We know what the game is now, and I have to say I’m excited and disappointed. The reason why I am disappointed in CMON’s 50th Kickstarter has nothing to do with what the Kickstarter is. But if you read my Crowdfunding Round-up just last week, you might be able to figure it out. Take a minute, the article is right here.

So, did you figure it out?

This all started with Quackalope, The Dice Tower, Man vs Meeple and more getting a package from CMON in the mail to open. You can read my initial thoughts and guesses here. And I dismissed what it actually was, but let’s stop beating around the bush, what is it?

Marvel Zombicide

Here’s the Quackalope reveal for it, and honestly I’m as giddy as Alex from BoardGameCo is on that video. I love Marvel, I know that might be a surprise, so I wanted to see what it is. The advantage of it being Zombicide is that while they sometimes do have campaign game play, most of the time it’s just scenario based. That means it will theoretically be easier to get to the table. But Zombicide is a game that has a fair amount of set-up to it, which makes it a bit harder.

But I teased that I was a bit bummed about the announcement and I said that I was giddy as well. So, I backed Zombicide: Undead or Alive. I’d avoided backing any Zombicide for a long time because while the game interested me, it’s a zombie game, and there are a lot out there. I don’t have that many, but zombies aren’t a theme that I need a ton of. But zombies in the wild west, that’s cool to me, so I backed it. However, Marvel Zombicide, I’m way more interested in that. I mean, this even coincides with them announcing a Marvel Zombies TV series on Disney+.

But now I’m going to have two Zombicides, do I really need two different versions of Zombicide. The answer, absolutely not. Thankfully CMON games tend to hold value pretty well, but also, there are going to be a lot of people getting this game and getting rid of other versions. So, maybe I will keep both for a bit, I’ll at least played and learn Undead or Alive while waiting for this one.

What To Expect From This Kickstarter?

Well, firstly, that giant Zombie Galactus, that’ll be something that you can add-on in the Kickstarter. Will I do that, probably not, though I’ll really want to. Why will I want to, because, man, it just look cool. But you can expect a ton of minis, you can expect the all in to be around $225-300. When I backed Zombicide Undead or Alive that was probably $200. And Marvel United X-Men, because I added the playmat was $300. So I expect this to be closer to $300.

You can also expect a ton of minis. If this does well enough that might be a literal ton of minis. But one thing I do love is that they announced this with the Fantastic Four, at least kind of. It was the Silver Surfer and Galactus. I hope that means that some of the first heroes for the game are the Fantastic Four. In Marvel United X-Men, we got them as an add-on which of course I got, but there hasn’t been anything that is focused on them. So I hope this starts with a focus that way.

I am also guessing we’ll see “team” packs as add-ons. So a Young Avengers team, X-Force, Avengers, X-Men, and more. I mainly want to be able to play as Gambit, but we already knew that from Marvel United X-Men. I am really curious to see who the bad guys will be. Are we going to have some heroes as zombies? Are we going to have some bad guys as playable heroes? There are a ton of questions, that I’m guessing we’ll start to get answers on soon.

When Is This Happening?

That’s a good question. They are teasing a date of 11/22, but it’s also being teased as that not being when the Kickstarter launches. So I think that’ll be the date that we find out when the launch is happening. If they are smart it’ll be soon because they are building the hype right now. And let’s face it, CMON is a company who knows how to run a Kickstarter, so it’ll be happening soon. And I will let you know when I know more.

Are you excited for Marvel Zombicide? Were you hoping for something different?

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