Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz – Part 2.

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Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz

As I noted in my last Zombicide Crowz-related post a couple of weeks ago, right after finising the photos of them, I found another box of the same models – the Black Plague versions with the appropriate cards for that game.

Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz

The next thing to do at that point was to knuckle down and grind through this second box of the models. The thing was, that I was retrospectively not that satisfied with the original “fantasy” Crowz I’d painted a year ago in January 2023 – or more precisely with the basing. You see, Zombicide Black Plague takes place in streets and buildings, much like the modern incanation of the game. 

Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz

Sure, they’re medieval fantasy buildings and streets, but streets nonetheless. But how could I reflect this while still leaving the models looking approriate for other fantasy gaming and more importantly, be reasonably doable? By adding some cracked and broken tiles, with a bit of dry grass to tie them in with the original five of these.

The idea being to give the bases a feel that works for decaying fantasy streets as well as for a “Fantasy Battles” setting. So I used some plastruct tiled card along with some AK Interactive mud to experiment with them, and it seems to have worked out okay. The tiles are WAY too thick for this strategy to work on the human zombies, so I’ll have to figure something else out for them down the road. But for the Crowz at least (and probably, the Wolfz) this solution works.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Since I (think?) I “stole” 5 “Modern” Crowz from another box of them to paint as those first five fantasy-themed ones, I painted five of these as “modern zombicide” ones. I even briefly considered adding road line markings to the bases of these – and it would have made them look better for the modern genre, but then with some reflection I decided that the gritty, dirty grey still works pretty well for a fantasy setting – so these will work just fine for Fantasy Zombicide in the event that we need extras in a game of Black Plague/Green Horde/White Death/Pink Marshmallow.

Zombicide 1st Edition Balck Plague: Murder of Crowz

I also thought that now with 35 painted Crowz between the two sets of models, I should get a couple of group shots in tribute the the Master of Suspense himself, P̶a̶u̶l̶ H̶e̶y̶m̶a̶n̶ Alfred Hitchcock and that film he made…

I finished this second batch of 15 Crow models early in the month, despite only getting to post them now. On the weekend, Marouda and I were in the shed, playing some Marvel Zombicide and discussing our boardgame collection (and what I need to paint!) afterwards, and what did I find on the shelf, unopened?

Oh no…. another set?

22 thoughts on “Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz – Part 2.”

  1. Excellent work mate, and I really like the basing, would also work for modern apocalypse once the roads start to get taken over by the flora and cracked sidewalks. More to come as well by the looks of it as well ! LOL

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      • Yea, depending on the mechanic…even a mob made up of 1hp creatures is going to hit a good bit of the time and at least wear a party down. More of our characters have died from mobs of Kobolds than a Dragon!

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      • Yeah, the game is pretty simple – regular zombies have take 1 hit to kill – crowz are the same.

        Unfortunately, while walker zombies have one action per turn, and runners have two, the crowz have three….

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  3. I look forward to Mr. Punk saying he’s a Hitchcock guy! 😉 That is a ton of crows and there’s more!? I commend you for getting them done. Having to paint all those would drive me crazy or take me many years to actually complete.

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  4. The horror movie is what you’re experiencing: boxes of crows multiplying in your house without you remembering you bought them!

    The choice of bases is more than appropriate for any fantasy setting, from the run-down street of a town to the floor of a cemetery, to a poorly paved road outside the city… How thick are the tiles you inserted into the bases?

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    • You’re not wrong there! Along with paints/models/dice/etc disappearing and then reappearing days later.

      Took a couple of days to check – but the tiles seem to be about 1mm, so pretty thick – and too much for footsloggers with integral bases.

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