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**cincydooley**

But does it even matter if the numbers are there?

**DaveC**

Yes it does to me and apparrently a lot of other people feel the same judging by recent comments. If nothing else it shows a lack of quality control and checking for the issue to happen on every card. Are they useable yes are they as user friendly as they should be no. The grid is still there but it's a lot more difficult to use you have to count along the grids rather than say go straight from 5 to 10, the yellow zone is very difficult to pick out individual sections without the numbers

**cincydooley**

Heh, I actually kinda like them better without the numbers.....

**-iPaint-**

Yeah, I wasn't too pleased to hear about the production error. Really, the entire kill tracking would have been better with something that didn't involve sliding a component across a card that also had a bunch of item cards sitting on top of it.

I wonder if it will be possible to print directly onto the cards at say, Kinkos?

I think backers are less concerned with the cards' usability, and more concerned that CMON/GG basically said "screw it, we aren't gonna bother fixing it." Wonder if they'd have said the same thing if say, for instance, character names were missing, or skills were left off, or the wrong character art was used.

Needless to say, it's really disappointing and a bit unacceptable for the order of magnitude they screwed up (basically, all KS exclusive promos had the error).

~iPaint

**Piston Honda**

cincydooley wrote:
But does it even matter if the numbers are there?

I have god awful eye sight, I'm legally blind, I have to use a magnifying attachment just to read off of my computer.

The number mean a lot.

Being able to count 8 plus 4 is easier than sticking my nose into the character sheet and failing to count the little boxes.

That or I can get the cute little ginger that joined our game group box to count them for me.

**H.B.M.C.**

Yay! More DramaDrama! Just what every KS needs.

**Slinky**

There's always the option of writing them on with a pen?

**cincydooley**

Piston Honda wrote:
cincydooley wrote:
But does it even matter if the numbers are there?

I have god awful eye sight, I'm legally blind, I have to use a magnifying attachment just to read off of my computer.

The number mean a lot.

Being able to count 8 plus 4 is easier than sticking my nose into the character sheet and failing to count the little boxes.

That or I can get the cute little ginger that joined our game group box to count them for me.

I had not considered this as a problem. That makes a lot of sense, actually.

Duly noted!

**Cyporiean**

For those of you who are not already aware, the dashboards on the wave 2 exclusive characters are missing the numbers printed on to the alert tracker. Unfortunately, since the design team normally doesn't use the numbers when playing the game (and instead advancing the trackers in steps), these were missed in proofing and production on our end and only noticed by those of you who do actually find the numbers a necessary part of your gameplay.

If you have taken the time to let us know your thoughts on this matter, we thank you for your feedback, as well as those backers who’ve written to us over the past year about feeling left out due to missing Season 1.

It’s no big secret that we will be launching Season 3 of Zombicide soon, sometime in Q2. As a way of expressing our apologies for the inconvenience having to use the dashboards with the missing numbers, we will be providing backers that backed both Season 2 and Season 3 with a $10 credit to be applied to any Season 3 optional items in the CoolMiniOrNot pledge manager; this will happen automatically if you use the same email address on S3 as you did S2 - if not CoolMiniorNot will be able to link your accounts after the S3 campaign is complete.

We will also be providing free dashboards for all season 1 and season 2 promos and exclusives to any backer of Season 3 with necessary updates and amendments made (if any), so as to include those of you who missed season 1 or any of the optional exclusives (which you can then proxy other models for). This will also have the added benefit of being inclusive to new backers who want to join us in the world of Zombicide so they aren't left out of any gameplay. In the meantime, high resolution files of these dashboards will be available at http://zombicide.com for your own print and play.

Thank you for your continued support, and stay tuned for the Season 3 announcement!

- Percy

CEO Guillotine Games

TLDR: Back Season 3 and you'll get the dashboards for all S1 & S2 promos, if you were a S2 Backer your pledge manager will feature a $10 credit when you manage S3.

**cincydooley**

NINJA'd by the quickest draw in the land, Cyp!

So Obviously there are a ton of people still unhappy about this, but it's a fix of sorts.

If any of you don't want to back Season 3 but want the player boards with the numbers, I'll gladly send them to you.

**DaveC**

It'll do for me something like this wouldn't stop me backing season 3 and 1 of the promos will effectively be free it's a sort of guaranteed EB for season 2 backers.

**cincydooley**

I see it as "free additional promo"

**Cyporiean**

cincydooley wrote:
NINJA'd by the quickest draw in the land, Cyp!

What can I say, I love Zombicide.

Extra free promo sounds great to me!

**DarkTraveler777**

If this game is still around in a few years those numberless dashboards might fetch a nice amount as collector pieces. Or they'll be useless cardboard. But, you never know!

**timetowaste85**

I'll be happy to get the Season 1 promo character cards in addition to the S2&3 stuff. Works for me!

**Piston Honda**

I hope they offer the Season 1 promo character cards for sale as mine are getting beat up. That's the real problem with the LEs, you can't replace them.

I will only be backing season 3 as my group enjoys the game so much. It will give the game more variety.

I hope in season 3 they make some sort of detailed "campaign" system.

**Smacks**

-iPaint- wrote:
The entire kill tracking would have been better with something that didn't involve sliding a component across a card that also had a bunch of item cards sitting on top of it.

Yeah I found that annoying too, especially with slippy card sleeves. I usually just give everyone a pencil and some scrap-paper to tally off their kills.

**cincydooley**

My wave 2 came today. I have so many survivors now. It's a little ridiculous.

**DarkTraveler777**

cincydooley wrote:
My wave 2 came today. I have so many survivors now. It's a little ridiculous.

I am sure there are some on here who would love to help you out with your problem.

**timetowaste85**

They're being mailed out now? Awesome, mine could come today then!!

**H.B.M.C.**

Are we getting shipping notices?

**CptJake**

I got one here in the US. FEDEX Smart Post. FEDEX dropped to off to the Post Office yesterday. I should get it delivered tomorrow or Tuesday.

I'm not sure how the international shipping is handled.

**larva_uk**

cincydooley wrote:
My wave 2 came today. I have so many survivors now. It's a little ridiculous.

I feel your pain.

My wave 2 ones will be staying in their box for a while when they arrive. Don't really need them.

**Azazelx**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Are we getting shipping notices?

Mine came at the end of last week. All there this time. No shipping notice.

**Cyporiean**

Just got a shipping notice, says it'll be here tomorrow.

**H.B.M.C.**

Can't be far off then. I'll check on Wednesday.

**Joyboozer**

I got mine today, no notice.

**Bellygrub**

Got my tracking number this morning and it says it's being delivered today.

That's a little better then usual for CMON. I normally get my number two weeks after my shipment has arrived.

**Cyporiean**

Got my stuff.

**Popobates**

For those in the US that have received theirs, has it been delivered by FedEx or is it coming with the normal mailman?