The Zombies!!! layout we used for our last 2P game. I incorporated the Z!!!9 Ashes to Ashes cemetery expansion and the light scenario was that the helicopter pilot lay dead in the graveyard with the chopper keys in his pocket. Each player started from a point midway between the cemetery and the helipad, and on opposite sides of the game board from each other. A race ensued to get to the dead pilot first, through the zombie horde, and then, key aquired, back through the city to the helipad and to game victory. Starting each player in different spots - rather than together on the town square tile - meant that we were much more able to use the zombies as a direct threat without hampering our own progress. Also, player vs player combat was fun when the player holding the key became the target for the empty handed player. I won, naturally, and I can see prelaid maps with a scenario being the way forward for faster, funner Zombies!!! gaming sessions.
