Guillotine Games Take Zombicide Fantastical With Black Plague
April 8, 2015 by brennon
Guillotine Games have revealed that the next step in world domination for their undead filled board game Zombicide is to take it back in time to a new Fantasy realm with Black Plague!
As you might imagine this new iteration of the game puts you slap bang in the middle of an infested city while the denizens of the local graveyard come out to tear you limb from limb thanks to the machinations of an evil Necromancer.
The Heroes & Villains
First up we have some of the artwork showing off both the heroes and the villains of the piece...
As you can see above Humans, Dwarves, Elves and a whole wealth of classes will be fighting off the zombie hordes who look typically horrifying in the Zombicide style. It will be cool to see how the new classes and their different powers work on the tabletop and how different of an experience this is now you HAVE to go into combat more or less to kill your foes.
Maps & Weapons
It wouldn't be Zombicide without a wealth of tiles to check out and a myriad of different options for slaughter either. You'll be running through the streets and delving into forgotten secret tombs in an effort to stop the Necromancers...
This could well be the one version of Zombicide that I'm actually interested in. I had other board games that did the modern day zombie thing a lot better but since this is back in a realm of Fantasy I could see myself being very drawn to what is essentially a dungeon crawl.
You'll be able to see this on Kickstarter by the end of May.
What do you think?
"This could well be the one version of Zombicide that I'm actually interested in!"
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Whelp, there goes my wages for June…..
Why does it still need a kickstarter?
It doesn’t, none of the current CMON projects do. They do it for the extra stuff, just as any other well-established company, that goes on KS.
a zombie killing nun, awesome! now i just need to save some money for it! 😀
I would imagine by using Kickstarter it means they put very little if any of their own capital into the project. I had my very first game of Zombicide on Sunday and it was epic we ended up putting one of the characters in a room with two pistols whilst a horde of about 20+ zombies came to devour him.
That’s one of the reasons. It also allows them to gauge exactly what the demand is and meet it with exactly the right amount of product, which will almost certainly be a lot more product than if they didn’t KS. The fanbase gets a lot more product and gets it all as a reduced price. Everyone wins, though some people will still complain about it.
Except FLGS that is. They lose out and then we all lose out when they close.
No they don’t. Zombicide is one of the top selling boardgames at retail. Also, retail sales and revenues have increased year on year as KS revenues have increased year on year. Don’t make the mistake of assuming this is a zero sum game.
The timing is bad on the campaign but if CMoN open up late pledges like they did for Z3 then I’m in.
Yet another Zombicide?! Haven’t we seen enough zombie games now?
You could say they’ve been done to death…
Nope. we haven’t. The clue is that people keep buying them…
The game is really good, not enough zombiecide yet 🙂
Not played any but this one appeals to me more – Although I do have to say a time traveller with a boomstick would be a great hero 🙂 KS timing also bad for me unfortunately, but I reckon I will grab this at retail
They have the “not- Ash” hero in regular Zombicide. http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1433548.jpg
He will be pretty boring if he has just his gun though. Half of the fun in this game is collecting weapons.
Got to hunt the chainsaw hand 🙂 Really should get a game of the current one in.
I’m definately going to get a copy…
I just hope that this time they take the same approach that Ninja All-Stars by Soda Pop Miniatures is doing and not having KS exclusive heroes, monsters, and scenarios. Apparently overloading your KS with exclusives that directly effect gameplay can hurt your later retail sales. I’ve talked to numerous people who said that they won’t buy games like Zombicide or Arcadia Quest because of all the gameplay elements that they will never be able to purchase because they missed the KS. Upgraded components, free expansion packs, and a price below MSRP seems to be a new trend and those KS… Read more »
Zombicide is one of the top selling boardgames at retail. It sells more than Super Dungeon Explore. Most people aren’t in the KS bubble and will happily buy a game at retail. I am in the KS bubble and do back both of these franchises on KS. There almost certainly will be a fair few KS exclusives in this campaign because it’s CMoN’s MO. They partner with studios to produce and distribute their IP, they don’t own that IP themselves, which means they are incentivised to maximise the KS revenue. SDE is a great example of why they do this.… Read more »
Picking Zombicide as a goal for the “collect’em’all” campaign is pretty lame, if you ask me. There’s just soooo much stuff… Better buy whatever catches your eye and settle. If you want a particular character, you can always go the “overpriced/ebay” way.
…Had a game of first season on weekend, but we picked a hard mission, and I don’t have the Toxic City Mall expansion, hence no zombivor versions of Season 1 characters. Replaced them with additional heroes from season 2 and had a blast.
I will be all over this project,I knew there was a reason that I was never fully convinced to go all in on my deadzone and ninja all stars pledges…they just didn’t really get my motor running…
Ash would be pretty great to play with this one.
EEEK! I’m so excited! I hope it includes some sort of time travel element so the other Seasons can connect to it. Army of Darkness anyone??
“This is my BOOMSTICK!”
I love this idea and I love Zombicide. One of the best board games out there in terms of playability and easily learned rules.
This is just another setting for the great game and one I’d love to play with. More!
I would not back this kickstarter. Their last zombicide kickstarter still hasnt been delivered entirely and the people who have gotten it keep complaining of missing components, misprinted cards or damaged components. They managed to deliver sets to stores for retail months before backers started getting their copies and the only excuse was that things happen so deal with it. They just started expediting deliveries to backers now since this new kickstarter is starting soon.
If you want the game, just buy at on a store next year. You wont have to deal with delays, paying for shipping and bad customer service. They dont need your money so the project will get done and it will be faster to just buy it at the store next year than wait for months as a backer as your local store gets supplied with new copies.