Zombicide Strategy, and General Discussion

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**-iPaint-**

These have actually translated quite well from 2D to 3D. Props to Guillotine Games and CMON for hiring talented sculptors.

~iPaint

**DaveC**

The pledge manager for Season 3 is live

https://ckpm.coolminiornot.com/

Unlike Arcadia Quest they are collecting shipping now - the CKPM has been updated to calculate shipping - they must have enough infor from Arcadia Quest to add it automatically now.

**ced1106**

Wow -- $100 for shipping? AFTER they charge your credit card? Looks like KS is getting worse, not better, for internationals. ): Glad to be a spoiled American, I guess. I don't back overseas projects usually, and it doesn't look like I'll be backing any of them anytime soon.

Just started a tabletop zombie painting tutorial on BGG with the Army Painter stuff: Lemme know any Zombicide forums with new painters. Already posted on ZombiesDash. Thanks!

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1235693/painting-tutorial-zombie-flesh-and-monochrome-army

**cincydooley**

ced1106 wrote:
Wow -- $100 for shipping? AFTER they charge your credit card? Looks like KS is getting worse, not better, for internationals. ): Glad to be a spoiled American, I guess. I don't back overseas projects usually, and it doesn't look like I'll be backing any of them anytime soon.

Just started a tabletop zombie painting tutorial on BGG with the Army Painter stuff: Lemme know any Zombicide forums with new painters. Already posted on ZombiesDash. Thanks!

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1235693/painting-tutorial-zombie-flesh-and-monochrome-army

It's hard to blame anyone shipping internationally. The shipping rates have skyrocketed lately, both into and out of the US. It stinks.

It's one if the reasons I rarely order anything that won't fit in a small mailer from across the pond.

**Sining**

Can we cancel pledges for this? Saw that my shipping was 100usd, which is insane as it is and decided that Nope, so don't want this

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

Why wasn't my shipping out of this world? Do they have a special deal going for Australia/NZ customers?

**cincydooley**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why wasn't my shipping out of this world? Do they have a special deal going for Australia/NZ customers?

Pretty sure they've moved to using a APAC location to ship to APAC locations.

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

That's good then.

Gotto say, I am kinda sad that we won't see this 'til 2015. I really thought it'd be an October/November thing, especially as all the minis are designed and ready to go this time. Ah well. I've still got 45+ survivors, most of which we've never used, so plenty to play with in the meantime.

**adamsouza**

They mentioned it back during the beggining of the kickstarter. Just shipping once saves everyone on shipping fees and saves them a ton of labor.

**Sirius42**

Anyone know when the pledge manager will close?

**adamsouza**

The deadline for submitting and paying for your pledge is the 12th of October.

**ced1106**

ObPlug: If you don't know already, CMON and Micro Arts Studios is currently running a textured bases KS. The Trash bases look good to rebase Zombicide Survivor models, and they're open to other varieties of bases in the Comments.

They clarified that you can select any four sets at the $80 level. Shipping is $8 to USA. Internationals who only want a few bases and want them now may want to go directly to the MAS website.

Once they reach 45K, it's 136 bases for $80.

EDIT: Just added Old Factory and five other sf and fantasy bases to their original four, Graveyard, and Tech:

Spoiler:

**Azazelx**

Okay, so it's time to work this sucker out.

With the $150 pledge you get a bunch of VIP zombies - are any of the ones in the two VIP Zombies boxes different, or do you get all of the sculpts in the $150 S3 base pledge.

The new guest boxes seem to be Paolo, Miguel, Lucio, Edouard and Kovalic - is that right? I have all the previous ones, but I haven't used them yet, they're in semi-storage and not easy to get to.

**adamsouza**

Update #55

Oct 8 2014

Finalise Your Pledges! And a Dork Tower Sneak Peek!

Hi all. The deadline to finalise your pledges is fast approaching! As previously announced, all pledges should be completed and shipment paid for by October the 12th. We want to wrap up this phase well in advance in order to ensure a timely delivery.

If you don't finalise your pledge by the deadline, you may have your items sent after the first wave has shipped. For non-US backers, you may also have your items shipped from the USA hub, which will incur a higher shipping rate and possible extra custom duties.

So please, wrap up your pledge by Monday. If you're having any difficulty, contact our support team at support@cmon.com - the link to the pledge manager is https://ckpm.coolminiornot.com, and you should have received a password in your email to login.

Finally, something cool we'd like to share with you. We've just received the first samples from the John Kovalic Special Guest box, and I must say these came out just fantastic.

My eyes bled. At first I thought it might be Ebola, but then I realized it was those stupid looking miniatures

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

Yeah well they weren't for everyone, and you didn't have to buy them (I certainly didn't). Each to his own.

