Axis & Allies & Zombies

Welp, that’s it folks. Board games are dead. It’s been a good run.

You're wrong. It sounds awesome. It's got chainsaw tanks.

Just the other day I was thinking that the gaming world needs two things to really take off:

1. Another Axis and Allies game, the Monopoly of wargames.
2. Zombies. Can't get enough of this theme.

Zombies? You don't say! How novel!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Edit: hmmm, never mind.

ubarose wrote: You're wrong. It sounds awesome. It's got chainsaw tanks.

Ya know what? Engineer Al is a lucky guy.
*Thumbs up emote*

Yeah, zombies are way over played, but that doesn't mean that world war Z isnt awesome.

ubarose wrote: You're wrong. It sounds awesome. It's got chainsaw tanks.

I collect and play Warhammer. My “games with chainsaw tanks” quota is full.

40 MSRP? I have plenty of memories of looonggg A&A games back in the day. I'd be tempted to pick it up. Sure, there are a ton of zombie games but it sure is more attractive to me than another reskin of A&A without them.

For. Fucks. Sake.

No. No. No.

I'd try it. And like it or hate it, I think it's cool that they are doing something different with Axis & Allies.

Everyone lining up to piss in the corn flakes, Jesus.

Can we at least TRY it? Holy smokes.

Shoot, I'll try it.

It's like Wizard's Quest -- but instead of frenzying orcs, we get zombies!

I'm a A&A fan but, please, can we have a lot more Josh Look posts !

I’m not a fan of either A&A or zombies, so yeah, I think I get to say that I’m not trying it.

I really hope that both the Axis and the Allies can set aside their differences to deal with their common enemy, the zombie horde

Dang, Barney. That makes this really interesting. Zombie tropes explore the psychology of the breakdown of shared humanity; the same shared humanity Nazism denies as it exterminates Jews, Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, &c. The zombie motif makes comfortable, well-off people confront their fears of change—"If my child/spouse/neighbor becomes One Of Them, could I kill my own child/spouse/neighbor?" In the setting of WWII, would Nazis continue the liquidation of untermenchen when todmenschen become the threat?

yeah it has all sorts of moral ramifications that could be taken into account. The Allies could sell their souls and decide to look the other way about what's happening in Poland in order to back solid Axis support against this new threat. Has a very Game of Thrones-feel to it, on how waring houses need to band together against the army of the dead.

Churchill: Listen...Germany... we need to band together against this threat to our way of life.

AH: nein.

Churchill: We think the zombies are gay.

AH: ya...ok then.

jeb wrote: Dang, Barney. That makes this really interesting. Zombie tropes explore the psychology of the breakdown of shared humanity; the same shared humanity Nazism denies as it exterminates Jews, Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, &c. The zombie motif makes comfortable, well-off people confront their fears of change—"If my child/spouse/neighbor becomes One Of Them, could I kill my own child/spouse/neighbor?" In the setting of WWII, would Nazis continue the liquidation of untermenchen when todmenschen become the threat?

It's the casualties that become the zombies, so it's your brothers in arms that become the zombies. That's pretty interesting. Also, interesting, you could win a battle against your opponent but if there were to many casualties on either side or both, you may have to abandon the area to the zombies. On the other hand, you might do that on purpose to create a barrier of defense.

putting a bunch of parachutes on zombies and dropping them into Dresden instead of firebombs seems like an absolutely brutal tactic as well. Actually, i don't even think you need parachutes.

"ok, deal with this now"

I'd like to see a deck of event cards in the game, sort of like the decks in Risk 2210 AD. Something to shake things up to keep the zombie behavior unpredictable and allow the players to sic zombies on each other, move them away, things like that. You wouldn't want to make the game too fiddly (it is A&A, after all) but it would be nice if the way the zombie faction behaves has wrinkles beyond "casualties become zombies".

Interestingly enough, there are more train games than there are zombie games. Not kidding.

SebastianBludd wrote: I'd like to see a deck of event cards in the game, sort of like the decks in Risk 2210 AD. Something to shake things up to keep the zombie behavior unpredictable and allow the players to sic zombies on each other, move them away, things like that. You wouldn't want to make the game too fiddly (it is A&A, after all) but it would be nice if the way the zombie faction behaves has wrinkles beyond "casualties become zombies".

There's going to be some kind of spawn deck for the zombies, so some will spawn spontaneously in territories. The zombies prevent production, so if a couple appear in location that you need for production, you'll have to go deal with them. Technical advancements include zombie mind control, and a convoy than can be used to transport zombies to your opponent's territories.

Erik Twice wrote: Interestingly enough, there are more train games than there are zombie games. No kidding.

There will inevitably be a zombie train game.

Erik Twice wrote: Interestingly enough, there are more train games than there are zombie games. No kidding.

Awwwww sheeeeeeeiiiiitt.

Erik is straight up, dunkin' on foo's. All net, yo!