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ir fire she pushed her way past the campers and saw the dock was ablaze the old wood went up far too quickly and walking through the smoke a giant silhouette dead eyes reflected the blaze through the holes in the pig mask hans was back the game an earlier game of happy trails horror in the middle of the action a spiritual sequel to hostage negotiator final girl is a horror themed solo board game where you play a titular final girl as they flee a monster rescue victims and then turn the fight back against the monsters if you re lucky you might even survive the more victims you rescue the better you get until you unlock an ultimate form as a dark mirror the more victims the monster kills the tougher they get they unlock randomised dark powers as they go too you select a final girl a killer and a location from your collection all of these elements can be mixed but i ll get into that later the simplest thing to do is to just select one box combining all of these elements and use that once you ve got your selection you get a randomised setup and event to kick things off then your good to go this way even playing the same combination has some new surprises player turns involve you playing cards from your hand and rolling dice to see what result you get each card has results for one two or no successes which are 5 6 on a six sided die on a 3 4 you can discard cards to upgrade to a success and 1 2 you re screwed this makes things tricky especially as you ll start at just two dice as you play cards for actions you draft new ones to craft your next turn hopefully defusing things as you go the starting hand is all pretty basic but essential as the hand cycles you ll be praying for their swift return focus can lessen the horror level of the monster eventually giving you more dice and getting further away from the dreaded one die zone short rest heals you and weak attack allows a small amount of damage both of these cards also make good early game ammunition to discard on a 3 or 4 result then there s walk which is the one which makes the game feel like a tricky sell yes you have to play a card and roll dice to walk it makes sense in the game and you ll always be able to move at least one space even if you end up winded like many of these actions these are going to cost you time which is also the currency you use to buy better cards the tableau of better cards do things like turn 3 4 into a success heal you for a lot sprint search for items and cause a lot of damage admittedly at more of a risk to yourself there are also rerolls and defensive reaction cards to help block enemies on your turn you ll play these cards and perform these actions to round up and escort victims off the map and also to gear up against the killer once you re done playing actions or sometimes when a card abruptly ends the phase you ll use what time you ve got left to buy new cards then the killer takes their turn they perform an action on their board which normally sees them walk towards a victim or the girl whichever s nearest and stabbing them then a terror card is played from a deck mixed up between killer and location based challenges they could do things like cause a fire to break out at a random location panic the victims into random directions send the killer on a spree or put a new event into play whenever a victim dies the killer s bloodlust track goes up which will often increase their damage and speed it ll also unlock a new ability at a certain point and if the terror deck runs out they reach their final form these are randomised and always awful the flow of the game tends to go lowering the threat level shooing victims off the map gearing up and fighting the killer of course there are too many random factors to make this an easy or consistent job sometimes your only path to success forces you to abandon victims spend all your nice items or take some lumps and hope you roll well a couple of other things to know are the little cards events change things up or upgrade victims to special roles examples are the boyfriend and girlfriend cards in camp happy trails or a passing police car in the suburbia map although that bastard rolled by and ignored the killer items will help with damage healing and do fun things you could distract the killer with a firework show or drop a banana skin for them to slip on this is all well and good but where the game really shines are the scenarios combining a killer and location all of the cards aside from actions come from these scenarios and provide enough variation to make things different all but the first scenario have changes to rules which make them different experiences you might have a location which shifts constantly a suburb full of distrusting neighbours or an old spaceship the same with the killers they could have a weird dream puzzle to get past be a bunch of birds or be a psychic ghost who can t even be physically harmed as a system while i ve been frustrated at times with the die rolls i ve grown to get good enough that i ve succeeded about two thirds of the time in the last year even when i ve lost i ve enjoyed each game i ve had the thing is i ve found it a bit tricky to talk about as the system on its own isn t enough to play a game because of that i m also going to talk about the first scenario which i recommend as people s first one to try and van ryder often bundle with the core set happy trails horror he s behind you inspirations halloween friday the 13th final girls laurie carpenter reiko rivers camp happy trails is a summer camp with a lake in the middle there are woods and campsites a way to cut across the water and a lot of fun activity items like bows fireworks and even keys to a boat this bloody lake hans the butcher is a hulking monster with an axe he does a brutal amount of damage but walks slowly across the map he has minor powers which speed him up and make him even more damaging worse sometimes he ll just stomp and slash through people like a relentless whirlwind what is jason vorhees was a pig my most recent experience with the scenario saw reiko acting as camp counselor during a treasure hunt couples were pairing up and worse if one died the other would too a great start especially with this slow moving murder machine wandering around i pretty much always try to prioritise getting the horror level down and getting to three dice unfortunately some bad rolls slowed me down and reiko found a lone person in a cabin he s just standing there she said looking at hans in the distance bringing the horror level right back up reiko sprinted but also failed there are options to still move by taking an injury so she couldn t reach a couple in time but reached a fire pit with a couple more campers after a close call hans gained some speed i assume momentum after stomping around enough he also gained some rage and reiko managed to block his attack distract him and run off after running to the cabins reiko found a couple and a knife but hans caught up reiko blocked his axe swing and retaliated with a quick stab she caught up with the couple who were fleeing from the sight of hans just as others were investigating the noises reiko shoved one couple out of the gates to the park and hit her ultimate form it wasn t time to fight yet instead she fled to the docks which were far away from hans in proper slasher monster style he popped up in a dock cabin and after improvising and grabbing a fire axe one of the cabins caught