All in all I had alot of fun and painting up all my zombies for this was well worth it. I’ll be continuing  my solo play through over the next week or two doing a narrative battle report for each mission. Apologies for the grainy photos, the lighting in my makeshift play area is not great. Stay tuned for more of Kilo Squadrons escape from the infected city.