These have actually translated quite well from 2D to 3D. Props to Guillotine Games and CMON for hiring talented sculptors.

~iPaint

The pledge manager for Season 3 is live

https://ckpm.coolminiornot.com/

Unlike Arcadia Quest they are collecting shipping now - the CKPM has been updated to calculate shipping - they must have enough infor from Arcadia Quest to add it automatically now.

Wow -- $100 for shipping? AFTER they charge your credit card? Looks like KS is getting worse, not better, for internationals. ): Glad to be a spoiled American, I guess. I don't back overseas projects usually, and it doesn't look like I'll be backing any of them anytime soon.

Just started a tabletop zombie painting tutorial on BGG with the Army Painter stuff: Lemme know any Zombicide forums with new painters. Already posted on ZombiesDash. Thanks!

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1235693/painting-tutorial-zombie-flesh-and-monochrome-army

ced1106 wrote:
Wow -- $100 for shipping? AFTER they charge your credit card? Looks like KS is getting worse, not better, for internationals. ): Glad to be a spoiled American, I guess. I don't back overseas projects usually, and it doesn't look like I'll be backing any of them anytime soon.

Just started a tabletop zombie painting tutorial on BGG with the Army Painter stuff: Lemme know any Zombicide forums with new painters. Already posted on ZombiesDash. Thanks!

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1235693/painting-tutorial-zombie-flesh-and-monochrome-army

It's hard to blame anyone shipping internationally. The shipping rates have skyrocketed lately, both into and out of the US. It stinks.

It's one if the reasons I rarely order anything that won't fit in a small mailer from across the pond.

Can we cancel pledges for this? Saw that my shipping was 100usd, which is insane as it is and decided that Nope, so don't want this

Why wasn't my shipping out of this world? Do they have a special deal going for Australia/NZ customers?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why wasn't my shipping out of this world? Do they have a special deal going for Australia/NZ customers?

Pretty sure they've moved to using a APAC location to ship to APAC locations.

That's good then.

Gotto say, I am kinda sad that we won't see this 'til 2015. I really thought it'd be an October/November thing, especially as all the minis are designed and ready to go this time. Ah well. I've still got 45+ survivors, most of which we've never used, so plenty to play with in the meantime.

They mentioned it back during the beggining of the kickstarter. Just shipping once saves everyone on shipping fees and saves them a ton of labor.

Anyone know when the pledge manager will close?

The deadline for submitting and paying for your pledge is the 12th of October.

ObPlug: If you don't know already, CMON and Micro Arts Studios is currently running a textured bases KS. The Trash bases look good to rebase Zombicide Survivor models, and they're open to other varieties of bases in the Comments.

They clarified that you can select any four sets at the $80 level. Shipping is $8 to USA. Internationals who only want a few bases and want them now may want to go directly to the MAS website.

Once they reach 45K, it's 136 bases for $80.

EDIT: Just added Old Factory and five other sf and fantasy bases to their original four, Graveyard, and Tech:

Okay, so it's time to work this sucker out.

With the $150 pledge you get a bunch of VIP zombies - are any of the ones in the two VIP Zombies boxes different, or do you get all of the sculpts in the $150 S3 base pledge.

The new guest boxes seem to be Paolo, Miguel, Lucio, Edouard and Kovalic - is that right? I have all the previous ones, but I haven't used them yet, they're in semi-storage and not easy to get to.

Update #55

Oct 8 2014

Finalise Your Pledges! And a Dork Tower Sneak Peek!

Hi all. The deadline to finalise your pledges is fast approaching! As previously announced, all pledges should be completed and shipment paid for by October the 12th. We want to wrap up this phase well in advance in order to ensure a timely delivery.

If you don't finalise your pledge by the deadline, you may have your items sent after the first wave has shipped. For non-US backers, you may also have your items shipped from the USA hub, which will incur a higher shipping rate and possible extra custom duties.

So please, wrap up your pledge by Monday. If you're having any difficulty, contact our support team at support@cmon.com - the link to the pledge manager is https://ckpm.coolminiornot.com, and you should have received a password in your email to login.

Finally, something cool we'd like to share with you. We've just received the first samples from the John Kovalic Special Guest box, and I must say these came out just fantastic.

My eyes bled. At first I thought it might be Ebola, but then I realized it was those stupid looking miniatures

Yeah well they weren't for everyone, and you didn't have to buy them (I certainly didn't). Each to his own.

I think they look really great for what they are.

We knew not everyone would be into the Kovalic box, but they're at least, really well executed.

Has anyone else got an e-mail about some offer for the complete KS contents for €460, as can be read below? I found it suspicious as I already paid my pledge. E-mail address from sender available by PM.

Hello,

I mail you to inform of the release of Season 3 Zombicide in February 2015 (you probably already know ..:-))

On this occasion, I will have the entire Kickstarter exclusive material. So I suggest you book it today because I won’t have for everyone. You are among the first to whom I am making this offer.

For those who do not know all the details of the Kickstarter Season 3, know that it is even more furious than previous times
•1 base game "Rue Morgue" (full, very heavy as usual)
•VIP box Zombies # 1 (Very Infected People, full of additional special zombies with a zombie disguised as a hot dog ...)
•Lost Zombivors box (12 additional special zombies)
•A storage box for dashboards, containing all the promo dashboards released before season 3 including former (exclusive / promotional like Kyoko).
•A set of dice yellow. A set of dice brown. And the small bag for storage.
•A Dice Tower
•The 3D barricades to brighten the playground :-)
•A deck for team play rules
•Others small deck with weapons, spawn, etc.
•Plenty of extra zombies including exclusive sculptures (much like the additional board zombie season 2 except that there were thirty but there are now fifty !! Even killer birds…
•And of course the long-awaited exclusive zombivors + survivors. They are are 20 ! So 40 figures, including the new Mustache Pack # 2 (Barracuda), Jack Bauer, Dr. House, Gordon Ramsay, Leon, Val Kilmer, Stallone, etc. ..

