Armchair Dragoons Forums

Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 12:35:06 PM

Title: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 12:35:06 PM
God help me but I want to buy this.

https://avalonhill.wizards.com/games/axis-and-allies/zombies

Would make a heckuva AAR.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2019, 12:49:51 PM
if you'd come to Origins last summer, you could've played it in the shadow of an M3 tank, and decided for yourself you didn't really need it
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bob48 on January 15, 2019, 01:11:25 PM
Can it only be played in the shadow of an M3, or will an M4 suffice?
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2019, 02:08:30 PM
Can it only be played in the shadow of an M3, or will an M4 suffice?


I suppose it can be played in whatever shadow you choose to darken your table.


However, at Origins last year, they actually drove an old M3 into the exhibit hall as a part of their demo area.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 02:18:56 PM
if you'd come to Origins last summer, you could've played it in the shadow of an M3 tank, and decided for yourself you didn't really need it

I take it M3, M4, or M1 aside, you were less than impressed with it.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2019, 02:24:36 PM
To quote Cyrano:

"That game is the answer to a question that absolutely no one was asking"
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 02:43:53 PM
Bah! He just didn't like that there were no Napoleonic Dragoon minis in the box.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: panzerde on January 15, 2019, 05:04:29 PM
Bah! He just didn't like that there were no Napoleonic Dragoon minis in the box.

Adding Napoleonics to it would have been gilding something already approaching an French brothel level of tackiness. Then you'd have a Flying Pig game.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: Barthheart on January 15, 2019, 05:21:38 PM
Ouch
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 05:38:26 PM
O snap
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bob48 on January 15, 2019, 06:35:18 PM
Bah! He just didn't like that there were no Napoleonic Dragoon minis in the box.

Adding Napoleonics to it would have been gilding something already approaching an French brothel level of tackiness. Then you'd have a Flying Pig game.

The urge to add that as a sig line is almost too much to resist :-)
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2019, 07:19:17 PM
I appreciate sense being talked into me. Thanks.

I shouldn't buy anything anyway...had to drop a lot of dough on an AZ vehicle registration today.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: mirth on January 15, 2019, 07:28:14 PM
I appreciate sense being talked into me. Thanks.

I shouldn't buy anything anyway...had to drop a lot of dough on an AZ vehicle registration today.
No one made you buy a Camaro
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: Staggerwing on January 15, 2019, 09:05:09 PM
I'll bet the Camaro is a red one, and called out to B_C from some junk-strewn front yard as he passed by.

Now, after pushing the Camaro backwards for miles to roll back the odometer all it's dents and flaws are gone, and he has a new back brace...
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 16, 2019, 06:53:48 AM
No one made you buy a Camaro

Had nothing to do with that. Had everything to do with AZ car registration costing an arm and a leg, especially with new(ish) cars. They base the cost on a percentage of the vehicle's MSRP, not what you paid for it. I had well over $8K in discounts from the dealer so I didn't pay anywhere near MSRP for it. Highly unfair, but that's AZ for you I suppose.

I'll bet the Camaro is a red one, and called out to B_C from some junk-strewn front yard as he passed by.


Nope, the red one is gone. This one is black. ;D

Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 16, 2019, 07:51:37 AM
No one made you buy a Camaro


it's his chick magnet
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 16, 2019, 08:12:41 AM
If it magnetizes them, I've yet to notice.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 16, 2019, 08:19:30 AM
If it magnetizes them, I've yet to notice.


you've got your poles mixed up?
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: panzerde on January 16, 2019, 08:53:32 AM
If it magnetizes them, I've yet to notice.


you've got your poles mixed up?

And then the Winged Hussars arrived!
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2019, 09:16:40 AM
Did someone say Winged Hussars?


Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2019, 09:19:19 AM
this is kinda fun


Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 16, 2019, 10:14:16 AM
If it magnetizes them, I've yet to notice.


you've got your poles mixed up?

And then the Winged Hussars arrived!


it was just too easy....   :whistle:
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: Cyrano on January 16, 2019, 10:18:00 AM
And, on a related note, if you've not yet subscribed, you are wrong:



I don't know why these guys care about history the way they do, but I'm glad they do.

Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2019, 10:33:55 AM
And, on a related note, if you've not yet subscribed, you are wrong:



I don't know why these guys care about history the way they do, but I'm glad they do.

oh hell yes!
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: bbmike on January 16, 2019, 12:32:10 PM
Oooh, that looks sweet!  :2thumbs:
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: trailrunner on January 16, 2019, 03:57:17 PM
Had nothing to do with that. Had everything to do with AZ car registration costing an arm and a leg, especially with new(ish) cars. They base the cost on a percentage of the vehicle's MSRP, not what you paid for it. I had well over $8K in discounts from the dealer so I didn't pay anywhere near MSRP for it. Highly unfair, but that's AZ for you I suppose.

California did that, at least when I lived there 30 years ago.  But I don't remember them levying a personal property tax.

Virginia, where I live now, charges the same to register a car independent of its value, but they levy an annual property tax on each vehicle.  We have two old cars (15 and 17 years old) and one new truck (2 years old), and I think we paid over $600 or $800 last year, maybe even more.  That's every year.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: panzerde on January 17, 2019, 08:43:27 AM
this is kinda fun



Sort of drives home the point that Pelennor Fields is really Vienna 1683. Kind of amazing how well it fits.
Title: Re: Axis & Allies Zombies
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 25, 2019, 08:01:48 PM
This is one time the community actually talked sense into me and told me NOT to buy a board game. Appreciate it.  :bigthumb: