Thanks Panther . Read and understood. Pretty map.

@gregkamp Yeah, same feeling here. The situation where the mind control ray does have some power is when you are capturing new territories with a small force and there is a zombie or two left there after battle.

The way I understand it, once battle is finished you capture the territory, next in your non-combat the remaining zombie in your new territory can be pushed out and into enemy territory.

But I feel like this is still by far the weakest tech, seems like it should be cooler than this, maybe in testing it was too powerful and they nurfed it or something.

I’ll write a blog post around it eventually but the game ended in a stalemate of sorts. After 4 hours we wanted to play some other games.

https://youtu.be/TK6iP47nuNo

I was pretty skeptical at first too but picked it up anyway to check out the experimental mechanics. It was more fun and interesting than I expected. Strategy can’t be taken too seriously, but at the same time the zombies create some brain crunching situations at times. It’s more of a beer and pretzels experience but that also makes it fun for mixing different skill levels at one table. And the board has proven good without the zombies to teach new players on. It seems like the 1942 se expansion could use some refinement, but I’m glad it’s included too.

I used to be afraid of new things too, simply because they are new.  I had a friend who opened a copy of Ticket To Ride and said “well i read the rules, this is lame, so…bascially meh”.

Do I think Ticket to Ride is the best game in history?  No.  It is the most fun, engaging type of game that I always want to play? No.

Having said that, I’d play right now.  As a game group leader, I often have to play games that other people would prefer.  I’ve run game clubs for RPG, TTWG, eurogames, minigames, Warhammer 40K, etc.  In general, the group members prefer not to play my own favorite type of game (tabletop wargames)–they are universal in dismissing them as too complex, too slow moving, too great a learning curve, and too long and overall very boring.

To sum up, it seems easier to be closed minded and focused on your abstract perceptions of something you’ve never seen …in reality, the easier path is to overcome those preconceptions and sit down and play it and have fun

@smo63:

No if Zombies take a territory where there is nothing but Zombies it retains its IPC value and when the zombies have 25 IPC’s of territories, it is considered a Zombie Apocolypse and they win.

Zombies can’t win.  ZA goes to VPs between players.

@innohub:

Thanks for article sharing!–- It seems the benefit of zombies is:

1.  Break down the original repeated game flow pattern
2.  Activate lands in map that user seldom would go in traditional AA game
3.  Introduce  possibilities of riot/rebellion near each country’s own homeland due to the card events like asian time
4.  A faster paced game (cheaper armor, a new victory condition by zombie victory…)

Also thematic Hallowe’en games and a gateway game for the mainstream.