Played my first game tonight.

[Tommy Brownell]

Emp Wrote:Aren't the 2 handed garden sheers from the expansion set or advanced set? I don't think they are allowed in the first game setup. But hey, as long as you had fun, that is all that matters

Nah, FFG themselves have explicitly stated that Die, Zombies, Die works just fine with the basic or advanced stuff, so I would assume then that the expansion is no problem. After all, if the decks are supposed to remain balanced, then the Zombies would have had something to counter it.

n107 Wrote:I know "Die Zombies, Die" was designed as the Basic scenario, but I didn't know it was against the rules to play it with the advanced rules. I'll check the rule book again.

Well, I just finished up my second game utilizing all the correct ways of playing I didn't use last night. I'm starting to think the game should be called "No Chance in Hell" instead. This time the game only made it to round 10 and the heroes only stopped three zombies before the inevitable happened. Seriously, I can't fathom how the heroes are ever supposed to win in this game. "Heroes"... ok, that's a bit of a misnomer. They should just be labeled "victims" and accept their fate. I know a lot of it has to do with the mind-numbingly bad rolls the heroes threw in comparison to the zombies. I am terribly unlucky, so that shouldn't come as a surprise but I can't help but feel there's some sort of divine intervention going on just to ruin every single thing I try to do. Hell, by the third turn, three buildings had been taken over and a fourth one soon followed. So much for shuffling. I think if the zombies drew one card every other turn and the heroes drew 4 every time, they'd still only have a 50/50 chance. But seriously, the zombie cards are brutal with a capital "you might as well quit because you're going to die, stupid hero".

I'm taking a bit of a breather now and will go back to try a different scenario to see if the heroes fare any better. I already know the answer, but ignorance is bliss.

Are you using random heroes, or picking them?

Sheriff Anderson and Det. Winters both start with guns, that tends to turn into killing right off the bat...Father Joseph with a Faith card (especially if he also gets a weapon he can use) is a beast. Jake Cartwright funneling through the deck to both get good cards and drop cards into the discard pile for the Pick-Ups is also helpful.

But, of course, if you repeatedly have incredibly bad rolls, none of that helps...=)