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[PbP] [Pandemic] - Game 20 - Game Over - Terrific Trio Take Down Trouble
stever777
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Welcome to Pandemic, Z-Man Games' game of global disease containment. In this game, players take the roles of five Center for Disease Control (CDC) operatives, racing against time to cure outbreaks.
You and your companions are highly skilled members of a disease-fighting team waging a battle against four deadly diseases. Your team will travel across the globe, stemming the tide of infection and developing the resources you'll need to discover the cures. You must work together, using your individual strengths to destroy the diseases before they overtake the world. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics accelerate the spread of the plague. Will you find the cures in time? The fate of humanity is in your hands!
Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out.
Players must work together, playing to their characters' strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. For example, the Operation Specialist can build research stations, which are needed to find cures for the diseases. The Scientist needs only 4 cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal 5.
But the diseases are breaking out fast and time is running out: the team must try to stem the tide of infection in diseased areas while also towards cures.
A truly cooperative game where you all win or you all lose.
This will be a Play-By-Post Base Game of Pandemic for 5 players, participants from sign-ups.
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Pandemic is a cooperative game. You and your fellow players are members of a disease control team, working together to research cures and prevent additional outbreaks. Each of you will assume a unique role within the team, with special abilities that will improve your team’s chances if applied wisely. The object is to save humanity by discovering cures to four deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red) that threaten to overtake the planet. If you and your team aren’t able to keep the diseases contained before finding the necessary cures, the planet will be overrun and the game will end in defeat for everyone.
The Board & Cards
-The Turn Phases-
1. Take 4 actions
2. Draw 2 cards to add to his hand
3. Take on the role of the Infector (cards drawn & tokens placed by Host)
After the Infector has gone, the player’s turn is over and the next player begins his turn.
-Actions-
BASIC ACTIONS
Charter Flight
Play the card corresponding to your pawn’s current location, and move to any city on the board. Discard the card to the Player Discard pile.
Shuttle Flight
If your pawn is in a city with a Research Station, move it to any other city with a Research Station. (See below for details on building Research Stations.)
Direct Flight
Play a card from your hand and move your pawn to the pictured city. Discard the card to the Player Discard pile.
Drive (or Ferry)
Move your pawn to an adjacent city. Cities are adjacent if they are connected by a red line. Red lines that go off the edge of the board “wrap around” to the opposite board edge and continue to the indicated city. (For example, Sydney and Los Angeles are considered to be adjacent)
The Dispatcher may move other player’s pawns on his turn (using any of the available Basic actions) as if they were his own pawn. He may also spend an action to move a pawn to any city that contains another pawn. He may only move other players’ pawns if they permit him to do so.
Note: For the Charter Flight action, the Dispatcher must play the card corresponding to the current location of the pawn he wishes to move.
Pass
A player may also elect to pass (and do nothing) for an action.
SPECIAL ACTIONS
Discover A Cure
Once your team has discovered all four cures, you win!
If your pawn is in a city with a Research Station, discard 5 cards of the same color to cure the corresponding disease. Place the spent cards into the Player Discard Pile.
The Scientist only needs 4 cards of a color to discover the cure of the corresponding disease when performing the Discover Cure action.
Build A Research Station
Building Research Stations helps your team move from place to place.
Research Stations are also required for discovering cures. Play the card corresponding to the city your pawn currently occupies, then place a Research Station in that city. Discard the card to the Player Discard Pile. If there aren’t any Research Stations left in the supply, select one of the Research Stations already in play and transfer it to the city your pawn occupies.
The Operations Expert does not have to play the card matching the city his pawn occupies when performing the Build A Research Station action. He simply spends an action to add a Research Station to his current city.
Treat Disease
Over the course of the game, your team can treat diseases to buy the time needed to discover cures. Remove a disease cube from the city your pawn occupies. (Each removed cube costs one action.) Place the removed cube back into the stock by the side of the board. If players have discovered a cure, instead of one cube, remove all cubes of a cured disease in your current city for one action.
Eradicating a Disease
If a cure for a given disease has been discovered and all of the disease cubes of that color have been removed from the board, flip the Cure marker for the disease to the “Sunset” side. From now on, cards of this color have no effect when drawn on the Infector’s turn. Cubes of the eradicated color will not be used again for the rest of the game.
The Medic may remove all the cubes of a single color (instead of 1) when performing the Treat Disease action. Also, if the Medic at any time finds herself in a city that contains cubes of a disease that has been cured, she may immediately remove all of those cubes. This unique ability is in effect during all players’ turns and does not cost any actions to perform.
Share Knowledge
Sometimes it’s hard for one player to get the cards necessary to discover a cure. The Share Knowledge action (while difficult to perform) can be useful in these cases. Transfer a card from one player to another. Every card transferred costs 1 action. Both your pawn and your fellow player’s pawn must be in the same city, and you may only transfer the card of the city that you are in together. (For example, if you are together in Moscow, only the Moscow card may be transferred from one player to the other.) If either player holds more than 7 cards as the result of a transfer, the excess cards must be immediately discarded to the Player Discard Pile.
