Zombicide Strategy, and General Discussion

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**whalemusic360**

Its easier for us addicts based state side though. With the Aus and RoW crowds, and maybe the Euro crowd as well, marginal extra shipping now will trump the large shipping later.

**Grot 6**

For those that haven't seen it yet, Dead Island 2 trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taQ3Rjm7k-U

Zombicide needs to check out the old school Dead Island, as well as these expansions. The survivors would fit right in with the other human scum.

The washed up rapper, sports star, and the others are priceless.

**Ancestral Hamster**

At least here in the U.S., it will probably be cheaper to get the Guest Boxes at retail, so I will change my pledge to just KS exclusives.

It's a shame about those barricades though. There's no way I'm buying 69 doors to get two more barricades. [Also, I've pledged for Mercs: Recon, stand up doors were included in as a stretch freebie. Furthermore, I have stand up doors from a dungeon crawl board game. Stand up doors are just not interesting to me.]

**adamsouza**

Grot 6 wrote:
For those that haven't seen it yet, Dead Island 2 trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taQ3Rjm7k-U

Zombicide needs to check out the old school Dead Island, as well as these expansions.

Walker = Walker
Infected = Runner
Thug = Fatty
Ram = Abomination
Suicider = Toxic

The only thing Zombicide is missing from Dead Island is the acid spitting Floaters.

Tropical Island Resort themed tiles for Zombicide would be awesome.

Instead of Frying pans you could start with Oars

This idea has fan conversion written all over it.

**H.B.M.C.**

They announced Mr. T and a few others, so let's take a look at the overwhelmingly positive response from the comments:

all right! other strechgoal they charge us!!!

WOW! WTF is up with MR T? He should be one of the coolest survivors from all seasons but he sucks. The art is horrible, but those legs! Did they put his torso on the legs of a female yoga mini by accident? Why is he wearing yoga leggins? Oh dear lol.
Have to say that I feel the art, sculpts and poses have gotten worse on the promos from season 2 wave 2 and onwards. Even when you get a cool character, they end up looking lame. I'm a lot more interested in the 12 season 3 survivors than any of the promos this time around.

'Knock, knock, knock'
Where's the Nikki sculpt?
'Knock, knock, knock'
Where's the Nikki sculpt?
'Knock, knock, knock'
Where's the Nikki sculpt?

Still no rue morgue zombivors...

Full fille the hole on the glasses, those survivors looks frightening ! Redesign Miguel coimbra cheerleader face

**cincydooley**

Those people are ridiculous.

**Nostromodamus**

HBMC, I salute you for taking the plunge into the madness of the comments section to bring us those gems. You're a braver person than I.

**Hatemonger**

Am I right that the only difference in the $100 and $150 pledge levels is the other expansion box and Audrey survivor? All the stretch goals are for both, right?

- H8

**cincydooley**

Hatemonger wrote:
Am I right that the only difference in the $100 and $150 pledge levels is the other expansion box and Audrey survivor? All the stretch goals are for both, right?

- H8

That would be correct.

**ced1106**

$2M SG: Twelve additional sculpts!

That's 80+ free minis?

Update includes rules for using Zombivore miniatures as enemies. Five wounds, but targeting priority is the same as Survivor.

**The Fragile Breath**

Heh, called it on the Rue Morgue Zombivors being the two million mark, that's pretty cool. Yuri Zombivor is likely to be 2.1 million, I'd guess, I'm interested to see what other stretch goals are lurking past that. I think I'm going in for Patient 0 plus most of the Kickstarter exclusive survivors. My first game with Season 3 is going to have to be either Ron Burgundy or Gordon Ramsey! While I'm bummed that I missed the first two kickstarters, at least I'm not missing this one too!

**H.B.M.C.**

Nice stretch goal. Happy about that one.

**flukezor**

That is a nice stretch goal hey. Very cool I'm excited to try out those lost Zombivour rules.

**cincydooley**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Nice stretch goal. Happy about that one.

You need to dip back into the abyss and find more complaints about this one! It's fun to read!

**adamsouza**

Just working it out what you would be the minimum pledge to get all the exclusives

$150 Patient 0
$ 10 Nikki
$ 10 Benny
$ 10 Oksana
$ 10 Patrick
$ 25 Moustache Pack

$215

$205 if you were a season 2 backer

**H.B.M.C.**

Is that all you're spending?

