Zombie skirmish game The Walking Dead: All Out War puts real horror on your table

Enlarge / A complete cityscape filled with painted minis. It takes lots of work to get your game to look like this—but it certainly looks good when it’s done. (credit: Mantic Games)

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I’ve always found something perversely appealing about the prospect of an undead apocalypse. From an early age, I stayed awake to catch Living Dead reruns on late-night TV and kept a mental map of escape routes around our neighborhood, just in case they were ever needed.

My other childhood obsession was the Warhammer line of miniature battle games. That’s why The Walking Dead: All Out War seems like it could have been custom-made for me. Set in the world of writer Robert Kirkman’s original horror comics, it’s a skirmish-scale miniatures game where rival bands of survivors clash in a world overrun by ravenous reanimated corpses.

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