For all of this, I propose 460 € including registered and insured shipping (worth 35 € !!). Possibility to pay in 2 or 3 times.
As you know, figurines typically trade at around 30 € (or + ...). So it is at least 600 € for figurines besides all other stuff estimated not under 200 € (base game, the two special boxes of zombies, the board of 50 + zombies, goodies, etc. .)

As usual, fast shipping from March 2015.

First come first served

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

See you soon

Guillaume.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah well they weren't for everyone, and you didn't have to buy them (I certainly didn't). Each to his own.

cincydooley wrote:I think they look really great for what they are.

We knew not everyone would be into the Kovalic box, but they're at least, really well executed.

You are both correct, I was being melodramatic.

They are well sculpted to match the source material. I just really dislike that they included cartoony characters n zombicide, as I feel they will destroy the asthetic when on the board.

I may just be taking it too seriously, but out of the 4 competionist Zombicide players in my group, we all agreed to pretend this set doesn't exist.

 Low_K wrote:
Has anyone else got an e-mail about some offer for the complete KS contents for €460, as can be read below? I found it suspicious as I already paid my pledge. E-mail address from sender available by PM.
<Snip>

No, I did not get such an e-mail, and I agree that it is suspicious.

 adamsouza wrote:
I may just be taking it too seriously, but out of the 4 competionist Zombicide players in my group, we all agreed to pretend this set doesn't exist.

As a completionist myself, I did the same thing, and for pretty much the same reasons.

So, Zombicide was on last night's episode of South Park.

They even had painted minitures. Way to go Southpark Crew.

I would buy the hell out of a South Park pack.

Oh. Now that's something I'd also be into.

Yeah, a South Park pack would be pretty damned cool.

The only thing better than a South Park pack would be a C00n & Friends South Park pack.* I want to defeat zombies with the refreshing power of mint and berries.


*Spelled C00n as there's apparently some sort of filter block for that word, you guys do know that a c00n / racoon is an actual animal and not always a racial slur? wtf!

It's also a type of cheese here, and not a racial slur. Doesn't stop Americans getting bent out of shape when they find out that it's a thing that exists, though. Stand-ups love to use it as a vehicle for how racist Australians are.

Saw this posted at the Miniatures Page: TerraBlock Shopping Mall

If anyone wants to pimp their copy of Zombicide and add 3D elements, this product might be for you. No doors or barricades that I could find though.

CMoN is actually shipping Wave 1 of the Zombicide 3 base game box to US backers, 2 months ahead of schedule. That's an impressive feat, given the doom and gloom we see about various KS running late and/or failing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide-season-3/posts/1054559

Of course, this now has various ROW backers griping over how terrible it is that somebody else in the US is getting their stuff first...

NIce. I also received my 2 cosplay survivors from that other KS CMON ran.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Of course, this now has various ROW backers griping over how terrible it is that somebody else in the US is getting their stuff first...

ROW backers just need to learn that when it comes to US based Kickstarters we will always be considered second class citizens. Hell, as an Australian i'm grateful if my package isn't automatically pushed all the way to the end of the very long shipping line.

Just once though i would love to see the RoW backers be the ones who receive their packages a few months in advance, because its annoying to see US backers act all high and mighty in the comments every time its announced that the US orders are shipping early. Especially since we all know that if this shipping situation were reversed the shitstorm would be a couple thousand times worse and the same people calling other backers entitled would be on the front lines most likely demanding their money back.

Mr Gutsy wrote:


Just once though i would love to see the RoW backers be the ones who receive their packages a few months in advance, because its annoying to see US backers act all high and mighty in the comments every time its announced that the US orders are shipping early. Especially since we all know that if this shipping situation were reversed the shitstorm would be a couple thousand times worse and the same people calling other backers entitled would be on the front lines most likely demanding their money back.

Why would it make any sense for that to happen?

I expect people in Europe to get the European based KSes I back first.

You live in a delightful island paradise. I'll trade you Ohio for that 8 days a week if the worst thing I have to deal with is getting toys later than other people.

With the Zombicide we had the distinct displeasure of waiting longer the larger your order was.

Nothing was as much fun as watching the guy who pledged the minimum getting his stuff first, while everyone else who ordered doubles and triples waited months for theirs.

Mr Gutsy wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Of course, this now has various ROW backers griping over how terrible it is that somebody else in the US is getting their stuff first...

ROW backers just need to learn that when it comes to US based Kickstarters we will always be considered second class citizens. Hell, as an Australian i'm grateful if my package isn't automatically pushed all the way to the end of the very long shipping line.

Just once though i would love to see the RoW backers be the ones who receive their packages a few months in advance, because its annoying to see US backers act all high and mighty in the comments every time its announced that the US orders are shipping early. Especially since we all know that if this shipping situation were reversed the shitstorm would be a couple thousand times worse and the same people calling other backers entitled would be on the front lines most likely demanding their money back.

Given that in-country shipping for US-based Kickstarters is faster and easier, with far less headaches, I doubt any company would deviate much from "easiest first". Recall that there is a major push to get product out the door, so revenue can be realized and captured as such. (There are big accounting reasons for CMoN to push inventory out the door before 12/31).

I think that ROW backers of US-based Kickstarters should have learned by now that US backers are fulfilled first, and have that as the default expectation; this shouldn't be a surprise or cause heartache. I don't think it should be a surprise when EU-based Kickstarters fulfill EU backers first, or Oz-based Kickstarters fulfill Oz-based backers first.

