Long time lurker first time poster et cetera...
Also not a native speaker of English and this post is hella long, bear with me.
Long story short: this is the best scenario for civ III (which is the best civ in the series BTW) hands down, and I've played many. Everything about is just perfect and great and
ONE MORE TURN Aaaarararrrghghh!!!!!!!. I went "Hell Yeah!!!" just about everything, and I've only played the Survivors so far. Ninjas, Samurais, Strippers, Cars and Chainsaw. And Zombies. Oh boy are there zombies. There are a lot of zombies. Too many for me to handle actually.
Don't forget to put all the settings for movement and battles to manual. Then and only then you will experience the true Terror of myriads of zombie lurking out of the fog of war in a disorderly fashion (the AI way of leading campaigns suit the Zombies, lots of useless random waste of movement points and units all over the place). Turns will last longer I know but who cares? It's all about the thrill am I right?
OK, now that we're clear, I'm gonna tell you the story of a resounding defeat.
I gave the scenario a few test runs, playing only the survivors, Unrated Lvl (what would an unrated zombie movie look like?). I had my ass kicked a few times by the end of Day two because I'm a lousy player, so I snapped and I decided to play the game on "Banned" (nice taunts with the ratings btw) on "Most Aggressive" just to see of many zombies I could handle.
It all started great since that for the first time in all my runs the Authorities managed not to lose the Hospital to the Zombies on Turn One, and I spawned Parker Diamonds on Turn One too (thanks Vuldacon). It was off to a good start.
Oh since I'm talking about turn One here's what a Survivor gotta do to get through, or so I think:
Attack Sewer Guard with Tokugawa, Attack Sewer Guard with Vuldacon, Attack Zombie with Abe, Attack Sewer Guard with Mike Rush, Attack Sewer Guard with MissToku, Move all handy men to sewer where available (the one in the school should go to the manhole near the garage), Go East two squares with the Reverend, Pile up Freddie and the Other Useless guy onto him and make a rush for them with the ... Rushmobile. You'll have to repaint your front bumper with some zombie blood in the process. On turn two you can drive them back to safety in the Garage, with Freddie opening up the road to traffic if it's a little jammed.
End of the little parenthesis.
So now I'm fighting zombies right? It all went well in the first few hours. Vuldacon, Tokugawa, Hannibal and the King spawned many Champions and I made good use of their shooting abilities. Mike's cars got them where they were needed and after a while I was able to "secure" the graveyard and the Fast food joint, in the sense that Zombies coming out of these places where gently mowed down by my badasses and didn't pose no threat no more. The Garage didn't seem to be juicy enough for the Zs so they decided to sway towards the Furniture Shop. Maybe to get a piece of Toku's daughter who knows?
So I end up with all my Champions there, right? Killing whatever comes near. And after a while the whole block south of the Shop is packed with units. Badasses, Champions, Vets, you name it. It was going in fact so well that I decided to capture Freddie's Hardware Store. A few shots from the roofs later (actually the siege lasted a whole day or close), and the heroic death of Master Vuldacon (he died battling a dying Sated Alpha with 2HP left, not even wounding it a bit) and I had reclaimed the Store. I immediately started building the Chainsaw Club and starving off zombies, and as this position had cut off the supply route to the Brothel and the Fast Food I was able to capture them very quickly. The Kitchen was a huge relief, and the Brothel was nice but mostly useless.
Yeah cause If I had waited two more turns Huge Zombies could have turned the tide so I was lucky with that. And surprised since I hadn't read the Pedia for the Zombie Units, so I figured a bid bad ass 20/20/1 was close to the best Zombie there could be, right?
Now how wrong I was.
Naive as I was I moved all my units close to the Factory, on top of the buildings for max defense and I started shooting the f*ck out of the assembly lines and whatnot. It was a lot harder than before since I had to take care of the slowass big bad motherf*ckers that were creeping up everywhere, but I had good hope.
That's when the Brains started popping up. Now that's a tough unit. I was still researching some worthless stuff like Hot Wiring or Revenge of The Nerds or something and these things come up I mean what the hell?! I had to move back all my units to the Garage, the Furniture Store and the Hardware Store (God bless you Mike and your cars). And I started sniping left and right. The Sniper King drilled through more skulls than a brain surgeon does in his entire life. Zombie were still pouring like it would never end, and I figured it would stay like that until I got some Gatling girls and Biker Girls, and then and only then I could make a run for the Airport.
