Tiny TownTerror

Set up the invaders.

Ships 1

how many craft come down in the first attack, a few seconds apart, spread over the town; each crew hunts as its own pack

Aliens per ship 5

how many come out of each craft

Speed +0%

how fast they move, compared with a brisk walk (they run in a fight)

Accuracy 38%

how often a shot finds its mark, at close range and standing still

Fire power 45%

the chance one hit kills someone (soldiers' armour stops more than half of it)

Fire speed 1x

how fast they fire: 1x is a burst of three every two seconds or so

Toughness 10 hits

how many bullets it takes to bring one down

Ammunition 400 The army shows up at 50% panic, by helicopter, ten soldiers with machine guns (untick to leave the town on its own)

shots each; once out, they fight with their swords

Set up the horde, and the soldiers sent in.

Zombie horde 150

how many are coming across the town from the far side

Riflemen 12

they go house to house in squads of four, bringing people back

Machine gunners 3

they lie down to set up their guns, then fire very fast

Snipers 2

slow, but they rarely miss, and reach a long way

plus a tank dug in at the base: it doesn't move, but it sees and shells the dead a long way off

Set up the army, and the town's supplies.

Infantry 30

riflemen marching with the column

Machine gunners 4

they must lie down to set up their guns, then fire very fast

Tanks 3

they keep to the main road but see a long way; they fire missiles at mortars the infantry spot

Supply drops 2

for the town: the first once the army is a quarter of the way across, the rest every 15% after

Guns per drop 10

rifles, for those with only a pistol or a shotgun

Mortars per drop 1

reach two whole blocks over the buildings, but inaccurate, and fire only when someone can see the army to call a target

RPGs per drop 3 Molotovs per drop 8

three rockets each; aimed at the tanks first

Design the illness. (It's only a game.)

Disease Your own COVID-19 Measles Seasonal flu Spanish flu (1918) The Andromeda Strain

make it up: every setting below is yours

R0 2.0

how many people one sick person passes it to, in a town carrying on as normal. Set it here and How catching follows; change the catching distance, how catching it is or how long the illness lasts and it follows them

Name Catching distance 2 m

how close someone has to be to a sick person (in the same building, or in sight outdoors) to risk catching it

How catching 4%

the chance of catching it for each minute spent that close

Incubation 8 h

how long after catching it someone falls sick and starts spreading it (they show nothing till then); each case is a little different, up to a fifth sooner or later

Illness lasts 2 days

how long the sick are ill, weakening as it goes, before they die or recover; each case is a little different, up to a fifth shorter or longer

Mortality 30%

the share of the sick who die of it; the rest recover and are immune

How visible 20% (low)

how plain it is that someone's sick. Low: the town hardly notices till people start dying, and panics slowly. High: everyone can see it, and the town takes fright fast -- keeping away, staying home and boarding up far sooner

Set up the meteor.

Bugs 12

how many crawl out of the meteor, one after another

Bug speed +0%

they scuttle fast: at +0% they outrun anyone

Bug toughness 4 hits

how many bullets it takes to kill one (a hunter's plasma bolt kills outright)

Hunters 1

how many come off the hunters' ship, when panic reaches 50%

Include a queen one more comes out of the meteor: huge, a little slower than the rest, with a long swollen abdomen. She can't fight, but she eats the dead and lays eggs that hatch into new bugs an hour later. Hurt her and she screams: every bug in earshot comes running to her Bodies per egg 2 bodies

how many bodies the queen eats for each egg she lays

Set up the pit.

Demons 6

how many climb out of the pit, their lord first

Fireball blast 2.5 m

how far a fireball's burst reaches: inside half of it, it kills for certain

Charge time 2 s

how long a demon takes to gather a fireball (shooting it won't stop it)

Demon accuracy 50%

how true a demon throws: its fireballs fly straight, so a poor throw lands wide or short

Demon toughness 12 hits Lord toughness 30 hits

kill the lord and the rest scatter

Raising time 4 s

how long the lord stands over a body before it rises as a skeleton (skeletons hunt like zombies, but kill instead of infecting)

Skeleton toughness 1 hit

how many hits (a bullet or a blow each) it takes to bring a skeleton down

Speed +0%