IMO, people should be happy that the project is starting fulfillment early, regardless of the reason or order. It means the project is successful, and that can only be a good thing.

 adamsouza wrote:
NIce. I also received my 2 cosplay survivors from that other KS CMON ran.

Really? I didn't know they'd shipped them yet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
NIce. I also received my 2 cosplay survivors from that other KS CMON ran.

Really? I didn't know they'd shipped them yet.

Trust me, I was kind of confused myself. Not complaining though.

No fluke, I got mine as well.

 cincydooley wrote:

Mr Gutsy wrote:


Just once though i would love to see the RoW backers be the ones who receive their packages a few months in advance,

Why would it make any sense for that to happen?

Theoretically, it could happen because of logistics. Stuff being produced in China could be shipped to a distribution hub for APAC before US orders get loaded onto a container for their slow boat. It wouldn't be months, but it could happen. Of course it won't - since the US container will always go first in order to "even out" the shipping a little - which is just fine. It only gets my goat when we're a complete afterthought, which still happens way too often. (See SoB)

This is probably unimportant and off topic, but I was sorting my Zombicide stuff today, and I noticed the Survivors Set #3 box has a misprint on the side. It looks as though someone forgot to turn off one of the layers from the moustache pack, so all the moustache guys are on the wrong box and overlapping Set #3 survivors. Is everyone's box that way?

Yep its a printing error on box they are all like that

 cincydooley wrote:

Mr Gutsy wrote:


Just once though i would love to see the RoW backers be the ones who receive their packages a few months in advance, because its annoying to see US backers act all high and mighty in the comments every time its announced that the US orders are shipping early. Especially since we all know that if this shipping situation were reversed the shitstorm would be a couple thousand times worse and the same people calling other backers entitled would be on the front lines most likely demanding their money back.

Why would it make any sense for that to happen?

I expect people in Europe to get the European based KSes I back first.

You live in a delightful island paradise. I'll trade you Ohio for that 8 days a week if the worst thing I have to deal with is getting toys later than other people.

Delightful island paradise, with everything that can kill you living on it with you

I will say though that, for any European Kickstarter above a certain size, shipping to America will happen at exactly the same time as Europe. The reason being, they need to launch the product in the US as it is a huge market, and so will already have sorted out distribution there.

I have also not encountered a single project (European or otherwise) that charges more for shipping to the US than a European address, for the same reasons.

Got my Rue Morgue today. I must say the mini quality has improved quite a bit, the detail is amazing for board game pieces!

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Of course, this now has various ROW backers griping over how terrible it is that somebody else in the US is getting their stuff first...

Well, if anyone here is from the UK, you might want to follow how the UK-based Mantis KS is fulfilling their pledges. Reaperites who ordered seem to be happy. UK backers received free shipping.

Mantis says their next KS will be cases for Zombicide! Hope they come up with a way so backers know how what foam trays to buy.

Still waiting for my tracking number...

EDIT: Walker's unboxing: http://imgur.com/a/yg1EQ
EDIT: More spoilers: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1283982/rue-morgue-spolier/page/1

Got my box today, too busy to open it yet.

 Alex C wrote:
Got my Rue Morgue today. I must say the mini quality has improved quite a bit, the detail is amazing for board game pieces!

Yep, totally agree, the figures are the best sculpts yet.

Got my two boxes. Opened up mine and love it. Already sold the other one because people be crazy

Got mine 2 days ago and played my first Season 3 game last night.

As other have said, the minis are great, but we also found the deck to be much different than previous seasons, as it is entirely weapons and weapon related items. There also seem to be a lot more automatic weapons in this season, and many seem to be more powerful than last seasons (ex: new dual-wieldable SMGs roll 5 dice each needing 5+, rather than 3 dice)

I didn't back this because I heard that season 2 was not as good as season 1, and I'd rather have the best game than the latest with tons of bonus minis. So how is it!

As I see it, Season 2 was rebalanced to be a "harder" version of Season 1, while retaining the core Season 1 gameplay design and elements. I didn't particularly enjoy jumping into Season 2.

Season 3 is a fresh start with new concepts of competitive gameplay. Hopefully, it's friendly to start.

Season 2 had awesome survivors and new zombie types.

I have to admit though, we seldom use the mall or prison tiles.

 adamsouza wrote:
Season 2 had awesome survivors and new zombie types.

I agree with this. Prison Outbreak missions are "meh". However, I like the Mall tiles and TCM scenarios, and usually use the TCM combo scenarios.

Have only played the first tutorial for Rue Morgue, but enjoyed it. Looked through the equipment deck. It's easier to get Molotovs (which you'll need for the new A-Bomb abomination), but the deck has five Skinner "Argghs" which is more than the Season 1 deck, which only had three "Argghs" The search specialists will need to be careful ...

There are no cars though, so one will need S1 or S2 for both the rules and the counters.

Experienced players should reread the Skills section of Rue Morgue, as some skills have changed slightly and the S3 rulebook says the revisions take precedence over previous rulebooks.

I didn't care much for Prison Outbreak. The first Zombicide survivors were iconic, and depicted people from all walks of life: A cop and a thug, a waitress and a white collar guy, a trendy pop culture chick and a crazy homeless man. Prison Outbreak seemed uninspired by contrast. Joshua, Kim and Watts are just generic civilians. Shannon and Belle are kind of the same short shots wearing, scary haircut -- urban warriors. Gridlock is the only one who seems to have a bit of character, but he's not enough to carry it on his own. I also found the berserker zombies quite boring. The sheer number of Zombies in most games is enough to make sure that your survivors are perpetually in melee, so these guys didn't really change anything. I thought Toxic City Mall was much better. Toxic zombies are a lot more scary, and the characters were a bit more varied.

