Axis and Allies: Zombies

@jamesl1391 Hello James,

Fortunately @Krieghund already answered all of your questions. Just some remarks from me.

If you attack a zombie in you own territory, do they bite on an A or a D? ie are you defending your territory, or attacking the zombies?

The way I see this: The Zs are just conducting their battle phase, their throwing of the dice. And then the ‘D’ results can not be assigned. Just see this as a regular battle.
(@Krieghund , if I am wrong please correct me)

Can you hold a territory just with a plane in it, if it has a zombie - or do you also need a land unit there as well?

Very good question. Good you asked this so this could be clarified. Please mind that Zs can hit your - expensive! - plane in their next ‘Zs Attack’ phase.

If a single plane attacks a single zombie within a group of zombies (in a friendly territory held with other units), do all the zombies bite or just the one that the plane is attacking?

As far as I know in standard Axis and Allies games you never attack a specific unit…

ve found that I often lose Egypt to Germany. As they have the battle ship and transport to build up a force in Africa.
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So if I bought a factory for Egypt I’m not able to build troops fast enough to protect it.

How to people feel about South Africa? It’s far enough away to build up some troops in Africa before Germany comes. Assuming they don’t take Egypt turn 1 (with a tank surviving). Or if Germany builds a second transport, they will be able to quickly build up more African troops then the UK.

Say I group up my navy in the Indian Ocean turn 1, so it’s big enough for Japan not to attack it turn 1.

I then have enough navy to protect South Africa from Japan’s navy for a couple turns till I can build up more forces. Also with the two transports from this navy, you can ferry units to India and Egypt areas quickly.

One positives of this factory are able to build navy in South Africa, without using any of India’s production (on land based units). Also some games if I don’t build a factory, I find that I’m forced to start building in England. And if the UK navy has been sunk already this can be a problem if Germany has a large air force

What results have people been getting with this?

Welcome, suspect0!

Yes, you can attack zombies in your own territory.

From page 15 of the Rulebook (Combat Movement):

Units can move freely through friendly spaces en route to hostile spaces during this phase. Units cannot end their movement in friendly spaces during the Combat Move phase except for the following instances:

Tanks that have blitzed through an unoccupied hostile space (see “Tanks and Blitzing”). Sea units that will be participating in an amphibious assault from an uncontested sea zone (see “Amphibious Assaults”). Units moving from a hostile sea zone (see “Sea Units Starting in Hostile Sea Zones”) or from a friendly space where combat will be initiated to escape combat as their combat move. Units moving into a sea zone containing only enemy submarines and/or transports in order to attack those units. (Remember that such a sea zone is not considered hostile.) Units that are attacking zombies in a friendly territory.

And from page 19 (General Combat):

In this step, you resolve combat in each space that contains your units and either contains enemy units or is enemy controlled. You may also resolve combat in each friendly territory that contains your units and zombies (in fact, you must do so in such territories that you moved units into during the previous phase).

Note that when you’re attacking only zombies, both “normal” hits and “zombie” hits (6s) by your units are applied to zombie units. It’s easier to kill zombies when you don’t have to worry about the enemy.

I’m glad you’re enjoying the game. Have fun!

@Caesar-Seriona They will work with most versions of A&A.
The issue will be that Anniversary and Global have more territories on the map than1942 2ed.
Some have suggested using a die to decide. (if 1942 has one territory but the other has three, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 die roll to see who gets the zombies)
You might run short of zombies as well, but painting up some infantry from a parts game should work well.

I don’t think anything else is needed.

@BananeDC

Zombies are roughly the same size as infantry. A little bigger wouldn’t hurt and might look better.
Europe is the only area where space is tight, but that is true of all A&A games.

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.

@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.