Out of respect to surf_rider56, I'm starting this topic in its own thread.



Play tested a game of Death Troopers on the Mustafar Map.
When we sat down we realized we needed a direct goal. So we added an astromech. The winner is the player who can retrieve the astromech and take it back to the starting square. However the astromech reduces speed to 6, and must be adjacent to the player to move, Han Carbo style. We started in the Landing Area and placed the droid in the Security Post.

You can burn through the zombies quickly but we found out they are way too powerful to keep the fun in it. You can get swarmed by 3 and be dead in 1 turn

The Black Wing virus is too powerful for this game scenario so we substituted the +60 damaged for the characters printed damage e.g. +10, +20, for the relevant zombie character.
To keep the pressure on we changed it so each time a door is opened, regardless of if it has already been opened, the player rolls a dice to place zombies in that room, and Zombies must always move towards the nearest Unique character. That was a major oversight lol

The Zombie Sith Lord should have something else to it to make it DEAD scary, lol. Sort of like the Witch or Tank from Left4Dead. Twin/double/ melee reach 2. Maybe even a CE to aid all current Zombies. Not sure what but there was not enough fear factor to justify him sadly. We ended up putting 3 of them down on a roll of 12.

We also felt a Dynamic duo aids the game with each player has 2 characters, that way you can use CE and Batteries etc.

All in all it was a fun quick game!

Gaming scenario 3.0

2 players or more.
1 D20 & 1 D12
Ravaged Base map or any other segmented map, small enclosed spaces are best for this.
Each Player picks 2 unique characters for their team.
Agree on a starting point and place the Astromech droid in a difficult to reach portion of the map.
Rules for the astromech. The winner is the player who can retrieve the astromech and take it back to the starting square. However the astromech reduces speed to 6, and must be adjacent to a Unique player to move.


Game and rules.

Each player has their 2 activations as per normal.
Zombie enemies must always move towards the nearest unique character.
Every time a player opens a door to a room or corridor regardless of whether Zombies have already been revealed in that area, the other player rolls the D12/D20, what ever the roll is the other player places/reveals that amount of Zombies in that room/corridor.

Zombie Wookies are placed for each roll of 5 on the dice.
Example - on a roll of 10, 8 Zombie Stormtroopers and 2 Zombie Wookies are placed.
On a natural 12/20 depending on the dice of choice, place 3 Zombie Sith Lords.
When first being placed/revealed, the Zombie enemies can not be placed closer than 4 squares away from the Unique character.
If the dice roll is greater than the space availible, the room/corridor is filled up to the 4 sqaure distance from the Unique character.


So the activations are as follows

Player 1 moves/activates their characters
Player 2 moves/activates any Zombies in play
Player 2 moves/activates their characters
Player 1 moves/activates any Zombies in play

I have a couple of questions for how you would work this.
Doesn't the astromech already have speed 6? (move 6 and attack, move 12 without attacking)
Do you have initiatives? Do zombies appear for each initiative, too?
Is it a competition between the two players? If so, how would the astromech change from moving with one player to the other? Who moves it?
Do the players count as allies or can they attack each other?
What does "up to the 4 sqaure distance from the Unique character" mean?
What are the zombie abilities? Speed 4 and Blackwing Virus?
What happens when there are no more unique characters left? Where do the zombies go?

I'm pretty interested in this, and I'd like to see how it comes along!
I was just thinking how they could represent the bando gora in bounty hunter... I think that the zombies should be a little slower, though, and just make more of them.

That sound like an intense game. 150pt squad! Trying to keep them all alive lol!

Agreed about the space hulk but I didnt want it to be just SWM with Zombies. Objective/scenario with Zombies seemed a good fit.

What are the thoughts on a big baddie. If we come up with a set of SA Surf may tweak the cards for us!

Before Surf posted his cards I was tinkering with the Zombie idea
these were my basic Zombie SA's

Zombie, Sith Wraith
HP 30
Def 15
Att 12
Dam 10

Melee
Double Attack
Infected Wound Living characters that take damage from this character lose +10 health each time they activate or until they have been Healed.
Swarm +1 : +1 attack for every Zombie within 6 squares.
Infection If a living character is incapacitated by a Zombie that character is considered defeated and becomes a Zombie.

Wow, well remembered about my IG's I hadnt thought about using those.

Sith Wraith may be the biggy we are looking for.

Good call on the L4D inspired zombies. A Yuuzem may make a good boomer esque thing.

Anyone want to have crack at stats for these?

lol thanks surf!

Two questions on your new stats ( ... and as a Totally Disinterested Party, when it comes to Zombies )

1. I'm not an expert on the Virus (Frankly, I bought both books and couldn't finish either,) but isn't the Virus
incurable? If not, I stand corrected.

2. Infection What's the definition of incapacitated? Less than half the character's HP's? 10-20 Pt's left on a
character?

As for changing the Virus, -10 per turn would take Forever to affect some characters .... you could conceivably finish a game before a powerful character is defeated. You could make an argument that a Force user could slow it down, but for gameplay, it should be faster acting; 30 Damage at the minimum. If 60 is too much, make it 40? Even Yoda would succumb in about 4-5 turns. -10 it could take 12-16 turns

You have to make it dangerous/scary somehow, yet within reason!



We now return to your regularly scheduled Zombie Fest .....

How's this? Feel free to quote it and tweak it a bit.

Super-Zombie!

HP: 120
DEF: 20
ATT: 10
DAM: 30

Special abilities:
Melee attack
Twin attack
Speed 4
Damage reduction 10
Fierce grip (Adjacent enemies cannot move)
Charging assault +10 (Can move up to double speed, and make an attack at +10 damage at an adjacent enemy)

Force powers:
Force 3
Knight speed
Lightsaber defense

I didn't make him extremely powerful for attacking, but he's a damage sponge. 120 + damage reduction 10 + 20 defense will probably allow him to eventually make him trap somebody at a door or in a corner, causing him to do his 40 damage x 2 against somebody.

Another question. What is the save 6 for in Blackwing Virus? Is it the whole ability, or the changing sides?

Save 6 was meant as sort of a buffer in that you take damage but may not necessarily get the Virus; get hurt but not necessarily exposed to blood/infection. If 6 is too easy to avoid the Virus, up it to the usual Save 11.

Zahara Cody, Chief Medical Officer

HP 60
Def 17
Att 8
Dam 10

Unique
Twin Attack Whenever this character attacks, he makes 1 extra attack against the same target
Blackwing Cure Once per turn, touch; a living character cannot gain Infection ; a living character with Infection loses Infection and cannot gain this ability again.
Heal 30 Replaces attacks: touch; remove 30 damage from a living character.

I think that the stormtroopers should have less defense, but more HP. In those movies, you always see the bullets just go right through, and they keep charging... and then... GRAHHH!!!!