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Sorry, don't know what happened to the pics...

A belching dwarf, and a howling abomination!
Posted by CoolMiniOrNot
Hail Survivors!
As we enter the third week of our campaign, we find another stretch goal beaten to the ground. Now all backers will get the exclusive Survivor Bob, including his miniature and ID card!

Coming up next we have one more Survivor by Special Guest Naïade:

If we reach $2,200k all backers will get Thundergut, the mighty dwarf with the mighty belch, created by Special Guest Naïade. Thundergut will come with his miniature and ID card.

But that’s not all we have for you in this update! After unlocking Thundergut we’ll be very close to reaching the total amount achieved by the Zombicide Season 2 Kickstarter campaign, so we want to celebrate that milestone with a very special stretch goal:

If we reach $2,255,018 we will unlock the Abominalpha, a new kind of terrifying Abomination, the lord of the zombie wolves! Besides being a Kickstarter Exclusive, this stretch goal reward will only apply to Knight-level pledges. Backers with Huntsman-level pledges will not get the Abominalpha.

While the Wolf-bomination might be terrifying, the Abominalpha is the true leader of the wolf pack! Its powers extend well beyond its feral strength and speed. At its base, the Abominalpha acts like a Wolf-bomination: requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, giving 5 XP, ignores armor, and has 3 actions per activation. But beyond that, its alpha-presence attracts wolfz from far and wide: As long as the Abominalpha is on the board, all cards that would spawn Runners, spawn Wolfz instead! You’ll better take this white nightmare down quickly, or you’ll have to deal with a lot more wolfz than you can handle.


The Abominalpha is a crossover with Wrath of Kings, a miniature game published by Cool Mini Or Not. This is a new, exclusive sculpt, that will be the perfect leader for the packs of ravenous Zombicide wolfz!
Raise thy Swords!

Heads up. This figure is only at the $150 pledge level, making the $150 level have two exclusives not available at the $100 level. Is this the first time CMON did an exclusive *SG* figure for a higher pledge level?

"While the Wolf-bomination might be terrifying, the Abominalpha is the true leader of the wolf pack! Its powers extend well beyond its feral strength and speed. At its base, the Abominalpha acts like a Wolf-bomination: requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, giving 5 XP, ignores armor, and has 3 actions per activation. But beyond that, its alpha-presence attracts wolfz from far and wide: As long as the Abominalpha is on the board, all cards that would spawn Runners, spawn Wolfz instead! You’ll better take this white nightmare down quickly, or you’ll have to deal with a lot more wolfz than you can handle."

Needs the picture...


I wonder how big it is.

Also, $150 pledges only? Hm.

ced1106 wrote:
Heads up. This figure is only at the $150 pledge level, making the $150 level have two exclusives not available at the $100 level. Is this the first time CMON did an exclusive *SG* figure for a higher pledge level?

There was actually a lot of chatter on the KS comments on how the $150 pledge level wasn't worth it, since the expansion could be bought later, and missing a sinlge exclusive hero didn't matter since they were getting soo many heroes.

People looked a gift horse in the mouth, and left room to insert their own foot.

Now, I'm sure there will be complaining about "having" to get the Knight level.

I just think it's nice they chose to reward those who stick with the Knight level.

Loving all the abominations. They're probably the biggest reason I backed.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Fango wrote:
I think the colored removable base covers became a thing when they went with these plastic dashboards...the little plastic pips that track your skills, etc. are color coded to the base covers so it's easier to tell which model is yours when your turn comes up.

Has nothing to do with the plastic dashboards.

Has everything to do with the movement to a single color for the hero miniatures to maximize the detail achieved.

The designers chimed in on the reasons for going to one color, and it seems the dashboards did have something to do with that decision (17:15 time stamp on the CMON expo video 2/2 posted above). I guess it did have something to do with the dashboards after all...

At the very end of the video, there was a question about providing a solution for stacked sleeved cards...since, if you have sleeved your cards you know they like to slip and slide all over the place. They mentioned they have something in the works...they may announce during this kickstarter, or soon after.

The mention of the 'yet to be revealed, high profile fantasy artist and some reference to New Zealand... Could that be Alan Lee or John Howe? Or some other artist associated with Weta and the Tolkien films? My guess would be John Howe as he has some sort of connection to the old Rackham team since he did a cover for Cry Havoc! magazine.

I'm really liking most of what I see here so far, though the new Alpha exclusive stretch goal just isn't working for me with those goofy hands...dont think it will be enough for me to pledge for the higher expansion tier.

The Wolf-bomination leaves me cold, I'm quite glad because it means that I don't have to raise my pledge to Knight level!

Edward Scissor-hands in wolf form!

Glad they went for that, rather than Edward penis-hands..

 Pacific wrote:
Edward Scissor-hands in wolf form!

Glad they went for that, rather than Edward penis-hands..

Now I'm imagining him eating spaghetti at the family table.

So right now the only 'extras' exclusive to the $150 level are Gowan and the Abominalpha - and that's it?

Yeah, I think so.

The concept art looks pretty sweet, the 3D translation....lost something. The hands are just too big. Stretch goal it is! Cuz no one is gonna want to pay money for that dude (to be fair, the aesthetic is subjective, so saying no one is a bit of a stretch).

I'd been considering dropping to huntsman $100, but I like the wolfbombinalpha, just not sure if I like it enough to stay at $150.

I kinda like the giant claws better. But I'm not sure I like them +$50 better.

Could be they've reached the break point and most new stretch goals will be for the wulfsberg box

Well, post KS we'll be able to get the $50 expansion for...20% off?

