Saturday was my son’s 9th
birthday and he decided, more than anything else, he’d like to have some
friends over to play a tabletop miniatures game… How could I say “no”…!?
We played a zombie game with
about 7 players. Each player had a team and they were all tasked with clearing a
section of the town.
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version)
Finnegan, in yellow, and a bunch of his friends – and some of my freshly painted brand new terrain! (The roads and some of the buildings).
Firefighters taking down some
wandering zombies in the street.
More Zombies wandering the
streets – everyone got a big kick out of the zombified mascots!
One of the CDC teams takes down
the Zombie Chicken Mascot!
Christian’s military fire team
clears Super Pawn with little trouble…
CDC team shooting more down in
the streets.
Anotehr CDC teams takes down the
rest – after having cleared the flower shop.
The firefighters were hard
chargers – attacking another horde of zombies in the streets.
…and taking them all down.
EVERY TURN for about three of
four turns in a row zombie reinforcements showed up in the Super Pawn which
kept Christian’s team from clearing the building (there was a one in three
chance of reinforcements showing up at all each turn, then a one in six chance
they’d show up at that particular location… I’m sure it happened at least three
times, maybe four!?)
Each time, though, he’d take them
all down…
The Firefighters retake the Fire
Station!
About halfway through the game.
Everyone still smiling.
CDC mixing it up with some Zombies
in the street!
The last batch of reinforcements
to arrive finally took down one of the army troopers.
The CDC also lost one of their
own in the battle in the street.
Due to some superior teamwork (and lucky dice rolling) the town was cleared well before the 10 turn time limit. I think there was only two
casualties (among the living!) in the whole game. One was seriously wounded,
the other only lightly wounded. I didn’t bother to check if they got infected…
Afterwards there was homemade pizza and
cake and much rejoicing.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Maybe some more game pics…? or pics of the buildings…? Or
some more Zombies…?
Very cool!
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall playing a board game a bit like this, many aeons ago. That was a nice set-up there, Tim: just the deal for a birthday bash!
ReplyDeleteThat's it, get 'em while they're young!!! Not sure the girls look impressed though??
ReplyDeleteFantastic stuff! Well done on the game, your son will remember it!
ReplyDeletewhat are the rules for this game? i would like to play something similar with my son
ReplyDeleteAt the time I think I was play-testing a new version of Ambush Z from Ambush Alley Games. I'm not sure if it was ever released...? The original Ambush Z game was pretty good. I've also used Fear and Faith from Ganesha games for smaller scale zombie games with kids.
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