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 Vermonter wrote:
The next add-on is up, and it's very . . . creative?

Spoiler:

I don't know what to think about this one yet, honestly.

I'll take it over Dork Tower minis from a few KS's ago any day.

Hmmm...they'd make some great alternate Harlequins for 40K, don't you think?

Funny Thing, they reminded me too of 40K Harlequins...

I like them.

 Vermonter wrote:
The next add-on is up, and it's very . . . creative?



I don't know what to think about this one yet, honestly.

I think the way that the Kabuki gang looks so out of place reinforces just how dull the setting for this game is. Had they gone for more of a cyberpunk, future city setting, they could have featured all kinds of weird and wonderful gangs. As it is, I like what they’re doing, but I don’t love it. I haven’t yet decided if I like it enough to give them any money.

And yet y'all gonna keep on a'posting...

Anyway, I confirmed with CMON that they will be selling the Invader tiles after the KS.

So I can skip this one. Some of the minis are nice, especially the bigger aliens.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And yet y'all gonna keep on a'posting...

Anyway, I confirmed with CMON that they will be selling the Invader tiles after the KS.

So I can skip this one. Some of the minis are nice, especially the bigger aliens.

I am excited about this one. So far I've liked just about everything... except the first Abomination. That thing is just awful.

I'm so close to backing. I want to see what else unlocks but I'm almost there.

 -Loki- wrote:
I'm so close to backing. I want to see what else unlocks but I'm almost there.

Same here!

Just need a bit more of that infamous "Value" and I'll be in...

 draugadan wrote:
I am excited about this one. So far I've liked just about everything... except the first Abomination. That thing is just awful.

The first Abom is pretty awful, but I like a lot of the stretch goals and the Black Ops guys.

I just don't need another Zombicide game. I've got the first 3 seasons and we haven't even touched the third season yet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 draugadan wrote:
I am excited about this one. So far I've liked just about everything... except the first Abomination. That thing is just awful.

The first Abom is pretty awful, but I like a lot of the stretch goals and the Black Ops guys.

I just don't need another Zombicide game. I've got the first 3 seasons and we haven't even touched the third season yet.

I have most of the original Zombicide materials, and a friend has what I am missing (noisy neighbors, and ... one next to it). I am not into Fantasy so much, so I never bought or played the Fantasy Zombicide. So, leaves me room to be excited about this one.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And yet y'all gonna keep on a'posting...

Anyway, I confirmed with CMON that they will be selling the Invader tiles after the KS.

So I can skip this one. Some of the minis are nice, especially the bigger aliens.

I don’t do KS’s any more, RRT helped burn me of that habit.

However, will still consider picking up the game and maybe the Kabuki gang once it hits retail. I did participate in the first few Zombicide KS’s and they were always good value and fun. ITs just KS is a platform I no longer trust nor wish to deal with, no matter how good the product.

 Mysterio wrote:
I rather like it - mini (render) looks better than the art too.

I feel the same way. The art doesn't catch Emily Blunt and the mini looks better. Feel it needs the leg exo-skeleton parts though.

 Stormonu wrote:


However, will still consider picking up the game and maybe the Kabuki gang once it hits retail. I did participate in the first few Zombicide KS’s and they were always good value and fun. ITs just KS is a platform I no longer trust nor wish to deal with, no matter how good the product.

Only issue with that is the Kabuki gang won't be hitting retail.

I'd say of all the companies that play the Kickstarter game, CMON is probably one of the safest ones to deal with at this point. While there's always hiccups and issues, in my own experience CMON has dealt with all that relatively quickly.

and we have a type 2 xeno looks like types are based on the sets they come with. Type 3s are probably in the 2nd expansion

Type 1 - base game (and seekers)
Type 2 - Black Ops
Type 3 = ???
Type 4 = SG Abombs
TYpe 5 - Xenomoths.



Oh and Soldier pledges will get extra

@Greg: Not 100% sure yet. There will probably be a few treats just for Soldier pledges.

Apr 18 2018 on Zombicide: Invader[spoiler]

 DaveC wrote:
and we have a type 2 xeno looks like types are based on the sets they come with. Type 3s are probably in the 2nd expansion

Type 1 - base game (and seekers)
Type 2 - Black Ops
Type 3 = ???
Type 4 = SG Abombs
TYpe 5 - Xenomoths.



Oh and Soldier pledges will get extra

@Greg: Not 100% sure yet. There will probably be a few treats just for Soldier pledges.

Apr 18 2018 on Zombicide: Invader[spoiler]

Dave- the juggernaut is growing on me. Starting to like him.

 Stormonu wrote:
The mantas do look pretty good. Is that inspired by something from Dead Space?

