Pandemic (Victory!)

[GeorgeBailey]

/in sub

[GeorgeBailey]

Wish you all the best Charles.

Hello Tw! I'm getting off work right now and I'm gonna catch up/refresh on the rules when I'm settled down. Glad to be in here!

[GeorgeBailey]

Greetings Farren!

I watched a YouTube video last night on how to play this so I'm not completely lost.

So should I just keep on places with lots of cubes? I'm guessing I'm in the "treat disease " camp. For this game.

I know someone said earlier I should give Nancy my black card but she seems incredibly far away for it to be worth it.

But I could charter a flight from Mexico city to Nancy's location. Is that worth it??

[GeorgeBailey]

Epidemic city: Chicago (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

[GeorgeBailey]

Aight. Imma start heading over to Istanbul. I guess I should always stay on a node that's connected to 4 or more cities. So if anyone has a better idea lemme know.

1. MOVE TO WASHINGTON
2. Move to new york
3. Move to Madrid
4. Move to Paris

@Nancy we can meet in Moscow for the share research

[GeorgeBailey]

4. Move to Paris

Sorry,

change this to Algiers.

[GeorgeBailey]

Note that we have a Research Center set up in Riyadh, so moving to there from Atlanta (and vice versa) only takes one move. If you're trying to get over this way in a hurry, that's probably the fastest method that doesn't involve spending a card.

Also, I plan to clean up Istanbul on my next turn - although your nearby presence would help make sure that it doesn't have a chance to spiral out of control before I get there!

Thanks Farren! I forgot Research stations did that.

And yeah I thought I'd be more useful on a node with 3 blocks on it that's connected to a lot of cities in case of an outbreak. We already drew some blue cities so maybe it's more likely the black ones will get drawn.

[GeorgeBailey]

I’ll also be extending the deadline by 24 hours since you didn’t have a chance to catch up very quickly.

Thanks, I'm gonna change it a bit.

[GeorgeBailey]

Ok yeah maybe it's best I end my turn on Moscow so Nancy can just come by and pick up the card. If we rush a cure for black then that's pretty good, right?

(I'm not bolding this yet since I'm tentative)

1. Shuttle to Riyadh
2. Move to Baghdad
3. Move to Istanbul
4. Move to Moscow

Everyone good with that? ^

[GeorgeBailey]

1. Shuttle to Riyadh
2. Move to Baghdad
3. Move to Istanbul
4. Move to Moscow

[GeorgeBailey]

Pffft. I'm a bit stuck. I was thinking if I should shuttle to Essex and end my turn on Washington. We're pretty close to a blue Cure.

Or end my turn on Kinshasa since it's look pretty bad.

[GeorgeBailey]

Ah ok, thanks a lot Farren.

Thinking about it, It's probably best to rush a cure for blue since there's so many cubes on it right now.

Yellow is 1 away from an outbreak but it seems that it'll be harder to contain blue when we get some unlucky card draws.

I'm also very surprised about the lack of red cubes???

[GeorgeBailey]

1) Shuttle to Essen
2) Move to London
3) Move to New York.
4) Move to Washington.


Then next turn I can go and treat Khartoum and pray it doesn't boil over.

[GeorgeBailey]

1) Shuttle to Essen
2) Move to London
3) Move to New York.
4) Move to Washington.

[GeorgeBailey]

Miami (blocked by Quarantine Specialist) and Washington (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I assume that by "shuttle", George meant a Direct Flight

Yeah that's what I meant sorry


@TW what if instead of teleporting Farren, you teleport me to Kinshasa? That way I can hold the front in case of an outbreak. After you get the Washington card of course.

[GeorgeBailey]

Probably Osaka right?

We've gotten like 0 red card draws this game.

[GeorgeBailey]

Yeah I think my aim should be to end my turn on Toronto?

Like it only would take 2 draws to have an outbreak in NA. Then I'll just camp SA since it's close by.

[GeorgeBailey]

I was just thinking

1.Cairo
2.Riyadh
3. Shuttle to Atlanta
4. Washington
5. Toronto

How does that sound?

[GeorgeBailey]

Oh right right my b.

1. Move to Cairo
2. Move to Riyadh
3. Shuttle to Atlanta
4. Move to Chicago

Chicago seems like a better choice to end on since if we want to rush yellow I'm right next to Mexico city. Plus I'm connected to 6 cities.

Is there a point in treating if it'll be cured soon?

[GeorgeBailey]

Apologies, thought I submitted this.

Yeah I want to keep my Mexico City card. It seems more useful

1. Move to Cairo
2. Move to Riyadh
3. Shuttle to Atlanta
4. Move to Chicago

[GeorgeBailey]

Shit. I didn't see that sorry.

I was going to prioritize giving yellow to the worst by ending my turn on Bogota.

[GeorgeBailey]

Although since Nancy already got the red card I'll go to Manila

[GeorgeBailey]

Hm, what if we just try and eradicate blue? We're all near blue cities.

Farren is next to Paris, TW treats all of Washington, I end my turn in New York, and treat.

