Across the Dead Earth a quintessentially British post-apocalyptic game
Hello, My friends, So the idea of this blog is that I build post-apocalyptic Settlement and the terrain to go with it, So seeing as i'm writing a blog about build a settlement what kind of theme will it have, my ideas for what sort of settlement to build so far are,
1
A scavenger Shantytown built in the ruins of once-great cities, similar to how Fallout's settlements are built by scavenging the ruins of bombed-out cities.
2
Caravan campsite made up of campervans and caravans, families that now living as nomads in order to avoid the attention's of the apocalyptic raiders and living off the land.
3
Small outposts and farm settlement, "you still need food and biofuel in the apocalyptic new world"
So I live in the Cotswolds in England and which is famous for its quintessentially English market towns and villages built from honey-coloured stone, the Cotswolds are a range of gently rolling hills and the largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales making them a perfect base for keen walkers and cyclist Ok, it doesn't really sound the most exciting place to live, but if you were a new settlement of survivors and wanted to stay out of trouble where better to hideout?. My plan is to build a bombed-out market town including houses, market stall's/square, pub, doctors, garage/ workshop, gang hideout and have the table set up like some kind of high street in a small country town, including a few of elements from my first 3 ideas of my settlement
Now that I have an idea for where my settlers will live, A quintessentially English post-apocalyptic market town built from honey-coloured stone and a lot of junk,
And where better to look for inspiration for my settlements back story and gang members names than gamed called Across the Dead Earth which is set in a post-apocalyptic Britain sometime in the future, the game has been out a while now about 4years I think, This fast and furious post-apocalyptic skirmish game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in March 2014 and released in October that year. Through word of mouth alone it has continued to sell hundreds of copies since, all around the world. Since the original rulebook and 2 gangs of miniatures were released they have been joined by several more gangs of miniatures and several PDF supplements, including completely free supplementary material. There's nice little back story~{lore} included in the rule book to give you some inspiration for building your gang and what city locations are worth setting up your gangs hide out in, plus there are rumours of a second edition coming soon.
https://www.deadearth.co.uk/atde-about/atde-story/
Heres a little on how Britain now looks like in the Across the Dead Earth game
Buildings still stand, on the whole, outside of the Cities, though they are empty, haunted places. The weapons they attacked Europe with were different: some kind of darker, sicker, more evil weapons: disease. The mainland is peopled now by the shambling, shuffling half-living corpses the young people call the Sollus. My mother’s generation called them Soulless, my Grandmother’s called them zombies. Of course there aren’t many alive now that would even know that, not here. Before the end of the world, The cities, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester: they were all nuked, I guess 3% of the population of those places was still a risk in someone’s eyes: they existed as ghost towns for a while, but eventually people crawled back, the lure of tonnes of tinned food, of petrol, of weapons, of technology, proving too much. They are warzones now: London a crumbling, ashen police state in parts, under the fist of those crazy young men in black suits who think they are the Government and call themselves The State, crisscrossed by Gang warfare elsewhere. They call the streets around the Thames New Venice. I don’t know where old Venice was. I guess it didn’t survive. Liverpool has a population of nearly a thousand, I hear, run by gangs who charge a fortune to enter to anyone trying to find passage to Ireland or elsewhere on the Junkers, the great, lurching rustbuckets that use every last drop of petrol we syphon from the hundreds of thousands of permanently parked cars, bumper to bumper on motorways, skeletons in the seats…I can’t imagine what it would have been like to be a driver in one of those cars, or worse, a passenger when everyone around you just…stops functioning.
Birmingham, they call The Rag Market. It fits. Most of the other big towns and Cities are too dangerous for people to live in. I wouldn’t step foot in Mutantchester for all the tea in a Costco. We move around the countryside, from place to place, taking what we need, trading, and, more than anything else: fighting. Because everybody knows that there’s only so many tins. There’s only so many cigarettes. There’s only so many bullets.
and included below are a few photos from members of the Across The Dead Earth Gaming Group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/567639646714237/#
Mark Margraf
Mik Hollands
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/acrossthedeadearth
1
A scavenger Shantytown built in the ruins of once-great cities, similar to how Fallout's settlements are built by scavenging the ruins of bombed-out cities.
