When DCeased was announced a lot of returning fans were a little disappointed to learn there would be no playable Zombie mode to match with Marvel Zombies. Now of course there are a number of reasons for this; they’ve been explained elsewhere if you’re interested. As for myself, I say there’s always reasons not to do something. I think a bunch of us want to do it anyway. So this is my effort, over the coming months, before the Kickstarter ships out I will have posted playable rules for every Zombie Hero. You can mix them with your Marvel Zombies, custom up some rules to run them in DCeased missions, or just laugh at how bad my ideas are. Lots of people have some cool ideas for how to make these characters. These are just mine.
My customs are designed to feel balanced next to existing designs. They are designed with simplicity in mind; simplicity is what makes Zombicide so fun. I also design my customs to match the sculpt of the model and the version and powers that are presented there. In designing custom playable Zombie Heroes I have developed the term “Militia” as a shorthand to mean Trooper, Guard or Specialist. All cards were made using Wuxyteo’s card creator, which is pretty great.
Continuing our tour of the Asylum, we come to Killer Croc. Croc is a tank design who can take a good amount of abuse, and gets faster and tougher when his Hunger is high. He has a reliable basic attack with two dice hitting on 3+. At Blue he has a solid tanking ability letting him increase Hunger to ignore a hit once per round, which helps him keep his Hunger high for his other skills while protecting him from small hits. At Orange he has a free charge and devour attack that will help him keep up with faster characters while checking his Hunger. At Red he becomes very hard to kill when his Hunger is high, and when he is Ravenous he ignores almost all attacks, making him a solid wall for holding back waves of goons and smaller heroes. You’re only really vulnerable after you Devour something, so you want to try and keep your Hunger high, but not so high you burn out and die from wounds sustained ending your activation while Ravenous.
