Zombicide!
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Associate
WOW seems way over the top to me but rules is rules, I don't think I'll use that considering I've only ever had one survivor die, even starting in the next threat bracket up!
That is only available to Doug assuming he is in the red level, at which point the player should be spawning quite a few zombies each go (and maybe giving away activations) so isn't too crazy. From 50 rolls you'd expect around 16 hits.
What missions have you been playing? I'm surprised you've only had one surprised die? I've played 4 (one from the compendium the name of which I can't remember and 'Might makes Right' from the rule book) missions since the weekend and haven't won one yet.
Man of Honour
We very rarely have anyone die when we play, but we run a house rule or two which makes a couple of things more forgiving. That said, one of the last games we played from the Prison set we got absolutely hammered through a few bad acivations, including an Abomination within the first 2 turns. That wasn't so fun! 
Man of Honour
The main one revolves around shooting into a zone with survivors. The standard targetting priority means you have to target (and kill) the survivor before you can hit anything else, unless you're using a sniper rifle. My usual group of players thought this was a bit daft, so our house rule is that if you roll the dice and score a hit, you target the zombies as usual. If you roll a miss, you hit the survivor instead.
To be fair we've actually only used that rule twice in about 6 games, but to us it makes a bit more sense than absolutely having to hit the survivor first.
To be fair we've actually only used that rule twice in about 6 games, but to us it makes a bit more sense than absolutely having to hit the survivor first.
Soldato
I quite like the sound of the hit/miss scenario on the roll.
Soldato
Liking that as an idea... Might play it like that next time.
Did a game yesterday where it descended into utter madness, we all just started trolling each other! I pulled a huge group on top of me, then shoved them towards my mates and moved into them to attack. Everyone else then decided to just shoot into the mob killing me... But we had so many zombies on field that there were multiple extra activations and everyone died.
Was funny
Did a game yesterday where it descended into utter madness, we all just started trolling each other! I pulled a huge group on top of me, then shoved them towards my mates and moved into them to attack. Everyone else then decided to just shoot into the mob killing me... But we had so many zombies on field that there were multiple extra activations and everyone died.
Was funny
Man of Honour
It just seemed to make more sense to us. Why do we HAVE to hit the survivor first? Never really understood that rule. Our rule is only really a minor change (considering most players don't leave themselves in a zone with zombies that often), but still makes you consider whether you shoot into a zone or not. Something like an SMG is going to cause major damage to any survivors in the zone as you'll likely roll a lot of misses.
Soldato
If you roll two hits and there is only one zombie and one survivor, what do you do? Assign both hits to the zombie because it's a hit?
Soldato
I like the targeting priority rule and it makes sense if you think of the gun combat as targeting a zone as an inexperienced gun user whilst considering that all actors in the targeted zone are NOT stationary.
Also pretty much any changing of that rule makes the guns way too overpowered IMO!
Also pretty much any changing of that rule makes the guns way too overpowered IMO!
Man of Honour
Yup, I'd consider both shots as hitting what they were aiming for.
I don't like it as it just doesn't make sense to me. What if there are 5 zombies and just one survivor. Why should I have to kill that one survivor before I can kill the zombies? I have zero incentive to do so, I might as well leave him there to die as he'll be dead either way.
I agree with having a targetting priority for the zombies as it would be far too easy otherwise, but I've always felt that any survivor in the zone should only be hit if you miss your shot, not hit first automatically.
Associate
Some people in France have started to get their tracking notifications, from previous experience with these campaigns it'll probably be a week or two after our European brothers receive theirs.
Man of Honour
I just want to get it in the next week, I go on holiday a week Friday and don't want to worry that it's bouncing around somewhere while I'm out of the country.
Associate
I think at this stage with tracking notifications not appearing for the UK at all yet, you'll be lucky if you see it before you go tbh.
Associate
Personally I've always thought that was a daft rule, I like the idea of a miss being an auto hit on a friendly will use that one in our next game and the risk using that new method is still high enough to make a player reluctant to shoot into a friendly square, we house ruled the searchs so that only a limited number of cards are available in each room, we sort mission required items in to the pack before we deal out the cards for a building endlessly searching till you found something decent just seemed wroung to us & our way adds to the tension of a game IMO.
Man of Honour
Aye, I'm thinking the same. Hopefully then it'll arrive after I come back (only away a week), I'd just rather they didn't try delivering it a few times and then sending it back when I'm not in. I guess it depends on the courier they use, I know a few keep it in their warehouse for a couple of weeks before returning it to sender. I'll just have to keep an eye on my emails and perhaps try contacting the courier the same day I get the email.I think at this stage with tracking notifications not appearing for the UK at all yet, you'll be lucky if you see it before you go tbh.
Took some inspiration from Jed Shields earlier in this thread and upgraded my survivors cards to make it easier to manage my equipment cards etc.
I created a high resolution design of each of the survivor cards and printed it on to heavy stock card (300gsm), trimmed them and laminated them. This evening I have started sticking card sleeves on to the equipment spots on the survivor card.
The lamination means I can use a marker pen on the card to keep track of my experience points, and even make notes about what skills I have or how many of my actions I have used (it can get confusing some times if you don't pay attention), the lamination means I can wipe them clean when I'm done. The sleeves work really well and keep everything in place.
I created a high resolution design of each of the survivor cards and printed it on to heavy stock card (300gsm), trimmed them and laminated them. This evening I have started sticking card sleeves on to the equipment spots on the survivor card.
The lamination means I can use a marker pen on the card to keep track of my experience points, and even make notes about what skills I have or how many of my actions I have used (it can get confusing some times if you don't pay attention), the lamination means I can wipe them clean when I'm done. The sleeves work really well and keep everything in place.
Man of Honour
I just got mine as well. Fingers crossed it arrives now before next Friday 