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Given that there is now an official Firefly Miniature boardgame I think they will avoid any unofficial tribute models as not worth the risk.

Dorian the grey unlocked next is another Abombination and it’s not KS exclusive so probably part of a bigger set.





Better than the standard one particularly the head and more in the direction they should have gone with the xenos. Pose is a little awkward but at least they are trying something different other than a static both feet on the ground pose.

Probably get the first paid add on today Thiago said “by the weekend”

I do not think I like it...

You don't...think you like it?

It might be time for you to turn that frown upside down and maybe...find a project and/or game you do like?

Because at this point, it is really, really clear that this is not a project you like. And the odds of you ever changing your mind are rapidly approaching zero.

Maybe look at Mantic' HELLBOY, or the upcoming CONFRONTATION re-launch?

Anyway, this one's at almost $1.2M - not too shabby!

Anyone hoping for alterations to the Spoiler Abombination it’s not going to happen.

Thiago Aranha
@Wouter Palsterman: I don't see the Spoiler Abomination being altered in any way. Some things are very much fixed already, other may still be altered.

I like this new one from the waist up, which is more than I can say for any of the other abominations. I just don’t understand why they messed with their formula on this one. Artists like to try new things, I get that, but put it in a Zombicide-adjacent game like Massive Darkness.

The Spoiler Abomination is garbage, but all of the other ones have been pretty good. This latest I think could make for a nice Nurgle Daemon Prince, too.

Well, everyone was already pretty much thinking almost everything here was 'set' before the campaign began (this is a CMON pre-order crowd funded thing after all!!), but it still is disappointing to see that's in fact the case.

I mean, constructive criticism is...a good thing!

We've had a Slaaneshi abomination, a Genestealer/ Nids abomination, and now a Nurgle one. Maybe we'll get some that represent Khorne and Tzeentch while we're at it? They'd make decent prince options.

What would be nice is if the expansions end up with better looking enemies with new mechanics. I could totally see that happening given the response to the designs so far...

Like the Nurglish abomination. The rear end is pretty amusing. Waiting for the first add-on. Hopefully it'll be today.

I noticed that in the card text it says "Xenos type 4" for species. Have we seen any of the cards of the base game Xenos? Just curious if we may see more Xenos of this type. It looks closest to the the abomination from the black ops add-on to me.

That first add on... not what I was hoping for.

Someone will be happy with it at least.

 Gallahad wrote:
I noticed that in the card text it says "Xenos type 4" for species. Have we seen any of the cards of the base game Xenos? Just curious if we may see more Xenos of this type. It looks closest to the the abomination from the black ops add-on to me.

Spoiler:

Shadow Abombination is Type 4 as well, so it's probably Type 1 worker, Type 2 hunter, type 3 Tank, type 4 Abombination




Good to see the deck holders back, I have a set from before they're good quality and handy to have not sure I need more.

Were the deck holders add ons, or originally included in the pledge for a previous campaign? I can't remember.

On closer glance, those dice are kind of cool actually with how they did the pips.

 DaveC wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
I noticed that in the card text it says "Xenos type 4" for species. Have we seen any of the cards of the base game Xenos? Just curious if we may see more Xenos of this type. It looks closest to the the abomination from the black ops add-on to me.

Spoiler:

Shadow Abombination is Type 4 as well, so it's probably Type 1 worker, Type 2 hunter, type 3 Tank, type 4 Abombination

Spoiler:

Good to see the deck holders back, I have a set from before they're good quality and handy to have not sure I need more.

Good point Dave, aren't there "seekers" in there too as a type?

highlord tamburlaine wrote:Were the deck holders add ons, or originally included in the pledge for a previous campaign? I can't remember.

Paid Add On.

EDIT: from Black Plague originally

Gallahad wrote:

Good point Dave, aren't there "seekers" in there too as a type?

Seekers are Workers in classification

Whoops I posted in the Zombicide comments rather than here. Here it goes again.

Nice dice. I might get them and those Deep Sea Aelves dice too next week. I got those Widower's Wood one from the Privateer's KS. Nothing beats Gator dice.


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This is my first stab at Zombicide. Are the Deck Holder useful?

Popsghostly you asked about daily data here's the Kicktraq link it updates hourly on the hour.

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-invader/#chart-daily

 DaveC wrote:
Popsghostly you asked about daily data here's the Kicktraq link it updates hourly on the hour.

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-invader/#chart-daily

Thanks Dave. Really interesting and useful.

Thanks too on the deck holder question.

 Popsghostly wrote:

This is my first stab at Zombicide. Are the Deck Holder useful?

Useful yes, necessary no but at $10 they are good value.

The CMON dice towers are darn practical!

They don't look particularly sexy, but they certainly can be used for other games. I'm using them for the Pathfinder card game. Pretty handy and nice rattle!

 Mysterio wrote:
You don't...think you like it?

It might be time for you to turn that frown upside down and maybe...find a project and/or game you do like?

Because at this point, it is really, really clear that this is not a project you like. And the odds of you ever changing your mind are rapidly approaching zero.

Maybe look at Mantic' HELLBOY, or the upcoming CONFRONTATION re-launch?

Anyway, this one's at almost $1.2M - not too shabby!

On one hand you are correct it shapes up to not be what I would like and will probably drop it in the end, I am not interested in the kickstarters you mentioned one is fantasy with minor steampunk elements the other is Modernish" occult, thanks for the suggestions thought, the real bummer is this is the Zombicide I was expecting more....

