Inspired to Create Some Zombie Celts? We Can Help!

11-Oct-2009 Max Brooks, who created the exceptional novel World War Z and the faux-non-fiction Zombie Survival Guide has just released a graphic novel that "documents" Zombie outbreaks throughout history.

Called Recorded Attacks, the graphic novel features one story with a Celtic Zombie outbreak in Britannia and the Roman response. You can download this excerpt by clicking here.

We've been inspired by this story to give you the tools to build your own Celtic Zombie Hordes! To achieve this, we've created a new Mash-Up set (combining sprues from multiple Wargames Factory hard plastic sets) that will allow you to build up to 22 Zombie Celts!

Check it out by clicking here!

Comments on this article:

Zombie Celts are hilarious...I am really tempted. There must be a reason why Caesar's first invasion of Britannia was a rather short affair after all ;) Memo to myself: Buy and read 'World War Z'... Cheers Labienus

Amazing stuff. I have to admit I want this graphic novel now, and I have been doing a little Kit bashing myself!

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That was cool, and it would be a great B-movie...

i have to admit I bought all three of Max's books.

Not a comment on your models (excellent, BTW, and I can see a lot of other figure ranges being “Zonbiefied” too) but on the extract from Max Brooks’ opus. “X” doesn’t mark the spot as far as Fanum Cocidi is concerned – it was much further north than shown, but not so far north as to be in Caledonia – it wasn’t even in Scotland (except for a short while around the time of Macbeth) but it’s about as far north as you can go and still be in England. It was in Briganti territory, possibly that of the Carvetii sept. Also it never looked like the illustration; in fact no Roman fort had gates with machiolated towers, that’s a medieval invention. Otherwise, if you want somewhere to set something spooky, Fanum Cocidi is a damned good choice. Even on a sunny day, there’s a weird feel to the place. Partly it’s the isolation – in a small place like the UK, nowhere is far from anywhere else, but Fanum Cocidi has a good go. It’s in the middle of an area still called Bewcastle Waste, there are few people around and it is usually silent apart from birdsong (and the occasional bleat, but even the sheep appear subdued). That’s unless the RAF are doing a bit of low flying, then it’s briefly, but VERY, noisy… Fanum Cocidi even sent the Romans loopy. As a rule, Roman forts are rectangular, although sometimes the angles can be skewed (e.g. Whitley Castle) or the fort can be truncated (e.g. the Dover “Classis Britannica” HQ). Also forts with Earth(or Turf)-and-Timber ramparts tend to have wooden gates, towers and other structures (at least initially, although stone gets incorporated if the sites are occupied for extended periods). Fanum Cocidi had an irregular hexagon ground plan, and an earth rampart but with stone gates… It’s been suggested that the Romans wanted to occupy the whole of a small hill situated in a valley as it was sacred to the local War God - hence the name, “Shrine of Cocidius”. It’s a good way to subdue the locals – “Your War God isn’t up to much, our lads are all over his sacred place…” . But eventually the Romans ended up worshiping him themselves. Fanum Cocidi is usually regarded as having been built at the same time as Hadrian’s Wall, but given the unusual strategic significance Max could be right and it was an outpost for the Stanegate Frontier.