APOCALYPSE

SURV I VA L H O R R O R

SOLO PLAY RULES

 SURVIVAL HORROR!
An indeterminate number of days later. The local civilisation has been overrun by an

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innumerable horde of world ending horrors and it’s the climax of the plot. A plucky band of
survivors must carve their way through the murderous masses long enough to survive this hell.

SOLO PLAY RULES SYNOPSIS CASTS

Trapped inside for an unexpected
period? Unable to play with
friends? Then try this simple solo
play scenario packed with survival
horror.
Thanks to Kieron Mulholland for
sharing this and for all members of
the 7TV Productions Facebook group
for inspiring the idea.
While these rules are intended for
the classic zombie hordes of the
apocalypse, the basic mechanics work
perfectly well for spies vs hordes of
minions in 7TV: Inch High Spy-Fi or
for a two-fisted hero wading through
a platoon of goose-stepping goons in
7TV: Pulp!
The mindless many against the desperate few is a tried
and tested narrative which most famously featured
zombies in the classic low budget Barron productions
movies such as Zombieville, USA and The Walking
Plague.
However, this tired and well-trodden plot has been
rehashed over the decades to involve all manner
of world ending horrors: from the six-legged freaks
of Bugzilla to the exterminator killbots of
Cyborg Armageddon.
The premise is always the same, for some spurious
reason the teeming horde is everywhere and it’s a
simple case of kill them all or die.
There are two casts in this episode: Survivors, which
are controlled by the player, and the Horde, which is
controlled by a very straightforward AI system.
The Survivor cast is comprised of models to any ratings
level that your collection will allow from any genre that
you wish to use. However, you should ensure that stars
and co-stars do not make up more than half of the total
ratings as extras are required to die suitably gruesome
deaths to please the fans.
The Horde is comprised only of extras from a suitable
opposing cast from the same core set as the player’s
cast. These should be mindless drones which could
typically be expected to attack in wave upon wave of
murderous death: zombies, fungoids, giant insects,
killer robots, acid-blooded xenoforms or ghosts that
need busting are all suitable foes.
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LOCATION
The episode is played on whatever table space you have
available and in whatever location you wish to your
Horde to rampage over: ruin cities, abandoned space
stations or lonely truck-stop diner, whatever you have
available.
You should ensure that there is plenty of cover to
obstruct shooting sightlines as we’re playing a horror
movie, not Zulu.
Setup
When creating the countdown deck, you should use half
of the usual number of countdown cards (rounding up) for
each act, as only the Survivor cast will be drawing them.
The Survivor cast sets up their models according to
the cast start locations rules in the Producer’s Guide,
but any spies are deployed after the AI models and
objectives have been deployed.
The Horde models are set up across the rest of the
board in any scattered formation that looks exciting. Try
to ensure that no Horde model can be shot at without
cover by a Survivor without them moving first.
After the Horde models are deployed, place five
objective tokens (numbered 1-5) anywhere in the
Horde deployment zone, at least 12” from the Survivor
deployment zone. These should be place in locations
from which it is conceivable that more of the Horde
might emerge (buildings, sewers, spacecraft, etc.) and
should be at least 6” apart. Objectives may be placed
on the edge of the board on roads or paths where more
enemies might appear.
And…Action
Determine initiative as normal, but it’s going to be a
really bad day if it starts with a cast made up only of
extras winning this roll.
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Special Rules
The Horde cast does not draw countdown cards or
generate plot points. Instead, on each of its turns,
beginning with the model that is closest to a Survivor,
every model will activate and in the cast will complete
each of its actions using the following procedure:
• if the model can make a shooting or fight strike, it
will do so, targeting the closest Survivor first,
• if not, the model will move towards the nearest
visible Survivor (if it makes contact on its first
action, this will initiate a charge attack),
• if no Survivor is visible, the model will move
towards the nearest Survivor.
At the start of each Horde turn, roll 1D6 for each Horde
model that has been removed as a casualty. The model
will respawn as close as possible to objective token
with the number corresponding to the D6 roll. Survivors
claiming objectives removes them as respawn points,
and D6 rolls which do not correspond to an objective on
the board mean that the Horde model doesn’t respawn
this turn.
Neither cast may steal the scene, the Survivors may not
voluntarily draw two Countdown Cards and the Horde
cannot be axed. Any time an AI Horde model can use
an ability that requires a plot point to be used, roll a
D6: on a roll of a 5 or 6 the ability may be used without
spending a plot point.
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Victory Conditions
This episode does not use victory points. The Survivors
win by claiming all five objectives and destroying the
entire Horde. The Survivors lose if they are all killed
before the end of the game. Any other result it a draw.
Director’s Cuts
Each of these options alter the victory conditions above.
Get To The Choppa!
The Survivors must move at least half of their cast
(rounding up) off the opposite table edge before the end
of the game. Models that leave the table do not count
for plot point generation or for determining whether the
cast is axed.
Sophia!
Place a VIP in the centre of the table during set up
(ideally this would be in a place where the Horde cannot
get to them). The VIP cannot activate or be affected
by the Horder until a Survivor has spent an action in
base contact with them to free them from their current
predicament. The Survivors win if they are able to get
the VIP off the opposite table edge before the end of
the game.
Get Away From Her You Bitch!
The first time a Finale Card is the face down card at the
start of the Horde turn, place an end of level boss (a
star or large/massive co-star) in the centre of the table.
The Survivors win if they can destroy the boss before
the end of the game.