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Q&A with Axis & Allies & Zombies Game Designer, Scott Van Essen Part 1

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Scott Van Essen, designer of Axis & Allies & Zombies provides detailed answers about how the game was created. Part 2 will be available next week.

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@commando-brado Players choose their own casualties.
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Larry Harris, creator of Axis & Allies, and Thomas Gale have teamed up to release a new wargame called War Room. The game has been in development for over 4 years and the Kickstarter, to fund the game, is scheduled for October 30, 2017.

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Zombies and 1942 scenario

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As always: thanks for your fast replies!
We played AAZ1942SE tonight. And we had fun! Still had some questions regarding US setup. Will come back to that.
But we had a fun evening. And a lot of unexpected stuff happened. That is part of AAZ. Some may not like that. And that is of course fully OK!
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Axis & Allies and Zombies Q+A

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@gregkamp Yeah, same feeling here. The situation where the mind control ray does have some power is when you are capturing new territories with a small force and there is a zombie or two left there after battle.

The way I understand it, once battle is finished you capture the territory, next in your non-combat the remaining zombie in your new territory can be pushed out and into enemy territory.

But I feel like this is still by far the weakest tech, seems like it should be cooler than this, maybe in testing it was too powerful and they nurfed it or something.
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The Rules of Axis & Allies & Zombies

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I was pretty skeptical at first too but picked it up anyway to check out the experimental mechanics. It was more fun and interesting than I expected. Strategy can’t be taken too seriously, but at the same time the zombies create some brain crunching situations at times. It’s more of a beer and pretzels experience but that also makes it fun for mixing different skill levels at one table. And the board has proven good without the zombies to teach new players on. It seems like the 1942 se expansion could use some refinement, but I’m glad it’s included too.
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Yes. There will be.

A Pandemic-style of spreading Zombies was play tested and eliminated because it was overwhelming. But that could be a house rule.
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Polygon A&A&Z article, June 6, 2018

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@smo63:

No if Zombies take a territory where there is nothing but Zombies it retains its IPC value and when the zombies have 25 IPC’s of territories, it is considered a Zombie Apocolypse and they win.

Zombies can’t win. ZA goes to VPs between players.

@innohub:

Thanks for article sharing!–- It seems the benefit of zombies is:

1. Break down the original repeated game flow pattern
2. Activate lands in map that user seldom would go in traditional AA game
3. Introduce possibilities of riot/rebellion near each country’s own homeland due to the card events like asian time
4. A faster paced game (cheaper armor, a new victory condition by zombie victory…)

Also thematic Hallowe’en games and a gateway game for the mainstream.
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Subjective Complaints about AAZ (Zombies are stupid thread)

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@djensen:

I’m not censoring anything. If you have subjective complaints, put them all here in this thread. If you have constructive criticism, start a new thread.

Again, when the newbies arrive to learn more about AAZ and other A&A games, I want them to see a welcoming community. Seeing a bunch of posts of people hating on zombies, might turn people away.

You got some strong points here, and I want to change my stand.

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