Guilty Pleasures: Zombies!!!
My Daughter is having friends over tonight to play board games, primarily Apples to Apples, the family friendly game they have just discovered.
Beyond the warm and fuzzy fatherly feeling of providing a safe, fun environment for teens, I’ve also got a pretty nostalgic feeling coursing though my system right about now.
Of course, we can’t have that, so I’m trying to get them to play the Zombies!!!
This is one of the best Screw-Your-Neighbor, Beer and pretzels, Throw-out-the-rules-they-only-cause-fights games ever.
Basically, it’s a race to escape the Zombie hordes. Each tun players add a tile to the evolving board, ad a couple of zombies and move their player token around to collect health and bullets. If they enter a square with a zombie, they hae to try to kill it, or get injured. So fa so good, so Traditional, so boring.
Four Things set this game apart:
- To win you have to be first to reach the helicopter. We always play the random rules: putting the helicopter in the bottom have of the board tile deck so we never know when it will come up. This means there is always someone who ends up a tile or two away, and others who have to cross the entire board. which means the only way to win is…
- To play Action cards. action cads are a separate deck dealt to players three at a time. hey allow you to either help yourself ( No Fun) or totally screw the guy who ’s winning. You can also cause havoc because…
- Players move the zombies. Yes, you can clear a path for yourself, but it’s much more fun to block your enemies as they try to reach the goals of the….
- Customizable expansions- the basic set plays in a small town. However, expansions take place in a military base, a mall ( Of course) and the woods. This can be mixed an matched any which way. Want to play all night? Add everything. Want a short game? “The End…
Now, As you can guess, hte game isn’t really “deep.” There’s not a lot of strategy beyond just blasting away and playing hate on your neighbor.
Doesn’t that sound like fun?
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