A Brave New World

The table was set, and it was time to get some figures out and have a go at actually playing a game of Fallout Wasteland Warfare.

Both my friend, Adam, and I had read through the rules and watched plenty of YouTube videos in preparation for our first tentative steps into the world.

We decided that we would play cooperatively as ultimately the plan is that a small group of us, Myself and my two Battletech buddies, would have a go at setting up a settlement and hopefully watch it prosper as we worked together to build a better world.  For when we needed to scratch that itch of going head-to-head, we would shift over to Fallout Factions and run opposing gangs there.

We chose to arm our small motley crew of rag-tag humans with the bare minimum, a bolt rifle here, a stun baton there, nothing too fancy as we imagined that this was a group of newly acquainted people just starting out.

We kept the AI controlled enemies to the basics of Molerats and Radroach’s, which we figured we should be able to handle without too much drama, oh how wrong were we?

Now this game really does make you feel like you are totally unprepared for all the nasties out there and it wasn’t too long before we realised just how squishy people really are in the irradiated wasteland.  Before long, our team was swamped by gribbly creatures hell-bent on sucking out our juicy innards.

Thankfully this was a learning game before settling down on how we intend to go forward and we certainly learnt a lot.   Having no armour makes things scary.  When things charge you, it is a fight for your life, none of this heroic wading through things unscathed.    Some of the larger things in the wasteland just got a lot scarier and even the smallest piece of armour became a lot more sought after.

The game does a great job of capturing the feel of the video game where at low levels you do feel vulnerable to almost everything.

After the game, we sat back and reflected on how we planned to go forward with this, and we decided that we quite liked the feeling of being completely out of our depth.  It made those small finds so much more important, the small victories so much more awesome and all of a sudden, our characters were at risk of being lost by our carelessness and that the loss of even one person would send shockwaves through our little settlement.

So yes, there will be more.  We will start up a little group, head into the wasteland, and see where our adventures take us.  I know one thing for sure, I will enjoy doing more terrain for this at the very least.