Then Nancy goes to Chicago using the card and treat.

Do you think that'd make it more manageable?

[GeorgeBailey]

Yeah, ending my turn on NY and treating is definitely the best play.

We could get super unlucky and get a bunch of outbreaks really fast, It's not worth it

.Afterwards I think I think i'll use my red card to go to Manila/Beijing and give Nancy my other red card. Although maybe planning ahead that much with 3 cards per turn is futile.

[GeorgeBailey]

Chicago (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

Chicago (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

Chicago (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

Spoiler:

[GeorgeBailey]

then pull you over to Bogotã (for example).

If you're going to move me to Bogota, then I should end my turn on Mexico city afterwards. I won't have enough moves to go to Beijing > Mana (vice versa) after giving you Bogota.


Nancy's definitely in a better position clearing red cubes until we can give her the last red cards.

[GeorgeBailey]

Although we could do super risky plays and not treat Washington. Then you'd be able to take Bogota in the same turn.

[GeorgeBailey]

1. Move to Toronto
2. Treat Toronto
3. Move to New York
4. Treat New York

Everyone good with that?

[GeorgeBailey]

1. Move to Toronto
2. Treat Toronto
3. Move to New York
4. Treat New York

[GeorgeBailey]

We would have been so hosed if I hadn't gone to Madrid.

Ayyy Blocked gang

[GeorgeBailey]

Duckspatcher, could you put me in the pacific ocean instead of Atlantic pls.

[GeorgeBailey]

Yeah looks good, plus since Nancy got a red card she's just one away from red and it'll be easier now.

[GeorgeBailey]

Above looks good!

Hot damn, we're getting lucky with the card draws. I think we can end this in 1 more rotation. Farren ends on Hong Kong, Nancy takes Hong Kong and flies to Chicago to treat on next turn.

I end my turn on Bogota and use Quiet night. TW cures yellow. Then we just gotta hold out so scientist cures.

We got this!

[GeorgeBailey]

Toronto (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

Spoiler:

[GeorgeBailey]

I know you didn't ask but I atleast wanna act like I'm helpful lol.

What if you

Move to Hong Kong
Take HongKong (Discard Tehran)
Charter Cairo
Treat Cairo

You can't cure this turn but atleast you'll be removing another threat. And it sets up for a cure next turn

[GeorgeBailey]

I realized one Quiet night can be played on other's turns.

Should I play it now and Charter to Manila>Tapei>Osaka>Treat Osaka next turn?

TW would just have to move me to him to get the card in Bogota then.

Then you'd just have to worry about black disease.

[GeorgeBailey]

yeah sorry, I keep getting those mixed up lol

[GeorgeBailey]

Play one Quiet night

Move to Washington
Move to Miami
Treat Miami
Move to Bogota

Everyone good with that?

[GeorgeBailey]

Play one Quiet night

Move to Washington
Move to Miami
Treat Miami
Move to Bogota

[GeorgeBailey]

The first one looks good. Plus I can protect other red areas too. Not just on my turn, but the entire rotation.

Although maybe Taipei? Beijing just got drawn so there'd be an unlikely chance it'd be drawn again right?

[GeorgeBailey]

I was also busy yesterday sorry

I'd have nothing to add either. Johannesburg is looking scary but there's no decent way to take care of it, and since it's the last rotation it might not even matter.

[GeorgeBailey]

Ayyyyyy

Back on track fellas

[GeorgeBailey]

Osaka (blocked by Quarantine Specialist)

And what a warm welcome too!

[GeorgeBailey]

I think,

Go to Riyadh
Cure red
Treat Disease
Treat Disease

[GeorgeBailey]

Sorry!

Was busy yesterday.

I was thinking

1. Move to Manila
2. Charter to Kinshasa
3. Treat Disease
4. Treat Disease

Isn't yellow the likeliest to make us lose? I think it we get unlucky and get an outbreak there we're screwed.

[GeorgeBailey]

Nancy could also Airlift Farren on my turn to take care of a 3 cube city for extra measures. (maybe Algiers?)

[GeorgeBailey]

Yeah you're right.

It's pretty hard to lose right now, so I'll go with TW's suggestion. We're so close to end game it's negligible.

[GeorgeBailey]

1) moving to osaka
2) treating osaka
3) moving to taipei
4) moving to manila

[GeorgeBailey]

@Nancy

if you see this before Lend does the turn, use your airdrop to move Farren to Algiers.

[GeorgeBailey]

Treat miami just to flex on them diseases

[GeorgeBailey]

5)

[GeorgeBailey]

i'd be up to run this again with content from the on the brink expansion if people want to play this again (although I don't know if you want to spend another half a year here)

the length of the game was unfortunate but I couldn't really prevent a few of the circumstances (such as save files not being portable between computers, grrrr)

Yeah sorry, I'm the guilty one who took forever to take my turns. It was mostly cause I really didn't understand the rules at first. Board Games take me a while to learn compared to most people but I got the just of it in the middle of it.

I'd love to play the expansion if you're ever running this again.