City of Long Beach - Mission #2

After Action Report - 4 April 1943

 Target: Bremen, Germany

 Middle Squadron

Inbound to the target enemy fighter resistance was light. Two waves of enemy fighters attacked over target area killing bombardier before bomb run. Pilot toggled bombs.

 Bomb Run: Off Target - 5%

Other damage:

Stbd cheek guns damaged

Enemy planes shot down:
1x Me 109
1x FW 190
1x Me 410

City of Long Beach - Mission #1

After Action Report - 1 April 1943

Target: Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Inbound to the target off the coast of Holland, The City Of Long Beach was attacked by enemy fighters.

Two head on attacks by FW 190s resulted in hits to the nose killing the Bombardier and Navigator. The Pilot and Co-Pilot's heating units were also hit and became non-functional.

Based on these events, Lt Dick Beigel made the decision to abort the mission while the aircraft was still within friendly fighter cover.

Other damage:

Oxygen fire in radio compartment

Life rafts damaged

Enemy planes shot down:

1x Me 109

2x FW 190s

 

Lt Beigel and the "City of Long Beach"

Having escaped from Stalag 13, Lt Dick Beigel has been re-issued a newly arrived B17 that he has named "City of Long Beach." He is awaiting further orders...

He was last heard saying, " I can't wait to pound those Nazi bastards again!"

 

 

He then walked to the base mess hall, and ordered a enchilada, no onions.

 

The Scenic 78 - Day 6, The Bleens

Mrs. Bleen and her three daughters were driving home from an errand when she became distracted by the walking dead. She served and hit a post. Nobody was hurt. She was surrounded by zombies until we showed up.

I stopped the pickup on the opposite side of the street. We jumped out with guns blazing.

Immediately Dick killed a zombie with his bolt action rifle and Eddie got one with his assualt rifle.

I ran over to the Bleens. Two zombies were coming down the street. A blast from my shotgun only knocked them down. In a minute or so they were advancing again.

The undead are hard to kill.
 

Knocking down the two zeds gave us enough time to get to the truck. I was the last to get in. Dick started the truck and was ready to drive.  As I was attempting to get around the truck to get in the passenger seat, two more zombies advanced on me.

Before they could reach me I gave them a blast from my shotgun.

Hot lead only knocked them down!

Instead of continuing over to the passenger side I hopped on to the truck and told Dick to, "Drive!!"

Another close one.

After this encounter, Eddie decided he couldn't handle it any more and left our group.

The Scenic 78 - Day 5, The Zombie Master

Not sure how we got roped into this one.

Heading west on the scenic 78 we were flagged down by a local resident. He claimed his town had been taken over by a Zombie Master of some sort, disguised as one of the townsfolk - the only difference was that his eyeballs were different than a human's. Simple, somebody just had to get close enough to identify this monster. I guess that was us. We should have kept on driving....

It could be one of these residents or somebody inside one of the buildings.

Could the Zombie Master be the lady with the baby?

A guy smoking in the park?

Or Santa begging for a handout?

Cheap gas!

It was up to us to find out.

We split into two groups checking out the two houses on the side of the road. Frankie and Eddie found nothing in the first house. Since people were still living in town we didn't search for any loot. Dick and I took the next house.  Nothing in the front room. In the back room there were three armed townsfolk.  We checked them over.  I whispered to Dick, "These guys aren't humans..."

Dick and I blasted away. It was the Zombie Master with two of his minions! My shotgun blast blew all three to the floor. Dick fired his rifle into the Zombie Master. All hell broke loose in the town!

Zombies coming out of the woodwork!

More zombies poured in!

Yikes! A zombie cat!

Some of the civilians panicked or ducked back. Some of the town residents took arms and were able kill a handful a zombies as soon as they appeared. As Frankie exited the house he was overwhelmed by zombies.

It doesn't look good for Frankie!

Frankie swung his SMG and bashed the head of the first zombie. Unfortunately there were just of too many of them for Frankie. Around the corner, the panicked lady and her baby were discovered by Zombies from behind. She never knew what ate her. Fortunately for the rest of us, all this feasting provided a temporary distraction for the zombies.

The zombies feasting on the two humans.

