Just found this nice 15mm zombie starterset from Khurasan Miniatures that retails for only $7.99 and has an amazing piece of background: The apocalypse of the dead is a worldwide phenomenon, and it occurs with depressing familiarity no matter what the location. But in the U.K. (or, in this case, what had until recently been the U.K.), things are always a bit different. Zombies rose from the dead throughout the country as elsewhere, and in a small medical research center in Berkshire, doctors worked feverishly to find a crude antibiotic. Striking on the idea that the wolves at a nearby animal sanctuary seemed unusually resistant to the virus, which they had designated "zed-1," these scientists created a plasmid incorporating wolf DNA and tested it on six subjects.
Berkshire was soon thereafter overrun by the dead, and the six test subjects fled north with a small group, settling in North Yorkshire. At first living in an abandoned park visitor center, the test subjects and two other people were eventually taken in by farmers who had established the Yorkshire Safe Zone (YSZ), where there was a degree of normalcy and even an operating pub. But the six test subjects mysteriously disappeared soon after their arrival at the YSZ, and when the moon first became full, a deadly threat of a new type arose on the moors, much faster and more powerful than the dead, and now the Safe Zone was anything but.
Much to the surprise of the residents of the YSZ, two young Americans now came backpacking up from the south, one named Paul Hackett and the other a Dr. Pepper. Apparently they were in the U.K. on holiday when the dead began to rise, and had heard one of the many rumors that ran rampant amongst the survivors, that research was being done in Scotland to cure the virus. Pepper, an immunologist, was eager to help. They had made it all this way, but could they survive their journey across the moors?
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