So, $40 give or take?

If they add a few more exclusives in at the $150 level - and maybe some additional figures - it would be worth it to stay in - maybe.

Something more to balance out the fact that we're giving them extra money (and GM) now as opposed to 6 months or so from now.

Huh, the wolf-abom is basically the character werewolf from Wrath of Kings



Kind of funny they would sculpt that exact same thing, apparently from basically the same concept art, without mentioning it is a WoK cross over. (Unless they did and I totally missed it.)

Edit; Never mind, I did just totally miss it.

I am with you guys on the dropping to 100.00. I am really hoping for some more spoof heroes to come as well.

I thought they did mention it as a Wrath of Kings crossover.

I don't think the Duke of whatever he was had as long of claws in Wrath of Kings though. Dude needs a pedicure and get those suckers trimmed down a bit.

So I could order this exclusive figure
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/42200/s/cmnwok05007/ for $20, get two bonus figures with him and print the stat card later, not very exclusive.

Yep, that's me staying at $100. That's a pure Rackham legacy werewolf, and as much as I love and admire Rackham, I never did care for their werewolves.

 Theophony wrote:
So I could order this exclusive figure
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/42200/s/cmnwok05007/ for $20, get two bonus figures with him and print the stat card later, not very exclusive.

Having the Wrath of King model it's a decently different sculpt. But it wouldn't be enough to push me to get that level if I didn't want it already.

This may be the first Zombicide kickstarter I dont get all addons for. Some of these guest box's don't really do it for me.

I think the Zombicide version may be bigger. However, I think that the WOK version looks much better.

Abomination : requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, grants 5 XP when killed, it's attacks cannot be blocked by Armor rolls, and it has 1 action per activation.

Wolf-bomination: requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, grants 5 XP when killed, it's attacks cannot be blocked by Armor rolls, and it has 3 actions per activation

Abominotaur : requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, grants 5 XP when killed, it's attacks cannot be blocked by Armor rolls, and it has 1 action per activation.
Each of its powerful gore attacks deal 2 Wounds to its helpless target.
At the start of the activation step of the Zombies' Phase, set the Abominotaur's target Zone before moving it, ignoring closed doors and walls (but not Vault doors and ramparts). If an Abominotaur has to go through a closed door or wall, first put a “broken wall” token to link its starting and destination Zones, and remove any closed door token that might be in the way. The broken wall is considered as an open door, and thus can generate a Zombie spawn in a previously closed building. Actors can now cross the Zones. After that, proceed with moving all the other Zombies (as the Zombies’ route can be redefined by the wall’s destruction).

Ablobination: requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, grants 5 XP when killed, it's attacks cannot be blocked by Armor rolls.
Whenever the Ablobination activates with Line Of Sight to any Survivors at Range 0-1. It will perform an Attack against ALL Zones at Range 0-1 to which it has Line of Sight. Obstacles preventing Movement between Zones (such as tower ramparts) do manage to block the Ablobination's attack.

Abominalpha : requires a Damage 3 weapon (or Dragon Fire) to kill, grants 5 XP when killed, it's attacks cannot be blocked by Armor rolls, and it has 3 actions per activation
As long as the Abominalpha is on the board, all cards that would spawn Runners, spawn Wolfz instead!

 Theophony wrote:
So I could order this exclusive figure
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/42200/s/cmnwok05007/ for $20, get two bonus figures with him and print the stat card later, not very exclusive.

It's a different sculpt.

I know a few Goritsi players that are quite excited for it.


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 Fango wrote:


The designers chimed in on the reasons for going to one color, and it seems the dashboards did have something to do with that decision (17:15 time stamp on the CMON expo video 2/2 posted above). I guess it did have something to do with the dashboards after all...

Not really.

The suvivors in Zombicide unpainted just started to look silly in 100 different colors, and some of them get easily confused with various zombie types.

Having the Heroes all one color makes them a lot easier to keep track of, and probably saves money.

 Alpharius wrote:
Well, post KS we'll be able to get the $50 expansion for...20% off?

So, $40 give or take?

If they add a few more exclusives in at the $150 level - and maybe some additional figures - it would be worth it to stay in - maybe.

Something more to balance out the fact that we're giving them extra money (and GM) now as opposed to 6 months or so from now.

The other thing is for non-US people often have to pay freight as local gaming stores dont stock the products or if they do they are at a huge markup. Its cheaper in the long run especially for aussies to get as much as possible in the KS and only pay a 1 off flat rate of postage.

 adamsouza wrote:
The suvivors in Zombicide unpainted just started to look silly in 100 different colors, and some of them get easily confused with various zombie types.

Having the Heroes all one color makes them a lot easier to keep track of, and probably saves money.

Aye and on top of that, once someone started painting them it became a pointless thing anyway.. I prefer the slightly sharper detail this allows and the coloured rings seem a much better idea.

I'll be sticking with $150 for the moment.. I have a feeling if they see more folks switching down from Knight, we might yet get a couple more bonuses.. and to be fair some other miniature/boardgame kickstarters have had quite large differences on the pledge levels previously, so its not even new ground.

Thiago Aranha - CMON
wrote:But I'm preparing an update with something I mentioned in the CMON Expo panel, if you saw that.

Anyone have any ideas what it could be ?

I haven't had time to sit through the CMON Expo Panel

Thiago Aranha - CMON 3 minutes ago wrote:
Actually, I'm referring to the special guest that made my jaw drop to the floor when I was told he'd be doing a box for Zombicide.

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Thiago also just said rulebook preview pdf should be available tommorrow.