Zombies

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Here's a rather idiotic one we thought of a while ago. Full facial protection is recommended, unless you like going to work next day with what looks like a painful batch of forehead-acne.
Weapons- Pistols, Shotguns, Sniper rifles, AEGs restricted to one team
Teams-
Civilians, Zombies, and Soldiers
Zombies don't get anything, Civilians can pick a pistol, shotgun or sniper rifle, soldiers can get anything.
The game starts with both human teams getting along fine. Zombies carry no weapons, yet will run at people as fast as they can. One touch, and you're out.
No firing at zombies within a certain range, depending on the velocity of the weapon and the mercy rules of the area.
Headshots are the only thing that can take them down, anything else can be ignored.
After there are a certain number of casualties on the Soldier and Civilian side, both sides should turn on each other, in typical zombie movie fashion (ie. Day of the Dead, 28 days later, ETC). Buildings can be garrisonned.
After a lot more people die, the remaining human groups can group together, or choose to travel in small packs and still fight each other if they wish. Anyone tagged by a zombie is to go to the Zombie spawn-point and start as one of them.
OPTIONAL RULE- Civilians wear green glowsticks, Soldiers wear red ones. This helps distinguish between the two teams in the dark, and the 'zombies' do always seem to know where to go...

[Darkmind]

Sounds like my kinda game.

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Yeah... actually, seeing you reminded me of it (The Umbrella stuff, zombies... yep). Half of it I changed around a bit, though... I know they've had games like this in Britain and the US, but never around here. We've tried, but it hasn't worked... not enough people in the area.

[jawinn]

The other drawback I see here is convincing people to run head long into Airsoft fire. We all know that it doesn't hurt much but I doubt many newbs would do it.

[mr7q]

I was thinking about the same thing and if it could be implemented.

The major drawback I see is that I'm not a big fan of the headshots being the only way to kill a zombie...

Furthermore, it'd be hard to convince a bunch of people not to play with guns.

Instead of making just headshots count, have the zombies have like 5 hits or something like that. Instead of the standard "disengage" at CQB, just have them crouch for 5-10 seconds, at which point they live again.

Zombies are limited to a slow shambling pace, semi auto only, and cannot aim their weapons (perhaps make them close their eyes every time they pull the trigger?).

[M3 guy]

I wear a helmet head shots dont bother me. But I think it would worth a try, possible make for a interesting 1st game. I'm down, but the noobs may be very hard pressed to play this game by the rules.

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Yeah, we've got some composite helmets and full-coverage masks. You'd feel a push, and hear the sound of something hitting high-density plastic, but not much more.