![]() ![]() If you can outlast the event deck you’ll win the game, and then you count up your score of surviving units and supplies and ammo and then cross reference the epilogues book for a blurb describing how well you won.įor us, the main appeal of this game is how replayable it is. As you can see above, most times you’ll end up with at least a few in the cemetery, but as the game scales the body count will escalate very quickly. The game gives incentives (end game scoring) for protecting them, because they’re pretty much fodder when fighting alone. With these meager actions the players have to cobble together some kind of defense against the waves of oncoming zombie hoards attacking Farmingdale from all sides.Īs the zombies start flooding onto the board and tracks advancing on Farmingdale in droves they’ll quickly overrun the outlying villages and attack the civilians. Each player gets one, and only one action, then the players have a collective number of event actions ranging from 1-4, but mostly 1 or 2, as dictated by the event card. Once you’ve played two turns you’ll know exactly how to play the game without picking up the rulebook. The game turns have a great structure to them, and are simple and cleanly laid out. Depending on the game level selected you’ll then play through the deck one card at a time, going through a series of game phases, triggering zombie placement and movement, attacks, and other random (usually awful) events. You can also adjust the length of the game (which in turn adds to the difficulty again) by including more cards in the event deck. The players will have to pick their characters and some NPCs to play with, after selecting a difficulty level, then construct the event deck that will run you through the course of the game. Would you like an easier, relaxed, and trashy B-Movie zombie slaughter? Or would you like a soul-crushingly difficult, dread filled horror film, where your favorite characters are the first ones to fall? There’s also 6 or 7 game modes (difficulties) within that, so you can tailor the game to what you want it to be. It just hooks me every time.ĭawn of the Zeds is a very versatile game from the States of Siege Series, in that it can be played fully co-operative, competitive, or even solo. Something in the fight for life and how character’s have to hack out a living in a bleak future. All tell a fantastic story about the gruesome future where people die and come back as slobbering, flesh eating zombies. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, to Day of the Dead and even on the small screen with shows like The Walking Dead. Personally, I love the zombie horror genre and have enjoyed movies from the classic George A. I am starting this list off with a non-wargame, so I apologize but Dawn of the Zeds is just so damn good it was impossible to keep it off this list. Dawn of the Zeds from Victory Point Games ![]()
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