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28 Years Later - Phase 01 (One Foot in the Grave)
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28 Years Later - Phase 01 (One Foot in the Grave)

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28 years have passed since a phenomenon known as the The Tempest engulfed the world. Citizens around the globe were taking part in huge organised protests when something caused them to violently attack each other. This spread until billions were infected with this blight, leaving only small pockets of civilization left. Now, a generation later, the remaining population are looking to take back their homeland piece by piece and maybe learn more about the cause of The Tempest on the way...

Difficulty: easy - this hero map is designed as an intro to the story. If you are wanting challenging gameplay and are not interested in the story please skip this phase and try the X-version maps. If you lose the hero unit(s) the mission fails so take good care of them, especially with exploding barrels!

This is map 1 of a planned 12 map story campaign, with the difficulty going up as the campaign progresses. I draw inspiration from some of my favourite games and films, with elements of my own imagination and of course bundled in the great world of They Are Billions.

These are my first ever TAB maps. I hope you enjoy them and I welcome all feedback!

Without spoiling the story too much this how the campaign is shaping up:

“Chapter 1 – Wait it Out”
Phase 1 - "One Foot in the Grave"
Phase 2(+X) - "Seeds of Change”
Phase 3(+X) - "Highland to Hell"
Phase 4(+X) - "A Tale of Two Cities”

“Chapter 2 – Hide and Seek”
Phase 5 - "Welcome to Kirkwall"
Phase 6(+X) - "Tunnel Vision"
Phase 7 - "March of the Titan"
Phase 8(+X) - "Passfire"

“Chapter 3 – You Know Where to Find Me”
Phase 9(+X) - "Lily of the Valley Pt 1"
Phase 10 - "Lily of the Valley Pt 2"
Phase 11(+X) - "Bridges over Troubled Water"
Phase 12(+X) - "Requiem for a Dream"

I feel each maps gets better and more complex as I learn more about the editor. I hope you enjoy :)
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AiioZ Mar 6, 2023 @ 1:14pm 
I've just obtained my lasts achievements recently and didn't know what to do anymore on TAB, but still wanted to play it. Your campaign is just incredible. Well done. I was going for just content at first, but now I've even been hooked up by the story !
POBmaestro  [author] Mar 17, 2022 @ 12:46pm 
@EFG/Wenex - Welcome to They Are Billions and great to hear you're eager to play my campaigns! For this first campaign the maps have a fixed difficulty that is considered "easy" and there are separate "X" versions of each map which a considered "hard". For the sequel campaign (29 Years Later) there is 3 difficulties included in each map to choose from. Basically the harder the difficulty the more infected and less time you have to prepare.

I look forward to your feedback on the difficulty - I want "easy" to be not too hard for new players but it is hard to balance it right. Hope you have fun :)
EFG.Wenex ヽ(´ー｀)ノ Mar 14, 2022 @ 4:48pm 
Hey I just bought the game, after I finish the campaign Im eager to play your both campaigns :) Could you tell me if it is possible to set your own difficulty on each mission? Or is it set in stone by you?
Scorpius Sting Feb 18, 2022 @ 3:11am 
Probably about ~8 hours of focused attempts.

I tried a few not so serious attempts the first time and then I kept playing through a few attempts til I kept getting stuck clearing the last corner just below McKraken's wall.

I think I have an idea to clear down to that position if I risk not clearing the upper roads from the explosive barrels and I leave on sniper to slowly start clearing out the zombies from where McKenzie is picked up. I only need one sniper to reach McKraken anyways so if I leave a sniper to start clearing that is less wasted clear time.
POBmaestro  [author] Feb 17, 2022 @ 12:57pm 
Oh blimey, how long did you play the map for before you broke it (pun intended)?! I like your humour though GG!
Scorpius Sting Feb 16, 2022 @ 5:40am 
Well, I was clearing the last infected at the bottom of the map and McCauley deserted. Unexpected considering McKraken is the greedy one.
Scorpius Sting Feb 16, 2022 @ 3:52am 
Alright, it's settled. Whenever I boot up the game I am going to play ~10 days of this map.

I'm going to completely clear this map with the uselessfer method. (useless lucifer)

I will prove that clones are better served for mindless clearing than heroes
Scorpius Sting Feb 12, 2022 @ 10:57pm 
It definitely has. Although I think the only one I had issue with was the farmer in phase 2. I had cleared the entire left side a wave before the final, but I am not sure he triggered.
POBmaestro  [author] Feb 10, 2022 @ 1:01am 
@Scorpius Sting: ah fair enough, sorry if you spent ages looking for secrets and didn't find anything notable on the first map! Generally there is 1 secret per map which you do get by exploring, but the first map doesn't really have much hidden as there's enough cryptic messages in the story text. In future maps the secret will usually be where there is a destroyed truck or something like that. Hope this helps on future maps :)
Scorpius Sting Feb 9, 2022 @ 9:11pm 
@Lord Luck: Oh I wasn't stuck. I was just trying to grind away the zombies because I know the campaign has a lot of secrets stored away. I just thought if there were secrets then it wasn't exactly obvious or maybe you just had to keep at it a few hours to whittle away the zombies and unearth the secret.