I was a little nervous about it all because everyone else from my normal table top group was busy so I ended up going on my own, but I really shouldn't have been, everyone was very nice and after a few ice breaking games of Tsuro while we waited for everyone to arrive I felt a lot more relaxed.
After that we played a game I'd never even heard of before called Zombicide which is a cooperative zombie survival game created by Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, and Nicolas Raoult.
Zombiecide was apparently born of a successful kickstarter which is pretty cool, it's played on a modular tile based map and as a team you carry out a chosen missions from the rule book. Each character has special abilities and there is an xp system that allows you to level up and gain access to new character skills. The game also has rules for different types of zombies and for various items and weapons which you can use.
We played two games, the first game was all going well until Dave split the party and had his character, also named Dave break into a separate building from the group and open up a whole world of pain for the group. It did end with an epic final stand made by Amy's character who also happened to be called Amy, in which she killed scores of zombies and made us all believe she might just make it, till her luck ran out and a lone runner took her down. Still it was an awesome ride and our deaths were very entertaining.
The second game I regrettably had to leave before it finished because I had only put parking on the pay and display for four hours, I know lame right! While I was there though the group learned from its rash mistakes of the past game and we thought more about how best to tackle one area at a time.
However as people level up in the game so do the zombies spawning, so the more xp people have the more zombies start to appear and it was becoming apparent that the group might be overrun before they could safely move around the entire map and pick up all the objectives. Will have to wait till someone updates me to find out how they did without me after I went. Hopefully everything went to plan and they managed to escape with the objectives, but somehow I think they will of ended up as zombie food again!
Really enjoyed the night as a whole, it's a really good set up they've got there and a relaxed atmosphere. I'd definitely recommend checking it out if you have any interest in getting into tabletop games and you're in the Leeds area. For details on when they're playing next drop into the Travelling man and have a chat to the staff, or give them a call.
I'm going to check out the new Tabletop episode over at Geek and Sundry so till next time guys.
DFTBA
- Stray
It was good to see a friendly new face at game night too. In terms of Zombicide, we defied the odds (partly thanks to a pair of machetes being hurled through the air between three consecutive players to hack a huge mob of zombies down) and the game was still running at the end of the night; pictures were taken of the set up in order to be able to continue the adventure next Thursday games night.
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