Zombicide: Green Horde - KS coming May 30, 2017...

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**deleted20250424**

I can't wait to get this on the table mixed in with Black Plague.

Huge boards, tons of zombies, bodies flying everywhere!

**Moopy**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:

Best character ever?

Fish priest with a gun? Sign me up!

Nice to see something besides the usual elf, dwarf, and barbarians.

Not for me. I don't think it fits. Really don't want technology mixed up with fantasy.

**455_PWR**

Fish priest? Nice! Now we just need a dragonborn/draconum hero. There is jotting better than a flame breathing, wingless dragon the size of a large human with awesome weapons and armor.

This campaign had some great parodies, sculpts, and will add a ton to black plague.

**Tim the Biovore**

@Moopy
Not sure if you're following the Kickstarter, but I'll say it here for the sake of anyone wondering; Cardinal Birmbauer is part of a guest box set designed to plug a new upcoming CMON game. I agree, they're not really to my flavour and clash a bit with the style of the game, but the fact they're a guest box means they're easy to identify, store, then sell/giveaway once the pledges arrive.

**ecurtz**

By the end of this Kickstarter there will be 100+ heroes including those from the first Z:BP. Having one (or a dozen) you don't like won't be a big deal. I really like having a few goofy ones in there, even if I don't use them in game maybe they'll get painted.

**deleted20250424**

Love the new "Not James Earl Jones" mini.

**Alpharius**

TalonZahn wrote:
Love the new "Not James Earl Jones" mini.

Are you posting on a phone?

**deleted20250424**

Alpharius wrote:
TalonZahn wrote:
Love the new "Not James Earl Jones" mini.

Are you posting on a phone?

No, i'm at work, so who knows what kind of potato activity is involved.

[Edit] I also got a co-worker to get in on the KS. More players and more orcs!

**Necros**

Looks good but I feel like I missed the boat since I skipped black plague, and if I just backed this I'd be missing out on the "full experience" so to speak

**deleted20250424**

It can stand alone just fine. They also seemed to address a couple of the minor issues in this version compared to last.

Having Black Plague would just allow for more stuff, bigger games, extra hero choices.

Although as mentioned, there will probably be 100 heroes in this one, so missing 8, or 20, shouldn't be a big deal.

**anab0lic**

Biggest problem I had with the original was the game was just too damn easy, I lose interest pretty fast when theres not much challenge involved in any kind of game. Our survivors wernt really in any danger of dying on the missions we played and after a while it was just going through the motions. I Can't be the only one that had that experience with this game? It's a great casual/party/family game though and introduction to the world of table top gaming. But if you like games that are gonna kick your arse and take a good while to figure out I think you will be disappointed like I was. Perhaps theres some custom rules that up the difficulty some, would have been cool if there was difficulty levels in the rule book or something.

**Necros**

Seriously 100 heroes? Other than stretch goal filler, why would you need that many? I guess having options are nice but that seems kinda excessive.. or will there be like 500 enemies to make up for it?

**BobtheInquisitor**

I believe he meant there will be 100 heroes across the franchise after this campaign.

I love the heroes and some of the homage figures, but don't want any of the orcs or rules or any of that. Is there likely to be a way to buy that stuff piecemeal? Anyone interested in splitting a pledge?

**deleted20250424**

Yea, the 100 remark is an exaggeration, but there are a TON of heroes.

The base Black Plague game has 6 in the box, then there were like... 8-10 "Guest Boxes" with 4 more heroes in most of them. Then there were the KS only Heroes. So there had to be close to 50+ total. I didn't get in on the KS, but bought at retail. [ Edit] At retail, there are right at 60 Heroes, not couting all the KS Exclusive Heroes.

There are already 21 Heroes in this KS so far and we're not even 24 hours into it.

@ana - We thought it was really easy at first as well, but then noticed we had missed a rule somewhere and it became a little more difficult. If you want to make it even harder, create your own scenarios. That's where the real replay comes from.

**Bossk_Hogg**

Necros wrote:
Seriously 100 heroes? Other than stretch goal filler, why would you need that many? I guess having options are nice but that seems kinda excessive.. or will there be like 500 enemies to make up for it?

Variety and fun. IMO, the Black Plague minis are better than Bones as generic RPG characters. You get plenty of zombies anyways, and one of the mechanics is that if you cant "spawn" a particular type of zombie, all zombies of that type get an extra activation. Therefore it's important to limit the number of zombies in the base box to encourage zombie hunting due to fear of extra activations. If you have a huge pile in reserve, you can let them build up longer and the game is more predictable.

I still would have preferred them to just be regular orcs and goblins over zombified versions though.

**Necros**

I do have Massive Darkness coming my way sooner or later.. are the heroes or monsters compatible in any way, or is that a whole different game world and all? Would be cool if you could at least swap the heroes around for all games.

**ecurtz**

There's a crossover pack that was available in the Massive Darkness campaign (and probably from CMoN once MD ships?) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/massive-darkness/posts/1606092

It's very likely that there will be a similar package for this campaign.

**Alpharius**

TalonZahn wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
TalonZahn wrote:
Love the new "Not James Earl Jones" mini.

Are you posting on a phone?

No, i'm at work, so who knows what kind of potato activity is involved.

[Edit] I also got a co-worker to get in on the KS. More players and more orcs!

Just wondering why no pretty pictures posted here, only boring text!

**DaveC**

OK then images there shall be - I was glad to see Jason Hendricks did some of the new Abombs afterall.

Siege Breaker
http://monster-zer0.blogspot.ie/2017/05/zombicide-black-plague-green-horde_31.html

Horde Brother
http://monster-zer0.blogspot.ie/2017/05/zombicide-black-plague-green-horde_90.html

Swamp Lurker
http://monster-zer0.blogspot.ie/2017/05/zombicide-black-plague-green-horde_30.html

Werezombie
http://monster-zer0.blogspot.ie/2017/05/zombicide-black-plague-green-horde.html

The artwork for Earl Jamie didn't scream James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom but the sculpt nailed it.

**Nostromodamus**

That render is SPOT ON.

**Talizvar**

DaveC wrote:
The artwork for Earl Jamie didn't scream James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom but the sculpt nailed it.

That face!
Utterly nailed it.
Anyone painting that model as a white guy would be committing a mortal sin.

**deleted20250424**

You can't ignore his fluff card.

Spoiler of Doom.... enjoys Riddles...

I love CMON, lol...

**Nostromodamus**

His were-form should be a giant snake

**deleted20250424**

And don't forget the Prince homage.

**highlord tamburlaine**

Need a David Bowie in there as Ziggy or Aladdin or Tesla or the Thin White Duke, or something besides the Goblin King.

Swamp Lurker gives off such a Hordes Night Troll vibe, I wonder if Jason Hendricks sculpted that as well.

**DaveC**