Why the Grave Weapons minis are worth the price...

[Grudunza]

Because...

1) the Grave Weapons are really cool to have on your zombies

2) it's a PITA moving them all around with the little markers under them

I played my first game with SOTF last night, and we did "Supply Run", which uses the Manor House. While I barely got a chance to make use of the new Unique Items and Survival Tactics decks, the Grave Weapons were used almost constantly and to great effect by my friend and his son. They were quite often maxed out on the limit of 4 Grave Weapons each. So on several turns, they had 8 Grave Weapons Zombies to push around and there was a point when about 5 different Grave Weapons zombies, 2 Zombie Heroes and 3 Heroes were all moving around in the Manor House, bumping into the barricades there.

Suffice to say that when I was explaining the Grave Weapons at the beginning of the game I had said that while they sell a set of minis for them, I wasn't going to bother getting those... but by about halfway through the game I said, ah, you know what, I think I'm going to get those minis after all.

I know people have complained about the price point of these new LNOE expansions, and I do believe that the Grave Weapons mini set is still a chrome or luxury purchase compared to SOTF or the Hero Pack, but I think that if you intend to play this game often, you'll probably find like I did that it was a really great thing that they made these minis available and that the price (which I've seen for as low as $16.21 from Boards & Bits) is going to be worth it.