Zombicide Black Plague - Quest B32: Switcheroo

Zombicide: Black Plague (2015)
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[@WhiteKiwi71]

Fun playthrough! I'm up for more Zombicide content!

[@tomwchick1]

By the way, Mr. Phour, now that I've pulled out all my Zombicide stuff, I'm wondering if Green Horde hasn't "obsoleted" Black Plague. It seems like a bunch of things in Green Horde might be intended as "fixes" for issues in Black Plague. For instance, the new spawning system seems to address player confusion about double spawns and extra activations. The starting equipment is much better, and it looks like there's an effort to tune some of the trash out of the equipment deck. The zombie "ecology" also seems more dynamic with the orc zombies. And vaults have been replaced with simply "vault loot". So for my own purposes, I think I'm just going to skip ahead to Green Horde. And unless I'm mistaken, there's no reason the scenarios in Black Plague won't work just as well with Green Horde rules? Anyway, just something for you to consider if you're moving ahead with more Zombicide. Which I hope you are!

[@tomwchick1]

Oh my gosh, look at the lengths you've gone to squeeze everything in-camera, complete with a scrolling map! Mr. Phour, I am constantly impressed with your ingenuity. Hope you'll continue doing more Zombicide with your copy of Black Plague (And maybe eventually Green Horde curated in? Although I'm wondering if Black Plague and Green Horde are best kept separate?). EDIT1: Love those white bases under the fatties. They really *pop* on camera! You mentioned painting the runner bases to distinguish them, but what I ended up doing was slightly less drastic, but might not help much for your top-down purposes. I took a red sharpie and just traced it around the edge of the runners' bases, giving them a scant few millimeters of red on the board. From an oblique perspective, it's plenty, but it might not read for us viewers. EDIT2: 12:16 Mr. Phour is struck with the sudden realization that he's playing with a set of "gag" characters and promos! : ) Remember this is CMON and they're just interested in selling you stuff, not helping you figure out how to add it to your collection so you can play it. Which you've basically solved by picking the artwork that made you smile, which is as good as any die roll! EDIT3: 33:00 I'm guessing the "each Survivor" is just imprecise rules-writing for "each Survivor who discards a red token". Otherwise, it probably would have been written "all Survivors"? But it certainly made for a "bizarre game", as you called it! EDIT4: Nice interpretation regarding "sides" of the map! You won me over. Besides, if it had worked the other way, splitting the spaces on that central tile, it should have read "halves". Good call! EDIT_FINAL_I_PROMISE: And dagnabbit, you've driven me to pull down my copy of Zombicide Black Plague/Green Horde and now I'm clearing off a table and pulling everything out and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. : ) Keep up the great work!

[@CeePhour]

EDIT: Changed some thoughts (I woke up at 2AM thinking about this and felt I was wrong about some aspects, so I changed it a bit). I am still not 100% sure how to interpret "each Survivor" - looking over some of the other scenarios now, I think you're right, it's almost as if they left off the rest of their usual sentence. Almost every other scenario seems to clearly word it as "each objective gives 5 Experience Points to the Survivor who takes it". This one just says "each Survivor gains 5 XP", which isn't very helpful at all, and looking at it now instead of in the moment, it seems like maybe it was a copy and paste fail when they made the PDF. Or perhaps they meant "the Survivors on the side of the board that had the mobs wiped away gain 5 XP", or "all Survivors on the side of the board that made the discovery gain 5 XP". Quest B42, which makes it VERY clear by writing "taking an objective grants 5 XP to ALL survivors". At the time it sounded good to provide XP to ALL survivors because of how bizarre it is to split the party, and being able to wipe the mobs away. Which also could use some clarity as I had to assume the middle title didn't count. How interesting would it have been if the zombies were teleported to the other side of the map instead of just wiped away! On top of all of that I find the Objective placement really bizarre. You've got four indoor areas that are walled off by doors that seemingly serve no purpose, perhaps just to create alley ways for tension? Maybe it was an intentional shrinking of the map to account for the split party. I would think the obvious would be an Objective in the top left room at the very least, but that imbalance things due to the elimination of the zombies. The lower left red Objective would be better placed in the room on the other side of the alley (directly to the right of the left side Survivor start),. Also, the blue objective being right inside the door is odd, it would make more sense to put it two rooms down (directly to the right of the right side Survivor start). If I bungled the 5XP horribly I didn't pay close enough attention to note if I even utilized the Orange powers much. I know Iron Hide and +1 Move Action were used, but getting the the Yellow power of +1 Action is very powerful that early and probably made this too easy. It also felt like the zombie spawn cards took it easy on me for the first time ever :)

[@jucchee]

@@CeePhour I think it might be possible that "each survivor" means "all survivors" because that would've triggered only with the red objectives and not with the blue and green ones, or at least this is what I seem to understand from the pdf you brought up! So maybe you would've not gotten to the orange skills as fast, but to the yellow ones definitely! PS: maybe this is all wrong, I've never played Zombicide in my life but you're one of the few creators I can follow when teaching rules so thanks for that! :)

[@tomwchick1]

@@CeePhour Unfortunately, what we're probably seeing here is the inevitable result of CMON throwing up a website with 50+ scenarios available. If there's one thing I've learned about CMON, it's their preference for quantity over quality. :)