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Well here are a few ideas...
1. You mentioned data files earlier right? How about the inquisitor(s) have to find said data files before the zombies get to them?

2. If you would like to make it more competitive, try to have scoring for kills (ex. Killing a zombie through shooting is 1 point. Killing a zombie in melee is 2 points. You get less points if the henchmen do it)

3. He zombie player pre plans several waves (has a limited amount of zombies to use in total). The inquisitor(s) must defeat all of the zombies to win.

4. Your usual "protect the building" style mission

Hmmmm...
The data files were like the mission, collect the data. If a player goes down they drop it. The teams get no. of filesx10pts extra.

We have a point-per-kill system already. Melee being extra could work actually... Giving the henchmen less points is pointless, because I'm planning for a team total not individual.

Limited zombies falls down near instantly, because to make the game work it has to be an astronomical number of zombies to deal with a lot of survivors. It's a nice thought but it doesn't quite work for me.

Protect the building, could work actually as "a" mission, the others would be data retrieval, destroy key location then try to fight out, then the finale would be every man in, last team alive wins though if the Inq is dead the team can't win

Anything else we should put into this?

Let's get the basics of each mission first, leave the fancy extras till later when we have concrete foundations.
So, what would you have as a mission? Or even a series of them in a sort of campaign order?

I think you mentioned the missions and even put them into a campaign order with this post:

 Mitranekh the Omniscient wrote:

Protect the building, could work actually as "a" mission, the others would be data retrieval, destroy key location then try to fight out, then the finale would be every man in, last team alive wins though if the Inq is dead the team can't win

Maybe you meant flesh out the missions more (add the basics for each of these missions)?

Very true, my early morning brain wasn't functioning.
Running with mine then (if you have any others though share away) where would you begin?

How about the data retrieval one?

What about it? It's a good opener, as Inqs are, well, inquisitive. So getting extra info works. What sort of rules for the data would you suggest?

How do these sound?

1. Data must be carried by either an inquisitor or a henchman (if a henchman dies, the data is dropped where it dies)

2. Data gives a bonus to whichever side is holding it but the benefit is different for each data pickup (ex. +1 BS against Zombies or +1 Initiative against zombies

3. Data is randomly placed at the start of the game so find 6 pieces of scenery to use and designate a number to each from 1 - 6 roll a D6 and place the data in the piece of board corresponding to the roll.

Nice. Though henchmen come back each round if they die (Tzeentch isn't finished with them yet) as do the Inqs, so have it dropped if they get downed

The bonus trick works, I think having 'Data Corrupted-no bonus' is a good thing. Perhaps a table?

Placing it in scenery is one option, or we could use them as simple markers on the map?

Dropped data if they're downed. Okay.

I like the table idea. Rolls of 1 give a corrupted data sort of thing with no bonus. Any ideas for the others?

As for putting it on markers on a map, where would these markers be?

The markers could be anywhere, let the zombie player place them.

2 could be +1 Int
3 +1 WS
4 PE
5 +1BS
6 idk

How about 6 is a penalty to the zombies? Maybe -1 S or -1 T?

Also, the markers idea sound good. Let's go for that.

Grand

There's no way to penalise the zombies, it doesn't work for me. Perhaps roll twice on the table? Or develop a perks system?

A perks system might not work if it was just for the one mission unless we made it a small one.

Yeah, I always wanted to implement the perk machines from CoD (look them up). The idea was that the player who finds/holds the data first receives a random perk, but Nids me and everyone else never sorted it

Whew! Okay, just looked up the perk machines. Didn't expect soda machines.

First of all, wow these feel like they should have been in Bioshock or TF2.

Second, okay, I see why you wanted them. Should we have them all as possible options or just a few?

Should see the jingles, they're awesome, plus the character in-game.

Anyway... I want Jugger-Nog. I think Quick Revive will work. PHD (the nuke flop machine) maybe. Deadshot Daquiri is a BS booster. The others idk, what do you reckon?

(To anyone who doesn't know what the the heck I'm on about, look up the CoD Zombies Perk Machines)

Double tap = +1 shot
Sleight of hand, idk, how does your Ammo system work?
Mule Kick, any good?

Mule Kick... Yes that works, extra 2 weapon slots (rifles are 2 slots)
Double tap works.
Speed Cola is the official name. We don't have a reload system it felt clunky

ok then, that can be left out...

Theres another Perk that Im forgetting...

Let's see...
Jug, Double Tap, Speed Cola, Quick revive, PHD, dead shot... Stamin-up!!! The sprint perk. There's also who's who, vulture aid, tombstone and electric cherry from BO2 but they're a bit weird

Stamin-Up was what I was thinking I had missed...

+3" movement, done

That works for me.
Just so you catch up with us BO2 owners...
Tombstone-downed players can choose to die, then come back with their perks intact (bit useless)
Who's who-downed players enter a spirit mode to revive themselves
Electric cherry-electric shock around player when reloading (useless)
Vulture aid-ability to see perks/box/PaP machine through walls (again, pointless)

yeah, theyre all useless XD

I reckon Deadshot should be TL, rather than BS boost

Terrible aren't they?

In game it's a headshot bonus/reduced reticle right? If we were adding TL I'd say Double tap (weight of fire means you're bound to hit something)

Nah, the Deadshot was a head-seeking ADS movement. The same Aimbot you had in the campaign.

I reckon that is more of a TL, due to the fact it 'Aims' for you, more accurate.

but I could see TL from Double Tap, but +1 shot just seems more 'double tap'-y

Very true, I never used DSD and the Custom maps I've seen give it a laser sight instead. We sound like such nerds XD

Surely though if it's 'aiming' for you it makes your aim more accurate, so BS is better?

Could do with SkavenLord or another poster to break is Double Tap deadlock, otherwise you make a pistol assault 2 and a lascannon heavy 2, which screams wrongness

you have a point there, Double tap should be TL, and Deadshot + 1 BS.

Yeah, you saying that makes my realise how stupid it would have been...

I'm a linguist, what can I say? And no, not stupid, just stuck in the world of the rapid fire weapons (5 shot assault cannon though...)

Now we need to de-CoD the names (I think you or someone tried earlier) and sort out PHD Flopper/quick revive/juggernog