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By all accounts MA is like a simpler, faster version of Deadzone, so if you tend to play with board gamers rather than wargamers it might well work well there.

$25 seems like one hell of a steal, just for the terrain even. I wish the UK had a Miniature market equivalent. The three sets gives you some pretty cool U.S military figures, a Martian army and a block or two worth of red brick terrain.

The pile grows!

Mars Attacks is hilarious and fun Welcome to the fold.

I'm pretty sure I don't need any more models to paint, and I was tempted sorely. Let me know if you find a way to differentiate the survivors between sets, part of what held me back.

@para, well I gave up on Deadzone as the figures didn't strike a chord with me and my main opponent had no desire for the game.
@thraxas, I'm thinking of a modified Zombicide.....martiancide, or humancide and you play Martians. Or a KOW Martian army using ogre rules, they might be small, but they have death lasers.
@grimdork, I don't know if they will be to different, they'll keep all the equipment the same, but I think I'll just play around with skin tones between the sets.

Well I picked up the three sets today, got a strange look from the guy behind the counter, oh well.

The figs are decent enough (My new Mantic slogan), the terrain is great, and I must admit to watching Mars attack clips today and going around saying "ack Ack acK aCK". The figs have been poster tacked to boxes for eventual priming, hopefully this week.

Kids are off school tomorrow due to local elections, so they Wil head to church with me and be bored for hours. A fathers work is never done.

Received my Kings of War Pledge today....the third shipment (supposedly). First one never arrived, Rich emailed me and posted in the comments section that he shipped it out on the 23rd of October, never to be seen, yet the set that Steve sent me has shown up. Yes I called Rich a liar on the comments section, that's how done with Mantic's Antics I am. The books have bent corners, but I'm just glad to be done with it. Hopefully the Dungeon Saga box set gets here without an issue. I just went with the basic pledge on that as well. These counters and tokens are sad little things, I see they are going all out in an attempt to make their game look great. My Renaldo looks good, bent feather in the hat, but easily fixable. Did all of them come with no tab or anything to help secure him to a base? Wound tracker things look decent, But I'll probably use something else to keep track of my units. I have a little time before work, so I'll be looking over the book more in detail, I think my terra cotta (not elves) will get a full list tonight after work.

You must have millions of models kicking around even with your amazing paintathon on the zombies, still, I also wish we had a MM here, as coming by stuff is hard going, so much out there that catches the eye....

Got to say though the Mars Attacks stuff does have a really nice look about it, the terrain is so universally usable I think.

Quick savings alert

Only a couple hours left but my wife bought me a copy of Zombicide prison outbreak.(first gaming item she has bought me in out 15+ years of marriage and dating) we were looking for kids Christmas items on Target.com and they have a promo running till midnight tonight of 30% off of any one game item (promo code "BESTGIFT") and then 10% off if it's on your target gift list and then 5% off with your target credit card. So I wound up getting it with tax right around $43.75 with it shipping to the store. Normally $99.99 from CMON, $69.99 from miniaturemarket and normally $61.99 from target.com. They have the main set and toxic city mall as well.

Sorry for the late notice, but just got that done and a family meeting about mom was right afterwards. It won't get unwrapped until Christmas, but I e got enough between then and now to deal with.

Thanks for sharing, though I'll have to let it pass, it's good to hear a bout deals this time of year. Hope things calm down for you and you get a pleasant holiday season.

Houston we may have a problem

Not my christmas present opened early, bur a trade i made with my brother in law. He and his family were not getting the fun out of Rue Morgue that we were out of season 1, so he gave it to me

now I'll have to find time, some more primer and an urge to kill......last one isn't too hard to come by.

12 new survivors, 12 zombivors, and a bunch of crazy zombies and crawlers.

Nice Looking forward to the moar zombehs.

Nice!

Anyone care to share your experiences with Zombicide? I'm looking at picking it up for my gaming group (who are mostly boardgamers), probably just the core set.

@para, it's a blast of a game. Start with season 1, and you should be good. My brother in law went with season 3 which he didn't find as much fun. They have the missions in order of 00 as the primer to 10 as the end, but we generally just throw down the tiles and make our own scenario.

When the zombie apocalypse comes, I'll be thinking of you, Theo.

Well we got to play a couple games of Rue Mogue the other day as my kids got out of school early due to a down power line and the school being blacked out. Not as much fun as the first season, I think it's more complicated just for the sake of being different. I think if they redid the first season again with the same survivors but went with new zombies everyone would rebut it for new sculpts. I know I would. I bought some new primer last night as my old primer gummed up the Mars attack stuff. It's a project for later now as I'll have to pick up some more simple green. There's 92 models in this set, so hopefully I can get back on track to my painting.

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice!

Anyone care to share your experiences with Zombicide? I'm looking at picking it up for my gaming group (who are mostly boardgamers), probably just the core set.

fething awesome. We've been playing it most Friday nights for ...a year now?

Well it's time for a year end push.

