Slightly OT: Vampires in T2K

[Webstral]

Originally Posted by Jason Weiser

Dibs on the HMMWV .50 Cal!

I would love to see what a .50 cal round through the thoracic cavity would do to a vampire. Then a few more in case he was inclined to get back up and capable of doing so. What about in the head? The brain is still the CPU, right? Break the computer and surely the undead die.

P.S. Not at all convinced you want to leave me in charge of the moonshine. It'll get brewed just fine...

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Webstral

I would love to see what a .50 cal round through the thoracic cavity would do to a vampire. Then a few more in case he was inclined to get back up and capable of doing so. What about in the head? The brain is still the CPU, right? Break the computer and surely the undead die.

P.S. Not at all convinced you want to leave me in charge of the moonshine. It'll get brewed just fine...

I do not remember the name of the game I played, but it did have Vampires. My character was a vampire hunter. My lead weapon was a .460 Wembly....

I played anti vamp like this, Newton's Laws of Motion. Yes I could shoot a vamp in the head/chest/wherever. Vamp still was MOVED by the force of the 460 hitting him/her/it. BUT...I had to follow up with the traditional wooden stake through the heart. SO...modern weapons were my lead in...traditional weapons, (cross, garlic, stake) were the follow up.

It would be interesting to see a small Special OPs group put into Romania...their mission, destroy Polesti oil fields/refineries....

Yeah, the GPS/nav system/map reader fubar'ed....

They are now in TRANSYLVANIA.....

And all of the rucus of WWIII woke Vlad Dragul up...

And he is PISSED>>>>>

THat could be a fun night of T2K vs Vlad the Impaler!!!

My $0.02

Mike

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

It would be interesting to see a small Special OPs group put into Romania...their mission, destroy Polesti oil fields/refineries....

Yeah, the GPS/nav system/map reader fubar'ed....

They are now in TRANSYLVANIA.....

And all of the rucus of WWIII woke Vlad Dragul up...

And he is PISSED>>>>>

THat could be a fun night of T2K vs Vlad the Impaler!!!

My $0.02

Mike

I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's? Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)

[Olefin]

Read an excellent World War Z story about a bunch of vampires fighting zombies in an Asian country during that war - will see if I can find it. Sounds like a perfect Twilight Nightmares kind of encounter.

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Olefin

Read an excellent World War Z story about a bunch of vampires fighting zombies in an Asian country during that war - will see if I can find it. Sounds like a perfect Twilight Nightmares kind of encounter.

There's a movie supposed to be coming out soon about Abraham Licoln, Zombie Hunter. I think it may be straight to DVD, looks really low budget.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by weswood

There's a movie supposed to be coming out soon about Abraham Licoln, Zombie Hunter. I think it may be straight to DVD, looks really low budget.

I think you are confusing the title a bit it is

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/combined

It is a bigger film than you would expect
3D
70 million dollar budget
release date in over 20 countries.

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's? Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)

It was also written up as a novel trilogy.

Also try "The Keep" by F Paul Wilson for WW2 and "Twelve" by Jasper Kent for Napoleonic vampires.

In conventional T2K a castle, a plague of rats, a pet wolf, superstitious villagers, etc could make the players (and villagers) THINK the marauder chief is a vampire (especially if he survived a wound using a hidden flak jacket) - he might even believe it himself.

[Olefin]

To continue the vampire motif - did anyone ever see (I think it was either the revival of The Outer Limits or the New Twilight Zone) episode where after a nuclear war a vampire is trying to lure the surviving duty crew after they launched their nukes out of their bunker and is sitting there entering random codes into the lock, saying how he has eternity to get the code right?

Scary stuff

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by Olefin

To continue the vampire motif - did anyone ever see (I think it was either the revival of The Outer Limits or the New Twilight Zone) episode where after a nuclear war a vampire is trying to lure the surviving duty crew after they launched their nukes out of their bunker and is sitting there entering random codes into the lock, saying how he has eternity to get the code right?

Scary stuff

Think it was the Twilight Zone redo. So, yeah, I do recall seeing it.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by James Langham

It was also written up as a novel trilogy

I didn't know that - might try and get a hold of a copy. I loved that strip.

[simonmark6]

I've read it, it was OK but not as good as the original. It branches out into massive battles and loses the one on one horror of the cartoon. If you fancy it though, PM and I can post it to you.

[RN7]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's? Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)

I remember Fiends of the Eastern Front from 2000AD, I read 2000AD from the 1970's until the 1990's. Even today l occasionaly pick up 2000AD and flick through it in newspaper shops. I believe they recently rehashed that story, this time the vampires were concentration camp guards.

Some great characters from 2000AD; Judge Dredd, Johhny Alpha from Strontium Dog, Bill Savage from Invasion, Slaine, the ABC Warriors, Rogue Trooper, Nemesis etc and some of the later stuff like Develin Waugh and Nikolai Dante. Still a big fan!

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by RN7

I remember Fiends of the Eastern Front from 2000AD, I read 2000AD from the 1970's until the 1990's. Even today l occasionaly pick up 2000AD and flick through it in newspaper shops. I believe they recently rehashed that story, this time the vampires were concentration camp guards.

Some great characters from 2000AD; Judge Dredd, Johhny Alpha from Strontium Dog, Bill Savage from Invasion, Slaine, the ABC Warriors, Rogue Trooper, Nemesis etc and some of the later stuff like Develin Waugh and Nikolai Dante. Still a big fan!

