CMON Preview First Hero & Xenos For Zombicide: Invader
March 8, 2018 by brennon
The CMON and Guillotine Games teams have been previewing some of the upcoming characters and creatures for Zombicide: Invader which will hit Kickstarter on April 10th. Take a peek at Baraka first.
Here's the background on this Sci-Fi warrior...
"Baraka grew up rich. She didn’t join the military out of necessity. It was more like a calling. She was unsatisfied with the life of luxury that had been thrust upon her, and she longed for the challenges, obstacles, and dangers that only a life in the army could provide.
Maybe it’s because she chose this life, or maybe she’s just damn good at her job, but when the Xenos attacked, she saw it as the fulfilment of her higher purpose. She wades into the battle like someone taking their predestined place in the universe."
She is a great looking character, once again highlighting a branching out for CMON and Guillotine to explore other cultures with their games. She is one of the Soldier Class Survivors in the game meaning that she does plenty of the fighting, protecting the Scientists around her.
Xenos Workers
The Workers are the smallest and least deadly of the Xenos that you will be fighting when you get stuck into Invader. Here's a look at just a few of them...
"Of the four types of Xenos the scientists have been able to identify, the Workers are the weakest. However, that’s not saying much. They can still easily rip a human in two. Workers tend to attack in packs, and if the Survivors are not careful, they will quickly be overrun."
As you might imagine, they are a swarm type enemy that will be running around trying to surround you. They all look rather cool too, certainly different from the standard alien fodder that you're probably used to fighting.
Whilst you can tell that they are tendrils of a sort hanging down from their jaws on the artwork above I had a moment where I thought that the Fishmen had cometh once more!
As one might imagine from a CMON Kickstarter, the miniatures are looking great. The real test is going to be when it comes to gameplay and finding out how it develops in your games. These would be awesome to paint though, and very easy too with the application of some nice washes.
What do you think of the previews so far?
"They all look rather cool too, certainly different from the standard alien fodder that you're probably used to fighting..."
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Is it doing the David Brent dance?
😀 😀
Ha! It’s fused flashdance with MC Hammer.
It’s a bit of a jazz and african rhythm fusion sort of thing I’ve put together over the years..
I would wish they had gone for Zombicide art that would give something modern and elegant, not refrigerators with legs, Andrian Smith art direction always delivers the same old GWesque feel…
This feels like “The Others in space” not “Zombicide in space”
Having completely backed the last 2 games, I’m sitting this one out.
Liar! You totally backed it at the last minute! Damn.
nice love the invader.
Can’t wait just 33 big sleeps left till this one kicks off!
I say I wont back… then i see all the minis.
Very dissapointed with the style. Guess I could swap out the minis with those from my Endure the Stars kickstarter…
Lovely looking mini’s as ever from CMON 🙂 . Like @hazyboy75 mentioned in the other article on the game going to KS, i get a distict X-Com vibe from it.
Would much prefer this with the crew of an international space station (or a Mars colony) and a bunch of space-dust zombies. You know; a Russian cosmonaut with a crow bar and an American spaceman with a sawn-off shotgun against the whole crew of the colony experiment …
The Invaders are quite nice. Baraka feels way too stiff and generic for me, I hope there are far more interesting character figures.
Sure, going for the most generic art direction possible is one choice you could make.
“We’re doing Zombicide in space! Sci-Fi! There are an infinite number of ways we can take the art direction!”
“How about we just do off-brand, knock off, space marines? All of that creativity seems like so much… work.”
“And the aliens? I mean, we could come up with surprising designs no one has ever seen before!”
“Eh… do we have any unused concept sketches from The Others laying around?”
is the miniature will be 30MM ? they looks great
It reminds me of that McVey game that never really took off.
Sedition wars was it called?
Nice, but not really new. No risk, no fun, and “if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got”. And for being called Xenos (that´s greek for strange, alien) they are not very Xenos imo, too human. Baraka is absolutely a Space Marine. So, if you were never into GW Warhammer 40k and such likes, the game ist worth a look, otherwise, decide wisely.
The minis do nothing for me, complete and utterly not my taste. If there would be a cross-over with the others, I may consider getting the necessary parts for that, but even that would be a hard decision.