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Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell





Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.

Mine arrived this morning out of tyhe blue, beat the tracking info it seems.

Nice, didn't realize it would be that much, so more to paint, but its looking a mighty fine set now combined with season one.

I may be losing it, but is there a second wave due at some point?
I seem to remember i should have had a Burt Reynolds pack, and some extras based of Adrian Smiths art if i recall.

"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.

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Orc Bully with a Peg Leg





NJ

You're not losing it. There will be a second wave of survivors. The Mustache pack, Not Shaun of the Dead guys, Jack Nicholson, etc etc.

Plus the artist packs.

I'm not sure when they will be coming though.


 
   
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Painting Within the Lines





 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Mine arrived this morning out of tyhe blue, beat the tracking info it seems.

Nice, didn't realize it would be that much, so more to paint, but its looking a mighty fine set now combined with season one.

I may be losing it, but is there a second wave due at some point?
I seem to remember i should have had a Burt Reynolds pack, and some extras based of Adrian Smiths art if i recall.


Did you get the dogs and bonus KS zombies with your shipment? I'm assuming by now the UK ones are shipping as combined wave 1 & 1.5.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't 
   
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Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell





Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.

Yeah, got the Zombie and companion dogs and a five pack of extra characters that included Dakota, oh and four extra single character packs.

After a flick through, really like the Prison pack, and the Mall, going to be fun having all those boards. Oh and the variation of zombie sculpts compared to season one is nice to see up close.

Looking forward to the idea of painting them, but it sadly won't be till the start of the new year, my painting bench is full till then.

"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.

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Regular Dakkanaut





 larva_uk wrote:
 Forlorn wrote:


What colors did you use on the toxic zombies cause they look fantastic.


They were primed with Army Painter's necrotic flesh spray and the spikes and buboes done with a very, very old pot of GW bilious green.

Work on the berserkers from Prison Outbreak has begun.



You wash them with anything? And here are my Fatties from Season 1. I see we both had the same idea for washing the bases!



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I’m sure glad GW is going to all plastic, so the ever-rising cost of white metal won’t impact the cost of their miniatures.  
   
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Painting Within the Lines





On the zeds I cheat and use AP dark tone quick shade. They need a tough coating as they get some heavy handling. I do a proper paintjob on the survivors.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't 
   
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Using Inks and Washes





Duxford, Cambs, UK

Contact. Zombies at eleven o'clock (UK time).

Had mine sent to work, and if I'd opened all the boxes, I'd have been up to my neck in brain-dead groaners within the hour. As it is, I suppose I'll have to make do with my co-workers until I can get home!

Still, it was a BIG box. PO, TCM, 4 extra TCM tiles, PO pack 'A', Zombie Dogz, dog companions, Rick, Lea, and Dakota. 6KG. And I didn't get the tracking info until last night!

Still looking forward to the 2 different artist packs, Moustache pack, and the other 3 survivors I ordered.

"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.

Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
 
   
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Zealous Knight







O feth it, the idiots sent my package -- from the US. Meaning I will be in a tiff with them over the inevitable customs charges pretty soon; I'm pretty sure misrepresenting shipping origin and therefore saddling me with substantial customs fees is something mastercard sufficiently dislikes to issue a chargeback in that amount - will see if it works.
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





Least you guys got your stuff. Still nothing for me.

I’m sure glad GW is going to all plastic, so the ever-rising cost of white metal won’t impact the cost of their miniatures.  
   
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests






Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.

Friend of mine got his yesterday.

Nothing for me...

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"GW really needs to understand 'Less is more' when it comes to AoS." - Wha-Mu-077

 
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Sacramento, CA

Got my stuff yesterday.

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Longtime Dakkanaut






UK

Mine is apparently with UPS, should be delivered today.

   
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Painting Within the Lines





 Slinky wrote:
Mine is apparently with UPS, should be delivered today.


Better hope you are in when they arrive then. For my wave 1 stuff UPS sent me a delivery confirmation email stating delivery location as "porch" which might have been ok if (a) I wasn't on holiday in Switzerland at the time, (b) it didn't rain solidly for the next 3 days and (c) porch didn't translate as "we left it on the pavement by the bins". It's a good job the zombicide boxes themselves are shrink-wrapped.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






UK

Niiiice.

I wasn't at home, but it was apparently left at "front desk" and signed for... Hopefully that means my wife signed for it, though when she installed a reception desk I'm not sure

   
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Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

Just played my first game of Zombicide (with a friend's set, including the new stuff) last night. It was really fun! No wonder people were so happy with this, but unhappy with Sedition Wars, where the game isn't very playable / fun (which is pretty much the point of a board game).

Can't wait to try it again . I went out in a blaze of glory with the chainsaw, claiming a few objectives for our team along the way
   
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Sniping Reverend Moira





Cincinnati, Ohio

When I was demoing it at Adepticon I had some 10 year old sociopath toss a Molotov into a square where two other survivors were with only 2 zombies.

It was a bit funny, but man...the kid was gleeful about it.


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Additionally, I have no idea when my copies are going to come. Grrrrr

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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander





Ramsden Heath, Essex

Came home from work yesterday to find a huge box o zeds waiting.

I too had forgotten quite how much stuff was coming, I will literally have to move a load of old stuff to the loft to make room for it all as i have filled up the whole office with wargames again. The mrs is not best pleased at the moment!

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Waaagh! Warbiker



Australia

Have any of you guys who are still waiting for your orders checked the CMON 'Kickstarter pledge manager' website recently?

I haven't heard a thing about my order from CMON, but after checking the CKPM website yesterday i noticed that my order was actually sent out back on the 14th. CMON just never bothered sending me an email notification about it...
   
