Zombie's 1942 card with Anniversary

@thrasher1 said in Negative effects of AAZ cards for the active player?:

In general: must you play a card? Answer: Yes.
But are there any ‘buts’ here? Any gray areas in the rules?

There are none. You must play a card.

ve found that I often lose Egypt to Germany. As they have the battle ship and transport to build up a force in Africa.
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So if I bought a factory for Egypt I’m not able to build troops fast enough to protect it.

How to people feel about South Africa? It’s far enough away to build up some troops in Africa before Germany comes. Assuming they don’t take Egypt turn 1 (with a tank surviving). Or if Germany builds a second transport, they will be able to quickly build up more African troops then the UK.

Say I group up my navy in the Indian Ocean turn 1, so it’s big enough for Japan not to attack it turn 1.

I then have enough navy to protect South Africa from Japan’s navy for a couple turns till I can build up more forces. Also with the two transports from this navy, you can ferry units to India and Egypt areas quickly.

One positives of this factory are able to build navy in South Africa, without using any of India’s production (on land based units). Also some games if I don’t build a factory, I find that I’m forced to start building in England. And if the UK navy has been sunk already this can be a problem if Germany has a large air force

What results have people been getting with this?

Or: in a previous (test) version of AAZ there was actually a card called ‘Z Rise’.

I think this very card can be used handily for a house rule. I thought about making this card acutally a rather dramatic event.
My idea was (but this is just an idea so all ideas/criticisms are welcome):

The following neutral territories do not have a Z card:

Chili/Argentina
Eire (Ireland)
Afghanistan

Sahara and Himalaya are considered unpasseble territories.

Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese colonies.

So my idea for a house rule was:

If someone draws the ‘Z Rise’ card all truely neutral areas without an own card get a Z.
Still they do not get an IPC value.

But these areas can be entered. These areas are playable. And if you have the ZMCR tech (technology 6) you can move these units. And if you have technology 5 (DNC transports) you can move these units by transport. Well, not the Afghan one of course…

What do people think? Should Mozambique and Angola also be included. Or even Sahara and Himalaya: while players can still not enter these areas these Zs there can be moved (see above, technology 6 and in case of Sahara technology 5 too (yes, Sahara does have a coastline!)).
Maybe this is too harsh for the British player. On the other hand some say game is tilted towards the Allies. So this might actually balance the game a bit.

All your ideas are welcome.

David, if this must be moved to another section of the forum: just let me know.

@BananeDC

Zombies are roughly the same size as infantry. A little bigger wouldn’t hurt and might look better.
Europe is the only area where space is tight, but that is true of all A&A games.

@Krieghund

As always: thanks for your fast replies!
We played AAZ1942SE tonight. And we had fun! Still had some questions regarding US setup. Will come back to that.
But we had a fun evening. And a lot of unexpected stuff happened. That is part of AAZ. Some may not like that. And that is of course fully OK!

@Caesar:

You can’t liberate and then attack the same zombie territory.

What do you want to say?

It is technically impossible to do that during the same turn:
Combat ends in step 8 and the territory is liberated in step 9 of the General Combat Sequence.
You never liberate territories during combat steps 3-8.

Of course you may attack zombies present in the liberated territory during the next turn.

Japan can always lend a hand in that battle by opening a second front.

I’ve gotten over the shock, and now every time I see this board on the forums I get a good laugh.  I honestly cannot wait until this comes out just so I can watch someone talk about it on youtube.

“If you role a one, your infantry becomes a Zombie.”

Oh, yeah.  Good lols.  This is going to be better than my nightmares.