**cincydooley**

I think they look really great for what they are.

We knew not everyone would be into the Kovalic box, but they're at least, really well executed.

**Low_K**

Has anyone else got an e-mail about some offer for the complete KS contents for €460, as can be read below? I found it suspicious as I already paid my pledge. E-mail address from sender available by PM.

Hello,

I mail you to inform of the release of Season 3 Zombicide in February 2015 (you probably already know ..:-))

On this occasion, I will have the entire Kickstarter exclusive material. So I suggest you book it today because I won’t have for everyone. You are among the first to whom I am making this offer.

For those who do not know all the details of the Kickstarter Season 3, know that it is even more furious than previous times
•1 base game "Rue Morgue" (full, very heavy as usual)
•VIP box Zombies # 1 (Very Infected People, full of additional special zombies with a zombie disguised as a hot dog ...)
•Lost Zombivors box (12 additional special zombies)
•A storage box for dashboards, containing all the promo dashboards released before season 3 including former (exclusive / promotional like Kyoko).
•A set of dice yellow. A set of dice brown. And the small bag for storage.
•A Dice Tower
•The 3D barricades to brighten the playground :-)
•A deck for team play rules
•Others small deck with weapons, spawn, etc.
•Plenty of extra zombies including exclusive sculptures (much like the additional board zombie season 2 except that there were thirty but there are now fifty !! Even killer birds…
•And of course the long-awaited exclusive zombivors + survivors. They are are 20 ! So 40 figures, including the new Mustache Pack # 2 (Barracuda), Jack Bauer, Dr. House, Gordon Ramsay, Leon, Val Kilmer, Stallone, etc. ..

For all of this, I propose 460 € including registered and insured shipping (worth 35 € !!). Possibility to pay in 2 or 3 times.
As you know, figurines typically trade at around 30 € (or + ...). So it is at least 600 € for figurines besides all other stuff estimated not under 200 € (base game, the two special boxes of zombies, the board of 50 + zombies, goodies, etc. .)

As usual, fast shipping from March 2015.

First come first served

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

See you soon

Guillaume.

**adamsouza**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah well they weren't for everyone, and you didn't have to buy them (I certainly didn't). Each to his own.

cincydooley wrote:I think they look really great for what they are.

We knew not everyone would be into the Kovalic box, but they're at least, really well executed.

You are both correct, I was being melodramatic.

They are well sculpted to match the source material. I just really dislike that they included cartoony characters n zombicide, as I feel they will destroy the asthetic when on the board.

I may just be taking it too seriously, but out of the 4 competionist Zombicide players in my group, we all agreed to pretend this set doesn't exist.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Low_K wrote:
Has anyone else got an e-mail about some offer for the complete KS contents for €460, as can be read below? I found it suspicious as I already paid my pledge. E-mail address from sender available by PM.
<Snip>

No, I did not get such an e-mail, and I agree that it is suspicious.

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

adamsouza wrote:
I may just be taking it too seriously, but out of the 4 competionist Zombicide players in my group, we all agreed to pretend this set doesn't exist.

As a completionist myself, I did the same thing, and for pretty much the same reasons.

**Piston Honda**

So, Zombicide was on last night's episode of South Park.

**adamsouza**

They even had painted minitures. Way to go Southpark Crew.

**whalemusic360**

I would buy the hell out of a South Park pack.

**Azazelx**

Oh. Now that's something I'd also be into.

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

Yeah, a South Park pack would be pretty damned cool.

**paulson games**

The only thing better than a South Park pack would be a C00n & Friends South Park pack.* I want to defeat zombies with the refreshing power of mint and berries.

*Spelled C00n as there's apparently some sort of filter block for that word, you guys do know that a c00n / racoon is an actual animal and not always a racial slur? wtf!

**Azazelx**

It's also a type of cheese here, and not a racial slur. Doesn't stop Americans getting bent out of shape when they find out that it's a thing that exists, though. Stand-ups love to use it as a vehicle for how racist Australians are.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Saw this posted at the Miniatures Page: TerraBlock Shopping Mall

If anyone wants to pimp their copy of Zombicide and add 3D elements, this product might be for you. No doors or barricades that I could find though.

**JohnHwangDD**

CMoN is actually shipping Wave 1 of the Zombicide 3 base game box to US backers, 2 months ahead of schedule. That's an impressive feat, given the doom and gloom we see about various KS running late and/or failing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide-season-3/posts/1054559

Of course, this now has various ROW backers griping over how terrible it is that somebody else in the US is getting their stuff first...

**adamsouza**

NIce. I also received my 2 cosplay survivors from that other KS CMON ran.