The Researcher may give a fellow player any card from his hand when involved in a Share Knowledge action. He is not restricted to giving the card of the current jointly-occupied city, like other players are. This freedom only applies when the Researcher is giving a card—he always receives a card with the same restriction as other players. The Researcher can utilize this ability when involved in Share Knowledge actions on any player’s turn.
-Special Event Cards-
-Hand Limit-
-Sharing Information About Cards-
-Infector Phase & Outbreaks-
Chain Reactions
If any of these new cubes would cause the total number of cubes of that color in an adjacent city to exceed 3, additional outbreaks may occur, causing a chain reaction. Note that each city may only outbreak once in each chain reaction.
DEFEAT OR VICTORY!
-A player needs to add disease cubes to the board and there aren’t any left of that color in the supply.
-The eighth outbreak occurs (the Outbreaks Marker reaches the skull symbol on the Outbreak Indicator).
-There are not enough cards in the Player Draw Pile when a player must draw cards.
Players collectively win the game immediately when the cures for all four diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red) have been discovered. Players do not need to administer cures to every infected city in order to win the game—victory is instant when any player discovers the fourth and final cure.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Reserve obviously, due to several recent games.
@JusticeforPluto
For a legal game of the Dynamic Duo?
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Or, you know... holidays and other games. Postpone by a couple of weeks, maybe?
@Kirindal
@JusticeforPluto
How many Epidemics?
You may now choose your roles in that player order.
"Random" is a valid role choice.
I know, there are 2 Operations Experts shown.
Only one is available.
Also, the Bio-Terrorist is not available.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
As always, RANDOM
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Geth roll 1d11+1d10+1d9 for Kaneski*Kirindal*JusticeforPluto
Kaneski gets Generalist
Kirindal gets Dispatcher
JusticeforPluto gets Scientist
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
You all start in Atlanta, at the Research Station, (red cross icon).
3 cities received 3 disease cubes.
3 cities received 2 disease cubes.
3 cities received 1 disease cubes.
These cities are not in danger of receiving more cubes until an Epidemic card is turned over from the Player Deck.
Then, those card are shuffled and placed on top of the Infection Deck and that's when the trouble starts, as outbreaks begin to occur.
Obviously, the 3 cube cities are the most dangerous, as they could outbreak the fastest.
Please ignore the purple cubes, as we are not playing with them this game.
You can click on the board to see it enlarged to read the cities and texts.
Kaneski has 5 actions to play, due to his ability.
Starting hands -
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (3/7) - Paris; Hong Kong; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (3/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (3/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing
Kaneski - grey
Kirindal - mediumorchid
JusticeforPluto - red
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Well, he is my fav!
You can use any color you want except the 2 being used by the others.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Discard Paris to travel to Paris. Treat Paris x 2. Drive to London. Treat London.
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (4/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Hong Kong; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (3/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (3/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
2. Move JusticeforPluto to Paris
3. Move JusticeforPluto to Algiers
4. Move JusticeforPluto to Cairo
@stever777
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (4/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Hong Kong; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (4/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo; Riyadh
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (3/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing
Washington got hit with 3 cubes because of the Epidemic.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (4/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Hong Kong; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (4/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo; Riyadh
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (5/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing; Bangkok; Sydney
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Humm.. have the cards to cure red and blue, but very spread. Another turn of defusal probably though...
Treat London x 2. Move to New York. Move to Washington. Treat Washington.
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (6/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Moscow; Hong Kong; Jakarta; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (4/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo; Riyadh
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (5/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing; Bangkok; Sydney
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
2. Drive to Khartoum
3. Drive to Cairo
4. Ferry to Riyadh
@stever777
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (6/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Moscow; Hong Kong; Jakarta; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (6/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo; Buenos Aires; Cairo; Riyadh
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (5/7) - Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing; Bangkok; Sydney
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Roles, current hand sizes & cards -
Kaneski - Generalist (6/7) - Atlanta; Khartoum; Moscow; Hong Kong; Jakarta; "New Assignment" Special (Any player may discard their current role and select one from the remaining roles.)
Kirindal - Dispatcher (6/7) - Chicago; St. Petersburg; Sao Paulo; Buenos Aires; Cairo; Riyadh
JusticeforPluto - Scientist (7/7) - Toronto; Essen; Los Angeles; Beijing; Bangkok; Sydney; "Gov't Grant" Special (Build Research Station in any city for free.)
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Ok, I think it's time to start conspiring to cure some stuff. Unless we're phenomenally unlucky and the next epidemic is near our already endangered areas, we have 2 epidemics to cure something. Sadly, Red is the easiest to cure and also the least problematic. However, Blue is also not out of reach with some cleverness.
I'm thinking - I use up Moscow to defuse it this turn. We use Gov Grant to build an RS in Riyadh. Kirindal RS travels to Atlanta, pulls me to Atlanta; then goes to Chicago and pulls JfP to Chicago - this means Kirindal is in Chicago, and I'm in Altanta. JfP then has the exact moves to grab 2 blue cards and cure it. We're then also in a reasonable position to travel out via the RS to put out any fires.
Thoughts?