"Zombicide - What Next?" Topic

As most of you are aware, the popularity and success for this game is due to its playability and that fact that it taps into popular culture to provide survivor miniatures that are recognisable from a variety of media franchises. Who doesn't want to have the cast of The Big Bang Theory fighting Zombies across an urban landscape?

Similarly, the current Black Plague Kickstarter takes Zombicide into a new genre – Medieval fantasy – and anyone who's looked at the survivors from this game is sure to recognise several characters from both recent and cult movies set in this period.

Partially inspired by Blax the Kleric's excellent AAR's for Zombicide, which feature Batman and Commissioner Gordon fighting the Hyena's were-troops and the unique team-up of Han Solo and Dcotor Who combating the forces of the Cyber-leader and the Great Intelligence, which can be found on his blog – fantorical.blogspot.co.uk – I have been speculating on where CMON will go next with this game…

Two possible genres spring to mind, namely Western and Sci-Fi.

So, for the first, tiles representing an abandoned frontier town, survivors drawn from stock Hollywood cliches such as Saloon Girl, Prospector, Gunslinger, Masked Ranger, etc. with Zombies being represented by zombified town residents, cowboys and native Americans. This would be Zombicide: Boot Hill or somesuch…

For the second, tiles representing the claustrophobic corridors of a colony spacecraft, the stasis pods of which have become infected, with only a handful of survivors being disgorged, to try and fight their way through the ship to those still-functioning escape pods. Survivors drawn from such movies as the Alien franchise, Silent Running, Event Horizon, etc. Would the zombies be standard zombies or some kind of mutated strain? Or something like the Vashtaa Neraada from Doctor Who? Would there be new rules for blowing external hatches, to suck the zombies into the void? And waht would be a good name for this – Zombicide: Dark Space or something else?

Just speculating…

I thought about zombies in space ala spacehulk as well. Another possibilty would be zombies in an apocalyptic world.

I'd love to see a Wild West or sci-fi version of Zombicide. I know it won't happen but setting Zombicide in Judge Dredd's world would be a dream come true for me. Dredd has fought zombies before so it could happen again.

I'd rather see Wild West first before Sci-fi, personally.

~iPaint

I have "contemporary" Zombicide, but neither medieval fantasy nor weird west are my thing.

As for sci-fi I rather see SWAT and spec ops teams in labyrinthine underground medical research complexes fighting off supersoldier zombies who can morph their own techno-organic shooty and meelee weapons plus other monstrous "Lovecraftian" mutations. Yes, we can call it "Zombicide: Resident Evil."

That would just be too awesome.

Zombiecide world war 2 would be my sweet spot. Survivors of course would be varied …..ww1 might be great. Chibi zombiecide….with a similar aesthetic to super dungeon explore…

I like the old west Zcide idea.

For a sci-fi version, I'm already getting Space Cadets: Away Missions which is very close to this concept (though, it's vs aliens, not zombies.

Fanatik: For the Lovecraftian style of a Zombicide-type game, check out The Others (whose Kickstarter begins in September): link

How about a Zombicide: Mardi Gras expansion? The streets of New Orleans, the bayous, survivors in costume and a variety of zombies that have been called from the swamp? You could include the Necromancer rules from Black Plague and make them proper Voodoo zombies, and then we could have half-rotted crocodile-men Abominations…

Aside from Lady Hawk I didnt recognise anyone in the last zombicide. Well something to do tonight :)!

Rogzombie – If you're referring to Black Plague, we have characters from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Mortimer, Bob & Gilbert), Snow White & the Huntsman (Queen Medea, Lady Faye & Paul), Bram Stoker's Dracula (Falstaff), Army of Darkness (Troy & Evil Troy), Xena (Xuxa), Labyrinth (Hitch), Ladyhawke ( Piper & Gregoire), Braveheart(Danton) and the Name of the Rose (James). At least that was my interpretation of the artwork…

I'm thinking it will go "3-D", meaning multi-floor buildings & lots of room-to-room fighting. Sewers & Subways might make a good expansion set, too.