Eddie jumped out the side window while the goons were busy eating Frankie. He made a dash for the truck.  Dick and I ran out the front door past the feeding frenzy back to the truck. The zeds paid no attention to us.

The townsfolk down at the gas station looked as if they had under everything under control.

The zombie body count was piling up at the gas station.

We killed the Zombie Master and lost one man in the process.  Our job was over.

Time to get back on the road.

Game Note: After the encounter ended  I rolled on the Keeping it Together table and Eddie decides to stay with the group. No increase in rep for me and Dick. 

The Scenic 78 - Day 4 Very Early Morning

It was a tough night last night. The two soldiers left during the night.

We occupied the bottom floor of the house, trying to get some shut eye. For some reason Ron went nuts wanting to take charge of the group. Ron opened fire with his shotgun on me, Dick and one of the new people. The woman was shot dead, Dick was wounded and knocked down and I was stunned.

The girl on the left was dead, Dick was wounded, and I was knocked to the floor stunned.

The others in the group fired back at Ron, but missed. Ron blasted back as they ducked out the window. The exchange of gun fire attracted a couple zombies.

The zombies quickly approached the house and found Eddie on the ground prone after taking cover from the shotgun fire. Eddie clubbed the two zombies with his assault rifle as they attacked him. He was lucky to survive.

Eddie had jumped out the window and was attacked by 2 goons.

Ron could have finished us off, but decided to leave the house. After regaining my senses I got up and got a shot off at Ron as he was leaving the building, severely wounding him. I searched his body and grabbed his shotgun.

"Out Of the Fight." I found a Derringer Pistol and some food on Ron.

Sam, one of the new guys who was shot at, ran off into the night. We packed our stuff and headed back to the truck. Not much sleep tonight.


The encounter was based on the Keep It Together table. Ron rolled the mutiny result. I substituted  the Derringer from 6 Gun Sound for the Machine Pistol to the Recovered Items table in I Zombie. Dick recovered minus 1 to his Rep after being shot. Because this happened at night the remaining group members will roll on the Lack of Sleep table found in I, Zombie.

The Scenic 78 - Day 3

Cruising down the scenic 78, in the area of the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, there was a small pond off the highway. We pulled over to fill our water bottles. Our group approached the pond from the west.

The pond in the middle, 5 basketcases to the left.

As we neared the pond a group of huddled survivors appeared. They seemed like a helpless bunch. As soon as they saw us they dispersed.

5 basketcases before they dispersed. One waved at us.

Off to our right a fairly well armed group of residents appeared in cover. Since Dick and I were unarmed we stayed put and Ron carefully approached the armed residents as Frankie and Eddie provided cover.

Ron talking to the 5 Residents of the area.

Fortunately, the residents were friendly and were open to trading with us. Ron knew Dick and I needed fire arms so he was able to trade a couple bolt action rifles for a can of Coke. Not bad!

Another strangle vine appeared on the banks of the pond. Looks like we'll skip the water.

A Strangle Vine waiting for its next victim to take a drink from the pond.

Dick and I tried to rally the basketcases. We found it difficult. As soon as we approached one or two of them they just took off and hid in the bushes. Ron and his group had the same problem. The residents we traded with did their best to round up the basketcases. Either that or let the goons eat them for lunch.

A basketcase taking cover.

As Dick and I attempted to help a basketcase, we spotted a lone house (3rd PEF). Since Dick and I were still unarmed we stayed outside. Ron signaled that he'd go into the house.

Dick spots a house!

Ron's group entered the house. Only two soldiers and a couple of frighten civilians were hiding out. A bottle of booze and a book of matches were found inside - they might come in handy later on. The booze might be good for trading.

Group meeting.

Unfortunately, we will be unable to get water from the pond because of the Strangle Vine. It's too unsafe. We'll spend the night at the house and move on in the morning. Ron handed over the the two bolt action rifles to Dick and I. No sign of the local residents or the basketcases.

This was an encounter I created - attempt to get drinking water from the center of the table with PEFs. Game wise, we failed to get the drinking water.  It wasn't worth risking our lives. The strangle vine was an idea I found online somewhere. No fame or fortune points gains or lost.