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game alone up for preorder (£30) with a bonus 10 zombies extra



http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/project-z/products/project-z-the-zombie-miniatures-game?utm_source=Warlord+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1c56e952a9-Project_Z_main_game_preorder3_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b7e928b4ed-1c56e952a9-132759677&mc_cid=1c56e952a9&mc_eid=8b9a185b96

Jumped on it when I got the mail this morning. $55 shipped for 49 hard plastic figs including 2 bikes is worth it even if the game never hits the table.

 MLaw wrote:
If Warlord can survive those horrible Judge Dredd sculpts, the insane Antares pricing, and out of scale plastic terrain, I really don't think this one will do them in either.

you could replace "Warlord" with "Games Workshop", "Privateer Press", "Corvus Belli", "Mantic", etc, who all release horrible sculpts and insane pricing, yet are all still quite in business.

For what it's worth though, I love the Judge Dredd sculpts, but I'm a huge fan of 2000AD so they fit right in. But I'm sure someone, somewhere, also has bought Space Wolves Wolfen Murderpack because they're blind or something.

Triple9 wrote:
Jumped on it when I got the mail this morning. $55 shipped for 49 hard plastic figs including 2 bikes is worth it even if the game never hits the table.

Passing on this but the deal is decent. Glad they clarified how many bikes are in the biker gang set.

Nice one I have a £10 discount code that's valid until 31st March so I managed to pick it up for £25 (inc shipping)

and 25 pounds is like 1 GW character

That's a really good deal (especially as I happen to have a £20 Warlord voucher lying about! )

Will no doubt use the minis for This is not a Test if the game itself turns out to be a bit lightweight.

I'd be more tempted if I knew the "10 bonus zombies" were going to be the new male sprue, but the pic on the website is for the vixen's of which I've already got the old WGF box of 30 it's a pass for me unless anyone can see something I missed.

After looking at the sprue options, I really like their moderns, at least in terms of the assortment. Though after being displeased with Warlord's plastic Romans, I am hesitant to buy too many more of their models. I guess I'll have to see some good comparisons after they come out.

There is a feature on the Moderns kit in the new Warlord Illustrated mag, they look pretty versatile (despite their posing looking pretty stilted).

Looking forward to mixing them up with other kits, if nothing else they should be a good source of modern tech and weapons.

Yeah, despite it being called "Spec Ops" they will ideally make regular American troops based on the uniforms and the armor, but you'd get passable Brits out of it, and a reasonable facsimile of Russian troops. And certainly be able to get "Survivalists" out of it.

My only gripe was the apparent lack of a SAW, which would be necessary for somebody wanting to make National Guard troops which would be the most appropriate for a zombie style scenario.. Also, no M203s (instead using the newer H&K-made M320).

I love spending enough to qualify for free shipping (£50 at WLG) but I only want the zombie game & to try their strong shade ink. Don't want anything else & they're only pre-selling the game. Would have probably gone for a set of bikers & female survivors. :(
Oh well.

The War Store has the zombie hoard up for preorder $20



http://www.thewarstore.com/warlord-project-z.html

Looks like all the survivor sets are now $20 for 10

Biker Gang $32

http://www.thewarstore.com/product105815.html

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Looks like all the survivor sets are now $20 for 10

Biker Gang $32

That price jump over WGF is insane. This is exactly what I was afraid of when the Warlord takeover announcement hit. So glad I went ahead and bought the 30-figure boxes.

Have the re-released the WGF skeleton sprue yet?

Warlord Games didn't "take over" Wargames Factory. They are the exclusive distributor for them. If I was to make an intelligent guess any of the price rises are because Wargames Factory weren't making a good enough return on their investment. Remember they were run by an incompetent team for much of their history.

 RobertsMinis wrote:
Warlord Games didn't "take over" Wargames Factory. They are the exclusive distributor for them. If I was to make an intelligent guess any of the price rises are because Wargames Factory weren't making a good enough return on their investment. Remember they were run by an incompetent team for much of their history.