2
Caravan campsite made up of campervans and caravans, families that now living as nomads in order to avoid the attention's of the apocalyptic raiders and living off the land.
3
Small outposts and farm settlement, "you still need food and biofuel in the apocalyptic new world"
So I live in the Cotswolds in England and which is famous for its quintessentially English market towns and villages built from honey-coloured stone, the Cotswolds are a range of gently rolling hills and the largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales making them a perfect base for keen walkers and cyclist Ok, it doesn't really sound the most exciting place to live, but if you were a new settlement of survivors and wanted to stay out of trouble where better to hideout?. My plan is to build a bombed-out market town including houses, market stall's/square, pub, doctors, garage/ workshop, gang hideout and have the table set up like some kind of high street in a small country town, including a few of elements from my first 3 ideas of my settlement
Now that I have an idea for where my settlers will live, A quintessentially English post-apocalyptic market town built from honey-coloured stone and a lot of junk,
And where better to look for inspiration for my settlements back story and gang members names than gamed called Across the Dead Earth which is set in a post-apocalyptic Britain sometime in the future, the game has been out a while now about 4years I think, This fast and furious post-apocalyptic skirmish game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in March 2014 and released in October that year. Through word of mouth alone it has continued to sell hundreds of copies since, all around the world. Since the original rulebook and 2 gangs of miniatures were released they have been joined by several more gangs of miniatures and several PDF supplements, including completely free supplementary material. There's nice little back story~{lore} included in the rule book to give you some inspiration for building your gang and what city locations are worth setting up your gangs hide out in, plus there are rumours of a second edition coming soon.
Across the Dead Earth
https://www.deadearth.co.uk/atde-about/atde-story/
Heres a little on how Britain now looks like in the Across the Dead Earth game
Buildings still stand, on the whole, outside of the Cities, though they are empty, haunted places. The weapons they attacked Europe with were different: some kind of darker, sicker, more evil weapons: disease. The mainland is peopled now by the shambling, shuffling half-living corpses the young people call the Sollus. My mother’s generation called them Soulless, my Grandmother’s called them zombies. Of course there aren’t many alive now that would even know that, not here. Before the end of the world, The cities, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester: they were all nuked, I guess 3% of the population of those places was still a risk in someone’s eyes: they existed as ghost towns for a while, but eventually people crawled back, the lure of tonnes of tinned food, of petrol, of weapons, of technology, proving too much. They are warzones now: London a crumbling, ashen police state in parts, under the fist of those crazy young men in black suits who think they are the Government and call themselves The State, crisscrossed by Gang warfare elsewhere. They call the streets around the Thames New Venice. I don’t know where old Venice was. I guess it didn’t survive. Liverpool has a population of nearly a thousand, I hear, run by gangs who charge a fortune to enter to anyone trying to find passage to Ireland or elsewhere on the Junkers, the great, lurching rustbuckets that use every last drop of petrol we syphon from the hundreds of thousands of permanently parked cars, bumper to bumper on motorways, skeletons in the seats…I can’t imagine what it would have been like to be a driver in one of those cars, or worse, a passenger when everyone around you just…stops functioning.
Birmingham, they call The Rag Market. It fits. Most of the other big towns and Cities are too dangerous for people to live in. I wouldn’t step foot in Mutantchester for all the tea in a Costco. We move around the countryside, from place to place, taking what we need, trading, and, more than anything else: fighting. Because everybody knows that there’s only so many tins. There’s only so many cigarettes. There’s only so many bullets.
and included below are a few photos from members of the Across The Dead Earth Gaming Group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/567639646714237/#
Mark Margraf
Mik Hollands
The Gangs
In Across the Dead Earth, each player builds a Gang of around 5-8 members. We plan on producing a whole range of characters to either use as they are or base your own characters on, with miniatures in 28mm white metal to represent them on the Dead Earth.
place your orders @ https://www.deadearth.co.uk/atde-about/atde-miniatures/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/acrossthedeadearth
Great Blog. Across the Dead Earth is a great game
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