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Megan

I have backed every Zombicide, Black Plague and massive darkness kickstarter to date with every optional extra and game night character but feeling a bit spent by this point. Not sure what the new releases could really add to the experience. I will most likely end up backing anyway but already have two bookcases full of Zombicide & The Others so space is definitely a concern.

Green Horde is pretty much a reskin of Black Plague using zombie Orcs instead, walker = orc, runner = goblin, fatty = bigger orc, nercomancer = orc shaman, Abomb is an orc Abomb.

The orcs are apparently a bit tougher than normal zombies but GG have said they are not a berserker equivalent. Main new mechanic is the horde you put a mini into a horde pile when spawn cards are drawn then at some point the whole horde gets unleashed on the board.

Not much of an update just enough to be slightly different than before after 4 to 5 goes around they need to be a bit more innovative now I'll still be backing though!

Agreed. I'll probably still back this, but it might well be the last one, since they've been selling (and I've been buying) pretty much the same formula for some time now.

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Berin the Dwarf - not a fan - tiny feet and the proportions look off even for a dwarf.



Seli - I fear she might be to lithe for casting

I think the Orc / Goblin / Blorc / Aborc reskin with the Horde mechanic is good, to the point that it doesn't need the Zombie flavoring. Of the 3 fantasy variants, this interests me more than Black Plague, to say nothing of Meh Darkness.

OTOH, I presume a 3rd (& final) fantasy Zombicide will be announced at some point, and it'll likely be the version witth the refined ruleset that I'd want to keep.

Minis-wise, they party looks great, and good on CMoN for having the Elf & Dorf. Now, I really hope for a half-Ogre...

Ain't a green horde til the reptiles show up though.

greta art and sculpts but there is nothing about that " dwarf " that says " dwarf " to me. Just looks like a human with slightly shorter legs and longer arms.

and statching all ong the edges of the elf's costume bits...... if it resolves in printing I doubt very seriosuly it will actually come through in casting. I could be wrong about that but that stuff looks REALLY fine.

Tre, I hope that dwarf sculpt bothers you so much that you are forced into having to sculpt a new set of semi modular dwarfs (that might possibly be from the cold north) for use in a warband to alleviate such sculpting frustrations.

It's the only logical answer to such problems.

Johannes

Bring me my War Flip-flops, I must wear them over my boots for 'reasons'

(the rest of him is fine though)

Asim



Orc Necromancer




Orc Walker

Nipple tags and two belly rings

If he doesn't label them, how else will he know which is left and which is right?

 Theophony wrote:
Nipple tags and two belly rings

It's exactly that sort of judgmentall attitude that drove him to summon an undead horde to wipe goodness from the face of the earth.

I like Asim, he's pretty cool.

I'm on the fence with this one .. scupts look great, but I never played any of the other zombicide games. I backed Massive Darkness and was kinda hoping I could get that first to see if I like how it plays.. assuming the gameplay for both is similar?

And then I have a lot invested in the Mantic terrain right now, don't think I can afford another KS for a little while. tough decision. If I go in for $1 do they usually let you upgrade that to a full pledge in the PM?

I have enough set aside for a basic pledge (I think), but will most likely do $1. It will need some serious kick ass models for me to jump in as money is tight right now. I survived not is seasons 1-3.

So, it's Ork Zombies this time then?

 Necros wrote:
I never played any of the other zombicide games.

I backed Massive Darkness and was kinda hoping I could get that first to see if I like how it plays.. assuming the gameplay for both is similar?

If I go in for $1 do they usually let you upgrade that to a full pledge in the PM?

Zombicide is great, and you should probably try to get a game in of either the original or, better yet, Rue Morgue. RM is easily the "best" Zombicide of the moderns, smooth & clean and scalable. I passed on Black Plague, as the rat theme just didn't work for me.

I threw a buck at Massive Darkness, but ultimately passed. The rules previewed during the KS didn't look to be quite there, and it seemed more gimmicky and overcomplicated than it needed to be. But that was a long time ago, and CMoN may have addressed those issues.

I'll throw a buck at the GH, for access to the full pledge. I converted Smog from a $1 placeholder up to a full pledge pretty recently, and feel quite good about that one. It looks like something I can play, and it looks to have nice replay.

Rat theme in "Black Plague"?

I don't think that's an actual problem.

But if Green Horde is just a lightly re-skinned BP, with Ork Zombies instead of Human Zombies?

Yawn?

We got a TON of content with Z: BP, and I'm not sure I want/need a TON more!

Some of us traded/ sold off/ gave away a TON of content, and are now in need of a new TON of content!

I'm in just out of sheer curiosity. Got a lot of bang for my buck last time, and I'm sure we'll see likewise again.

Maybe zombie dragons like we had all hoped last time around?

@Alphy - I wasn't that excited to play a rat-themed game, even if it was executed well and had a lot of stuff bundled in. Also, making every single bonus Survivor being another samey guy with board & sword pretty much destroyed the rest. Aside from the nun in the box, the Survivors are boring AF.

Orks, OTOH, well, we'll see what they do with it. It might be that I just continue to stick with RM for my Zombie fix.

A Zombie dragon or wyvern might be nice.

I few of my friends have been playing Zombicide at our game days, but it always seems to be when I can't make it.. so so far I never had a chance to try it. I kinda wish I got in on it the very first time, but they have a bad habit of running their campaigns right after I spend my spare cash on something else :( I'll go in for $1 though and see how it goes.

None of the characters are really grabbing me except Asim. Megan isn't bad, but very generic. Knowing a CMON KS, they'll be plenty more spilling in, so I can't judge it solely on what's been shown. I like the zombie ork though, It'd be cool if they all started as a horde of living orks, then the necromancers would raise them again after death. Might create an interesting dynamic if the living and dead orks had some sort of animosity role they had to deal with as well. Trying to set it up so the zombies fight the living enemies would be a cool tactic, that would differentiate it from most other games.

I really want some big Trolls/ogres too, along with plenty of goblins both on foot, and riding zombie wolves. I love the idea of a big undead wyvern as well. I want the whole thing to feel VERY Orky, with the whole zombie thing as just a twist to it.

Need me some orc zombies for my AoS undead!

 plastictrees wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Nipple tags and two belly rings

It's exactly that sort of judgmentall attitude that drove him to summon an undead horde to wipe goodness from the face of the earth.

Brilliant

Goblin "runner"



Orc Enforcer "fatty"

BoW coverage of the panel from CMoN Expo skip to 44 minutes for Green Horde

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154277364761315&id=133813491314&refid=8&_rdr

No EBs confirmed guess CMoN have decided to do away with them.

The two last orc figures don't seem much zombiecied, just a goblin and a fat orc with the scar of a bite that appear to be drunk.