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ZombiMadness Begins! Weekly Fan-Made Zombicide Scenarios This October!
October 4, 2021 by fcostin
October is upon us, which means the spooky season is in full swing. Packets of cobwebs to drag over our porch doors, back and bags of sweets and goodies for the trick-or-treaters to collect.
Halloween gets a little different when you are an adult, especially when you are a tabletop gamer. Whether you are looking at bringing out your black-and-orange combination of paints for hobby time, switching out your yearly miniatures to creepy alternatives, or getting your Halloween board games out to truly feel the season and embrace the spooky, creepy and macabre for October time!
M19 - Get Them Out Alive Senar // Zombicide Invader
On a weekly basis, CMON has been releasing a series of Zombicide scenarios for players to immerse themselves in new content for completely free after the release of the second edition.
October has turned up the heat for CMON, as they make their way into ZombiMadness month in theme with all things Halloween, with a brand new fan-made scenario coming every week this month.
Bringing fans into a flesh-eating zombie survival environment, Frederik Emil Andersson has provided quite the difficult scenario to kick us off, in Zombicide Invader, in the hope to "Get them out Alive!". As 6+ players head into the blood-thirsty environment, taking roughly 120 minutes to play through.
There has been an issue with the power in your hideout. Smartly, sending two survivors to fix the carnage. Heading out for capture and save, the new scenario places players in the midst of a zombie onslaught, to rescue the missing friends and hoard some power whilst doing so.
Zombicide is the perfect board game to get out on the table this Halloween. I plan on playing through the base game along with a few other of my favourite spooky board games, whilst weekly adding in the new content added as part of ZombiMadness month.
What will you be playing through this spooky season?
At some point there’ll be more versions of Zombicide than Monopoly.
Or Risk…. or Talisman… XD
Jeepers yes *sad*
At least they have tried to do a bit more than change the skin of the game …
then again, why wouldn’t a company try to sell as much of the same succesful formula as possible?
There’s more than a few flavours of ‘settlers of catan’ (including a star trek variant … )
Exactly. At least with Z, you’re getting different sculpts you can use in other games — and some zombie miniature games are made for a LOT of zombies! (See Akula’s zombie game, which has you cover a CD with zombies!)
Myself, I backed the western Zombicide, because I can’t find good inexpensive western miniatures elsewhere. Smaller companies make the miniatures, but at higher prices.
Don’t like it? Don’t buy it. I think, previous to Zombicide: Undead or Alive, the only CMON game I backed was Zombicide: Black Plague. I do thank the CMON backers who paid $150 including shipping for their pledges for bringing the base games to retail where I’ve been picking them up on sales for $60 with free shipping. 😀
my reason for backing a few Zombicide variants was exactly that : more zombie variants for as many eras/themes as possible.
I only skipped the Wild West themed one because they said they wouldn’t do Indian zombies as it might ‘offend’ people. It’s not like any of their games had anyhting to do with ‘realism’ to begin with.
Anyways … the best thing about the Zombicide series is that you can build your own maps and even mix genres or zombies.
Disney World overrun by zombies ? mix Black Plague and Modern zombies
I’m not sure if you can mix survivors from several of their games in one game … but you sure can try.
> I only skipped the Wild West themed one because they said they wouldn’t do Indian zombies as it might ‘offend’ people.
Better not tell woke paleface about Deadlands, then! (:
Instead of a knee-jerk politically correct reaction to undead Indians, The Deadlands RPG has the manitou, an evil spirit coined with an Indian name for one. Deadlands, in fact, starts when a vengeful Shman, Raven, unleashes these manitou upon the earth. These spirits possess recently the recently killed (mostly white men with a few too many bullet holes) — and, since they’re badass, many a player wants to be one as their character. So, instead of the usual PC “afraid to offend” censorship, Deadlands embraces this relationship between the undead and Indians.
Unfortunately, a common result of this PC censorship is that the “safety net” of removing minority from entertainment. Minority-themed entertainment was often criticized for not being “minority enough” to the point where it was safer to not make anything to criticize, than to show minorities in key roles in television and film. (Not just a few days ago did I read an article criticizing Netflix’s Lupin in this exact manner.)
Going back to GB, one problem I have with “woke” culture, is that it usually does little more than reskin minorities into Western “white male” culture, thus actually implying that Western “white male” culture is superior to others (otherwise, why attempt to emulate it?). Dunno how many of you (or them) watch and read foreign movies, television, books, and other media, but there’s a lot of non-Western, non-white, and non-male, culture, viewpoints, and outright diversity that isn’t “woke” — and is actually entertaining. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Miyazaki movies, and even Kung-Fu Hustle (only if you think movies can actually be fun) are my must-see films.
Deadlands did censor their latest version though. They toned down a lot that could hurt a few fragile little minds out there.
Manitou are still in there, but they re-worded things.
I tend to hunt down anything that is non-pc because of this. As a result Deadlands is the least offensive item in my collection.
Different get the power fixed before the lights fail completely.
I wish they would consolidate all the scenarios into a single PDF.