This Sunday I’m thankful for Pirates. And Zombies.
I haven’t been involved in the Zombicide world since Toxic City Mall; I haven’t played any of the games in over a decade.
Then Gamefound sent me a heads-up about the new crowdfund:
Su-nu-va … !
This looks like it could be peanut butter and chocolate! But I had to make sure it wasn’t nuts and gum, together at last.
I went and checked my old Zombicide figs and remembered they are a little small for use in my skirmish games. So I posted a question to the project and one of the creators replied that these figs are going to be 32mm.
Nice!
Then I got to wondering about the plastic. Soft? Hard?
So I posted a question about that and another about how well they’ll take paint. Someone answered that even though the game is being produced by a different company now, they’re probably working with the same factory for moulding and casting. That was well-meaning but only partly helpful so I searched the interweb and discovered Laborc:
He’s got some great videos painting through a lot of the White Death set. Check them out!
The figs look to be detailed enough and hard enough in hand for my tabletop needs.
Also, Dead Men Tales is going to have conversion kits available for the earlier Fantasy Zombicide games so you can play your older figs in this new environment. That gives me even more hope that all will be well.
The zombies are cool and all. And those abominations are going to look great in Dragon Rampant games. But I’m really here for the pirates.
They’re already at a couple dozen humans (plus some elves and such). I should have a full-on Xenos Rampant detachment by the time the campaign ends in a couple weeks. The figs are of course flamboyant and a bit over-the-top but they’ll fit in across at least 50 years worth of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
It looks like Zombicide was eavesdropping when I talked to Reaper.
Dead Men Tales has definitely got it’s chocolate in my peanut butter!