**adamsouza**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is that all you're spending?

I got sticker shock when I saw what I was going to spend.

7th Edition, Stormclaw, and a rash of recent large 40K Ebay purchases has left me with a Credit Card total that I am not comfortable with.

my current pledge is
$140 Patient 0 Early Bird
$ 10 Nikki
$ 10 Benny
$ 10 Oksana
$ 10 Patrick
$ 25 Moustache Pack
$ 15 Compendium
$ 40 3D Pack
$-10 Season 2 Backer

Everything else I'm going to get when it's released next year.

If there is a rash of last minute add-ons I may drop the 3D pack to get them. I'm reluctant to hold off on the 3D pack since Sedition Wars KS.

**flukezor**

Ive pledged $510 - Getting basically everything as I've gotten everything in both Season 1 and 2 so far, so why stop now?

And shipping to Aus so that put it up a little too. I'll probably use that $10 extra for another set of dice or something.

**Alpharius**

Alex C wrote:
HBMC, I salute you for taking the plunge into the madness of the comments section to bring us those gems. You're a braver person than I.

I'm not sure why he keeps bothering to go back in there though.

I hope he isn't doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different outcome, because we all know what that's the definition of, right?

**whalemusic360**

Alpharius wrote:
Alex C wrote:
HBMC, I salute you for taking the plunge into the madness of the comments section to bring us those gems. You're a braver person than I.

I'm not sure why he keeps bothering to go back in there though.

I hope he isn't doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different outcome, because we all know what that's the definition of, right?

Persistence?

**Alpharius**

Insanity.

**H.B.M.C.**

And speaking of insanity...

Update #46 Jul 25 2014 - The Dork Tower Gang Joins Zombicide! It's the John Kovalic Special Guest Box!

It is with immense pleasure that we'd like to introduce one last very special guest (we just confirmed him), John Kovalic! And he's bringing four members of his legendary DORK TOWER gang to Zombicide!

This Special Guest box includes 4 very unusual Survivors: Matt, Gilly, Igor and Carson. They each have a Survivor figure and player dashboard (there is no Zombivor version of these characters).

JOHN KOVALIC

John Kovalic has been writing and drawing in the gaming industry professionally for 20 years, now. John is best known for the comic strip DORK TOWER, and games like APPLES TO APPLES and MUNCHKIN. His latest project include games such as ROFL! and DOUBLE FEATURE (Cryptozoic). When not writing or drawing, John's spending every minute possible with his wife and daughter. You can find out more about John by visiting www.dorktower.com, or plying him with craft beer.

DORK TOWER

DORK TOWER is the award-winning fan-favorite comic strip and comic book about five gamers, and the real world

Sure, it's also about the worlds they create, the games they play, the technologies they abuse and misuse and the conventions they road-trip to. But it’s a comic for everybody, geeks or otherwise. You don't have to know Dungeons and Dragons, the music of Jonathan Coulton, the latest social networking phenomenon or the hippest meme to get it. All you need to know is that Geek if the new Mainstream, and pretty much everyone has the same hopes and fears, whether you're a dork, a nerd, or a mundane.

DORK TOWER has been published in print and online since 1997, when it was first in the pages of Shadis Magazine, and later in Dragon. The comic book has sold nearly a half-million copies, and is collected in 9 award-winning trade paperbacks that have been published in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish...and soon Portuguese.

Games such as CHEZ DORK and DORK TOWER (Steve Jackson Games) and WARHAMSTER RALLY (Jolly Roger Games) have brought the comic's cast to life over the gaming table. The characters also make frequent appearances in MUNCHKIN (Steve Jackson Games), which DORK TOWER John Kovalic also illustrates.

DORK TOWER is the story of Matt, Igor, Ken, Carson the Muskrat (yes, he’s a muskrat) and Gilly, the Perky Goth.

And they're human. Just like you.

Even the muskrat.

Welcome to DORK TOWER.

MATT

"You rolled CRITICAL FAIL, Meat-Pillow! I know 'cuz I'm the DM!"

