Zombicide

But since they've sold off so much of their, I'm just going to call it their good stuff, right? I mean, it was really good IPs that they gave away.

All of Zombicide went over to Asmodee.

So many other things went to Asmodee.

Other companies bought pieces of their IPs.

Yeah.

And I think that what you're saying there is really interesting, right? Because, uh, dungeon crawlers have a long history in board games, and I can credit a specific type of dungeon crawler, uh, not the Carl version, but, uh, the game Zombicide, s- specifically Black Plague, was very formative in my modern love of board games, right? Like, I grew up playing, like, Life and Monopoly and, and all these different games, all the normal quote, unquote, "games" when I was a kid with, uh, my mom.

And as I got into the hobby board game space, um, about 10 years ago, I found Zombicide, and that game really appealed to me because of the way you're capturing a bit of that RPG element, right? You're taking a character, you're leveling it up, you're fighting these hordes of zombies.

They have specific ways they interact and do things, all that stuff, and I love that game to this day.

Like, it's, it's not as, as big on my list as it used to be, but I still own a massive amount of that game.

If anyone's like, "Hey, I've never really played hobby games before.

I, I kinda like these kind of things," well then boom, I'm like, "Cool.

We're busting out Zombicide, and you're gonna love it." And I have yet to have someone that I've played Zombicide with that was like, "No, this game sucks." So it's-

Um, Andy was talking about his miniatures getting painted.

After years of enjoying the Zombicide line of games, I've had Green Horde for, for a number of years.

I finally got the opportunity to play it a couple weeks ago.

No way.

That was, that was the thing that blew me away, is how well we kept everybody leveling at a more or less the same rate.

We had a couple people out ahead of the rest, but nobody was crazy far behind.

And then one of the biggest challenges in Zombicide is not having one person just farming all the XP, 'cause that seems to happen so many times, and it, and it just unbalances the game.

Yep.

Yeah.

To me, it feels like MCP and Zombicide had a baby.

Yeah, I can see that.

And I love Zombicide.

I'm signed up on GameFound for the little Kickstarter thing.

It's not Kickstarter, it's on GameFound.

Well, first of all, I don't think we got it wrong.

I mean, we have Lake of America, don't we? But no, we call it tabletop wargaming because when you talk about tabletop miniature gaming, it could be anything from Zombicide to Warhammer 40K to HeroClick, anything with kind of dudes on the map.

But with wargaming, which actually is one of the oldest forms of tabletop games, When I was a young man, there was something called Chainmail, which was the original Dungeons & Dragons, which was very much a tabletop war game.

But I don't

Once the model is assembled, you can start playing and enjoying yourself straight away.

can we use the term for quote no knickers or will that be put out at the podcast we'll ask our moral advisor um i found the same thing and like there are even outside of um that kind of mini board game, they sell it with the models and they get the shock and awe with that.

I mean, if you look at games like Zombicide, they overproduce a lot of the games and you're talking about hundreds of minis.

And if you do get to paint them all, fantastic for a player to use.

Mais justement, ça sera intéressant d'en, d'en parler avec vous, d'avoir vos retours là-dessus, pour voir comment vous le, vous le, vous le vivez, si vous vivez ça comme un-- en fait, à l'o-, à l'origine, le, le, le but, euh, de la partie narrative du jeu, c'était de dire : je veux faire un jeu en campagne coopératif.

C'est comme, euh, The Crew, comme, euh, avec les zombies, Zombicide.

Euh, des gens, voilà, où vraiment, où chaque partie est différente parce que c'est un niveau différent, une situation différente.

C'est pas le même plateau qu'on répète.

Oui, tout à fait.

Euh, tu vois les personnages d'au-dessus avec des figurines et le gameplay du jeu, c'est, euh, est-ce que j'ai la portée pour attaquer ? Est-ce qu'il y a un obstacle ? Est-ce que je suis emmêlé du boss, etc.

Euh, Donjon et Dragon, euh, Zombicide, tous les jeux que vous, que vous pouvez penser, le gameplay central, il est spatial.

C'est je suis à combien de mètres, etc.

He says that Gloomhaven is definitely better on PC, in my humble opinion.

For one that doesn't have a digital version, or one I've never played, that would be Zombicide.

Oh, I think

Zombicide's a really good board game, the tactility of it.

I agree.

The tactility of it, it's a very simple game, really, when it comes down to it.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry when you said that because we were talking about Zombicide the other week.

We'll have to play Zombicide.

We'll have to play Zombicide.

In my head then I was thinking, did we play Zombicide? I don't remember playing Zombicide.

And I'm picturing like putting the tiles out and everything and getting the characters.

It's called Dead of Winter.