I always find that we are more dependant on ranged weaponry than melee, Generally finding PO games harder than TCM. But maybe thats because we are all terrified of the Toxic zombies getting close.

We have also stopped playing with Zombie Dogs. They are just stupid. But kind of balance out when using your own Dog Companions.

We tend to play with the original tiles, but all zombie types in the deck.

It gets interesting when you have to shoot some, melee others, and watch out for those damned dogs in between.

I find the Dog Companions to be a huge buff to the players, mostly for the extra dice in melee and the extra search action.

We've only played a couple of Season 2 scenarios, but we do like Season 2. The added variety with the Survivors is quite a lot of fun, and the additional Zombie types (especially the Toxic ones) mix things up quite a bit. The group loves the dog companions. Those were a bit hit.

My only complaint is that with each new expansion there are less and less non-weapon cards, making scenarios involving non-weapon cards harder or you have to leave out a large portion of the weapons to make things more balanced, defeating the purpose of having all those extra equipment cards. I think that Zombicide needs a bunch of non-weapon equipment cards (be they tools, food, supplies, medical stuff, etc.), and a system that makes these things integral to the game (especially for campaign play). The game would elevate itself if it did that.

 adamsouza wrote:
We tend to play with the original tiles, but all zombie types in the deck.

It gets interesting when you have to shoot some, melee others, and watch out for those damned dogs in between.

I find the Dog Companions to be a huge buff to the players, mostly for the extra dice in melee and the extra search action.

We do the same thing. The different Zombie types keeps things interesting and means that you need to balance between shooters and hand-to-hand combat types. I really like the Zombie Dogs, the concept is "meh," but the speed makes them super dangerous and fun to deal with.

My fiancée got me Season 2 for Christmas, and yesterday Iocal store was having a 20% off board games post Christmas sale so I grabbed Toxic City Mall. Played mission 1 from Season 2 with my nephew and had an absolute blast.

Do many people paint their sets? I've been considering it. The zombies look like they will paint up quickly with washes and some GW technical paints.

They look great painted.

I mostly concentrated on the survivors. It makes them stand out more on the board.

I just had a browse through this thread and some of the painted stuff looks fantastic. The different coloured plastic makes it hard to see much of the detail, but it's good to know it's there.

I'm a bit bummed that I missed out on the kickstarters, some of the exclusive survivors are fantastic. But there's plenty in just the base games anyway, and I'm sure I can get a few on ebay. Also I really don't want to turn into a completionist with this. I don't have the money for that

Yeah I was looking at what I missed out on in the first kickstarter. It seems to be 6 new heroes and a buttload of zombies. I don't really care about the heroes, but I'm wondering if the extra zombies you got add anything to the game? Do you ever need the extra stuff or is the base game sufficient in all situations? Considering buying the game but I want to know what I'm missing out on

I'm planning on getting one of each of the additioonal packs. Both Walk of the Dead packs, Angry Zombies and Toxic Zombies. They each seem to have some unique sculpts, and also different encounter cards, which is a huge plus for me. Also the Dogs and any readily available survivor packs, so the Guest Artist packs.

But I'm not interested in hunting kickstarter exclusives unless it's somthing I really want. Some of them are going for $40au plus shipping, which for two plastic one peice models is a little rich for my blood.

Out of interest I downloaded the companion app, and it's exactly what I wanted when we were playing. Keeping track of equipment with cards on those dashboards and little tokens to track experience and everything was getting a bit much. So much space needed.

A couple of questions.

Do Fatties and Abominations also only deal 1 damage to one actor they're in a zone with when they attack? If so, does that mean the only thing that differentiates them is how much damage a weapon needs to do to be able to kill one?

Are you supposed to keep food items in the deck? I figured they might be stuff put in the deck to make Searching a bit of a risk/reward type thing. Search, and potentially get nothing to a zombie in your face, or maybe get an Automatic Shotgun.

Just got the base set from my Mum for Christmas, had a 6 player game with my inlaws and my parents and everyone had a great time

Is there a recommended expansion to get first or is it really anything you fancy?

Another question - some missions start with zombies on the board, and even Abominations. Do they immediately make a beeline for the survivors in the zombie turn?

-Loki- - Fatties and Abominations only do one damage, they're just hard to get rid of because of being tough and later in the shooting order. Any zombie on the board moves, but scenarios often start with them locked in a room so they can't go anywhere.

Daston - In my opinion the "best" purchase order is Season 1, Toxic City Mall, Season 2, and then some extra zombies if you like huge games. Season 3 is just now out for KS backers in the USA and looks great (as in right after Season 1 great, but I haven't actually gotten a chance to play it yet) so maybe wait and get that when it's released.

I'm actually liking season three the best, to be completely honest. Great survivor variety, I like how they all look (I'm weird, it's important to me) and skinner zombies are really cool. I have all my previous equipment and zombie spawn cards sleeved, so currently we pick to play either Rue Morgue or an amazing amalgamation season one/Prison/Mall. I really need to get to the hobby store so I can sleeve season three.

As someone who's really big on the actual tile look too, the tiles from Morgue are great.

Mymearan wrote:
Yeah I was looking at what I missed out on in the first kickstarter. It seems to be 6 new heroes and a buttload of zombies. I don't really care about the heroes, but I'm wondering if the extra zombies you got add anything to the game? Do you ever need the extra stuff or is the base game sufficient in all situations? Considering buying the game but I want to know what I'm missing out on

It's a complete game, you don't need anything else. You can merrily play the game over and over and have a blast with it.

