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.
Next up in the Gotham Ghoul Gallery we have The Huntress. For this version of Huntress I broke a personal rule and designed her in a way that doesn’t exactly line up with the sculpt of the miniature. I already designed a melee centric version of Huntress for the Gotham City Outbreak Box, so for this one I wanted to focus on her hand crossbow and shooting people from the dark. We needed more ranged characters in the mix anyway.
To start with she has a very accurate attack, rolling only 1 die, but hitting on a 2+ She may not be able to fire shots from all the way down the street but she is pretty lethal within her short range. Her Blue skill lets her turn up the killing power to snipe an extra guy with every volley. At Orange she gets the ability to escape from Melee after she has to close in to make a Devour attack, as long as she has an empty Zone to flee in to. Finally at Red the same unbreakable will with which she used to pursue vengeance is bent towards murder, allowing her to act as normal while Ravenous. She still takes damage, but she can stay on her much more deadly ranged strategy until it’s safe for her to eat, if she has to.