And the directions they could have gone, a mass effect style with biosynthetic horrors, a Xenohsyft with relentless alien horrors swarming in both they could finally have abomination level mechs for the survivors that can go one on one with abominations but fall to swarms of zombies, deployable turrets, swarm mode, well, it could have gone that way.

So far I like only the first two alien survivors and the mutant mercenary and the progress shows a significant lack of enthusiasm from the backers.


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Erren wrote:
I like this new one from the waist up, which is more than I can say for any of the other abominations. I just don’t understand why they messed with their formula on this one. Artists like to try new things, I get that, but put it in a Zombicide-adjacent game like Massive Darkness.

Well technically none of the Zombicide artists participate in this one, so, CMON wants to try new things or shove Andrian Smith wherever they can. I get it Eric Lang likes him and his art a lot and he is the guy who has major influence in who does what, but his style is not for everything.

A lot of the human characters look like they would make great Necromunda hired guns...

I'm not sure I'd call $1,223,625 a lack of enthusiasm from backers, sure it's behind Black Plague which had $1,417,060 after day 4 (+$193,435) but still ahead of Massive Darkness at $1,195,691 (-$27,934) at the same point (and day 4 for Zc:I isn't over). I don't think a Sci-Fi Zc was ever going to match Green Horde ($1,819,871 day 4 +$596,246).

As you've said PsychoticStorm this isn't the Zc your looking for and that's not going to change at this point, that's OK you can't like em all. The aesthetic is picked they've put their trust in Adrian Smith as lead artist and his influence will be all over CMONs projects going forward https://cmon.com/news/cmon-limited-hires-adrian-smith-as-lead-artist-efbbaeae-dff5-4386-ad47-e1729583fe1f

Maybe if we bug them enough, they'll consider doing a proper Xenoshyft boardgame with mechanics like those, Psychoticstorm. Throw in a player respawn mechanic for the humans, to. I could see a tower defense style game working with the Xenoshyft IP. maybe they could even give it the proper Xenocide name, too.

I had read the article, I was not expecting this to be the result, I fear CMON may be hit hard by this decision. Agreed ZCI does better than massive darkness so far, but a spinoff dungeon crawler of Zombicide black plague is not what I would compare a true Zombicide game with.

@Barzam would be great wouldn't it?

 DaveC wrote:
I'm not sure I'd call $1,223,625 a lack of enthusiasm from backers, sure it's behind Black Plague which had $1,417,060 after day 4 (+$193,435) but still ahead of Massive Darkness at $1,195,691 (-$27,934) at the same point (and day 4 for Zc:I isn't over). I don't think a Sci-Fi Zc was ever going to match Green Horde ($1,819,871 day 4 +$596,246).

As you've said PsychoticStorm this isn't the Zc your looking for and that's not going to change at this point, that's OK you can't like em all. The aesthetic is picked they've put their trust in Adrian Smith as lead artist and his influence will be all over CMONs projects going forward https://cmon.com/news/cmon-limited-hires-adrian-smith-as-lead-artist-efbbaeae-dff5-4386-ad47-e1729583fe1f

That's Adrian Smith? I expected him to look like one of his Hate characters; i.e., 6 foot 4, with huge muscles and wearing fur. At least he has a beard.

Uh, they did Princess Leia for Green Horde.

I don’t get being upset about the choices - they’ve been all over pop culture for their references and not sticking particularly to whatever “timeframe”/genre for the expanded characters. They’re not doing anything unlike what they have done previously, other than the zombies aren’t really zombies...

 Popsghostly wrote:


That's Adrian Smith? I expected him to look like one of his Hate characters; i.e., 6 foot 4, with huge muscles and wearing fur. At least he has a beard.

Yep and here he is in The Others:

highlord tamburlaine wrote:That first add on... not what I was hoping for.

Someone will be happy with it at least.

I like that they changed the item deck backs from red to blue, I'm forever drawing item cards instead of zombie spawn cards in the other Zombiecides because of this "It's the dangerous things deck WHY is it not the RED one? RED MEANS DANGER!"

Popsghostly wrote:Whoops I posted in the Zombicide comments rather than here. Here it goes again.

Nice dice. I might get them and those Deep Sea Aelves dice too next week. I got those Widower's Wood one from the Privateer's KS. Nothing beats Gator dice.


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This is my first stab at Zombicide. Are the Deck Holder useful?

as others have said, not necessary but useful, they are something I didn't know I needed untill I had them and have inspired me to design some for other card heavy games to keep things organised (looking at you and your million different decks of cards Shadows of Brimstone)

ced1106 wrote:The CMON dice towers are darn practical!

They don't look particularly sexy, but they certainly can be used for other games. I'm using them for the Pathfinder card game. Pretty handy and nice rattle!

The rattle is actually why I don't use mine, cant stand the extra noise, tempted to make some foam lined ones for my games room.

Overall I'm in an odd place on this campaign, I've backed all the other Zombiecides and always gotten my moneys worth in playthroughs (as compared to Massive Darkness that got 1 1/2 plays before all the components got split into my "useful for other games" boxes and the rules got chucked) where I keep bouncing between interested and ...not on this one. I've tagged the reminders on it and will make a final decision in the last days. but the miniatures don't have that "if it sucks at least I can use the miniatures for other games" that I felt for other CMON games (which may be something to do With Adrian Smiths art because I put in my $1 but ultimately passed on HATE and Others as well)