However, since each survivor's abilities lets them do different things, additional survivors change it up and provide a new expereince.

Additional zombies allow for huge hordes of zombies to be on the board at once. Ironically, this makes the game slightly easier, which no one in my gaming group has ever complained about.

ecurtz wrote:
-Loki- - Fatties and Abominations only do one damage, they're just hard to get rid of because of being tough and later in the shooting order. Any zombie on the board moves, but scenarios often start with them locked in a room so they can't go anywhere.

Thought so. It makes Abominations and Fatties not such a massive threat, but more of a persistent threat.

In Season 2 Mission 1, there's an Abomination in a basketball court, and Abominations break chainlink fences. So we wound up with an Abomnination stomping it's way (rather quickly due to being a Berzerker) to our survivors.

We were lucky that someone managed to scrounge gasoline and a bottle really early and we nuked it.

The extra zombies are not needed. Also, if you want the alternate sculpts, you can buy the appropriate box of zombies. Thus the Toxic Walker box has some alternate sculpts that are not in Toxic City mall, (as well as new Toxic Spawn cards). The benefit to the S2 KS backer is we got the alternate Berzerker & Toxic sculpts as part of our pledge so we don't need to buy the boxes.

Mymearan wrote:
Yeah I was looking at what I missed out on in the first kickstarter. It seems to be 6 new heroes and a buttload of zombies. I don't really care about the heroes, but I'm wondering if the extra zombies you got add anything to the game? Do you ever need the extra stuff or is the base game sufficient in all situations? Considering buying the game but I want to know what I'm missing out on

 -Loki- wrote:

ecurtz wrote:
-Loki- - Fatties and Abominations only do one damage, they're just hard to get rid of because of being tough and later in the shooting order. Any zombie on the board moves, but scenarios often start with them locked in a room so they can't go anywhere.

Thought so. It makes Abominations and Fatties not such a massive threat, but more of a persistent threat.

In Season 2 Mission 1, there's an Abomination in a basketball court, and Abominations break chainlink fences. So we wound up with an Abomnination stomping it's way (rather quickly due to being a Berzerker) to our survivors.

Yeah, that was some really poor scenario design. Mission ONE, first time you play. Way too much complexity and challenge for a new player.

I remember that misison, we hid indoors until we got something that could kill the Abomination.

 -Loki- wrote:
My fiancée got me Season 2 for Christmas, and yesterday Iocal store was having a 20% off board games post Christmas sale so I grabbed Toxic City Mall. Played mission 1 from Season 2 with my nephew and had an absolute blast.

Do many people paint their sets? I've been considering it. The zombies look like they will paint up quickly with washes and some GW technical paints.

I've painted all of my stuff and yes, it paints up nicely. Check out the Army painter website, they give some good advice for painting lots of figures quickly using their spray paints.

I uploaded images of everything to the DakkaDakka gallery.

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
The extra zombies are not needed.

They aren't 100% necessary, but do delay the extra action effect when you run out of a zombie type. The one we seem to run out of first is always the Toxics, so I picked up a couple of extra boxes to delay the inevitable.

Yeah, having extra boxes of Zombies makes the game oddly easier for the Survivors. Extra activations can be lethal, so having a few more models to throw at the board can save your entire team.

The game seems to have been written with that sort of thing in mind, though - since they've been piling on the extra Zombies since the initial S1 KS.

The extra boxes of Zombies also add new/different spawn cards to the deck. The design notes in the Zombicide Compendium explains exactly what each deck of cards from the various boxes do to the spawn rates.

If you haven't picked up the compendium I recommend it, I like having hard copies of the scenarios and as a I said, the design notes are an interesting read.

 -Loki- wrote:
Do many people paint their sets? I've been considering it. The zombies look like they will paint up quickly with washes and some GW technical paints.

I posted some paint tutorials on BGG's Zombicide and Toxic Mall forums, including 3D rubble markers using Secret Weapon Miniatures bases. If you can't find them, send me a PM!

EDIT: Check out BGG for advice in buying sets and expansions. My two bits are to wait for a sale and buy whatever's there! The S3 miniatures apparently are better quality (eg. mold lines) than the other seasons, but their color is too close to toxics for some boardgamers.

Link 'em here in this thread!

On a similar note. One of the guys in the group I've been playing Zombicide with lately has started going on about how "the rules say there should only be one Abomination." Most likely because of the description on Page 9.

Luckily, there’s only one Abomination on the board at any given time. If a second Abomination is drawn, replace it with a Fatty and its two Walkers.

Naturally, due to expansions and such, I've got 3 base-game abominations. Since we're playing through the initial boxed game levels with these guys right now, any thoughts on using more than one? Seems more fun to me, and we're already using the extra runners, walkers and fatties that I have, so..

Pfft !! We spawn Abominations every time they come up.

The worst I remember is 4 on the board at once. (2 Regular, 1 Toxic, 1 Beserker)

 adamsouza wrote:
Pfft !! We spawn Abominations every time they come up.

The worst I remember is 4 on the board at once. (2 Regular, 1 Toxic, 1 Beserker)

I'm with you, if you have the figures to place on the board do it. I mean what is the point of owning the figures if you're not going to use them. Also, if you play the Switch City Campaign I think the last mission starts with two on the board.

 Azazelx wrote:


Naturally, due to expansions and such, I've got 3 base-game abominations. Since we're playing through the initial boxed game levels with these guys right now, any thoughts on using more than one? Seems more fun to me, and we're already using the extra runners, walkers and fatties that I have, so..

One of tbe great things about zombicide is that it is so easy to modify to suit your group. Play it both ways and see which you prefer or just see if the players have a preference.

