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 Alpharius wrote:
Is Zombicide the One Zombie game to rule them all?

YES !!

 Alpharius wrote:
Already at $940K with 24 DAYS left to go!

Is Zombicide the One Zombie game to rule them all?

IMO it really is. It's far better than any other zombie game I've ever played.

ced1106 wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
So, my Mrs was intrigued by this and I'm now tempted to back. How's the game play? What about previous seasons?

Wonder what CMON thinks BDSM play is. Building treehouses, I suppose.

Anyway, the game's a good entry-level game for casual players. I'd say the only previous season you should have is the first season base game, because you don't have to wait a year for it, you can try it out and see if you like Zombicide before the Z3 KS ends, and it's thematically where a zombie series would start (post-apocalyptic urban vs. hospital). At $60-$70 online, it's not as good a deal as Z3, however.

Thanks gents. Think I'll take a punt at this and get season 1 from amazon for £55. Now, to see if I can get Simon pegg and nick frost promos for the mrs as she's a big fan of the film...

Zombicide is so good because it manage to get into the hype of zombies at the precise right moment, and it combines that hype with a really easy-to-learn and fast-paced co-op game.

Zombicide is not the ultimate boardgame, but they timed the launch beautifully and are pretty much alone to take advantage of the current pop-culture surrounding zombies.

Personally, I love Zombicide, and have a ton of fun playing it with my casual friends. And it got me into the traditional boardgaming again.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Already at $940K with 24 DAYS left to go!

Is Zombicide the One Zombie game to rule them all?

IMO it really is. It's far better than any other zombie game I've ever played.

Ease of access and simplicity of the ruleset have made it a 'gateway' boardgame for a lot of folks outside the normal target audience. I've dragged in loads of folks who saw us play one night, then wanted to play the next.

Helps that you can still play it after a few cold ones, I might add.

 Alpharius wrote:
Already at $940K with 24 DAYS left to go!

Is Zombicide the One Zombie game to rule them all?

Based on observations it is.

There is only one other zombie board game that I can compare it to in terms of fun factor and that is Zombies!!!. The rules are pretty poorly written unfortunately on a number of expansions.

Last night on earth was a big meh outside of one scenario.

Zombie Panic was a horrible experience. Very horrible.

I would like to see Zombicide go the route of a more detailed RPG with the use of miniatures and game boards. Simple enough to give it that zombicide feel, but more complex than the semi RPG feel it's got right now.

I still want to try that other zombie boardgame that was on KS sometime ago. Zpocalypse I think?

It's sitting somewhere around here.

One of the biggest draws outside of people able to learn in about 10 minutes is all the pop culture characters they can use. I would love for GG make some historical figures just for the hell of it. Al Capone with a Tommy gun

It's also one of the few board games I can say has had north of 100 plays.

I backed the Zpocalypse Season 1 Kickstarter. Opened the boxes, closed them back up and put them up for sale on Ebay. and sold it for enough to pay for my Zombicide Season 2.

Zpocalyspe is more absrtact, simiulating days/weeks/months and the figures are just hideous.

Nice dice though, available sepereately, I use them for Zombicide. Has dice for shooting with bullets for pips, and melee dice with blood splatter for pips.

 Alpharius wrote:
Already at $940K with 24 DAYS left to go!

Is Zombicide the One Zombie game to rule them all?

It's definitely A zombie game, and one of the more popular ones, but I'm not sure it's THE zombie game, as a lot of people still prefer LNOE and other titles. I enjoy Zombicide on its own, but I really want to start doing some All Things Zombie stuff with the miniatures (and that's why I keep pledging, the models are just cheap enough and of a high enough quality that I think I'd be dumb to pass on them).

~iPaint

 adamsouza wrote:

Harry Potter??? Is that you?

So which of the KS exclusives must I pay for?

Want to make sure I get them highlighted so I don't forget to buy them and be forever fahked.

Right now it's just bbt dude for $10 and the two guest boxes for $20 per for a total of $50. The guest boxes will be available after, if you hit the upper limits of what you wanna drop in one shot.

Edit, reread your post. Just the bbt guy right now, $10.

 Piston Honda wrote:
So which of the KS exclusives must I pay for?

Want to make sure I get them highlighted so I don't forget to buy them and be forever fahked.

That's it so far

 paulson games wrote:
The game isn't exactly kid friendly, as it's awash in violence, blood, and some other fairly graphic imagery. A possible text reference to sex? OMG we certainly can't have that. Get back to thoughts of human corpses being brained with blunt objects, burned with fire, faces and heads blown apart with gunfire, all the stuff properly suited for the kiddies.

I don't know about the KS comments, but my only objection to her being called a dominatrix is that she looks nothing like one. And "objection" would be taking it too far as well. Like I said, the back stories are easily disregarded, and doing so is actually necessary when using any/all of the pop culture characters as their "inspirations".


