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Zombicide 2nd Edition upgrade set details

https://cmon.com/news/collecting-upgrades

This kit will contain ID cards for all the Survivors from the first three Seasons of Zombicide: core boxes, expansions, Special Guests, Game Night Kits, and Kickstarter Exclusives. Of course, the main draw of these updated cards is using the new plastic dashboard, so the kit contains six of them, as well as colored counter bases, pegs, and extra Starting Equipment cards. The full 2nd Edition rules will be available online, so you’re good to go!

Offering cards to update all existing seasons of Zcide is a pretty awesome move. Good on Cmon. They've been winning my loyalty bit by bit.

I take it you’re not a Dark Age/Wrath of Kings player then?

I'm glad this thread popped up as I didn't want to necro the old Zombicide Invader thread. Did that game land without much coverage? I hadn't heard about it for a long while and looked it up and was surprised that backers seemed to have gotten their stuff a few months back. I was impressed with the minis when I looked at the unboxings on youtube over the last couple of days and was curious about any thoughts owners/players had of them.

 Alpharius wrote:
I take it you’re not a Dark Age/Wrath of Kings player then?

I'm not. But honestly, they released a ton of stuff for both of those games, came out with new editions, and organized tournaments etc. But the market just wasn't there.
Dark Age was a sci fi game focused around melee combat with medieval type weapons (from what I could tell from the miniatures) and WoK was a wierd Saturday morning cartoon style applied to curvy BDSM demons and pig-men with a dose of fan service thrown in. WoK was also not helped by having two factions whose base footsloggers were just uninteresting or poorly realized (bathrobe guys and the fish guys).

To answer Warboss:
I've really been enjoying Zombicide Invader. I have played Black Plague a couple of times for frame of reference.

I'm just happy the Zombicide Invader tiles are on sale separately.

Some more info on the Zombicide Chronicles RPG

I'm always surprised when CMON does something good for the consumer!

New ZCide KS TODAY? Whew. Shipping cost will be murder again, I'm afraid.

It's live and Phil is in as a promo. Upgrade set is $40 and is not included in the other pledge levels. I assume it will be available as a card only add on later. For the $180 price tag the upgrade cards should really be in the All-Out pledge.

Thiago Aranha

@StarsCream: At this point the ID Cards Upgrade Pack is only part of the Nostalgic pledge. But we'll come up with other ways to offer it. Have patience.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-2nd-edition

I'm going Presidential and hoping the upgrade cards become an add-on later.

Yeah Presidential for me for now the RPG doesn't interest me but if the card pack is $20 and they add it to All-out that might make a difference. Plus everything is going to add to shipping costs

Wild guess but El Cholo might be making another appearance (Watch the KS video )


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ID cards for previous games added for free to full game pledges

With that, backers with a Reboot, Presidential, or All-Out pledge will get for free the 2nd Edition ID cards of ALL Survivors ever made for the 1st Edition of Zombicide!

That swimmer zombie is hilarious. Though I'm sceptical if this is good overall with their 1 mini a day scheme or a not so stealthy way to make less exciting SGs. The sculpts are almost all very cool, I love the hospitabomination or whatever they'll call IV drip Bane-Abomination. A few too skinny legs here and there, but pretty nice overall.

Except the stretches are already rolling!



Plus more survivors and a pile of zombie bonus sculpts...

They are not "bonus" as per previous campaigns were they were extra Zombies though, they are just alternative sculpts replacing the already existing "duplicates"

Ah man, before today I was just going to get the upgrade pack but.. those new sculpts! Damn. Maybe its time to just sell my original Zombicide core box and pledge at the Presedential level..

 DaveC wrote:

ID cards for previous games added for free to full game pledges

Yeah, that's even better than I hoped for!

The renders are really nice. If they can match those I'll be quite happy. Everything looks so much more unique. Plus I love Guiton's art and the sculpts really match it.

I thought my Invader models were... alright. Some were a bit mushy. Nowhere near as nice as some of my models from previous games.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

I thought my Invader models were... alright. Some were a bit mushy. Nowhere near as nice as some of my models from previous games.

Thanks. What would you consider the gold standard then for board game models that don't require assembly?

*sigh*

On one hand, I don't want a whole new set of ZCide stuff (haven't even opened the third expansion sets yet!). On the other hand, this does look like an improvement.

But on the other, other hand, I think I might just prefer the RPG.


Those White House tiles though...

 DaveC wrote:
Zombicide 2nd Edition upgrade set details

https://cmon.com/news/collecting-upgrades

This kit will contain ID cards for all the Survivors from the first three Seasons of Zombicide: core boxes, expansions, Special Guests, Game Night Kits, and Kickstarter Exclusives. Of course, the main draw of these updated cards is using the new plastic dashboard, so the kit contains six of them, as well as colored counter bases, pegs, and extra Starting Equipment cards. The full 2nd Edition rules will be available online, so you’re good to go!

Am I missing something here? This just gets you the new survivor cards and a few starting equipment (?!) cards... (why include starting gear, if there's no 2nd edition loot deck?) It is very nice that it looks like all the survivors from 1st ed will have new cards made.

What about the cards to play the game? The map boards? I think the rules will be available online, so that's OK. Maybe you don't need the new equipment and zombie cards?

They’ve said you can still use the old cards and tiles you just can’t mix old with new

 warboss wrote:

What would you consider the gold standard then for board game models that don't require assembly?

I thought Darklight Memento Mori had quite nice figures. CMON's Rising Sun as well. Mythic Battles too.
My Invader models just semed a bit soft compared to previous games by CMON.

 DaveC wrote:
They’ve said you can still use the old cards and tiles you just can’t mix old with new

Which, to me, is a failing of the system. There are hundreds of cards across the three original ZCide releases, and now they're basically junk.

That's what turns me off getting into this 2nd Ed, whatever the improvements might be.

I am just going for the upgrade pack, I think, and staying strong

 warboss wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

I thought my Invader models were... alright. Some were a bit mushy. Nowhere near as nice as some of my models from previous games.

Thanks. What would you consider the gold standard then for board game models that don't require assembly?

I find their ASOIAF minis to be quite amazing, at least the sets I've got.

Ok, the fact that they got Danny Trejo for their promo video is pretty cool.

EDIT: Ok, so the old cards can be used with 2nd Ed, just not mixed. Hmm... still it's a lot of money to get all the conversion kits to port everything across.

I'm in for the RPG pledge, plus adding the White House as they say you can use that with 1st Ed, and the 2nd Ed tiles, as they say you need them for the White House stuff.

Are Dany and the Dothraki out about now - element games has them listed for this week but not seen anything?

 Mr Morden wrote:
Are Dany and the Dothraki out about now - element games has them listed for this week but not seen anything?

I think only the Thenn Warriors and Bolton Blackguard are being released this week.

As I suspected we are going to be seeing all sorts of urban legends and traditional modern monsters showing up as abominations!





Seems like a fun way to get some variety in terms of what is fought and how you react to it.

Plus tons of other stuff has been unlocked. Super weapons, more zombies, more survivors, a character generator...