Neither way is wrong, its your game

One Abomination isn't even scary! Definitely spawn as many as you have models for.

I'm looking forward to that when wave two of the Kickstarter comes, having the capability to spawn two regular, one berserker, one toxic, and three A-bomb variants. Now that is intense.

Well, that's my preference as well. Now I'll just go to the group with "consensus on the internet says" which I think will work.

Yay, wave 2 is inbound! I'm really looking forward to the various goodies, like the dice tower and RM Zombivors to supplement my PO box.

Plus, Alice...

Ah if only I got one of the messed up orders along with a lot of other Irish backers (46 of us on the list) - my name is on the shipping label but someone else's order and invoice is in the box. I'm short about $230 worth of stuff basically the other person whose order I have, got a basic Patient 0 where as I ordered one of everything.

Terrance is working on it at the moment, it's not actually CMoN fault the German company Ludo Packt put the wrong shipping labels on the wrong boxes and have messed up an entire countries worth of orders (well not all some got the correct order). It looks like they will just send on the missing parts separately as they can't track who got what and I'd say if someone got a large order with stuff they didn't pay for they will stay quiet about it. I currently have the other persons order sitting here all still sealed as we haven't been told yet exactly what the solution is so we don't know if we can keep and open that part of the order we got that matches our own order. Ah well it will get sorted CMoN might be a bit slow on the customer service front but they always come through in the end. it won't affect me backing Black plague.

Wow, that's completely ridiculous. Basically, anybody can ask for almost anything short of the automatic stuff, because nobody tracked who got what?

I gave them my order number and the order number of the pledge I actually received so they can see what I got and what I should have got and send on the missing stuff I guess this is how they will work it out as everyone received a pledge just not their own pledge. As I said it's more likely that only those of us who are short will report it to get our missing stuff anyone that's over unless they are very honest will probably say nothing and there is nothing CMoN can do about it the tracking numbers we received through the pledge manager don't even match the tracking number on the shipping labels, so I have a tracking number, a shipping label with a different number and a box with a different order none of which match up. They aren't even head to head errors as I contacted the guys whose order I got and he doesn't have mine he has someone else's again. If it was just a straight head to head I'd hop in the car, drive over and do the swap but no joy there as things stand.

At least CMoN will make it right for you. That's good. And why I'm OK to back their projects.

 DaveC wrote:
I gave them my order number and the order number of the pledge I actually received so they can see what I got and what I should have got and send on the missing stuff I guess this is how they will work it out as everyone received a pledge just not their own pledge. As I said it's more likely that only those of us who are short will report it to get our missing stuff anyone that's over unless they are very honest will probably say nothing and there is nothing CMoN can do about it the tracking numbers we received through the pledge manager don't even match the tracking number on the shipping labels, so I have a tracking number, a shipping label with a different number and a box with a different order none of which match up. They aren't even head to head errors as I contacted the guys whose order I got and he doesn't have mine he has someone else's again. If it was just a straight head to head I'd hop in the car, drive over and do the swap but no joy there as things stand.

Sweet jeebus that's a hot mess.

Like you said, while it may take a little bit since their CS department consists of Terrance and Terrance alone, you'll definitely get taken care of.

Oi Vey.

 DaveC wrote:
I gave them my order number and the order number of the pledge I actually received so they can see what I got and what I should have got and send on the missing stuff I guess this is how they will work it out as everyone received a pledge just not their own pledge. As I said it's more likely that only those of us who are short will report it to get our missing stuff anyone that's over unless they are very honest will probably say nothing and there is nothing CMoN can do about it the tracking numbers we received through the pledge manager don't even match the tracking number on the shipping labels, so I have a tracking number, a shipping label with a different number and a box with a different order none of which match up. They aren't even head to head errors as I contacted the guys whose order I got and he doesn't have mine he has someone else's again. If it was just a straight head to head I'd hop in the car, drive over and do the swap but no joy there as things stand.

A buddy of mine received excess S2 stuff (PO and TM boxes) and contacted them about it, he told them he'd send it back to them if they sent him a shipping label. In exchange, they sent him the S1 promo character set which he didn't own. CMON are good people, my dealing with customer service have always been good.

Gotta agree with the previous post. Every goof I've had on an order (which is just about every one) CMON have come through. I've always offered to mail mistakes back, and they've been cool about letting me keep them too.

Over 2 weeks of silence now since I emailed the other support email that Terrance gave me for my messed up WoK stuff (which included the ZC characters). It's ...not very good.

I would say send them another email. I suspect that the current missing shipping container is causing a lot of additional work for them and an increase in backers chasing parcels which has unfortunately left yours overlooked.

On a side note I am really impressed with how they have managed this missing container issue and the solution they have gone with given that it will cost them a significant amount of money.

 -Loki- wrote:
Do many people paint their sets? I've been considering it. The zombies look like they will paint up quickly with washes and some GW technical paints.

I had originally planned to paint mine, along with my zpoc stuff, but then I got into warhammer...and I'll just never get to the zombies at this rate.

Considering the way zombicide had everything with different colored plastics as well, I had considered it might be easier just to leave the minis the way "bare" to make it easier for game use. That was before the fire wiped out most of my zombicide stuff though.

At this point, I have piles of grey stuff for warhammer, so it'll probably never happen.