The last two months have been a killer for gaming/hobby time. Mom in the hospital, finals, and then I got hurt at work a month ago today, still on light duty and trying to go up and down the steps at home to get to the painting area sucks so much I just skip it. But mom is home now, finals are done, I get my bachelors degree in a couple weeks and I'm moving better. So with a month left in the year it's time to bust out some more figures. Enter Zombicide Rue Morgue that my brother in law gave me a few weeks ago. They were primed, now this morning I got my bug up my rear and started tossing paint.



Thats 80 zombies with basic green skin done in about an hour and change.

And that's with the 80 getting their green wash. Took less than an hour. Now clothes are going to take up time, but I have to work some at church this morning, so see you all later.

Damn, ferocious assault Good luck getting things done, I'll be lucky if I can finish these 20something zombies to get to 200 myself.

The Big Push! Over the top lads! It'll all be over by Christmas!

Glad to hear about your mother being home and completing the degree!

Zombies are going to be quite the ferocious horde when done!

Thanks everyone , While I was at it i grabbed the remaining 14 zombies I had downstairs that already had their skins done, but need their clothes done still, and three companions that are part way done and there's still the 12 survivors from this set that I have now just finished the base skins on. Bear will be done later today, most of the clothes are done, just boots and the wraps on his hands to finish up.

I went by Miniaturemarket today, no buying though . I did almost buy a second Rue Morgue set last week, and I was tempted y some zombicide prison outbreak tiles that were half off today, as well as a great deal on some Alkemy miniatures which I might still snag since I always want to build a fantasy oriental army. I have looked at the Varangur list and think I can make a suitable evil Samurai force from it.

Okay, so I caved....and bought another sedition wars box , Figured for $18.00 I got more figures to eventually use as troops for possibly in Warpath, but really it was for the bases....and the dice will be used for Zobicide like the other sets have been procured for Zombicide. I think this is my 6th box of Sedition wars. I will have a vast Plague/techno virus faction for Warpath.

Also in the Acquisition news I received my box of Dungeon Saga: Dwarf Kings Quest. My son just helped me open it all up, it looks in decent order, but I thought I was suppossed to get a dragon, but I could be wrong about that, all I ordered was the base game after all. It will get the treatment after Zombicide, and will probably be the new year kick off painting set, unless I don't finish Rue Morgue Quickly and don't also get a jump on the Prison set that Santa has upstairs for me .

I did get some models painted last night and this morning, they don't look great to me, but then again I haven't tossed the miracle deeptone on them yet. First off is Louise, she had really soft details on her face.


And then there's Jane the gunslinger


Dan the Fireman


And Big Bear (That song from supertroopers is in my head now


and the last one I finished was James, for when things go sideways


I started on Joe, but not showing pics of him yet. His face just is screaming for me to paint him up like Heisenberg from Breaking Bad (They did make a Heisenberg special kickstarter exclusive figure, but I'm not going down that dark corridor and spending $50.00 or more on him)

Good stuff!

Did you order the 100 dollar set or that and some add-ons? The dragon, orcs, abyssals were all separate expansions. Ordering all three with the main box was what carton B was known as. I guess they finished dispatching Carton A (sounds like what you got if no dragon) and Carton B (me, sigh) are still going out. Let us know how you find everything, I'll be digging into it soon hopefully.

6 sedition wars... that's a lot of restic mold lines to clean!

Honestly I didn't find too many bad mold lines. Most of the models I got went together really well. The bad models I had were a couple of the sentry guns and the big alligator type monster where it was too thick to hot water fix them, but I was able to fill the gaps with glue/green stuff.

Yeah I only got the carton A, good enough, and I didn't want to spend extra on another Mantic crap-shoot.

A couple of my smaller cardboard chits weren't cut all the way, so when I punched them out they tore a little, but not a huge loss. I'm dreading sitting down to read the books and seeing page XXX everywhere. Also now that I mention that I didn't see the correction sheet that they said would be in the boxes with "all the fixes" that others have said don't even cover half of it.

That does suck. I'd rather have gotten the book late. Was this the thing they were gonna let us order in a pledge manager for just the ship cost or something?

Well I had some time so I decided to knock out the 15 crawlers from the morgue.

They still need the deep tone wash, but I think I'm going to wait on that for a large batch 20-30 figs at one go, but might change my mind so we have these ready to use for the weekend.

Nah, do it! do it now! Strike while we can!

HOLY ,

Just received a email from CMON. Zombicide Black Plague shipping for THIS CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!



They are shipping one set to all the backers before christmas of this year. All the stretch goals and the expansion will ship later, but the core set will be here for Santa to catch the Plague. Supposedly there are people who have received tracking numbers.

I'm excited.

Balls. I should have backed that. Would have kept me away from bones 3 too.

Do let us know, looked pretty neat

It's a class act by CMON, they are making sure people have stuff for under the tree, and not charging any extra shipping for breaking the orders into two waves. I wonder if that is why there were some high shipping costs for foreign (Australian) shipping.

Could be. Surprised they got it out so fast. I guess that's probably why some people complain about companies using kickstarter as a preordering system but still, sounds pretty nice to get such rapid turnover.