Matt McLimore was a web cartoonist and Game Master for his local group in quiet little Mud Bay, Wisconsin. DM'ing made him a natural leader, gaming taught him strategy, while trying to make a living cartooning trained him to survive on little. General frustration, and plenty of free time spent playing "Warhamster: ZombieSide," meant that when the zombies did come, Matt was ready and waiting. The hordes have disrupted his weekly gaming sessions, and they're gonna pay - and he doesn't mean in Gold Pieces or Experience Points. And unlike his game-table experience, he's not giving any of them a saving roll!

GILLY

"Head-shot between the eyes! SQUEEEE!"

Gilly Woods was Mud Bay's Perky Goth fangirl and cosplayer, so she's always been an outsider, making her strong, fiercely independent and self-reliant. She's had to put up with idiot fanboys labeling her a "fake geek girl" long enough. A veteran of many long Comic-Cons, she's used to dealing with the mindless, shambling, unwashed masses. Since most of the haters were zombie-like to begin with, she doesn't see a whole heck of a lot of difference between putting down a basement-dwelling fanboy with a well-timed quip, or plugging a zombie right between the eyes with a trusty Glock.

IGOR

"There's another one coming out of the sewer! HUZZAH! It must be mine!"

Igor Olman believes anything worth doing is worth doing to excess: comics, gaming, movies, and fandom in general. So it's no surprise that when the horrors of the hordes appeared on his doorstep, he launched into them with all the gusto of a Warhamster Fantasy Roleplay 25th-level Dwarven Hellwarrior armed with Zordaz's +25 Axe of Lordly Slicing and Dicing, with the "Mighty Big Cleave" bonus. Nobody's quite sure where Igor got his full arsenal of bazookas and rocket launchers from. Nobody's quite sure where he was storing then. Frankly, his friends are afraid to ask.

Igor calls his bazooka "THAC0."

CARSON

"I live my life by the Muskrat Way. And right now, those zombies are in the way."

Carson the Muskrat is a mild-mannered soul. But he's small, fast, and clever, making him hard to get a hold of. And somehow he got a hold of a vintage, fully-operational British Bren Carrier. Igor may have been involved, frankly.

Don't let Carson's quiet demeanor and trepidatious outlook on life fool you: when his friends are threatened, he fights like a cornered animal: literally.

_____

If you're interested in purchasing this optional buy, please just click the Manage Pledge button on the Zombicide Season 3 Kickstarter page and in the pledge manager add the amount of the item you'd like to add. We'll sort out what your extra money is going towards after the campaign has closed and we've sent out our pledge manger.

Uhh...

**DaveC**

Time to stay out of the comments!

It is what is, it's not something I'd buy for Zombicide but others will so let it be but now they have broken that completionist streak in me for Zombicide

I'll never again have to get every survivor (OK I lie!)

I'd be very interested to see the sales figures for that set and will it pay for itself?

**whalemusic360**

Yeah, I'm not interested in this set at all. Are the survivors going to look all cartoony? No Zombivors is a bad call too.

**Nostromodamus**

Don't go in to the comments this time HBMC, I fear you won't come out the same person, if at all...

**Aeneades**

whalemusic360 wrote:
Yeah, I'm not interested in this set at all. Are the survivors going to look all cartoony? No Zombivors is a bad call too.

They wanted to do the four main characters from the comics. The only way they could have done that and had zombivor versions was to charge twice as much which would not have gone down well at all.

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Edit: and the comments are currently alternating between people loving them and people who think this is the worst thing in the world ever.

**cincydooley**

I think they're cute. I don't read Dork Tower, but I actually love the Cross Over stuff.

**-iPaint-**

Yeah, as an optional buy, I don't have any problem with this add-on. It's not taking the place of a stretch goal, and will not be a KS exclusive. I really don't understand how anyone could complain about this.

I'm in right now for the bare-bones KS-exclusive only items, and will probably add a few more items near the end (probably the Ultimate Survivors and the token pack).

~iPaint

**ClockworkChaos**

The new add-on is odd but it is an add-on so I still do not get why people complain about that. Also I did not check too many of the comments but I didn't find any negative ones in regards to the lost zombies (but I am sure some would manage to pop up even thought it is literally everything people asked for).

**endtransmission**

Winner of funniest comment is

"Zombicide has officially jumped the shark.

This is the worst idea I have seen in all three seasons. Its like making a My Little Pony expansion for Arkham Horror."

Did he not see that other kickstarter recently?