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Aye, that sounds pretty much exactly what happened to me. Same can, same half full level come winter, then one spring BAM! Super heat boiled off all the volatile bits and left a sorta goo at the bottom. Still caught fire from a match, but wasn't good for much other than starting the trash fire. Had to flush the carburetor too; fortunately my neighbor worked repairing mowers for the county, so he knew the symptom right away. I was still at the "curse it and try kicking it" stage


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Aye, that sounds pretty much exactly what happened to me. Same can, same half full level come winter, then one spring BAM! Super heat boiled off all the volatile bits and left a sorta goo at the bottom. Still caught fire from a match, but wasn't good for much other than starting the trash fire. Had to flush the carburetor too; fortunately my neighbor worked repairing mowers for the county, so he knew the symptom right away. I was still at the "curse it and try kicking it" stage

Yeah I got to the point that I was going to take it for repair an hour later, but gave it on last go. Half a can of starting fluid later and it kicked over and kept running.

Thursday I have a play date scheduled with my kids. Zombie killing will be done, and encouraged. I just hope they like it as much as the train game (empire express) that I taught them a few months back. I'll play either, but I'd prefer to have this more in depth game where I get to use the models I have painted up. Of course the train game has Crayons, so either is a good use of time. My littlest one (Lilly) is super excited, my son I. The other hand asked if there was a computer version of it .

The computer version is always better. Of everything. Ever.

Or so they'll tell you

Well... actually I would really like a PC/Console version of Zombicide. All the information is open so there is no downside to onscreen info, and frankly moving all the zombies around and in between turn segments get a little tiresome. Plus it would help people remember what order they are supposed to go in We always seem to lose track of that.

Oh, and a turn timer would be nice. I can never implement that with my family without seeming like a prick, but good lord they need it.

@Grimdork, not if you don't have a computer , or it's more than three years old.
@wehrkind, chess clock shaped like a coffin , of it goes off then a zombie spawns in your square, flip top card of the spawn deck and one of whatever pops up under your (the the groups highest) experience band appears. And it's attracted to you. So if your in a square with other survivors it will attack only you next turn.

Might actually get a game in tomorrow as Ive put in more hours at church so far this week than I normally have this early in the week. I'll probably go in for two hours and then pick up three on Friday to get ready for the weekend. My wife has to go up and work on her classroom to get it ready for this year, so I will need to go in early to be back to hang out with the kids.

so just finished with our first game of Zombicide

Sarah, Zack, Lilly and I played the first mission and it took 2 1/2 hours, and we all died within a turn of each other. Sarah (my oldest most headstrong child) took her two survivors (Amy and Elsa) off on their own where she lost Elsa pretty quick, and got Amy cornered in the opposite edge of the board as everyone else . She managed to keep slipping away for a few turns. lilly was the first to advance to yellow level, well before everyone else which made it harder game wise, she was using Wanda the waitress, who I traded the chainsaw too, which almost got her to the orange level. Zack kept searching even when all his slots were free, even forgoing killing zombies to do it. His one character Jish did manage to make a Molotov and then kill a fattie and two walkers at once. I played Doug and Phil who both got hurt early on due to the stupid "all walkers get an extra move" card. That card is what killed us all in the end. Sarah finally couldn't maneuver anymore and Amy got dragged down by the last of six walkers she attacked with a katana. She killed five, but could have made it out if she didn't waste a action searching. The following zombie phase Lilly lost both her figures when the walkers get an extra move card happened again. Then the following turn saw zombies pull back to back walkers get an extra move and runners get an extra move which wipped both Zack and I off the board at the same time. We just needed to grab the last two "X" and get to the exit, but those cards had followed a massive zombie spawning at the location right next to us .

Tomorrow will see more zombie action
I ran out of painted zombies on more than one occasion. Mostly because my wife didn't want me to play with the female zombies who's thongs were showing

Lol poor thongzombies

Lot me, I miss calculated, it took 3.5 hours not 2.5 hours. Oh well we have all day tomorrow to play.

The pseudo batrep was fun, you should take some pictures of the carnage on the board when you guys are more comfortable with the rules (so it doesn't bog you down even more).

PS: You and your Wife chose cool names for your kids

I'll try and get some pics of tomorrow's game. It was intended, but between teaching the rules (and learning them myself), I had my hands full. I think I may have screwed up big time, but it's how they did it in Zombicide: Black Plague, when they opened a door to a building I spawned zombies in each room of that building. I'll need to go back and check that for tomorrow.

