Pandemic legacy: October

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Well, that was an exciting month! Colin was op expert and I was Colonel. We had to find patient zero as well as a paranoid soldier, who has been telling people that coda (the zombie disease) is manufactured by the military.

We found both, and thus learnt that the soldier was not paranoid, but correct. We found a mole - the soldier (because he had an upgrade, otherwise it would have been ops expert) - and discarded him.

Now we have to destroy instead of build military bases, the military is just going to get in our way.

But best of all, we now have the ability to build a vaccine! And an immunologist on our side.

Finding the two lost people was two of our three needed objectives, we'd cured and eradicated blue early on, and then it was all fire fighting until Colin cured red, two turns before the end of the game. Then we almost gave up as we were almost out of red, satisfied that we'd still had a good game, but we decided to keep trying to clear up red because I only needed one yellow to cure yellow. So, at one red cube left, I drew my yellow card to cure (bearing in mind that curing is instant because of earlier end of game upgrades), and an epidemic card. So if we hadn't won that turn, we would have lost.


So, win, and long term progress and story furthered.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

I've been waiting to see how you reacted to the consequences of finding the Paranoid Soldier. But for obvious reasons I couldn't say that. (-8

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

As soon as we started searching, Colin said 'I bet he's not paranoid but right'. But you're right, it's lovely to be finally at the actually making vaccines stage as well as dismantling the military.

[gerald_duck]

Mmm. Earlier in the "year" I noticed your not liking what the military was up to and trying to convince yourselves they weren't really killing people. I do like the twist the Paranoid Soldier reveals, and the wide variety of ways in which different groups have reacted to it.

In our case, our Dispatcher was Sagittarius, which was both a shock and a blow!

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a nice twist (albeit one I'd seen before).

I don't think we've played the dispatcher once! Nor have we played the generalist.

Also, it's beginning to feel very endgamey - all parcels except 8 have been opened, and there's only one window left on the evil advent calendar.An a little bit like we might end up at the end of December with a game that's basically vanilla Pandemic.

[gerald_duck]

Um. Which window is still closed? By my reckoning you should have opened them all, now.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

A looks closed, but I shall check the rules booklet, it's possible we reclosed it.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

We lost our Generalist and were *gutted*. (Plus the way you have to throw in your hand when you become a civilian ruined our chances of curing anything that game.)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

We have never played the Generalist, so probably wouldn't miss them.