A&A Zombie

It’s a great idea, and you can do all sorts of goofy stuff in a 1962 setting including an alien invasion event that could force the US and USSR to work together. Plus why not cash in on the new Red Scare consuming the US’s news cycle?

@Midnight_Reaper:

@Caesar:

So in order for me to explain the situation, you have to already understand how to play zombies and this didn’t cross my mind to ask the developers because I just encountered it now.

So here is the situation: Zombies are co existing with Japanese troops, Germany wants to attack the Zombies in Japanese territories. So when Zombies roll for their attack, Germany being the attacker can only be attacked if the Zombie rolls an “A”. What in this situation makes Japanese troopers? I don’t have an answer for this. What I told my buddy and we agreed with is that because Japan is not the aggressor, that technically makes them the defender so Zombies would have to roll a “D” to attack them. However, officially by rule, I am not sure how to actually treat this. I am 99% sure Japanese soldiers can’t attack the zombies with Germany so this is the only way I can see this working.

How would this work if the Germans were attacking into a British-held territory with Zombies in it? It would work like that, only you obviously restrict your hits to the Zombies instead of your fellow-Axis-power Japanese troops. So, from what I understand, the Zombies would roll A to hit the Germans and D to hit the Japanese. Since it’s the German turn, the Japanese troops just kind of hang out until their turn. At which point, if the Japanese attacked the Zombies in their territory with the Germans present, when the Zombies make their roll an A would hit the Japanese (who are doing the attacking at this point) and a D would hit the Germans (who are likewise hanging out while the Japanese troops do their thing).

Make sense?

-Midnight_Reaper

If you engage a territory owned by your enemy, you have to attack the territory. Fortunately because of the dice, you are also attacking zombies.

@DessertFox599:

Ummm. is this game supposed to take place in 1941? If so why does …

If you come into A&A, of any variety, expecting perfect historical accuracy than you’re doing it wrong. Game play has always trumped historical accuracy / realism in this series of games.

-Midnight_Reaper

Yes. There will be.

A Pandemic-style of spreading Zombies was play tested and eliminated because it was overwhelming. But that could be a house rule.

@panamaniac https://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Zombie-Rules-Battleboard-Roundels-Setup-cards_p_3029.html

They sell the charts if you need it

@Gen.Nehring:

Could someone please stop by the Axis and Allies booth at Gencon and take some detailed pictures of the board and the pieces? I was hoping for some new pieces! At Avalon  hill or wizards of the coast hopefully!

From what I’ve seen of what has been posted online, I would expect the pieces to be a re-run of the pieces from the Anniversary reprint. To be honest, the only new sculpts they promised were the Zombies, of which they have three.

-Midnight_Reaper

For those interested, photos of our meetup are going up now. Wizards put on a phenomenal spread of food including a mountain of pizza, held a raffle for prizes, and gave us all copies of AAZ! Scott and other developers even signed boxes.

It was truly an amazing event and we’re so grateful to Wizards for their hospitality.

Marshmallow of War