Some take aways from today. Raoul's webbing ability is great when he has a bunch of sawn off shotguns. It lets him use any item in his possession as if it was in his hands, so he could fire four sawn offs when he reaches yellow level and they auto refill at the end of his turn.

Wanda is fast on those skates.

Being alone sucks.

Okay so we got five games in over the last four hours. I'm mentally exhausted. The first four games went fast. We played mission #3 which is just get all survivors to the exit point on the other side of town. The first game went okay until Sarah decided to run ahead and then the group got cut off, so we lost as ALL survivors must make it off the board. The second game Sarah decided to open the first door in the deployment zone and then charge the two runners inside . Not enough actions to kill them both, didn't even kill one of them, and she was the last player that turn so it went to the zombies turn and they did two auto wounds on her, killing her and ending the game on turn 1 . Third try we just tried to run for the exit without stopping to search for anything. Unfortunately the person carrying the axe got wounded and had to drop it (only starting equipment that can kill a fattie) and then a fattie spawned right in front of the exit point . Needless to say those survivors can no longer be called that. The last game we made it out alright, even with me having the brilliant plan of cutting through a building to bypass the last spawn point. The building was jammed with fatties and runners .

The final game we just finished we decided to do the mission where the winner is the first to achieve red level. I need to search online for some answers as I couldn't find it in the rules about cars.

If a survivor is in a car can zombies get to them? I would think no, but it doesn't say they can't. Either way we all had fun while speed bumping some zombies.

Lilly was trapped and by herself and wounded in a spawn point, so I went over to help her. The next turn only a few zombies spawned so I thought everything was good and we could fight our way out. So I killed 2 of the four zombies and then Lilly who was the last player that turn pulled a brave sir Robin and ran away. Leaving two zombies to eat me as the turn ended. She was all grins and she won the game two turns later.she gets her deviousness from me .

Some pictures later, but none of them really turned out well.

Over all I think this is the BEST game I've played in years. Might even be best over all surpassing Necromunda , either way it was well worth it.

From the way you describe it, it must be one of the best games so far...and it is good to play with your kids and have a good time. You feeling better? That one last sentence was creepy as hell...especially since I yesterday watched WWZ. And my mind is still trying to dive upwards to reality in parts...that movie got me...I don't like movies that have kids as optional victims...that's too close to home...

@vik, I just meant that this game might be better than Necromunda. I was just hedging my words because there is so much love for the Underhive here on DakkaDakka and especially within the LoER.

Just got some explanations on rules in the boardgame section, seems we made some wrong decisions with rules and the cars. I thought it was way too easy . Being in a car with a zombie outside the car gives you no protection , it just makes you fast food . You can also shoot out of a car, but the targeting priorities still stand, so if you are in the car with someone else you still shoot them first . That's the one rule in Zombicide that makes very little sense to me. The target priority goes 1-survivors 2- walkers 3- fatties 4- runners so if you only have weapons that cannot hurt a fatty and there's a fatty and two runners in the same square as you...... Your .

Huh. Better than necromunda you say? I must be missing out here.

Might be better is not the same as better, Theo will have to test it for us and report on it, :p

Vik, you need to read this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide

The movie was garbage.

there was that scene in WWZ where a Z smashed the windshield in with its head.... i highly doubt that a mere car will ever be enough to stop zombies from having a fast food all you can eat meal... talk about "not-a-happy-meal"...

and red... i am on trail for that book...
but to be fair... read the first book of waking dead...(the comic...) and wasn´t that impressed... to me the show is much better... honestly...i think the book left much to be desired that the show could "show" due to the characters looks and mimics getting more portrayed there...

@Vik, I wasn't a big fan of World War Z, but I guess I can't say it's not realistic
@red harvest, will try and track down a copy of that for fun
@shaso, better in this case is subjective to the fact I'm older, have less time and I don't have to worry about a whole lot of terrain (don't hate me)
@grimdork, it has it's better parts, less tracking paperwork, easier to find opponents, and can be played solo as well. On the other hand it is also lacking of terrain.....at least for now. It doesn't go vertical until I decide to come up with rules for stairs and such, and there's a sincere lack of aliens, mutants, scum and chaos worshippers. Although the game could easily be modified to any system. I mean use a space marine as a survivor and then when the walkers show up substitute an Orc, when a fattie shows up place a Nob, when a runner shows up place a speed freak or stormboy and when the A-bomb shows the. You drop down a meganob. You could also substitute in termagants, genestealers, hormagaunts and warriors. I'm not up to date on necro a or other species, but those are possible as well. You could have imperial guard guys as survivors as well. I'll try and dig out my dreamforge troopers this week to make some survivors from them too. Change the background a little and you have space Germans fighting off a plague of zombies created by accident while looking for a cure to the disease that wiped out earth.