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Bossk_Hogg wrote:

Really she's a booth babe at some hardware show or a thematic stripper. That's the sexy construction worker Halloween costume, not an actual construction worker. The shirtless boobs out overalls are some fanservice right there lol.

You're right - but that's Paolo for ya!

She reminds me of Heidi from Home Improvement.

Bunch of people are suggesting repair ladies, mechanics, and one good one for the host of a home renovation show.

And yeah, I don't think anyone has a problem with a dominatrix-inspired characters, it's just that we'd like the character to at least fit with that image. The current one does not. The general response from everyone wasn't "OMG! How dare you make a dominatrix!" but more "Oh... is that what she's meant to be?".

 zedmeister wrote:
Thanks gents. Think I'll take a punt at this and get season 1 from amazon for £55. Now, to see if I can get Simon pegg and nick frost promos for the mrs as she's a big fan of the film...

You get the promo cards free in S3 (but not the miniatures) so can proxy any promo figures (though not the zombivore?) if the secondary market is too expensive.

Zombiesdash proxy thread: http://www.zombiesdash.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=37

Fred and Chuck (so you can print and play the promos while waiting for Z3 to arrive!) : http://zombicide.com/en/promo-survivors

Have fun!

Would there be any point in getting in on the KS and selling the exclusives to fund as much as possible of the cost?

Some of the Season 2 exclusives are on ebay for £30 ($50) each, so it's worth a shot. Someone is even trying to sell an empty box.

Of course if you have a spare grand and want it all...

Mymearan wrote:
Would there be any point in getting in on the KS and selling the exclusives to fund as much as possible of the cost?

I don't think so anymore. It would obviously make sense in KS1 (oh my, I wonder what I shall do with all my NIB boxes with KS1 exclusive survivors...) but now with KS3 being so hyped, the market will be saturated with survivors. We saw it happen with KS2, and surely will happen even more so with KS3.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Of course if you have a spare grand and want it all...

That's all of the S2 kickstarter content. It's still missing the S1 exclusives, which would set you back another large chunk of change if you're an utter completionist

If you're in Europe it's probably going to be a lot harder to sell at 'peak' value which tends to be just as things are starting to ship because the European stuff tends to arrive after the USA with CMON projects (even when they are trying to get it out at the same time)

that said picking up a few LE that you might want to keep can't hurt as you're reasonably certain to at least get your money back

spending a lot of extra cash in the hope you can sell it and so pay for everything is risky (less of a gamble with zombicide, but still a gamble)

The LE ones that will be worth more are the ones that are restricted to one per set (the free ones). The other LEs are worth a bit more then retail, but not mind shatteringly so. For example I have a spare Fred (Simon Pegg) because I overpledged by $10 last time. He sells for around $25 now. A nib El Cholo goes for $150, enough that China has started producing copies.

Apparently this is just a deck of cards that have pictures of all the characters on. You randomly build your team by drawing three cards. I suppose it's also easier to shuffle and pick one character randomly using these than the dashboard cards.

Wow... I'm starting to wish I hadn't popped open and primed all my LE models from the first run. Ah well.

So can anyone give me a rundown on these "guest" models... I saw the box in store but no shot of the miniature inside. Are they any good - are they worth picking up?

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

So can anyone give me a rundown on these "guest" models... I saw the box in store but no shot of the miniature inside. Are they any good - are they worth picking up?

The Guest models are really nicely done and look just like the artwork on the boxes. The Adrian Smith box has possibly one of the meanest close combat characters ever... Padre Johnson adds 2 damage to all CC weapons and eats Abominations for breakfast. I'm really happy with the original three sets

My least favourite character was Uncle Honk the clown

but when he's painted up, he looks fantastic. I would say they are slightly better sculpts than the main ones too.

Uncle Honk comes with Mitch


There are lots of pictures of the cards and characters over on boardgame geek here, here and here

 endtransmission wrote:


Apparently this is just a deck of cards that have pictures of all the characters on. You randomly build your team by drawing three cards. I suppose it's also easier to shuffle and pick one character randomly using these than the dashboard cards.

Kind of under whelming for the $1million goal. Though throw in some of those plastic stands and you have basic proxies for all of the survivors to use with the dash boards from the first SG.

I like it. It's a good free gift for the backers. The Zcide would have reached $1M+ even without a single stretch-goal.

I actually really like this goal. It will get used quite regularly in my group, as we do random survivors and the giant stack of dashboards is hard to shuffle, and are double sided, so its hard to get a blind draw.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I actually really like this goal, it will get used quite regularly in my group, as we do random survivors and the giant stack of dashboards is hard to shuffle, and are double sided, so its hard to get a blind draw.

I really do, too.

Simple add on, but will make doing random selection just that much easier.