Minders

[Argonor]

Can somebody please tell me what the Minders with the bloated are used for - I need to know if I should order them along with the Rad Zombies (in May or June, as soon as I can spare the money for the rules and some figs... - have to get .45A2, first...)?

[Arlequín]

Without resorting to the rules, the Minders are sort of the 'host mind' for the zombie horde, while the bloaters are just a special infected type. They aren't necessary, but add a different flavour to your use of the undead. Personally I nixed them, I just like shambling uncoordinated zombies.

[Argonor]

Thanks - I forgot the word 'heads' in 'with the bloated heads' 

I think I'll keep to my original plan of buying a pack of Greasers and a pack of Zeds (which can be supplemented with other shamblers from my collection) along with the rulebook, until I have read, played, and learned the rules well enough to add twists.

It's one of the games I REALLY want to play, so I have to get started before they put me in a home 

[Arlequín]

That sounds like a good start to me, you could probably come up with some house rules to control the zeds and play it solo even. 

[Argonor]

If I need solo Zed rules, I just use the mechanics from Dead walk Again, slightly twisted to suit the system in question. I think it is more or less the same way Zombies by GASLIGHT has been constructed.