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Solahma






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Ash of Guerrilla Miniature Games wrote a zombie skirmish game years ago (2009 IIRC) and Osprey decided to publish it. The game finally has a release date - June 19, 2018 according to Amazon.



Ash posted some vids demoing Last Days on his channel. Here's the first one:



You might well ask yourself why you should care about yet another miniatures skirmish game featuring zombies. TBH I ask myself the same question, considering how much I like Mantic's TWD rules. Well, as compared to TWD All Out War, I think Last Days has some practical advantages: unlike Mantic's game, Last Days uses the "old reliable" D6s rather than annoying proprietary dice and Last days uses a maximum or twenty zombies (a major advantage if you insist on only using painted minis).

   
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Man, Osprey Games has been rolling lately!

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I played the demo of it he released for subscribers last year.

It was pretty fun. Has a nice noise mechanic that lets you see if zombies spawn. Pretty high chance once they get to you your guy is dead, so I enjoy the threat of that.

Kind of crazy its so far off
   
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Lots of lead time in publishing distribution, I guess?

I wonder if Osprey used the art assets Ash commissioned or went with something new.

   
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Hey guys!

Osprey has done all original art for the game, but you can see my old commissioned art pop up in stuff I make (as I loved what Stephen did with it).

A lot of folks don't know Osprey is an arm of Bloomsbury Publishing (hence the distribution to like; every book store on earth). That's part of why the huge lead-time. Publishing houses announce books way off so major outlets (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, WH Smith, etc) can take pre-orders and get a sense of quantities they want shipped to their warehouses. It's kinda cool but definitely not what we as wargamers are used to.

Worth noting that the version going to print is a bit different from the 2009 and Demo versions that are online or floating about. There's a lot more Group design as well as settlement building going on in the game. That gets expanded too in the first expansion.

I'll be doing the Designer Chat thing as well as demos at Adepticon with Osprey this year, so come find me at Booth 403 if you want to talk about it!

More than happy to answer questions here as well of course.

Ash

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Ash, for the photos did you provide them or did Osprey?

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 Achilles wrote:
That gets expanded too in the first expansion.
iiiiiiiinteresting - do tell more!

   
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 Easy E wrote:
Ash, for the photos did you provide them or did Osprey?


They're all my models and terrain, photographed by me.

As for the expansion, I'll discuss that more when the game comes out!

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Good to know. This caught my eye. Now I’m looking forward to seeing it.

It is your shock and horror on which I feed.... 
   
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 Corporal_Chaos wrote:
Good to know. This caught my eye. Now I’m looking forward to seeing it.


Awesome! If you're at Adepticon this weekend come by the Osprey booth to chat!

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Ash, are you running demos at Adepticon? If so, any plans to film something?

   
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I don't film anything at Adepticon (or any Con really as the audio is always terrible) but I'll be there all weekend giving demos and chatting about it and other upcoming games!

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Ha great point, one of the reasons I love your game play vids above all others is because ... I can actually hear what you are saying.

Have fun and I hope everyone you talk to gets excited for Last Days!

   
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@Ash, I wish I could attend the con. Real life keeps me from doing much travel. Anyway, I caught sight of your video reports from the past and was searching the title of your game and was quite happy to see it was going to be published. When there is a con here in the Tampa Bay Area I will do my best to go. Congrats on being published!

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 Manchu wrote:
Ha great point, one of the reasons I love your game play vids above all others is because ... I can actually hear what you are saying.

Have fun and I hope everyone you talk to gets excited for Last Days!


It definitely makes a difference knowing what's gong on.

@Ash, I wish I could attend the con. Real life keeps me from doing much travel. Anyway, I caught sight of your video reports from the past and was searching the title of your game and was quite happy to see it was going to be published. When there is a con here in the Tampa Bay Area I will do my best to go. Congrats on being published!


Thanks Corporal Chaos! I don't know when I'll be in Tampa but maybe at some other Con someday!


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The book is now shipping! Mine is set to arrive tomorrow.

   
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I look forward to a review on your blog!

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Yeah maybe I can use all that new MDF terrain I painted up.

   
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Hope you enjoy it!

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Even though I'm not really looking for a zombie game at the moment, I'll snag this one. Mostly because I love supporting smaller companies and indie developers.
   
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 Valander wrote:
Even though I'm not really looking for a zombie game at the moment, I'll snag this one. Mostly because I love supporting smaller companies and indie developers.


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I hope you will put up a newer video battle report with it hitting shelves and general release.

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 Achilles wrote:
 Valander wrote:
Even though I'm not really looking for a zombie game at the moment, I'll snag this one. Mostly because I love supporting smaller companies and indie developers.


You're my boy Blue!


Paying some goodwill forward on the chance that I can eventually manage to get my own game company going... long, painful, expensive process.

Seriously, though, I just ordered a copy on Amazon. Looking forward to it, and more videos (since you're the bastard that got me into Gaslands, Scrappers, Horizon Wars, and prolly a few others...)
   
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 Achilles wrote:


As for the expansion, I'll discuss that more when the game comes out!







   
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Got my copy... soo, what’s the scoop? I’m listening

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