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Wraith






Salem, MA

Got mine last week. I'm debating running a campaign with the Ultra Red setting.

Has anyone tried out the dogs in a normal game yet?

No wargames these days, more DM/Painting.

I paint things occasionally. Some things you may even like! 
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I'm assuming they are shiipping smaller orders first. Only a single personin my gaming group has received his, and he had the smalled order of us all.

   
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Pustulating Plague Priest




I don't think they are intentionally shipping anything, just now and then they ship something completely by accident. Cmon are monkeys at typewriters.

There’s a difference between having a hobby and being a narcissist.  
   
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Waaagh! Warbiker



Australia

I picked mine up from the post office today, the box it came in was absolutely fething massive...

Does anyone know what happened to the Berserker Abomination shown in the bottom right of this picture? both of the Berserker Abominations i received were of the model with his right hand as a claw, while the one in the picture has his right hand balled up into a fist and his body is twisted at more of an angle.

   
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Painting Within the Lines





Mr Gutsy wrote:
I picked mine up from the post office today, the box it came in was absolutely fething massive...

Does anyone know what happened to the Berserker Abomination shown in the bottom right of this picture? both of the Berserker Abominations i received were of the model with his right hand as a claw, while the one in the picture has his right hand balled up into a fist and his body is twisted at more of an angle.



The pics posted on page 45 also have the normal clawed berserker abomination instead of the one pictured.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't 
   
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The Empire State

Got mine, I think I am missing some stuff.

Very impressive quality.

My doggies didn't come with the English rules booklet, unless they are in the big rule book?

 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






UK

I think you should have had all languages in with the doggies themselves, mine did.

   
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Unstoppable Bloodthirster of Khorne





Melbourne .au

Mr Gutsy wrote:
Have any of you guys who are still waiting for your orders checked the CMON 'Kickstarter pledge manager' website recently?

I haven't heard a thing about my order from CMON, but after checking the CKPM website yesterday i noticed that my order was actually sent out back on the 14th. CMON just never bothered sending me an email notification about it...


Just checked mine. No movement.

   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





I got all my stuff last week, and managed to play an epic game using everything at the weekend. During the game I discovered that Zombie Elsa (Cat Burglar) is quite game breaking in Ultrared mode. She is able to get the Slippery and Rotten skills at the same time, which means she can just move around the map with impunity, snatching objectives. Zombies don't even look at her. I guess it fits her character, but it turns some of the harder objective missions into easy wins, so you might want to limit her in campaigns.

The big game was fun, but it took a lot of hours to play out, and left me feeling that maybe less is more when it comes to Zombies and Equipment. Having so many equipment cards made it difficult to find important things like Gasoline when you needed it. Then using all the Zombie trays meant that stupid amounts of Zombies (150+) could pile up behind security gates while you searched. Also cool equipment like the Assault Rifle and Concrete Saw never appeared until much later in the game. By that time everyone was already styling Ultrared weapons, so they ended up straight in the discard pile.

I think next time I play I will limit the Zombies to 2 trays, like Toxic + Normal, or Berserk + Dogs. I will also try to cut a lot of fat from the equipment deck, like no more than 2 of each weapon type (maybe just 1 for weapons that aren't dual wield). And I'll probably remove the Kukri from the deck completely, as it's too similar to the starter weapons and things like the Wakizachi to be interesting.

The Ultrared weapons were really fun, but playing with all six seemed a bit OTT. Next time I think I'll just play with 1 random Ultrared weapon in the deck, to keep it special. Or else make it the reward for taking down an objective/abomination instead of the usual +5exp.

Hopefully that will fix some of the issues we had. But otherwise might need to house rule a few things, such as the number of zombies that can fit in one zone. I was thinking it might also be a good idea to add in a rule for an item specific search, for times when the game can't advance until a certain item is found (usually the Gasoline). The way it works in you can search X number of cards (maybe 5 or 10 or 2D6) for a specific named item. If you find the item you can keep it, but any other items you find must be discarded. Any Aaahh! cards get played as normal, or could be switched for a Zombie card to make it more challenging.
   
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Officially quite bored of painting zombies now. And yet there are still so many left to do


Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't 
   
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Duxford, Cambs, UK

So, having checked my stuff, I got 3 different language versions of the rules - including English - with both my Zombie dogz and the Companion dogs. I also have realised that I have a mountain of orange jumpsuits to paint, or should I go for pink?

I have also thought about going for a more subtle difference between my normal, toxic, and beserker zombies. I like the way that they have been painted both here and elsewhere, but it is possibly that that has made me want to do something different. Hopefully I'll have some time to work on a fatty of each type over the weekend and post the results here early next week.

Hope everyone else gets anything that's missing with minimal fuss, and we don't have to wait too long for the rest of the stuff.

"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.

Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology.
 
   
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 Conrad Turner wrote:
So, having checked my stuff, I got 3 different language versions of the rules - including English - with both my Zombie dogz and the Companion dogs. I also have realised that I have a mountain of orange jumpsuits to paint, or should I go for pink?

I have also thought about going for a more subtle difference between my normal, toxic, and beserker zombies. I like the way that they have been painted both here and elsewhere, but it is possibly that that has made me want to do something different. Hopefully I'll have some time to work on a fatty of each type over the weekend and post the results here early next week.

Hope everyone else gets anything that's missing with minimal fuss, and we don't have to wait too long for the rest of the stuff.


I started with more subtle differences between the types but found that it was just easier to play when it was very, very obvious which was which so repainted the test ones in stronger colours. You may find the same thing once there are 50+ random zombies piled into one square so I'd suggest if you are going subtle on the zeds you do something with the bases to make them more easily discernable in a crowd.

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