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Hi Gang,
I've been meaning to pick up Zombies!!! for awhile now, but my retailers of choice haven't had it in stock for a bit. I'm wondering about the endless number of supplement/sequel/expansion games in the series - are they standalone, or do they require the base game?

I think a couple are 'resets' and can be played standalone, but most expand the core set with new tiles, objectives, cards, and zombie types.

I know Zombies!!!4 is standalone, and it features zombie dogs. Also pretty epic to add to the original game.

I would recommend picking up the Zombies!!! base set and add expansions to taste. The base set comes with a horde of zombies, a decent number of map tiles, counters, and the figures to represent the players. Most expansions, otoh, only come with a few tiles/counters and a handful of whatever type zombie the expansion is centered around (clowns, kids, etc) or none at all. It looks like Zombies!!! 4 may be the exception, as it is the only one other than the base set that comes with 100 zombies (dogs in this case).

I think most of the expansions would work as standalone games, but you would need to pick up at least one Bag-O-Zombies to get the full effect.

I'd also recommend picking up a bag of 100 Zeds or Babes to go with the base set. Yes, it comes with 100 to start with, but I find those 100 to never be enough(maybe everyone I play with tends to be more dickish about the game because we never work together and always play the add zombies cards whenever we can).

I own 300 myself and I've yet to pick up any expansions.

Yeah, I've been wanting to pick up the base set, unfortunately there's not a lot of places around here that stock it at a decent price, and when I went to buy it a few weeks ago, their one copy of it had just sold... and they haven't restocked yet.

Thanks for the advice on #4 and getting a bag of zombies. I'll probably grab both when I get the base game.