The problem with Zombie games is that you need so darn many of the things. Painting them becomes a logistical nightmare. Here’s a tutorial on a zombie speed painting technique.
Month: December 2025
Gangstars Street Warfare Game
Gangstars is a game of street warfare. The author writes:
GangStars is a skirmish game of petty crime in the hood. It’s about street gangs battling it out on the turf, cops trying to fight this and the Mafia seeing to it that their claims are not infringed.
GangStars is a light-hearted game and NOT the attempt to portray street warfare as accurately as possible. It’s just a game for like-minded souls who enjoy some hours of heroic deeds and funny situations after endless happy hours of painting models and terrain-building AND above all without worldly wise man’s scholarly questioning some rule mechanisms or outcomes because of his permanent on-line link to Wikipedia on weapon performance or his claim to just have lived in South Central.
Bolt Action Burma Game
This Saturday afternoon, our group played a game of Bolt Action set in late war Burma. Allied Forces — British, Sikh, Gurka and Indian — were tasked with forcing their way across three bridges defended by the Japanese. The victory conditions for both sides was to control two of the three bridges.
The game ended in a tie, with one bridge each controlled by the Allies and Japanese, and one bridge contested.
We played with the standard Bolt Action 3rd rules with a couple of exceptions. One is that we allow weapons to fire at up to twice their standard ranges at a -1 as a house rule. The modification works well; the main effect is to speed up the game, which we appreciate.
The other change is a group play modification: when a die is pulled from the bag, we dig through the bag and give each player on that side a die for activation. So, if a Japanese die was pulled, each of the Japanese players gets one die from the bag. Otherwise, a game with six or eight players would take forever.
Although as veteran gamers — we’ve been gaming as a group for more than thirty years — we have tried dozens of WWII rules, we have settled on Bolt Action.
Seven Samurai Skirmish
Seven Samurai Skirmish is a set of free wargames rules for battles in the spirit of the classic Kurosawa movie Seven Samurai.
Bloody Mary – Further Intrigue In The Tudor Court
Bloody Mary is the title of Gary Stevens’ free downloadable board game of intrigue in the Tudor Court. Stevens writes:
In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne… and keep your own head.
The game starts at the coronation of Henry VIII’s son Edward. It follows the history of mid-Tudor England for a further 25 years. You must plot to place your favoured candidate on the throne. You play the part of a faction of courtiers trying to preserve your power and influence. The game is solidly based in history (well, as solidly as I can make it). It is meant to be educational as well as entertaining.