 Fireflyjmh wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
I gave them my order number and the order number of the pledge I actually received so they can see what I got and what I should have got and send on the missing stuff I guess this is how they will work it out as everyone received a pledge just not their own pledge. As I said it's more likely that only those of us who are short will report it to get our missing stuff anyone that's over unless they are very honest will probably say nothing and there is nothing CMoN can do about it the tracking numbers we received through the pledge manager don't even match the tracking number on the shipping labels, so I have a tracking number, a shipping label with a different number and a box with a different order none of which match up. They aren't even head to head errors as I contacted the guys whose order I got and he doesn't have mine he has someone else's again. If it was just a straight head to head I'd hop in the car, drive over and do the swap but no joy there as things stand.

A buddy of mine received excess S2 stuff (PO and TM boxes) and contacted them about it, he told them he'd send it back to them if they sent him a shipping label. In exchange, they sent him the S1 promo character set which he didn't own. CMON are good people, my dealing with customer service have always been good.

They shipped my S2W1 from the US (instead of EU) which cost me about €30 in customs. I was kind of pissed at them for several reasons at that point so I raised the issue (and quite vocally so). Two weeks with no response; they didn't reply, so much as ship another (identical) S2W1 package from the EU distribution centre. Two days after that they got in touch and reimbursed the customs charge as well. Must say getting to keep the extra S2W1 shipment kind of made up for any ill will I had at that point
But seriously, the best thing you can say for their CS (and I've been through the wringer on a couple of their projects...) is that at least they're *consistently* running around, flailing their arms in utter panic and confusion.

Aeneades wrote:
I would say send them another email. I suspect that the current missing shipping container is causing a lot of additional work for them and an increase in backers chasing parcels which has unfortunately left yours overlooked.
On a side note I am really impressed with how they have managed this missing container issue and the solution they have gone with given that it will cost them a significant amount of money.

I gave it a third week and sent another email today. Not really acceptable for a customer-facing business. We'll see if I get a reply this time.

My wave 2 stuff arrived, so many boxes that my brain hurts. Going to need to sit down and figure out what everything is lol.

I'm assuming I got everything I ordered but it's been so long since I filled out my survey that I honestly have no clue what all I'm supposed to have here. I didn't stay as active on this KS as I did with previous ones, I knew it'd get here at some point but when it arrives I'm always amazed at how big of a box it comes in and just how much stuff is involved.

I got my shipping confirmation yesterday. So it looks like we'll be playing with out new Zombicide stuff just in time to get pumped for Black Plague's release.

Not that my group needs encouragement.

Got my stuff. I never got Rue Morgue in wave 1, I assumed it would come in wave 2. It did not. Hopefully they can give me a quick response to the email I sent.

They did apparently decide I really needed to have every model ever though, because they did send a John Kovalic pack that I didn't order.

Got to play my first game the experience cards. I really liked it. Ended up taking 7 cards that did pretty much nothing for my character this game, but next I start with a rifle, lockpick, and a fully tooled up SBF. it made me think strategy wise about the next game I would be playing, instead of just the one going on in front of me. It's still pretty rules light, but it accomplishes exactly what campaign rules should do.

 adamsouza wrote:
Got to play my first game the experience cards. I really liked it. Ended up taking 7 cards that did pretty much nothing for my character this game, but next I start with a rifle, lockpick, and a fully tooled up SBF. it made me think strategy wise about the next game I would be playing, instead of just the one going on in front of me. It's still pretty rules light, but it accomplishes exactly what campaign rules should do.

I was surprised how much I liked them as well!

My planning for next time combo starts with
"Starts with SBF" + "Lockpick"

Because who doesn't like starting with a 1D 4+ S1 melee weapon that grants tough and the ability to open doors as a free action.

By the end of the game I was able to upgrade it with the other cards to 2D 3+ S2.

I know not everyone is following the Black Plague Rumors thread so I'm including this here as well



The CMON B-SIEGED KICKSTARTER is over, and accepting late pledges, but includes 8 KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE ZOMBICIDE BLACK PLAGUE ID CARDS for it's heroes.

Late pledge is $90 with all the freebies, including the 8 B-Sieged Zombicide Black Plague ID Cards.

Considering Add-On Survivors are usually $10 a pop, this is a pretty good deal.

AAN has a thread over in the painting and modelling section with some of the Big Bang Theory homage characters painted up nicely.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/617705.page

Has anyone tried playing with Miss Trish ? Starting with Full Auto is rock solid, and gets amazing when you make it into orange/red spawns.




We've been playing with the Expereince Deck and the last time we gamed, I played Miss Trish starting with a full set of the bow and S.B.F. cards. I started calling her Legolas.

If you are not familiar:
The Bow has 1 attack die, hits on a 3+, does 1 damage, no sound, 0-1 range, with a special rule that increases the damage for every 6 rolled.
The XP cards add 1 attack die, +1 free attack with bow, +1 range, and starts with bow.
Full Auto, it let's you replace the attack dice of your ranged weapon with the number of actors (zombie+survivors) in a targeted zone.

In the hands of other survivors, the bow occasionally lets you take out a fatty, on a roll of double 6. In Miss Trish's hands it's easy to roll multiple 6's when you are targeting zones with multiple red sized spawns in them, so she's easly capable of dispatching Abominations (except the A-bomb Abomination)

If you are not playing with the XP cards, and use standard starting equipment, she is the best suited survivor to start with the pistol. Shotgun allows her to mow down anything at range, short of beserkers and Abomination. She's hilarious with the Bowling Ball, and is stunning while sitting in cross roads with the sniper rifle.

His name escapes me at the moment, but the artist's choice monk has both full auto and barbarian (the melee equivalent of full auto) as orange choices.

Yeah the Bowling Ball Miss Trish combo is ridiculous. I did it in one game and was basically a walking molitov.

Since that game we houseruled not to allow Full Auto to work on weapons it doesnt make sense to work on

Haven't you guys seen Mystery Men ?

 adamsouza wrote:
Haven't you guys seen Mystery Men ?

