Last Days: Zombie-Spiel von Ash Barker

Ash Barker, Betreiber des beliebten Tabletop-YouTube Kanals „Guerilla Miniature Games“, wird dieses Jahr sein eigenes Spielsystem für die Zombie-Apokalypse veröffentlichen: Last Days!

Ash entwickelte dieses Spiel schon vor vielen Jahren, während er beruflich viel reisen musste. Er grübelte während der Fahrten über die Regeln und schrieb sie dann abends im Hotelzimmer auf. Irgendwann überredete ihn ein Freund, dieses System doch mal auf seinem inzwischen gut laufenden YouTube Kanal zu zeigen und nachdem er es in einigen Videos eigentlich „just for fun“ präsentiert hatte, ergab es sich dann, dass Osprey Games gewillt waren, ein Regelbuch zu veröffentlichen. Als die Dice Bag Lady Annie Norman dann auf einer britischen Convention das Spiel in einem Osprey-Games Katalog entdeckte, wurde die Sache ernst und seither gibt es eine offizielle Facebook-Seite für Last Days, von der wir einige Bilder und Infos für euch gesammelt haben!

 

I suppose now that it’s in the Osprey Catalogue at shows, it’s time to put up a page for this thing. Make sure you follow along for updates.  Thanks Annie Norman for the catalogue shot!

By request, catalogue info for the less keen-eyed….

 

Diese zwei Preview-Artikel auf der Last Days Facebook-Seite geben einen Einblick in die Regeln. Wer mehr darüber erfahren will, wie Last Days sich spielt und was es von anderen Zombie-Spielen unterscheidet, findet weiter unten einige Videos verlinkt, darunter auch ein detailliertes Let’s Play.

 

Let’s check out some of the great art and discuss some game mechanics for Last Days by Osprey Games!

Leading up to June you can check out a new illustration by Arthur Asa and key game mechanic each month. We’ll start with the titular menace themselves; Zombies.

Last Days is a game plagued by the living dead. The core rules feature the Romero-Zombies of the Night of the Living Dead. A million crazy theories exist as to why the dead have returned to feast on the living, but some simple facts about them can certainly be agreed upon;

1) They’re slow. In normal conditions a human being can certainly escape a single Zombie. The issue is that for every surviving living person there are hundreds of zombies. While individually easy to manage, massive groups are deadly.

2) They just keep coming unless you destroy their brain. Shoot them, stab them or light them on fire (please don’t do this) all you’re doing is slowing them down. Hit them in the head however (easier said than done for most people who’ve never held a gun!) and they’ll stay down for good.

In game terms; zombies are always around. Worse still, what you do in a game when facing another group can attract more of them. They present a constant hazard during encounters as they present the key environmental concern that everyone now has to live with every day.

Even when an encounter concludes you need to keep Zombies in mind. Every night there is the possibility that the Zombies randomly stumbling upon your Refuge turn into an unstoppable horde that drives you from your home. What you do when you return and what condition you return in is something you have to consider even as the bullets are flying and supplies are being gathered. How you upgrade your Refuge and what jobs you assign your survivors will effect this too.

You’ll want to gather about twenty zombies for your games of Last Days. On a 3×3′ table this should give you enough that as the game progresses more and more roaming undead descend upon the noise created by fighting or gathering supplies and give the players some really hard decisions to make!

Next up: The Leader. We’ll talk about him in February!

 

To celebrate the cover of the book being ready, let’s talk about LEADERS

Survivors by Slow Death Games
Dog and Zombies by Hasslefree Minis
Building by Black Site Studio

Preview #2 – Leaders in Last Days

The concept of Leadership is a core principle of every Zombie movie or book. There are always those personalities that rise to the occasion during a crisis and it is their beliefs and actions that shape the future of those around them.

When you first play Last Days you will be presented with the choice of who you want leading your Group. Every leader has an associate tag of how they view their survival. Are they Selfless, willing to lay down their lives to save others? Are they Selfish and see the people around them as nothing but another resource to help them survive? Or are they Trained and rely on facts, figures and their skills to survive, shelving morality?

Who you decide your Leader is will colour your Group from then on. You will attract survivors that share your beliefs and only tolerate a tiny amount of those that don’t. Of course some characters are flexible and will join any group, adapting to the beliefs of those around them.

In game terms it means that when you assemble your group, any number of them can share the same tag as their Leader. The Merciless Thug is Selfish. He can have as many Goons in the Group as he likes. Half the group can be Neutral. Survivors for instance are a ‚jack of all trades‘ character type who are unexceptional, but give numbers to a group.

Finally usually only one or two characters can have a different tag than the leader. In every story there is always a dissenter that argues the opposite position to the Leader.

There is always a chance that given time these dissenters may be brought along to see things as the Leader does however, opening up a space in the group for someone with a new skill-set.

Your first choice when playing Last Days will be how your Leader sees the world… and that belief will have lasting consequences, so choose carefully!

Stay tunes for March when we talk Refuges in Preview #3

 

Vor Kurzem wurde auch das Cover Artwork für das Regelbuch gezeigt, und ein Release-Datum genannt:

What’s up Survivors!

Today I’m excited to share the cover for Osprey GamesLast Days: Zombie Apocalypse core Rulebook.

Illustrated by the super talented Arthur Asa (@Regovrso) we see here a group of Survivors defending their Refuge from a Zombie attack.

You can join me at the Osprey booth at Adepticon 2018 for a demo of the game an to chat about all my upcoming plans for it! See you there!

Last Days launches June 19th, 2018.

 

In diesem Video erzählt Ash ein wenig über das Spiel und beantwortet dann Fragen dazu aus dem Chat:

 

Hier für euch auch noch fix die GMG-Videos, in denen man Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse in Aktion sehen kann:

 

Kurz-Infos zusammengefasst:

• Ash Barker von Guerilla Miniature Games wird ein Zombie-Apokalypse-Spiel veröffentlichen.
• Das Spiel wird über Osprey Games erscheinen.
• Veröffentlichungsdatum ist der 19. Juni 2018.
• Bisher wurde nur das Regelbuch angekündigt. Ob eigene Miniaturen geplant sind, ist dem Redakteur noch nicht bekannt.
• Es wird voraussichtlich fünf Fraktionen geben: Überlebende, Polizei, Militär, Kriminelle (Biker?) Gangs und Zombies.
• Niemand ist gezwungen, die Zombies als Fraktion zu spielen, sie können auch als neutrale dritte Fraktion am Spiel teilnehmen, wenn sich zwei Gruppen Lebender um Ressourcen kloppen.
• Aktionen können Lärm erzeugen. Je lauter man ist, desto größer die Gefahr, Zombies anzulocken!
• Ein Kampagnensystem wird es wohl auch geben.

 

Link: Guerilla Miniature Games

Link: Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse auf Facebook