Well the RC Balloon told me I would need a lot of Gals since Monster Zombies were clogging up downtown like it's Monday morning. So I figure I'd let things settle a bit and stabilize this mess, then use the AI's lack of strategy to start rolling through the streets when the time be right.
But then the Zombies started to kick the other faction's asses. I didn't know what the hell was going on. Of course they'd engage zombies on skyscrapers with useless stuff like Riot Police or Farmers with pitchforks but still they were holding on versus the Horde. But not any more.
The Zombies took the Radio Station.
Now like I said I hadn't read the Pedia in details but I still vaguely remembered the Radio Tower to somewhat be of relative importance for the Zombies.
Yeah. I grasped the full meaning of what had happened when I saw the first eight-legged beast. The things I talked about earlier; Monster Zombies, Crawling Brains? Peanuts, my friends. Target practice for my Champions, roasted by my Pyros. But these things. Jesus Christ. They crossed the roads and climbed the highest buildings like it was nothing. Now I was fighting the final unit. It couldn't get any worse than that. Monster Zombies were flooding the lines. I was barely holding them out with my pyros while I was concentrating on the Arachnids. They wouldn't attack a spot for several hours then six of them would storm out in the distance and face my increasingly frightened dudes and gals. I was suffering heavy casualties and sent all my Badasses on suicide runs in the hope of triggering Champions (I indeed unlocked both Simpsons, father and son).
But thankfully my nerds started to supply me with mines and started dropping them off everywhere. I didn't even bother to put visible units on them since the other humans had given up the fight. The Company was in dire straits losing ground in the East, and I had to fight the battle for the Hospital since the Authorities couldn't do a thing about it. Thanks to the Sniper King, Bart and Mike's cars (God Bless You Mike, why did you have to fight this dog?) I saved the Hopital from the Zombies. They had just returned from their expedition back to the Garage when the Spiders changed colors.
Well they didn't really changed colors, it was just that you see, things were to easy for me or so they thought, so they figured a change of pace was in order. When I shot one with the Hellfire Reverend, Parker Diamonds, Larry Hawkins, Sam Raimi, George McKinley and didn't manage to kill it, for first the time I thought that maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't make it out alive.
Of course when the Terror appeared for in the Hospital I was all like "After all why not!..." Jack Bauer was keeping the Zombies in line there, shooting at whatever what walking a little too close from Hannibal's Appartment. And since the AI didn't seem to know what to do with The Terror, moving it around from place to place I would deal with it later. Plus it looked mean, like an UU.
Then I saw a second one. And a third. Those where not happy times.
The Limes were cracking up on all sides, except in the Retirement Home where everything was fine and dandy. Britney was making tea for Abe and it almost tasted like Before. That's why I was a little surprised when the first Screeches slimed through the woods.
You see these things they're not from this world. A Zombie still has a human shape. Zombie dog? Four legs just like a normal dog. A brain's a brain. And the spiders, well, they might be really big but they're still spiders.
But the Screech... Oh my God the Screech. It'll come out nowhere, sting you a few times. Then you die. Then you come back has a Zombie and finish whatever is left alive. I lost the School. SniperKing drove there and kicked the Screech's ass. Then the Authorities lost the Hospital. Flamin' Hannibal had to roast the . .. .. .. .ing thing like Hell on Earth. I took back the Hospital from them.
Then they sneaked inside the barricade near the Hardware Shop. Everyone is dead there. They're all dead.
It's over.
We're f*cked...
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Bonus pics:
"OH MY GOD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!"
Miss Tokugawa's last stand. She's trapped inside the hardware store with two Maniacs.
They are inside the barricade by the intersection in the east. Mines don't slow them down no more. All is lost.
Here's a save. You can't turn it around.
Prove me wrong... With 27 units (out of a possible 65 for free) >>>
Hannibal Smith of the Survivors, 10am, Day 7<<<
Here's a save from one day earlier. I barely remember those times. >>>
Hannibal Smith of the Survivors, 2am, Day 6<<<
And yeah I might I've played like an idiot and got steamrolled like France in '40 but
I had a blast. Once again, this scenario kicks ass.