Hmm, I seem to have been emailed directly in response, I can only assume by accident. Quote:
"I'm interested in your comments on Zombie State. I gather it is mostly about pushing zombies towards the other players. Is it mostly skill/managing luck or is it more random (6 zombies appear near your HQ) (New death ray eliminates zombies on the hex of your choice) sort of thing? = Jonathan" To answer that, getting zombies to go elsewhere is part of it (which can be accomplished in a number of ways, the the simplest being that zombies will go for larger populations first. It is pretty skill based. You collect resources depending on the amount of territory you still control, then you use resources to buy military and research new technologies. What the technologies do is completely open (you have a player mat showing all the possibilities). They are divided into 3 tiers and you must have 3 level 1 techs before going to level 2, and 2 level 2s before going to level 3. The biggest luck element in the game is definitely the technology roll. It's a D12 roll on which you need a 7, though you can spend extra actions (of which you start out with 6/turn, but lose actions as you lose territories) to give yourself a +2 bonus/action (also, you get a +1 bonus for each player that has previously obtained the tech you are trying to get). If you fail, you still lose the resources. You do get a +3 bonus for the next time you research that tech, but bad rolling can really screw you, especially since you don't really make enough tech rolls in the game for it to even out a little. On Jun 2, 9:16 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > How about: My Blog! Yammering about everything I played in the last > week at Kublacon and other places. Click the links in the upper right > for links to more babbling, or just scroll down for interminable > pictures. > > http://everythingiplayed.blogspot.com/2010/06/52410-53010-kublacon-an... > > When you finish that:http://www.cocktailsofcatan.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
