The map is double sided, the player aids are excellent, being both clear, concise, as well as colour coded for difficulty level.

The first Dawn of the Zeds: Third Edition Expansion Pack features ​4 new characters (3 heroes and 1 heroic civilians), who ​are stepping forward, ready to ​confront the Zeds. Dawn of the Zeds (3rd Edition) is a cooperative States of Siege board game for 1-5 players that plays in 90-120 minutes. As best you can tell, you have been left to your own devices to stop them while the National Guard organizes a relief column, but that could take days, perhaps weeks, for them to fight their way to you and until then, what can you do? There’s just SO much game in this box without getting bogged down with a ton of miniatures which seem to be all the rage right now.

There are biker gangs, mad scientists, civilians fighting for zombie rights, and even one chit labeled “Plague of Lawyers”. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Dead of Winter, the art is perfect, the component quality is excellent (not too sure about the smooth board, but I understand why), and there’s a ton of depth. You pick characters and some NPCs to play with, after selecting a difficulty level, then construct the event deck that will run you through the course of the game.

Both the mountain path and the forest buckled entirely, and those repeated hand-to-hand fights brought a super-zed onto the interstate — a bad development, since my special firemen civilians were already injured there. In the comments following our review of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, there was short discussion of Fantasy Flight‘s recent decision to split their rulebooks into two separate tomes, a Learn to Play guide and a Rules Reference. With little choice between survival and a gruesome (un)death, you realize that you must coordinate the defense of the town of Farmingdale and its surrounding villages.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Imagine four bungee cords strapped to your center base, pulled tighter or looser but always threatening to snap you in the eye.