fire a massive axe on axe fight ensued with a critical blow taking him down then a final small attack when he popped up for one last go what felt like a safe minute when we were on opposite sides of the lake this is a classic scenario for a reason the lake makes traversal tricky but not impossible with clusters of campers and isolated places to look for equipment before hans catches up with you he s slow but there are minor powers which mitigate that and need to get taken down both the killer and location don t have any special rules but aren t to be underestimated as i think i ve still only got up to a 50 success rate hans can be underestimated at times with his speed but he s a meaty boy with too much health and some dark powers which heal him annoyingly i got one in this playthrough the location has some fun tropes and when i ve had a complex box i ve mixed it with this so only one is tricksy if you re playing final girl for the first time people recommend this to start with and i can definitely see why mechanically it s pure and lets the game show itself to you before doing anything odd thematically it s just a classic of the genre i recommend final girl and happy trails horror good luck trying to survive it posted in board games tagged final girl happy trails horror van ryder games leave a comment preparing for uk games expo 2026 posted on may 28 2026 by fakedtales it s that time again i m packing and preparing for the trip to birmingham for the uk games expo i ve decided to record a journal of some of my exploits starting with that most exciting thing prep yes what am i taking to the con and what should you remember to take will i keep this up will there be anything more exciting than me showing off my brain medicine we ll see posted in general tagged convention uk games expo ukge leave a comment charlie s 2000 ad marathon 1985 posted on may 22 2026 by fakedtales i m back and i completely forgot i d not published this before so here s my look at 1985 s progs of 2000 ad with the assurance that 1986 will be sure to follow soon the new year s off to a good start there weren t many new stories in 1985 with just anderson spinning off of judge dredd and psi testers mean team which started and ended this year neither new strip lasted for long but that s fine there was a lot from the core stories the issues covered here are 2000 ad issues 399 450 2000 ad summer sci fi 1985 2000 ad annual 1986 judge dredd annual 1986 judge dredd issues covered 2000 ad issues 399 450 2000 ad summer sci fi 1985 2000 ad annual 1986 judge dredd annual 1986 man to man and quite literally face to face city of the damned parts 7 14 continues the journey of dredd and anderson in a grimdark future mega city one that s somehow even worse than it was before and judge dredd s fucking eyes get gouged out the mutant monster in charge of this future is an evolution of the judge child and as well as vampire judges he s kept a zombie judge dredd around the dredds fight even getting back to the present so i guess there s a smashed up zombie judge dredd body out there now dredd gets his eyes back and doesn t stress the time travel horrors the hunters club follows the new recruit of a people hunting club chip chegley he gets over his head and wants out when it s his turn to do a murder and things go awry from there monsteroso is a short story where dredd has to get in the head of a runaway robot there s a crossover to a judge anderson story which i didn t expect where dredd s having to deal with some of the fallout in the ron reagan home crock block a cadet s thirteenth assignment has them following dredd and proving himself by turning in his mum the midnight surfer brings back chopper and has some beautiful cam kennedy interpretations of mega city one at night skysurfers from all over are brought to the city to race riling up the judges there are some chases as the judges try to stop races in progress and a bunch of skysurfers die in the process chopper aka the midnight surfer gets arrested but is also a legend chopper what do you think the monster of nosferatu is a vampire oh you rube you fool it s a giant spider it can also mind control and shapeshift while he s killed his victims are stuck trying to serve a dead master crazy r raiders have some administrative errors as a flyunder is blown up and a judge killed all thanks to a mess up from citi def s training exercise crime call features another one of those wacky citizens who ll do anything for fame in this case it includes informing on himself on the waterfront has the judges disrupt a coffee smuggling operation the man who knew too much follows a journalist looking into an explosion which the judges are covering up of course there are nefarious things going on but unlike a lot of these stories our brave journalist is lobotomised and the nefarious activities of the judges can continue the magnificent obsession brings the fatties back specifically one ton tony who s trying to get to two tons now the rationing of mega city one is over it all ends in tragedy though with 14 fatties dead at the contest and tony as the winner by default mega man no not that one shows the futility of vigilante justice and love story has the lengths someone will go to impress dredd as well as the fallout the lemming syndrome shows a block plummeting and the ugly mug ball brings back some of sump s ugly making medicines all in all this was a fun selection of stories even if there weren t any long term ones it feels like we ve given a lot more time to the locals and several reminders that judges aren t the good guys collected in judge dredd complete case files 08 and judge dredd complete case files 09 sam slade robo hunter issues covered 2000 ad 435 443 farewell my billions brings sam back which i hadn t expected he s finally in good shape and free to hunt his former partners down after they ran off with his money like previous robo hunter stories it feels like it goes all over the place in a bit of a shaggy dog tale frankly it s surprising that hoagy and stogie are competent enough to evade him for long and to everyone s horror they have several duplicates to throw sam off the trail it s all just a test that he s still got it and they spent all his money so he wouldn t get complacent again sam s not happy with this and pawns both robots all s well that ends well collected in robo hunter the droid files 02 strontium dog issues covered 2000 ad 415 436 445 450 2000 ad annual 1986 home of the beast the big bust of 49 has a swarm of sd operatives closing in on a refuge for bandits that s losing its protected status our lads catch wind of xen the brainwraith who has a massive bounty on his head and isn t there with the other bandits the name s a bit indicative as he s a brain hopping entity getting in middenface then wulf before getting shot and contained the slavers of drule is the longest story of the year for strontium dog as smiley s world is attacked by slavers johnny and wulf are hired to recover them and a chase ensues they interrogate aliens who buy and eat humans deal with king larry the certifiable basically the slavers have been busy and it s a bit of a chase until they ve got the keeble family back and blow the slavers up the beast of milton keynes is a short story where the lads are hunting dennis beast bolsolver who apparently was a murderer but doesn t seem the sort to kill he was mugged and the muggers killed each other arguing so the beast was framed once again unlike dredd john...