EotD: Villain Mission Force

My club-mate Brendan and I decided to try out the "Botanical Gardens" for Empire of the Dead (skirmish game by West Wind Productions) with a couple of scenarios, "Lost Artifact" and "Entrapment". The Botanical gardens include a variety of dangerous, and occasionally deadly, plants that add an extra element of danger to the fight. Quite by coincidence, I fielded my Tong faction, the Wing-Kong Exchange and Brendan took his Gentlemen's club, led by Harvard "Ha'penny" Dent. In the end, the mystic might of David Lo Pan was too much for Dent in both games, but here are a couple of pictures anyway.  

 The Tong are poorly armed, but throwing weapons help even the score up close. 

 The blunderbuss can be deadly, but the range is short. 

 Lo Pan and his minion manage to hold off the enemy to take the artifact in the first game. 

 The "New Zealand Razor Fern" (played here by a mushroom) is unlikely to do too much harm, but in the heat of battle, both sides stayed clear. 

 Lo Pan and "Ha'Penny" Dent come to blows whilst the Tesla Projector charges up. 

 Dent and his "Deputies" are here to lay down the law. 

A couple of fun games, even if luck was more with me than my opponent, the plants worked well adding a little more danger to the game. This is a great example of how simply choosing the right miniatures can add that Supers element to any game. By replacing the "Fu Manchu" character in Empire of the Dead with David Lo Pan, "Big Trouble in Limehouse" is a pretty easy concept to play out. Once I get the Wing Kong Exchange and my VSF MI-13 painted up, expect to see them here.