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They need a new male zombie kit, the current one is not as good as the other three.

So they're just making a new rulebook to go with their miniature line? Cool.

Hopefully the rules can bought without having to buy more of those plastics then.

 DaveC wrote:
Interesting that Warlord games choose today to announce their Zombie tabletop skirmish game Project Z which will use the Wargames factory Zombies and Survivor kits.

The license alone will carry TWD but now they have competition that will beat them to the market and use HIPS miniatures.

That's pretty awesome. Those kits are great.

And it means we'll get the bikers and the military set (which I have not seen yet.)

I approve!

 CptJake wrote:
And it means we'll get the bikers and the military set (which I have not seen yet.)

I approve!

Just read that, awesome!

Retail release of a game by a company that makes great games and has a great HIPs miniature line with sprues packed full of goodies is much more appealing than yet another Mantic KS "adventure".

Again the male zombies...found wanting.

WGF is making bikers and army dudes?

 GrimDork wrote:
Again the male zombies...found wanting.

WGF is making bikers and army dudes?

Yup, bikers and army dudes.

I already have a couple dozen each of the men and women left over from other projects, and a gakton of zambies, will just need the rules!

I just saw the news update, fairly excited myself.

Mantic seems to have really poor timing... There's almost always a nearly identical product coming out from another company when they run a Kickstarter. Well, maybe not nearly always..but more than once.

For me, these things are not mutually exclusive... I probably have enough warganes factory stuff to play their game so just rules and two new kits. And a month after TWD funds so not even totally simultaneous.

Even more call to skip zombicide for now.

I wouldn't skip Zombicide if you have an interest in it. Co-op board game gives a very different play experience to a competitive skirmish wargame.

If you're gonna skip one, I'd suggest skipping TWD or Project Z, as they seem the most similar.

I vastly prefer proper tabletop and dislike zombicide samey zombies though. I've got next to 100 dz/warpath zombies so volume isn't an issue. If I get to a place where I can actually play with regularity I would reconsider zombicide.

Yeah, Zombicide is kind of a different thing if nothing else because it is cooperative.

The Project Z figures probably will have some crossover potential with Warlord's Terminator game. The non-zombies, at least, could probably work as Terminator resistance fighters.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
I wouldn't skip Zombicide if you have an interest in it. Co-op board game gives a very different play experience to a competitive skirmish wargame.

If you're looking for a co-op board game rather than wargame, Dead of Winter is much better than Zombicide (if only the game had miniatures rather than standees!).

With the TWD KS I'm going to throw $125 at it and then forget about it.

Mars Attacks already supplied me with a good amount of modern terrain to use, and I'm sure I can get some toy cars or something if they're seriously going with card counters for the game.

Toy cars I'm finding tricky. I think 1/43 is the best scale but those are usually expensive as that seems to be the collector's fancy pants scale.

 GrimDork wrote:
Toy cars I'm finding tricky. I think 1/43 is the best scale but those are usually expensive as that seems to be the collector's fancy pants scale.

I'm hoping that with all these post-apoc games coming out (TWD, PZ, TNT, Wasteman, etc.), someone might start making affordable vehicle wrecks.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Toy cars I'm finding tricky. I think 1/43 is the best scale but those are usually expensive as that seems to be the collector's fancy pants scale.

I'm hoping that with all these post-apoc games coming out (TWD, PZ, TNT, Wasteman, etc.), someone might start making affordable vehicle wrecks.

Armorcast makes a range of pretty affordable options:

http://www.armorcast.com/modern-terrain/wrecked-vehicles

I like intact with detailed undersides. That way they can alternate as dead, flipped wrecks, and potentially working objectives/escape routes.

I still need to grab one of those ~8" diecast school buses too... Those usually aren't bad. Found one of those two section giant city buses for like $10 at Kmart, that ones fun for scenarios.


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Thanks for that armorcast link, I shall have to bookmark it and keep it in mind.

Cool, thanks Polonius!

WalMart usually has a selection of 1:43 cars at about $5-8 bucks a pop, often gas stations and dollar stores have some too. I've bought plenty and never paid all that much for a single one.

 CptJake wrote:
WalMart usually has a selection of 1:43 cars at about $5-8 bucks a pop, often gas stations and dollar stores have some too. I've bought plenty and never paid all that much for a single one.

If you wreck them and use them as terrain, scale can be pretty flexible as well.

@CptJake I have heard this from other sources as well but had little local luck. It may be a localization thing, might not sell well hereabouts and thusly are not stocked as often. Or something, I can find bigger and smaller but rarely right inside that 'credit card trick window'. They did have a nice semi truck with working trailer that must have been within a hair of 1/43 but it was still kinda pricey.


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I have 4 wrecks from Mars Attacks, I need some intacts to fill out my board as objectives and escapes

A lot of the Disney 'Cars' cars are 1:43 and I've seen some really good re-paints/mods done to them,and again, you can find them on sale at WalMart and similar stores pretty cheaply too.

I just trawled Amazon again. Found a few better options in the $7 dollar range. I haven't hit the order button yet but in my cart sits the WGF regular zombies box (not as good as the other kits but still fine I'm sure), a 5" dodge police truck, fire department ambulance, 8" school bus, USPS and Ice cream trucks. All for around 60 bucks which will be taken care of by a giftcard I've had languishing for ages. Could buy zombicide instead, but 5 metal scenery bits and 30 pose-able zombies is a nice alternative.

I think it will balance out well enough with the 6 cars and 1 SUV from my Mars Attacks collection...

Damn synergistic zombie games and enthusiasm...


I've seen the "Cars" cars and wondered if the eyes were raised or flat. Sounds like maybe flat.

 scarletsquig wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
I wouldn't skip Zombicide if you have an interest in it. Co-op board game gives a very different play experience to a competitive skirmish wargame.

If you're looking for a co-op board game rather than wargame, Dead of Winter is much better than Zombicide (if only the game had miniatures rather than standees!).

With the TWD KS I'm going to throw $125 at it and then forget about it.

Mars Attacks already supplied me with a good amount of modern terrain to use, and I'm sure I can get some toy cars or something if they're seriously going with card counters for the game.

I love DEAD OF WINTER but in no way does that game 'need' miniatures - I'd say they'd be wasted in that game.

Also, DEAD OF WINTER also has a decidedly NOT co-op thing going on...most of the time!

I do find WARLORD's timing on this one...curiously amusing!

 GrimDork wrote:
I just trawled Amazon again. Found a few better options in the $7 dollar range. I haven't hit the order button yet but in my cart sits the WGF regular zombies box (not as good as the other kits but still fine I'm sure)

They really aren't that good. If you haven't pulled the trigger yet, I wouldn't.

~Eric

Ehh, too late. Thanks for the warning, I do know they're not as good as the sets that followed. For 66 cents a pop, I think they'll be fine. I'll use them as corpses if I have to.

 GrimDork wrote:
Again the male zombies...found wanting.

WGF is making bikers and army dudes?

There are new male zombie sculpts.

What. I must have missed this. You have a link? My search-fu isn't working out today.

 GrimDork wrote:
What. I must have missed this.

You can see 'em in Warlord's announcement in the background of some of the pics.
Unreleased, just as the biker gang and US military.

Ahh... well. That's cool. I'll have to get those too probably

 GrimDork wrote:
Ahh... well. That's cool. I'll have to get those too probably

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