Rolling Zombies🧟🎲 - Light 4X with dice action selection

hi everyone it's turned and Stella from people University today we'll be showing you a quick how to play or overview of rolling zombies let's get to the game rolling zombies is a Forex Zombie Survival game with a yahtzee engine it was designed and published by this appeali the game plays two to five players in 90 to 150 minutes and is of medium complexity in Rolling zombies players are unique factions inhabiting a post-apocalyptic zombie-ridden world now it's time to engage in a classic Forex battle explore the hidden locations use them and other actions to generate resources and spend them to build up your armies and heroes which you'll then use for Domination in the end your points will come from fighting your enemies fighting the zombies and cleaning as much territory as you can The Twist is that your choice of path and action hinges on your dice to begin each turn players roll and re-roll fire dice a maximum of three rolls and use their combinations to choose one of 13 actions these all work in various different ways for example if you choose ones then you can either gain one fuel for each one that you rolled or move one unit stack if you choose fives you get five dollars per five roll or to attack twice a little straight lets you explore a location and buy units or cards from the market and five of a kind lets you recruit a hero or move an attack with everything a full round lasts 13 turns before all of the action queues are cleared and you can only choose each action once so timing your roles and pushing your luck to hit the best or strongest actions at the right times is critical conversely roll the combination that you no longer have available and you simply place a cube and miss your turn [Music] logs and money are needed for producing the game's military units you'll get them mostly from your roles but also as you explore you'll find buildings which produce them but most critical to the game is expanding your Empire and Exterminating your opponents when you launch an attack both players declare their units and both may play up to three battle cards simultaneously compare each player's attack strength with the opponent's defense here red has 12 attacks to 10 defense and yellow has 11 attack to eight defense deal the difference in damage hitting the weakest units first and then score one point for each opposing unit destroyed the game is called rolling zombies so of course in addition to your opponents you'll be facing off against the zombie hordes these enter play as part of the four of a kind action they are placed and move according to the draw of the zombie cards they can attack the players and provide another means of scoring points the game ends once one player reaches 15 points or conquers the ancient Fortress players now add one point for every two hexes they control watchtowers control their own hexes as well as the six surroundings so be sure to build yourself a network there's also bonus points for the player who controls the largest contiguous area and the player with the highest score wins rolling zombies is a Forex for the combat Enthusiast heavy on the expansion and extermination mixed with a yahtzee style action selection mechanism this makes for a tense encounter where the luck of the dice comes not in the more traditional way of rolling combat dice but in the optimization of your actions with many different types of units cards and strategies to trial rolling zombies will make for many nights of zombie-fueled combat Adventures and that's our quick how to play of rolling zombies hopefully it's been useful we are using a prototype copy of the game and so the rules and components are not final and do check out the project page for the game we'll put a link to that in the description below thanks so much for watching everything you do will help us every single few and make sure you're doing something fun today see you in our next video