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!