Anyway, I got a couple hours of painting in today and since we were running out of all types of zombies during the game I did a few of each.

Hate you for lack of terrain? I have a few prefab huts, Dave now is one with a whole hive city built for crying out loud!

Moar zombies are looking good. I was considering using the mars attacks rules for other models in a similar vein.

@shaso,Dave's fallout terrain would be epic for Zombicide. We need the master back here with more than just his Gencon Haul
@grimdork, you want moar zombies???? So do I while cleaning out my car yesterday I found a punchcard for the other FLGS that I go to, they sell everything at full price , but stock GW paints and everything is out for display and they have I think 6 tables for miniature games and plenty for card/boardgames. They also rent their upstairs area for regional magic tournaments. It's where I've played X-wing when it came out. So I stopped there on the way home from work last night and used the $10 off coupon to buy

20 more zombies 4 each of the construction worker, cop, sailor, Santa and punk rocker. It also comes with some special cards of exclusive weapons.

I'm thinking of making a little sign and making a "YZCA" instead of YMCA.

that zombicide santa i just found at ebay for low money... i think i get me that mini just for the lulz...

i recently got me zombies!!! the boardgame...i fear it wont be as fun as zombcide...the scale is also weird...hmmm...

also...at red... and all that read the book... got me the zombie survival guide...

Haha even moar! Sheesh, soon enough they're going to overtake your house.

So the VIP are Very Infected People. They come with their own spawning cards and instead of 1 point each they give you 5 experience points each. And if you kill one they also give special weapons that do better damage (three desert eagle cards,2 are in other languages, but will get used, a SPAS12, and a Thompson machine gun. The desert eagle has all the same profile as a regular pistol except it can deal 2damage so it can kill fatties. Fatties are a two damage creature, unlike warhammer it doesn't mean you wound it twice and it dies, here you need a two damage weapon to kill it, it can shrug off infinite one damage shots with no problems. The SPAS12 shots 3 times a turn, not sure of the other stats.

No game today wife wanted to take the kids to a classic car show this morning/ car parade. There now, see y'all later.

Booo classic cars. I about got dragged(drug?) along to a destruction/whatever derby last night. I mean it may have been fun but it was definitely at a small town so probably not that spectacular. Probably still gonna get hornswaggled into a day-tri of some kind... maybe I'll be able to engineer a gamestore visit if we pass by any

Desert Eagles sound useful.

Well we got a quick game in before lunch. My oldest daughter is learning the value of teamwork the hard way. She keeps running out ahead of everyone and trying to do things all on her own, she initially succeeds, but then falls victim to jumping ahead of everyone else making the game harder. Zack decided to split up his two survivors and came to a point where he had to lose one of the two or use that survivor to run over his own guy . In the end we all got mobbed by 10+ zombies in the same square as our last four survivors. Sorry no pics as my phone has issues with all the little models and the playing boards. I added more equipment into the deck, the weapons from toxic city mall and angry neighbors. We're still only using the basic zombies right now and for the foreseeable future as I'm painting them All the greenish skin route.

We also had to explain to my son what a "Pimp" was...and prostitutes, and how wrong that is....

Bwahaha... uncomfortable questions raised by dead hookers, ehh?

Sounds like real life lessons to be learned playing zombicide

Even worse, the game has police cars and pimp cars. If you search the pimp car you get a rare weapon (1 time only per game), and it says pimp on the car. So that's where the question came from. No dead hookers were involved....till the description phase.

Bwahaha bad enough!

Gold plated desert eagle in the pimpmobile huh?

Yarp! it looks good, but it's not titled as such, and in a game where there is a gold AK47 and a pink M14(???maybe M1) I think it's just visual.

I actually just took time to read the VIP rules. The box comes with five sculpts (4 of each) for a total of 20. They come with spawn cards specifically for VIPs. When they spawn you place random sculpts out. When you kill the VIPs you place the models on your dashboard. When you have 5 unique sculpts you get to choose one of the pimp weapons (ma's shotgun, the evil twins, flaming baseball bat, etc etc). Or you can just use them as regular walkers.

Either way I want to kill Santa. The other VIP set has a guy in a hotdog suit and a guy in a old fast food restaurant outfit (looks like steak and shake because of the hat). I forget what else is in that set off the top of my head.