I mentioned this idea in passing on the Lardie news group fairly recently & was pointed at the rules set
Pike & shot & Zombies which I had heard off as some one on one of the many Blogs I follow was doing figures for an Elizabethan English & Zombies games & using an adaptation of those rules to play with them. I will to be honest avoid reading them now as I really dont want to plagiarise them and will work on further modification of my adaptation of the Lardie low level action Napoleonic’s rules
Sharpe Practice to the late 17th century early 18th century the very end of the pike and shot period as well as period of change sociality as well as militarily and the birth of regular armies in the modern sense.
The premise of the game is all the players are on the same side thought the Scenario may be set up to place them to a greater or lesser extent at cross purposes . The zombies are run by automatic rules and will largely react to the players actions the exact mechanics for which I am still thinking about, so I will gloss over it for now.
The background is the outbreak of the plague in an isolated area of France in 1690ish, in the first instance this seems to be normal if exceptionally lethal plague and to burn itself out in the manner of plagues after killing most of the population of two parishes who where buried in plague pits a distance form the villages on the parishes in question. The survivors of the villages remained for the most part and attempted to rebuild their shattered lives until late spring when it seemed that they had turned to banditry & taken to robbing the few passing traders and travellers through the stricken area. Initial reports caused the surrounding Parishes to call out the Militia as well as some gentlemen volunteers to deal with this lawlessness only to find the true nature of the horror when they where attacked by shambling corpses clad in the rags of their burial shrouds rather than the bandits they expected
Ginger
