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Looking a bit odd, not sure why?

At this point, I'm only in this for the homages.

Flash Gordon...

That means maybe a... Brian Blessed?

yikes! Crappy artwork and must say the minis dont do it for me… Apart from that this has nothing to do with zombicide in any way shape or form… maybe the rules are similar.

I'm not overly thrilled yet.

I was hoping for, if nothing else, some decent sci fi character minis that aren't space marines. Wait and see.

I don't mind homages but, after so many kickstarters, I don't really need more nods to the Serenity crew, Ripley, Six, Super Heroes, Monty Python Grail Knights, etc ...

Scratch that, always room for Python characters

I sold all my Zombicide 1 and 2 stuff so don't have any at this point. I can see backing this as it would be a fun board game and the figures ought to be useful for other skirmish stuff.

Cole - render looks better than the artwork (reminds me a bit of Cassian Andor) I think it's the red jacket that looks off give him a brown jacket much more "sci fi rogue" looking then. So far the civilians are better than the soldiers.

Best of all the ... riveting reveals..... we seen so far... Baby?

 TalonZahn wrote:
Best of all the ... riveting reveals..... we seen so far... Baby?

and yet he has a rivet (really a button, but looks just like the rivets) on his jacket

I thought it was funny...

I have to agree with DaveC, the render looks good in contrast with the artwok.

Good? No, the render looks way better than the artwork. If this is how the civilians are going to look, I'm very pleased. Well, aside from the fact that there's no way this guy could actually go outside into a hostile atmosphere dressed like that.

well the render has a passing resemblance to the artwork which is a big improvement.

Maybe the planet has atmosphere, just not oxygen, in this case assuming it is not acidic or something else poisonous, one could go out with a breathing device assuming the pressure is same as earth.

Of the different Xenos that have been identified, the Hunters are clearly the fastest and most cunning. They hide from fire behind their larger cousins, as they quickly close the distance between themselves and the Survivors. Learn more from our Xenos article next week.

Guillermo del Toro's Majin Buu.

While it's a great monster, there is nothing about that design that suggests it's meant to be an alien, especially not the kind of tongue in cheek alien one would expect from Zombiecide.

Looks more like a deformed human or a daemon.

 DaveC wrote:

Of the different Xenos that have been identified, the Hunters are clearly the fastest and most cunning. They hide from fire behind their larger cousins, as they quickly close the distance between themselves and the Survivors. Learn more from our Xenos article next week.

Spoiler:

Finally, proper ork genestealers!

I like all the gribblies we've seen so far. Hopefully we get a bucket load with lots of alternate poses!

We'll certainly get the 'bucket loads' but as far as 'alternate poses', 2 possibly 3 each max?

With 2 being more likely?

So what happens when this guy closes his mouth?

 smurfORnot wrote:
So what happens when this guy closes his mouth?

You're not thinking fourth dimensionally.

 smurfORnot wrote:
So what happens when this guy closes his mouth?

You assume it closes it’s mouth at all.

 smurfORnot wrote:
So what happens when this guy closes his mouth?

It comes out a different orifice , and leaves a bad taste in his mouth later.

I want to like this iteration of Zombicide since I know our kids would play it and enjoy it but the aliens/zombies are a big letdown. If CMON had gone with a look similar to the Flood from the Halo games or went with more alien/xenomorph look I'd be all over it but the tentacle people are just kinda...meh.

The future has brought the technology to make interplanetary travel a reality, and some Equipment to make the journey a little safer. In Zombicide: Invader, the Survivors will be able to search the mining base for some futuristic Weapons and Equipment, but lurking in the Equipment deck are Mold Spawn cards that will turn Active Mold Zones into Xeno nests. Look for our Equipment article later this week.

Spoiler due to size

Hmm. No. Nope! No way. Total fail. Not a single rivet on any of those items. Immersion ruined!

I see a 'Dark Zones' reference in there, along with drawing LOS through them.

So borrowing from Massive Darkness too then?

(Apologies if this has already been pointed out)

Probably not a bad idea since that was one of the more well received things from MD.

Did the artist who created those item card illustrations know who Adrian Smith is or what Smith's art looks like? I feel like he didn't.

So far the artwork of the miniatures and the tiles (now also equipment cards) are from two completely different directions and genres.

I don't know what is going on anymore, equipment cards look good.

Looks like the planet has atmosphere, just not breathable.

I'm starting to suspect that CMON had been planning this for months, coordinating everything with the Zombiecide artist (Guillon?), paying his advance and setting the production schedule, and then when the due date came around for his design work, they walked in to find his office empty and the window open...

"Guillon's done a runner! We've got twenty four hours to put this game together! Somebody ransack the Xenoshyft design files for any unused artwork and get me Smith on the phone, and by God you all better start praying that Adrian has a valise full of Others concepts in the trunk of his car."