Fire arms and Zombie Grave Yard

When ever a firearm is fired in "No More Room In Hell" a d10 is added to the "Dice Grave" which is then rolled at the start of the next turn for zombie reinforcements. (p.35 of the rule book)

 This means that once the shooting starts it is more likely that you will be surrounded by a zombie hoard sooner than later.

 Bows and Ninja stars have the "quite" rule, which means when used they don't add to the "Dice Grave".

 Browsing over the Hasslefree Miniatures site, I noticed a lot of figures with suppressed weapons, which had flicking through the rule book to see if there was a rule on suppressors on firearms. There isn't, at least, not that I could find.

So, I figure any weapon fitted with a suppressors are counted as "Quite" according the rule on P.11 and P.35.

 To prevent every character from having suppressed weapons, I would also impose the rule that a) only figures with weapons that have suppressors on them gain this rule, and b) a suppressor counts as special equipment and costs 20 POINTS.

Kameko and Kamiko - Part 2 - Special rules idea

As mentioned in the previous post about these Japanese exchange students, I wanted to have some special rule for the pair of them.

 An idea came to me while watching an episode of "The Walking Dead".

Kameko and Kamiko special rule: as long as the twins are in close distance to each other (say within 2") each gains the other's primary attack  during the turn. Thus, Kameko gains a ranged attack with a pistol using Kamiko's weapon and skill rating, and Kamiko gains Kameko's melee attack with a sword and skill rating.

 This give you two ranged attacks or two melee attacks for the twins instead of one of each.

 If they are out of the 2" range from each other, then they loose this special ability.

The Walking Dead

I have been watching "The Walking Dead" TV series online - we don't have it here on TV in Australia, but I found a great site that is hosting it for free.

 The second episode is a ripper - offers great ideas for a zombie campaign, as well as plenty of scenery ideas.

Those wishing to watch the show online: walking dead

 The only thing to watch out for is annoying pop up scams and dodgy links that lead you to believe that they are the links to click on to watch the show.

 Apart from that - awesome.

Trailer park building part 1

I tried my hand at making a prototype trailer this morning - I am not too happy with the results.

 I am using corrugated card, and it is a bit to flimsy to work with. I might go back to using other base materials and use the corrugated card for the roof only.

I might cut down on the length of the trailer too - at this stage it is 17cm long... I might reduce it to around 14 cm, and make the door a bit smaller.  I went with a larger door in my prototype based on how big they looked in the photos, but I think it is too big.

All the doors and windows will have card behind them and frames over them on the out side to cover up the cut marks when making them... but if I go to another method of making the trailers, then I will only need to put frames over the windows and doors instead of cutting them out.

 The walls definitely need to be thicker to allow for gluing and for added stability.

Zombie Survivors - Japanese Exchange Students Kameko and Kamiko

I have wanted an excuse to get a couple of the Eureka Miniatures 'Kung Fu School Girls', and I think a zombie game is the perfect place for them.

I will make them twins - exchange students from Japan when the world went bad.  One will have a sword (great in melee) and the other will have a pistol (for when the sword in out of range).

 Some kind of special rule will be made up for them - something along the line of they can not be separated, as well as a bonus to make up for the fact they have to stay together.

Kameko and Kamiko 

(two different spellings of the same name... ideal for twins)

Trailer park

"No More Room In Hell" has "Survive!" locations that allow players to search for useful things during a game... sometimes not so useful things can turn up.

 I thought it would be fun to set a game in a Trailer Park... plenty of scenery and cover, as well as places to search.

 I did a quick "Google" to find a couple of photos as a guide for scratch building some trailers and came up with this particular one:

I have some corrugated card, so I will draw up some plans and see if my modelling skills are up for making a few of these.

Iron Ivan Games "No More Room in Hell" rules

My Iron Ivan Games rule book arrived a few weeks back - just in time for me to have a quick read before I had to go away for a bit of time with my second job.

 I have given the rules a read over a few times and I like them.

 The rules allow for campaign play and has several types of zombies that can be used in the game, including "Crawlers: which are zombies with out legs... perfect for the Mantic Games plastic zombie figure pack.

 Killing zombies is a lot harder than killing non zombies in the game - i will definitely have at least one sword carrying character in my survivor group, if not two or more.  Chainsaws are marginally better than a sword, but the sword doesn't run out of fuel.

The 'Zombie Hunter' survivor skill is also a must, as this makes it so much easier to kill a zombie, doubling your chances in most cases.

Also, I will be borrowing a rule or two for zombies from "All things Zombies": in "No More Room in Hell" all zombies not in melee move towards the closest human, regardless of if they are hidden. I will be using the "ATZ" rule that any zombie further than 12" from a human will move towards the closest gun fire, or continue to move in the direction they were already heading in.

I also want to use a card system for initiative - a deck of cards containing one card per survivor, a zombie card (all zombies move on this card) and a few others, such as blank cards (so you can't card count), event cards, and maybe a "turn ends" card to add suspense to the game if your survivor didn't get to move during the turn and the zombies are drawn first next turn.

I dare say I will come up with a few other house rules, and will post comments when I think of them.

Plastic zombies?

I am seriously contemplating getting a couple of packs of the Mantic Games plastic zombies. Each pack allows the buyer to make 30 zombies - but I think this includes the leg less ones (which is ok by me) and the ones without a torso (not so ok by me).

A Comment on the product page of the zombies on the Mantic games web site say "As an added bonus it lookss likein stead of 30 zombies, there are infact enough parts to make 40 from each set - false advertising at its best!"


If this is the case, them 60 - 80 zombies should be enough for my game... I hope.


 On some forums people have "complained" that the zombies are wearing tattered rags for clothing, thus making them useless for modern zombie games, but I don't see a problem with it - these zombies could be ones that have been rotting in graves six feet under, or they have been catching their clothes on sharp objects as they shamble around.


I can always flesh out these zombies with more modern ones to add a bit of character.


Edit - I have ordered two packs from Wayland Games in the UK, so given a few weeks, my zombie hoards should start to rise in number.

Starting up again

Having a few years pass before I know it (due to many factors) is kind of startling to see my last post was in 2007!

I have ATZ and Ambush Z rules, but never really took to them. They have great ideas in them, but they were never what I wanted.

As I type I have the Iron Ivan rules "No more rule in Hell" rules coming my way in the post, and I am hoping these will do the trick for me.

I have Iron Ivan's WW1 and Pulp rules, so I know what to expect, and I can always borrow parts of the other two rules that I like to fill in any gaps there may be.

I have been making buildings for other games (WW2 and Strange Aeons games) so my building making skills have been improving.

What I really need to do is sit down and design a modular gaming area that can be a city, town or rural area for my games.

Once I have made my plans I will then decide if I will scratch build the buildings or go with a print out cardboard type.

Finally... something new

After a loooong time with no posts or action on the zombie front, I have a new post.

I painted up the Copplestone Casting "Werewolf Hunter" figure for use in my zombie game.