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The Action Phase is where they begin to move and act. It starts off with determining initiative. The winner gets to decide if they are being offensive or defensive. The offensive player gets to activate and move a model first. Then it will switch to the defender, alternating back and forth until every model has moved, reloaded, opens doors or interacts with objects and all action points are used.
The Defender goes first choosing a target their model has line of sight to. This could be another survivor or a zombie. They will then be able to fire as many shots as their weapons rate of fire allows.
Then it will alternate back to the aggressor, similar to the action step above. They als0 accumulate ammo tokens equal to the rate of fire of their weapon. If the ammo tokens exceed their reload number on that weapon they need to reload.
This phase is completed once all range models have resolved. The Aggressor goes first for melee, resolving any characters that are touching bases with another survivor or zombie. Play passes back and forth until all models to close for range combat have resolved their current situation.
All good things must come to an end, and so does conflict within the Zombie Apocalypse. The players must now account for their wounds and damages.
Starting with the aggressor the players must roll a 1d6 if they took a casualty to their group of survivors. They add the number of casualties taken to the die roll and if that total exceeds the combined total courage of the leader and the remaining survivors of that group they flee the battle. If not they stay and continue the fight. This step is done for both the defender and the aggressor. Last Days is a fairly simple system on its nose. It does provide for more than just scenario skirmishes. Players can play a campaign, in which their survivors will gain experience, better characteristics, and upgrade their refuge.
They may lose leaders or followers.
Their refuge might get seized during a Bushwack encounter by the other player. Essentially, Last Days is a sort of Roleplay Lite skirmish game. In my playthrough, we did 11 encounters total, which took around 7 hours over the course of 3 days. It was quite enjoyable, and even playing the same encounter over more than once was still a lot of fun.
Since terrain setup and arrangement is largely left to the players to decide, you can dramatically change the dynamic of each battle with little effort. You get a lot of bang for your buck with Last Days.
Despite being a skirmish miniatures game I think Last Days could honestly work just fine for the same crowd. The game itself is not without flaws. I highly suspect that it was rushed out before a proper editing could take place, as there were several typos and misplaced words. In one section it told me to refer to a table above, but the actual table was one page removed on the opposite side and was not even the same creature type the author mentions.
At times the rules can be a little to loose. Whenever you find vagueness in a ruleset you can bank on the fact it will come up as a game issue later.
None of these are game-breaking issues, but they are things you should be aware of if you are looking to purchase Last Days. You can purchase Last Days here from Osprey Games website. The author also specifically mentions Hasslefree Miniatures as his company of choice for your models.
They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same—they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. A New World Chaos. This is the Way the World Ends: In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Woo SJ, et al Reference: It is the first battle of the Civil War in the Plaguelands which is a series of battles between the various undead factions in control of the forces of the Scourge: An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
You can find their website here. I enjoyed my time with Last Days and I fully expect to pull out during board game nights, simply because in conjunction with other stuff I have it is a quick and dirty, skirmish game that plays out in about an hour or so.
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