Zombies After Action Report

It was a dark night, made blacker still by the presence of several dozen zombies in and around the town square. Two luckless citizens had the unhappy task of fighting their way through the hoards all the way to the helo-pad on the other side of town.

Therefore, we took our three lives into our own hands, along with our three bullets, and we struck out on our zombie adventure....

Citizen Oakes was the first to have success, as he both battled his way into some important supply places and killed many zombies. Citizen Mueller, however, was stymied at first by the cards Citizen Oakes was playing against him. First it was the "Brain Cramp" and then it was the "Fear" and then finally, things "Got A Lot Worse" when the sporting goods store that had some ammo and some life tragically filled with the undead hoard. Suffice it to say, Citizen Oakes was playing his cards well.

But Citizen Mueller also had a few tricks in the deck. After the fifth try, he cleared out the sporting goods store, found a fireman's axe at the firehouse, slayed many zombies, and, just as Citizen Oakes was a turn or two away from making a bid on getting through to the chopper, Citizen Mueller played a really nasty card that made Citizen Oakes go all the way back to the town center. This was the card that Mueller had been holding for most of the game, and now he had his revenge for the sporting goods store incident. Incidently Citizen Mueller won the game by destroying some thirty one zombies and taking off for some un-populated carribian island! To the victor goes the spoils! :) Oakes probably wants a rematch with more players. Will Zombies be at Bert Bat Con 2008? Most likely!

The game has a super simple combat system, a pretty neat terrain system, and an innovative way of dealing with failure in a dice roll. As wargames go, this game is dirt simple, but it does a good job of "simulating" the "historical" situations of zombie infestation as promulgated by Hollywood. It's just good fun that is finishable in one and a half to two hours. There are other expansions, but these I have not seen. I'll give it a fun factor of B B B b (that's three and a half B's out of 5 B's. A pretty good score!). The cards are inventive and fun to use. I could see this having a fun factor of B B B B or B B B B b if played with more than just two people. Thanks Citizen Oakes!

New Blog? And Will I Keep This Up?

As you can tell from my title, I'm not completely sure this blog thing is my style. I've thought about putting together some kind of podcast, and that would be pretty fun. I've thought about sending a newsletter, and will probably do that in the next few weeks. But if I can reach most of my friends through a blog, well, that would be just peachy. I do like to type, but I get a bit long-winded at times. (I'm told it's an occupational hazard...) Regardless, I want to dedecate this blog to gaming in general, and wargaming in particular. Here is a list of the things I would like to cover in my blog, as well as in my newsletter.

1. I would like to do a little bit of "After Action Reports" for battles that I have fought recently.
2. I would like this blog to be a clearinghouse on information concering the Bert Bat Con 2008, which, God willing, will be held somewhere in the summer of 2008.
3. I would like this blog to help me figure out the best time and place to schedule Bert Bat Con 2008.
4. I would like to use this blog to further awareness of what is going on in the gaming world in general, specifically wargaming, and the Bertonian gaming world in particular.
5. In order to further these goals, I will probably be posting rules, pictures, product reviews, and the like here on this page.

Well, that's rather ambitious. With any luck, I'll get my second post in tonight...