Help with ae-wwii rules

[laarok]

Hi, My brother and I are still new to ae-wwii and I am running a campaign (making most of it up as we go to learn different rules, scenarios and try it all out) which has almost come to the end. And for the finale I was planning on having both armies being forced to join together against an undead horde (as I have a lot of German zombies and this is a good way to learn the CC system better) and I was hoping for some help on some rules.

-Some of the men may take shelter in the building and was wanting to have werewolves or undead bust through the doors or walls. What armor or wounds etc would a wooden door or wall have? or even a brick wall?

- I am going for the old school slower zombie, this is what I have so far M 2 RC - CC 3 A 4 S 3-4 DR - W 2 with slow, zombie* impervious 5+-4+, Apathetic aura (they don't care about anything and nothing cares about them, no DR penalties), vulnerable (head-shot * -2 to hit head, units with aim don't take the negative) they would be Regular Infantry with 4 to a squad (slow zombies need overwhelming numbers). Any ideas or suggestion on how to better get that 'night of the living dead' resident evil' slow zombie feel would be appreciated.

* zombie rules from OTW 14
1. Is treated as Unliving even if it is still, technically, alive.
2. Cannot be inspired by living models.
3. Cannot inspire living models.
4. Cannot receive the benefits of command.
5. Cannot command living models.
6. Cannot be suppressed.
7. Does not count towards attrition for scenario objectives.
8. Does not count as a casualty if removed from the game.
9. Is unstoppable.
10. Cannot capture models for the purposes of scenario
objectives.
11. Cannot hold objectives other than those related to terrain
objectives (e.g., controlling a section of the table).

-The werewolves will be coming in 2 waves and I wanted to know when a unit is delayed from being put on the field do they suffer drive loss for the units that died previously?

-Another question that came up was about the American rocketeer dual wielding tesla pistols, we couldn't find any rule to say they could, yet the miniature comes that way? Is it just for visual effect or did we miss something?

Any help would be great , cheers

[TrueRonin]

Honestly... Drop Unstoppable, they are hard enough to stop with their suppression ignorance as well as the -2 to hit penalty due to head shot. I would also advise against them being able to hold objectives, as the only objectives Zombies should think of is to feed on the living. So the victory conditions should reflect this in some way. A breakthrough mission comes to mind and would fit best I think, where the Zombies have surrounded the two detachments and they now have to break out of the pocket and exit the battlefield to safety whereas the only goal of the Zombies is to eat them before they do.

As to the remaining rules, they look about right for braindead walking corpses.

[laarok]

Thanks for the quick response, the unstoppable was in the description for the "zombie" rule from otw 14 I ummed and arred about taking it out too. I wanted to leave it in for that classic feel of shooting one down only to have it get back up again, but I think you are correct it's just too tough. By the way the +2 head shot is only if you want to hit its vulnerability (normal shooting is fine but would require the shot to get past armor, impervious and 2 wounds, basically having to do enough damage to render the zombie useless) wasn't sure if the previous wording I used was good enough.

I love the idea of breakthrough, having them trapped in the house to begin with then fighting there way out forcing them to punch a hole through. thanks for the ideas

[TrueRonin]

You're welcome. Let us know how it played out, and what if any changes you made to make it feel right. There are a lot of players out there who thinks the Zombies are missing in the official setting...