They remind me a lot of Raging Heroes' TGG2 Stingrays:
https://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/the-tgg2/products/stingrays-tr-ve-sf

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 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:


However, will still consider picking up the game and maybe the Kabuki gang once it hits retail. I did participate in the first few Zombicide KS’s and they were always good value and fun. ITs just KS is a platform I no longer trust nor wish to deal with, no matter how good the product.

Only issue with that is the Kabuki gang won't be hitting retail.

I'd say of all the companies that play the Kickstarter game, CMON is probably one of the safest ones to deal with at this point. While there's always hiccups and issues, in my own experience CMON has dealt with all that relatively quickly.

Sorry, I would expect I’d have to e-bay the Kabukis. I do agree with CMON being great KS partners. If they had been the only ones I had done KS’s with, I’d still probably be doing KS. Unfortunately, the risk of KS (and their inability to enforce/do anything when things go sideways) isn’t for me and with the general wait anyways (with the obligatory time delays), I’m better off just picking up what I need once it actual is available. Yeah, I miss out on some great items, but again, the platform, for me, is no longer worth the risk.

Sorry to rant, I’ll try to steer clear of the general KS subject in the future.

I think you don't get the appeal of Kickstarter. Kickstarter is like a feeder bar that you can push when you want a treat, but unlike those other, boring feeder bars Kickstarter doesn't always give us a treat. Sometimes nothing happens. And to make it even worse, we have to wait in a period of uncertainty before we find out if the random feeder bar will deliver the treat. The answer isn't to walk away and look for a lesser feeder bar, but to mash this sucker as hard and often as possible to ensure a near-constant if unreliable delivery of treats. That's what makes lab rats happy, and it can work for you, too.

However, with CMON it seems like the random element occurs before you push the feeder bar.

A look at the Black Ops expansion:

I like the black op expansion a lot .
With only minor conversion work you can get a perfect Xenos INQ retinue or a Rogue Trader landing party.

Very cool... and that first sentry gun could seamlessly slip into an AdMech army.

That is one of the main problems, they consciously or unconsciously designed them to fit to 40k, like Hate is essentially chaos marauders.

Trenchcoats (that don't quite fit) over power armour = pretty odd looking

I guess their Mum told them to wrap up warm before going out to play with the Zombaliens

I really like the black ops guys. Will those be available at retail?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I think you don't get the appeal of Kickstarter. Kickstarter is like a feeder bar that you can push when you want a treat, but unlike those other, boring feeder bars Kickstarter doesn't always give us a treat. Sometimes nothing happens. And to make it even worse, we have to wait in a period of uncertainty before we find out if the random feeder bar will deliver the treat. The answer isn't to walk away and look for a lesser feeder bar, but to mash this sucker as hard and often as possible to ensure a near-constant if unreliable delivery of treats. That's what makes lab rats happy, and it can work for you, too.

However, with CMON it seems like the random element occurs before you push the feeder bar.

LMAO !! A brilliant observation and the laugh I needed this morning !!
Off to push that feeder bar (but not on Zombicide). Core Space PM closes today.

Erren wrote:
I really like the black ops guys. Will those be available at retail?

Yes the expansions including Black Ops will be available at retail

Friends and Foes the Green Horde equivalent is $50 MSRP but can be got for $34 which is why Black Ops on KS isn’t good value yet.

Can we call it Blops?

Doors in Zombicide: Invader are not handled the same way as in previous Zombicide games. Since it is your base that's being invaded, initially all doors are open (unless otherwise required by a mission), which means there are no door tokens on the board, only openings on the tiles. Survivors can decide to close a door next to them, placing a Closed Door on an opening. They can also open them again by simply removing the Closed Door. However, when Xenos try to move past a Closed Door, they bust it open and it becomes a Destroyed Door. Such doors are permanently open and cannot be closed again.

Not bad but I have more sci-fi doors from Sedition Wars (3 sets) and Star Saga than I’ll ever need (plus they look better than these IMO) enough even to create a few destroyed ones where necessary.


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first Soldier pledge only SG adds value now







But first

I like it when they don't pose minis like single mold metal miniatures from 1998.

She must have learned to fight in the famous Ork battle school "One Arm Up, One Arm Down".

Survivors can decide to close a door next to them

Good luck with that hull breach, then.

Should be a good value for new Z players and backers who like the sculpts, but <cynical> seems like they're earlier than BP moving the free SG's from the lower level to the higher one </cynical>.

Myself, I really with the "bug" sculpts were the main ones. Who knows -- maybe the could be in another sf Zombicide...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I like it when they don't pose minis like single mold metal miniatures from 1998.

She must have learned to fight in the famous Ork battle school "One Arm Up, One Arm Down".

She’s just trying to teach the dancing workers some of those cool disco moves she picked up on earth.