How is Pike and Shot and Zombies?

[abdul666lw]

Still dreaming someone will use this set (or its brother Patriots & Loyalists & Zombies) to play Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Barry Lyndon times*.

Fanmade trailers:


Official trailers for the prequel and sequel books:
(nice visual reference to the Little Riding Hood?)

(for a dinosaur from the age of mechanical typewriters such as me, the very idea of video trailers for *books* is... odd)










*by Barry Lyndon times: because I prefer mid-18th C. fashion and uniforms over early 19th C. ones. Besides, while British High Society was already as proud as prejudiced,
 the choice of minis is so wider!

[anevilgiraffe]

I'm assuming this is just zombies then? no other beasties in the rules?

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30813.0

[Faber]

I'm assuming this is just zombies then? no other beasties in the rules?

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=30813.0

Only zeds. Various kind of zed but no demons. BTW your project is really cool and I think you could use your fantastic ghoul and inquisitor for this game

[Lowtardog]

@ AEG a nice little novel right up your street

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Devils-Plague-Tomes-Dead/dp/1905437412#reader_1905437412

[anevilgiraffe]

@ AEG a nice little novel right up your street

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Devils-Plague-Tomes-Dead/dp/1905437412#reader_1905437412

bit late checking this thread again, but thanks... got it for a penny plus postage

[dexter]

Still dreaming someone will use this set (or its brother Patriots & Loyalists & Zombies) to play Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Barry Lyndon times*.








THAt's the reason i bought these rules.

I'm still trying to find suitable figures for the Bennet sisters.

[Pappa Midnight]

I see a few of you have given these rules a whirl and was wondering if you thought armour was a bit too powerful?
My understanding is that a zombie only does 1d6 damage in close combat which has to at least equal the survivor's armour value to cause a scratch and beat it by 2 to cause an actual wound.
If a survivor is wearing a buff coat and breastplate that pushes their armour value to 8. This means that a roll of 10 with 1d6 is needed to cause a wound. Sure a critical hit adds an extra 1d6 to the damage BUT most survivors also have multiple wounds! This means that a reasonably well armoured character needs to be hit multiple times with critical hits to be killed by a zombie. ( shooting damage and close combat by a character using hand weapons seems ok due to the ability to do more than 1d6 damage). 
Plate armour is basically zombie proof.....!!!!

Any thoughts? Or am I reading the rules wrong?

PM

[Faber]

I see a few of you have given these rules a whirl and was wondering if you thought armour was a bit too powerful?
My understanding is that a zombie only does 1d6 damage in close combat which has to at least equal the survivor's armour value to cause a scratch and beat it by 2 to cause an actual wound.
If a survivor is wearing a buff coat and breastplate that pushes their armour value to 8. This means that a roll of 10 with 1d6 is needed to cause a wound. Sure a critical hit adds an extra 1d6 to the damage BUT most survivors also have multiple wounds! This means that a reasonably well armoured character needs to be hit multiple times with critical hits to be killed by a zombie. ( shooting damage and close combat by a character using hand weapons seems ok due to the ability to do more than 1d6 damage). 
Plate armour is basically zombie proof.....!!!!

Any thoughts? Or am I reading the rules wrong?

PM

Same question for me. And I'm still wondering how exactly to play the close combat phase. It isn't so clear in the rulebook.

[anevilgiraffe]

bit late checking this thread again, but thanks... got it for a penny plus postage

hardly worth the penny.... 

[seelowe41]

Guy's

We had another crack at PSZ over the weekend.
A full AAR can be found here.

http://dusttears.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/elizabethan-zombie-wars-escape-from.html

No one in full plate sorry.

Cheers

Stu

[Faber]

Guy's

We had another crack at PSZ over the weekend.
A full AAR can be found here.

http://dusttears.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/elizabethan-zombie-wars-escape-from.html

No one in full plate sorry.

Cheers

Stu

Fabolous report! 
A real pleasure to read. Thanks for sharing!

[aggro84]

Guy's

We had another crack at PSZ over the weekend.
A full AAR can be found here.

http://dusttears.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/elizabethan-zombie-wars-escape-from.html

No one in full plate sorry.

Cheers

Stu

So the rules sound like they are very questionable. But that was a kick ass bat rep! 

[abdul666lw]

This Indiegogo brought  back memories of this topic: The Curse of The Buxom Strumpet  'a 18th century romantic zombie comedy' (IMDb summary ) .
[the Buxom Stumpet is a *ship* ]
http://vimeo.com/27121658#t=158
('scenes' begin at 158 s.)



Now, Pirettes 'the movie that never was' has yet to materialize, so what about combining the two?

[Yuber Okami]

Any hints on how many zeds are needed to play the average game?

[Skrapwelder]

Per the games suggestions: 2 zombies for each Survivor on the board at the start of the game and then at least one arrival point somewhere on the board that will generate a maximum of 4- 6 zombies per turn depending on how many survivors you start with.

One to three arrival points seems to be the suggested setup so you could need as many as 20 - 30 zombies to cover all your bases.