That TCG Blogger

If you’re anything like me, then you enjoy a nice good zombie killing game, and if you enjoy it as much as I do; then you’ve probably already heard of “Zombies!!!” by Twilight Creations. Recently, they have just announced their ninth expansion (which is a lot for a board game), and I don’t believe that TC had released any official information on their website; but thanks to the use of Google, more is now known about this expansion. The set is called “Ashes to Ashes”, based on the ancient burial prayer, therefore they finally picked they finally picked the greatest location (in my opinion) for a “Zombies!!!” set. Yes, that’s right, get your dancing shoes on and play some Thriller, because we are going to the graveyard!

Not only that, but “Zombies!!! 9” adds a new type of zombie to the mix, and in my opinion its one of the creepiest things they could’ve done. Yup, zombie children; just when you thought it was easy slaying the undead, they add young children who just want to give you a hug of death. Now not much is known about what they do, but I’m assuming they’re going to be harder to hit just based on the fact that they are kids, adding a bit of an emotional side to the game. If they add no secondary effect with these characters I will be very disappointed, as with the clowns; but I’ll save that rant for another day. The game also adds a new effect to the cards called “automatic”, now I don’t know too much about this effect (since it hasn’t been revealed); but I’m assuming they’re making the cards like instants or they activate “automatically” when they are drawn. Personally, I would prefer the latter just so it adds that extra sense of chaos into an already chaotic game.

Along with all of this already amazing information, I also found four preview event cards for the set, and just wow. The first one I saw was very flavorful (which is always a good thing), “You’re gonna turn into one of those….things!” is a permanent that allows for the player to place a zombie on the space where any pawn just died; which is the first we’ve actually heard any reference to the disease itself, which is nice. Just when you thought there wasn’t enough weapon denial in the game already, “How do you kill a thing that’s already dead?” allows one to steal an opponents weapon in play, making that extra boost even more deadly. The last two cards they revealed are both “automatic”, and since I don’t know what automatic is yet, I can’t fully comment on the effect of the cards; but I must say that they are both excellent as regular events. “We have a little problem” adds zombies to every space in the cemetery; and I’m really hoping that it means every space on the map in order to cause true chaos in the game. Since the set is called “Ashes to ashes”, it is fairly obvious that a card be called “Dust to Dust”; and Twilight Creations doesn’t live down those expectations. The card resets every player’s heart and bullet tokens to three and this effect can go two ways: either by destroying that player who spends his/her time collecting tokens, or helping the player who is on their last heart and with no bullets. I personally enjoy cards like this that are multi-situational, and if the “automatic” effect does what I hope it does; the player won’t get to choose when it happens making the game even more chaotic.

Twilight Creations built the original game “Zombies!!!” with as much chaos as they could throw into it, such as event cards that can put a player from first to last, fair chances in battles against endless enemies, and even not knowing what the map will be till its drawn. Those ideas make the game what it is, amazing and fun. They took the whole idea of a zombie apocalypse and melted it down into a board game that truly lives out the experience. I believe that, just by the previews, “Zombies!!! 9: Ashes to ashes” has the potential to be the best set in the game. Throwing in more chaos, if the automatic feature works like I think, and a new concept, the zombie children this expansion will be the one to get.

Preview Score: 10/10

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