I read 2000AD from when it came out until sometime in the second half of the 80's...can't remember exactly when. My favourites were Dredd, Johnny Alpha, and Rogue Trooper (I think I stopped reading it regularly around about the time that Rogue finally made it back to the HQ - was it Milli-Com? I remember his mates getting regened, but then something happened to them - think that was around the time I stopped reading it)). I really should try and work Bill Savage into my UK piece - unless James wants to use him in an article!

Talking about Johnny Alpha, and as the thread is about vampires, anyone remember Durham Red?

[James Langham]

He is on my list of characters to add but probably in a disguised version, no reason you can't use him. It's no as if he's my creation after all...

Other characters I'm looking at adding (often disguised) include John Rourke, Paddy Garvey, Dave Tucker, Ibrahim Gaunt, the crew of the Iron Cow in the Zone series, Caiaphas Cain, the section in Preston Front (Lloydy and Spock in particular) plus a lot of more obscure ones.

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I read 2000AD from when it came out until sometime in the second half of the 80's...can't remember exactly when. My favourites were Dredd, Johnny Alpha, and Rogue Trooper (I think I stopped reading it regularly around about the time that Rogue finally made it back to the HQ - was it Milli-Com? I remember his mates getting regened, but then something happened to them - think that was around the time I stopped reading it)). I really should try and work Bill Savage into my UK piece - unless James wants to use him in an article!

Talking about Johnny Alpha, and as the thread is about vampires, anyone remember Durham Red?

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by James Langham

He is on my list of characters to add but probably in a disguised version, no reason you can't use him. It's no as if he's my creation after all...

Other characters I'm looking at adding (often disguised) include John Rourke, Paddy Garvey, Dave Tucker, Ibrahim Gaunt, the crew of the Iron Cow in the Zone series, Caiaphas Cain, the section in Preston Front (Lloydy and Spock in particular) plus a lot of more obscure ones.

LOL...don't know about more obscure ones...I had to google some of those ones to find out who they were! (Possibly because I've never read a Warhammer book in my life...)

Sadly I had to change the name of the Marauder group called the North Preston Front in my ASGUK - I went through about six drafts using NPF as a name and just couldn't get it to something I was happy with (it was turning into a clone of the Duke of Cornwall)...changed the name and got it done in two drafts...

[RN7]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I read 2000AD from when it came out until sometime in the second half of the 80's...can't remember exactly when. My favourites were Dredd, Johnny Alpha, and Rogue Trooper (I think I stopped reading it regularly around about the time that Rogue finally made it back to the HQ - was it Milli-Com? I remember his mates getting regened, but then something happened to them - think that was around the time I stopped reading it)). I really should try and work Bill Savage into my UK piece - unless James wants to use him in an article!

Talking about Johnny Alpha, and as the thread is about vampires, anyone remember Durham Red?

Yeah, a nice looking girl!

[Rainbow Six]

Yeah, she had a fine pair of fangs

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I'm sure there's a few ex 2000AD readers on the board - anyone remember a strip called Fiends of the Eastern Front that ran in the early 1980's? Same idea but set in WW2 - the protagonist was a German soldier hunting down a group of Romanian soldiers who were actually vampires. I thought it was brilliant (and genuinely quite scary - I would have been about ten at the time!)

I've got a book by that name sitting on the shelf at home. Three novel onmibus. The first is the one you referenced above, second is Soviets doing the same thing in Leningrad, third is legendary teamup of the first two.

Chris

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

I do not remember the name of the game I played, but it did have Vampires. My character was a vampire hunter. My lead weapon was a .460 Wembly....

I played anti vamp like this, Newton's Laws of Motion. Yes I could shoot a vamp in the head/chest/wherever. Vamp still was MOVED by the force of the 460 hitting him/her/it. BUT...I had to follow up with the traditional wooden stake through the heart. SO...modern weapons were my lead in...traditional weapons, (cross, garlic, stake) were the follow up.

It would be interesting to see a small Special OPs group put into Romania...their mission, destroy Polesti oil fields/refineries....

Yeah, the GPS/nav system/map reader fubar'ed....

They are now in TRANSYLVANIA.....

And all of the rucus of WWIII woke Vlad Dragul up...

And he is PISSED>>>>>

THat could be a fun night of T2K vs Vlad the Impaler!!!

My $0.02

Mike

David Weber - of Honorverse Fame - did a one off novel a year or so ago, that had something like this as its premise: though there was hints, it was never said what the "Romanian Freedom/Guerrilla Fighter" was until the end.


Not his best stuff, but worth a read none the less - 'Out of the Dark'

[Jason Weiser]

TV Tropes says it all:

Not be confused with Twilight, with which it probably doesn't have a large crossover demographic. Though a crossover fic between the two would be hilarious, confusing the two is one of the Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...n.Twilight2000

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

David Weber - of Honorverse Fame - did a one off novel a year or so ago, that had something like this as its premise: though there was hints, it was never said what the "Romanian Freedom/Guerrilla Fighter" was until the end.


Not his best stuff, but worth a read none the less - 'Out of the Dark'

I agree, not Weber's best. Good read. Interesting concept. The aliens were at least believable.

My $0.02

Mike

[simonmark6]

I loved Fiends of the Eastern Front. It was a great story and I used it as a base for a GURPS game I once did. Happy days!

[M-Type]

Oh man, I read 'Out of the Dark' last year. Was enjoying it.

Then vampires.

Still a great book, with a great deal of detail. The aliens were certainly interesting too.