During the 1950's there was a whole series of sci-fi films based upon creatures that had been mutated into gigantic sizes by various means, nuclear bomb testing being the most popular. Probably the most famous of these was a 1954 film called Them! where irradiated giant ants attacked and controlled a town in the desert. They were defeated by a group of scientists & the army working together. The perfect setting for another Blockbuster game setting!
Humans
Figures used the same character ones as used in the Resident Evil game, a mixture of makes including West Wind & Hasslefree amongst others
Ants
The ants came from an American source that had been mentioned on the Lead Adventure forum and are a perfect scale to use as giant ants against 28mm figures. They come from the US TOY Company and you get a huge bag for next to nothing price wise
Scenery, again, was mainly the same buildings etc used in the Resident Evil game
I constructed some 'bughole' entry points using 50mm MDF circles with some 5mm foamcore board cut at angles and stuck to the top and textured. I also needed some rocky hills to go in the desert, I had some pre-bought sand dunes but they didn't look right. So I grabbed some insulation foam and a hot wire cutter and quickly cut out some rough shapes. These were textured a with sand/grit mixture and then painted, finally finishing off with some static grass in small clumps
The rules were based upon the tried & tested ones that I used for the Resident Evil game. I decided to drop the item cards for this game, instead going for a standard weapon for all the characters plus the added explosives that could be collected around the tabletop
The ants followed the same rules as the zombies did in the previous game but I increased their movement and introduced the poison & spawn ideas to make them slightly different
I needed some counters to use for the explosives & to keep track of wounds taken, a quick search of the internet came up with suitable images and I created a sheet that contained more than enough for the game
The rules and counters can be downloaded as PDF files here