Wargames Factory was an American company run by the highly incompetent (and also rather underhanded and villainous) Tony Reidy, contracting to a Chinese plastics manufacturing company. After running up huge debts with the Chinese company, the Chinese company took over. They retained the Wargames Factory branding, but hired new sculptors and began producing better product than ever before, and taking on contracts for other companies. This was a renaissance of sorts for WGF, as they stopped making the smaller sized sprues with softly rendered models, and began doing high quality multi-model full sprues such as the War of Spanish Succession artillery kit, female zombies, survivors, American War of Independence infantry kits, and so on. With the new ownership and new quality levels came new contract offers. So Wargames Factory had their own branding, along with producing the plastics for Dreamforge, Malifaux, Kingdom Death, Wild West Exodus, etc. Wargames Factory decided to get out out of the distributing business, and put up all the WGF branded molds for sale. Warlord Games bought the majority of them (but did not for others like WGF's 15mm and 28mm WW2 stuff). Warlord "owns" the designs and the tools, but they still reside at WGF in China. This is the Warlord-WGF Partnership. However, the cost, of course, for these tools (and the retooling done) is pretty high, and now instead of WGF being the distributor for their own models (and you getting 30 models for $25 MSRP), they are manufacturing them for Warlord who is now paying for the debt of those molds as well as manufacturing and shipping to the UK for distribution. So, yup, in many instances the retooled items are going to cost a lot more ($20 for a sprue of ten models and a sprue of weapons) - in other cases, such as the American War of Independence models, there was little to no price change as there was little to no retooling (previously three sprues of 30 models total for $25, now three sprues of 30 models total + painting guide and flags for $29).

I still find the new price to be infact a fair price.

Hrm, no place to pre-order the spec ops yet?

So people got their preorders now. One question is they released the rules to play but not really. You have no stats or weapon profiles. Is that anle to be posted?

I would be more interested in hearing about the campaign system, and how it stacks up against some of the other recent skirmish-level games that have popped up.

- H8

Hatemonger wrote:
I would be more interested in hearing about the campaign system, and how it stacks up against some of the other recent skirmish-level games that have popped up.

- H8

So, my copy arrived today.

There IS no campaign system.

Minis are nice enough but otherwise the contents of the box is underwhelming. It seems like the rules for the Spec Ops (or more accurately the stat cards since they appear to just be survivors with different stats) are only included in the Spec Ops box. Guess that will have to be next on my list.


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Also there seems to be a misprint. One of the 10 "Survival Z" cards has the card text on the 'back' for Ricochet, but on the 'front' it does not have the "Survival Z" face. Instead it seems to have the skills for some Zombies that guard Dr Puke..

..which in turn would appear to be the 'back' of a Zombie Team Character chard that doesn't exist (there aren't any in the box). Dr Puke is also not mentioned anywhere else. I suspect this is something that will come along in the "Zombie Menace" expansion mentioned in the Survivors Guide..

Why am I not surprised?

Do the biker gang sprues come with Mohawk heads and boomboxes? I need those bits so I can finally make my Kirk Thatcher conversion.

Not the ones in the base game, no. It's possible they come in the separate Biker Gang box, since that has the Biker Gang Leader on the sprue.

When are the Spec Ops due to be released? Before the end of May I am hoping...

I saw them already on sale in a local store.

Not sure if that is rest of world/EU or just UK so far?

Hrmmm... I was hoping they'd be available from their online store by now. I need them as proxy's for Infinity Ariadna miniatures. They're good, but will be better with some proper head swaps and the like.

I have had mine for a couple of weeks and we are generally the last place to get anything.
Must say I have been pretty disappointed with the quality of it so far, misprinted cards are annoying, Spec Ops. are surprisingly limited as weapons need to match bodies or need a lot of remedial work (and with out a parts breakdown I find it hard to identify what everything is).
Casting is very good though and the game itself is quick and pretty fun to play but with no campaign their is limited replay ability.
What really bothers me though is where is this game supposed to go? I cant for the life of me figure out how they are gonna expand this (campaign aside), what could you Warlord possibly release next? A Humvee and ?

This was the first Warlord thread that I found so I thought this is where I would share it.
Right now Warlord's US Store (online) is running a promo with free shipping an 10% off. Use the coupon code
10-PERCENT-USA
at checkout and get 10% off Warlord products and free shipping.

The message clearly states that anything produced by companies other than Warlord are not included but this is still a pretty sweet deal.

How do the current models stand up against their previous kits? do the match up?