Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

Introduction We return to the ruined streets of Grozniansk.  Senior Sergeant Orlov and Corporal Pekarsky (veterans of the Federal Special Forces), are on a mission to locate a bag of classified government files that were stashed at the base of the War Memorial in Victory Square.  The square is in the territory of the self styled Lord of the Dead, Betaevski and his undead minions.  Will the soldiers be able to complete their mission without ending up on the menu?  The stats for both forces can be found here . The Soldiers Betaevski and the dead Round 1 Start positions, Soldiers (red), Undead (blue) Strangely as Senior Sergeant Orlov is a tactician, Betaevski and his zombies gain the initiative.  Betaevski uses two actions to Move to the corner of the War Memorial.  This brings him into LoS of the Soldiers so he Shoots at Orlov who is leading his unit.  He hits him and straightaway the leader of the Soldiers is Down . Orlov activates next and takes ...

It was during the first year of the pandemic that I started to build up a collection inspired by the Zona Alfa rules.  I've always liked the Post-Apocalyptic neo-Soviet look and these rules struck a chord with me.  So that I could use my existing terrain, I decided to do this project in 20mm using figures from the Elhiem Modern ranges.  Most of the figures are great but I've never been happy with the Zombies.  This year I found a seller on eBay knocking out sets of 12 individual figures split out from the Dark Alliance boxes.  It was worth a go so I ordered them. There are 48 figures in a full box, 4 of each type.  I don't want any duplicates in my collection so even though it was more expensive per figure when compared to buying a full box, this worked well for me.  Generally I avoid soft plastic but persevered with these.  I did attempt to remove some of the flash and mould lines, but it was going to be a right bugger to do, so I left it on....