Night City Night School | Learn to Play Cyberpunk Combat Zone in Southampton

Always fancied Cyberpunk RED: Combat Zone but never known where to start? Night School is where you start.

Every other Tuesday at The Goblins Nook, 6pm til 9pm, we teach the game one layer at a time. First up is the bare bones: move, shoot, try not to die. Each session after that bolts on something new, until you're running a full gang with gear, netrunners and a campaign behind it.

We provide the gangs, the terrain, the dice, the Limiter and a teacher. You bring yourself.

The game in a nutshell

Combat Zone is a fast skirmish game from Monster Fight Club, set in 2045 in the lawless gang turf of Night City. You run a small crew of named characters backed up by a few expendable gonks. There are no rounds and no turns: you keep control while your active character has actions left, then it flips to your opponent. Every action is green, yellow or red. Green rolls a d12 and moves a full 12", red rolls a measly d6 and shuffles 3". Take a hit and one of your actions turns red. Go all red and the next hit puts you down. But nobody just stands there and takes it. When you get hit, you react: shoot back, dive for cover, or yell for backup.

What you'll pick up along the way

• The basics: action colours and dice, the Limiter, moving, shooting and punching, and how wounds turn your actions red.
• Hitting back: [RE]actions, gonks and Inspire Your Team, command actions and Luck tokens.
• Using the city: cover, climbing, jumping gaps, falling off things, high ground and brawls.
• Gearing up: building your own gang, gear cards, armour, nasty weapon rules and looting bodies.
• Jacking in: netrunners, programs, hacking and drones.
• The long game: campaign play, Street Cred, veterans and mercs.

We go at the pace of whoever's at the table, so new faces are always welcome. Missed a week? Come anyway. We'll catch you up so nobody gets left in the gutter.

No models needed. No rulebook needed. If you get hooked, we can order in any Combat Zone gang for you, from Maelstrom and Tyger Claws to the Bozos.

£6 per person per session. Book one ticket each for the night you're coming.

The Goblins Nook, Pitt Road, Shirley, Southampton.