Yeah thats all we were saying during that game haha, it was more for balance sake as it made the game quite easy for the most part.

I apologize if this is the wrong thread to post this in but how well do the Zombicide minatures look when compared to a GW miniature?

The reason I ask is because I am looking into Zombicide: Black Plague and I was curious if it would still look aesthetically pleasing if I were to swap out the zombies with Skaven or even goblins. Would they look reasonably well or would the proportions look out of whack between the different miniatures?

Looks okay to me, although GW's a little chunkier...

Thanks for that. They definitely do look chunkier but maybe from a distance it won't look too bad.

Now I'm really tempted to swap out the zombies for Skaven.

Is the post apocalyptic game of Zombicide dead?

pardon the pun

The medieval version goes from strength to strength on KS

there has been little if any back up / support for the standard game since 8/5 (which is nearly 2 months)

If there is nothing for modern ZC after a year, you might start to worry. Not that ZC really needs much.

If there is nothing for modern ZC after a year, you might start to worry. Not that ZC really needs much.

I know they've gone nearly everywhere

but they can still post the odd mission , designer's mutterings or just general froth about the game

it just looks like they've moved on to the next game now thank you & goodbye

one of the things that I really liked about GG was the general help & support of the website. also there updates every week or two. I came to Zombicide late & missed all 3 KS's & coming from a GW philosophy of naff all support this was a refreshing change

I imagine the GG staff is occupied with the Kickstarter at the moment.



After the kickstarter, we'll see.

They haven't set up a seperate site or anything have they ?

I've been painting up a few zombicide figures recently, I've been inspired by the BP kickstarter campaign.

It's been quite enjoyable apart from the difficulty in removing mold lines from certain figures, does anyone have any tips for removing them from PVC?

Engraving pen -- and rechargeable batteries!

Thanks for the tip. I ordered a cheap wire brush set, if I'm not happy with them I will check out the engraving pen!

Recently, I filtered down my Zombicide collection to basically Rue Morgue, selling off S2 and the extra S3 models. I kept the Rue Morgue base game over Prison Outbreak, as it had the broader mix of 12 Survivors to play, just one straightforward Zombie type, and a decent equipment mix. I also kept the Lost Zombivors, in case we want to play smash games instead of speed games.

I kept 4 sets of Zc dice, the folding dice tower & bag so everybody gets their own set. Also kept the RM team building deck, experience deck and bonus dashboards for more gameplay options down the road.

But the rest? I just don't think I'm going to miss the extra stuff.

Meh, my group still mostly uses the Season 1 tiles with all the zombie types and survivors mixed in.

Setup 9 tiles that look good, sprinkle on objective tokens, throw on an exit, and no one leaves until the objectives are all claimed.

I'm in the same boat as Adam, Mainly using season 1, but survivors from toxic city as well. I haven't played rue morgue yet. My brother in law picked it up after we played season 1, but he didn't like it nearly as much and said he was going to give it to me . I just scored prison outbreak for my christmas gift (first time my wife has EVER bought me anything gaming related, in 15+ years). I got the box set delivere (will be here friday) for $43.75 including shipping and tax. Not sure if I'll pick up the ultimate survivors 2 or not as I don't have set 1. I think I've got enough guys to use anyway.

We found the rooms in Prison break are smaller and they can get really congested with zombies. Still worth getting for everything else, but the tiles are not our favorite.

I find Prison Outbreak to be very much a difficult puzzle game. And some of those multi-room tiles were scary if you didn't clear them early; if you couldn't get to them until late game, pure death.

I like the design and flexibility of Rue Morgue better. I like that Rue Morgue has a mix of urban, interior and open tiles to play on. The single Zombie type is very clean, and the random spawns scale nicely.

The only thing I don't like is how the Survivor targeting is still messed up - they should have simply used the Crawler rule, and had 1s hit other Survivors.

I see that there's a new companion app, but one has to pay extra money for each thing after Season 1, even if you bought it for real?

No thanks. Deleted.

from twitter

CoolMiniOrNot Games ‏@CMONGames 3m3 minutes ago

Just announced at #CMONExpo: #Zombicide Black Plague Season 2 is in development! More information in the future when the project is ready.

Hopefully season 2 will give us more regular zombies. We're always running out and getting ganked by extra zombie activations.

The 2nd Compendium book is out September 23rd

I found the first one fairly disappointing ...
Won't get the second one.

CMON has picked up the branding and intellectual property rights for Zombicide from Guillotine Games. The two companies have been working hand-in-hand all up to this point bringing you Zombicide, with CMON producing and distributing the game. Now they’re going to be even tighter as the franchise moves forward.

The director of Guillotine Games, David Preti, will also become the new Creative Director at CMON Limited. He’s said, “I’m pleased to see Zombicide in the hands of CMON, and I’m excited for my new role in the company while continuing to bring new, great Guillotine Games titles to gamers.”

CMON and Guillotine have had quite a winning formula for Zombicide, having raised over $10 million over the course of the various Kickstarter projects they’ve run. It will be interesting to see where the franchise goes from here.

So damn, it looks like Zombicide isn't dead. It's undead I guess ?

I was worried after Massive Darkness that they may have been all zombied out.

Maybe they'll change Zombicide's shooting so that hits don't prioitize hitting other survivors.

Hello,

I have a question about the first edition and the bow. There it states "+1 damage for each 6 in the ranged roll"

I understand it that it gives this attribute to all range roll not only those with the bow.
Is this correct?

I don't have it in front of me, but I would assume if it is on the Bow card the rule applies to the Bow.

Zombicide in genreal does not have exploitable RAW shenanigans.