Zombicide: Green Horde Is Already Funded At Over A Million!
May 31, 2017 by deltagamegirl22
Anyone that knows CMON & Guillotine Games or Zombicide should not be surprised that the latest Kickstarter, Zombicide: Green Horde is already funded and smashing through the stretch goals.
Not only are they funded, they are funded at over a million dollars, and that's just day one!
Zombicide: Green Horde is a cooperative board game for one to six players that is both a standalone game and fully compatible with Zombicide: Black Plague and its expansions!
Players control a party of medieval fantasy survivors as they fight to rid the land of an invasion of zombie orcs controlled by the game itself. Survivors find weapons, learn spells, battle zombies, and gain experience.
The more experienced they get, the more powerful they become, but the more zombies rise to face them!
And you thought regular zombies were terrifying - check out the Orc Zombies! Orc zombies are stronger than their human counterparts, being able to tear apart the most resilient of Survivors. An attack from an Orc Walker deals two wounds, while the attack of an Orc Fatty or Abomination deals a whopping three wounds!
The little Goblin Runners only deal 1 Wound per attack, but they are fast and numerous, so don't judge them by their size. And finally, while the Orc Necromancer is not very deadly in itself, you'll want to eliminate it quickly, as its powers bring even more Orc Zombies onto the board.
As lethal as the Orc Zombies are, probably the scariest thing about them is their ability to launch surprise attacks by unleashing an overwhelming horde against the Survivors. Every time an Orc Zombie spawn card is drawn, one extra zombie of the indicated type is added to a "Horde area" outside the board.
As the game progresses, players will watch with dread as the looming threat of the horde grows in number, just out of sight. When an "Enter the Horde!" card is drawn, all miniatures in the Horde area are placed in the spawning Zone. The situation just got a lot direr!
And if hordes weren't enough, wait until you see the Feral Dragon! So THAT'S where the dragon bile comes from...towering above everything else, the Feral Dragon sees all, showering the nearby Zone with the most Survivors with its deadly dragon breath, or flying to the next adjacent tile to further smash the village and chase its prey.
Bringing down the Feral Dragon will certainly not be easy. Each time it lands it features a vulnerability to only a specific weapon type, and damaging it only makes it fly away, waiting to dive into the village again when a new Spawn card is drawn.
Only once all of its eight Vulnerability cards have been used, the Feral Dragon is finally eliminated for good from the game (its Spawn cards now bringing some respite to Survivors).
Will you be backing the Zombicide: Green Horde Kickstarter?
"And if hordes weren't enough, wait until you see the Feral Dragon!"
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Really not that impressive of a quick funding (It`s a Zombicide Kickstarter, thew always worth a lot) but I’m not very impressed so far. Except some things here and there, I’m not liking this one so much. I will wait, it’s only been one day xD
already in, loads of stuffing being unlocked, hmm wonder who Hyg and Hyld are based on 😉
Not sure about this one either. I signed up for Black Plague and boy was that a good move. Great game, great stuff and a shed load of minis. Too many minis in fact. The brunt of them never got played with even though the game is played often enough still and will continue to be. Now I’m asking myself do I really need the same thing but with loads of orcs and even more hero minis? Could this not just have been released as a supplement to black plague? There is some lovely stuff in Green Horde – the… Read more »
It’s very much quantity over quality for CMON these days. I backed Black Plague and I have backed this so far but to be honest I’m sat here thinking do I want a box full of filler that will never see the board?
I might skip this and keep the funds for something worthy.
Backed this and counting down to it already!
We often play ZBP with up to six players using two heroes each so we end up using quite a few of the characters. Plus it gives people the opportunity to pick someone they really like.
You could also try a random pick to change it up.
And if you had a gaming group with a lot of time to invest you could play through all three quest arcs as a campaign. If a character dies they’re gone for good and their owner would pick a replacement.
I have several friends who back ZBP and both ended up selling the exclusives because they are not required nor ever used. They are not backing Green Horde and are just waiting on the side lines for this to come to retail next year some time. In typical CMON style they will be late and there will be problems and after KS support has never been strong with them. However, they know their marketing and the Dragon is a big draw. I rather wait to see what Monolith Board Games has for us with Joan of Arc and Ragnarök.
A bit harsh. This’ll be my fourth CMON KS and I haven’t had any bad experiences with them. They even got the core game for ZBP out months early so people had it for Christmas. Massive Darkness had to revise it’s schedule and got delayed but that’s a regular issue with KS. I’ve backed 30+ projects and the majority have run into some kind of issue with time. For me the difference is how they handle it. CMON send out regular updates and keep everyone informed. It’s the guys that leave their backers with unanswered questions that I have a… Read more »
It is not “value” if you do not make use of the items and nothing is ever free. You are paying. The cost my not be apparent, but nothing is free.
OK, not to denigrate CMON, I think they’re terrific. But how is a Zombicide expansion funded on the first day with over $1,000,000 and TMS’ Vampire Covenant Kickstarter is still struggling to meet its goal???
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516875985/tms-vampire-covenant-army?ref=user_menu
Simple, CMON has great marketing and people fall over themselves for CMON KS. The point of KS was to help new designers but few first timers get a chance thanks to CMONs pre-sales use of KS. CMON is a known quantity even if it is junk food.
Regardless of the quality of their games, your point about them stifling the little guy couldn’t be further from the truth. CMON single-handledly turned crowd-funding into a gravy train for the industry and the amount raised by tabletop gaming projects of all sizes exploded in 2012 thanks to them, and has risen year on year since then. In 2011, Vampire Covenant doesn’t get close to their current funding total.
I will argue that CMON did not single-handedly turn crowd funding into a gravy train. There are many before them that paved the way to elevate the visibility of KS as a viable way of marketing and getting funding. Those include Pebble: E-Paper Watch and Exploding Kittens that created enough visibility it was covered by even local newspaper including my local town paper. Video game companies made the initial trials into KS and Tim Schafer, Keiji Inafune, Brian Fargo, and Rand Miller made it a viable platform for funding game development albeit not board games they proved that there was… Read more »
The point of KS has never been to help new designers.
It’s simply been an alternative funding method that is more accessible to people who don’t have any experience in talking to (potential) investors.
@zane5546 : some products just don’t have that mass market appeal …whereas Zombicide/CMON also have a proven track record.
And even for the big guns in the KS business timing is extremely important.
Too much Zombicide. Time for something new.
the figures look fantastic.
Not a surprise at the funding level. That’s the sixth? KS they done now selling us the same game 😀
Oops, looks like I’ve backed another game!
Pulled my pledge. I couldn’t justify spending 120-130 quid on a board game where all those ‘extras’ won’t even see the light of day.
I might be one day be interested in a zombicide sci-fi game but this fantasy setting has never really done it for me.
Might be miniature saturation (if something like that exists), but this does not do much for me. Reasons: – quite an expensive entry level, I’m forced to get the ballista and the dragon … with shipping, this will be around $150 … that would not be a problem if the miniatures were almost all to my liking, but – most of the miniatures (especially the stretch goals) don’t do much for me … I’m not a fan of those tribute miniatures that look a bit out of place in such a setting … others are too generic (guess I’m hard… Read more »