Pandemic the Board Game (Play-by-Forum)

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Alright update pending.

 

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Curing black this turn is more for two reasons:

1. You all only get approximately 5 more turns each. (!!!)
2. It frees up space in Marcher's hand if he doesn't draw black. BC if you wait a turn and he doesn't draw black, he'll be stuck with discarding at least one non-black. (Only 7 cards can be held at one time.)

 

[Timsup2nothin]

There is also the option of leaving from Cairo if someone can get a Station up before, that would save the card. Yet, since black cards wont be that valuable anyway after we get the cure maybe I should just burn it.

Yeah I think we might be well served by the direct flight from Baghdad so long as we don't need that card for the cure.

Curing black this turn is more for two reasons:

1. You all only get approximately 5 more turns each. (!!!)
2. It frees up space in Marcher's hand if he doesn't draw black. BC if you wait a turn and he doesn't draw black, he'll be stuck with discarding at least one non-black. (Only 7 cards can be held at one time.)

If he doesn't draw black we ship him one and he cures before he has to discard. He may have to leave those cubes though, so the St Pete move might have been a mistake. My bad.

What do we have to do to win? Cure all four diseases?

 

[Synobun]

What do we have to do to win? Cure all four diseases?

Infect TS with all four diseases at once.

 

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Yeah I think we might be well served by the direct flight from Baghdad so long as we don't need that card for the cure.


If he doesn't draw black we ship him one and he cures before he has to discard. He may have to leave those cubes though, so the St Pete move might have been a mistake. My bad.

You have to discard at any point you reach eight or more cards. Without a black draw, he'll lose cards.

What do we have to do to win? Cure all four diseases?

Yes. Not eradicate them but cure them. Board state doesn't matter as long as you cure all four before a loss condition is triggered.

Infect TS with all four diseases at once.

Actually, in Pandemic Legacy...

Nevermind. Spoilers.

 

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FYI, legacy games affect the next game in order. What you do changes what happens next game, and there's usually a story line. Pandemic has TWO legacy spin-offs.

 

[Synobun]

Stupid question, but a city can only get a cube of another colour through outbreaks, right?

 

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Stupid question, but a city can only get a cube of another colour through outbreaks, right?

Correct.

 

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End of Turn Eight
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Golden1Knight heard a large outbreak of Black Death was possible in Baghdad. He quickly left Delhi, even before treating any more patients. He met with doctors in Karachi to coordinate a strategy for their city, and they were able to treat the patients there. He reached Baghdad to see many people dying. His healing skills were quite remarkable, and many were shocked at how fast the city turned around. He knew, however, trouble was brewing in the world at large.

[One black cube has been removed from Karachi. Three black cubes have been removed from Baghdad. Golden1Knight is now in Baghdad.]

CARD DRAW

Golden1Knight has drawn two cards:

INFECTION DRAW

Blood Flood is growing worse in the city of Osaka. The city has implemented new measures to slow the spread, but epidemiologists fear it may be too late to stop it. [Osaka receives one red cube.]

Karachi doctors worked hard to remove the Black Death from their city, but they were unable to treat every patient. [Karachi receives one black cube.]

Turn Nine
Year 2033, March 12th​

State of the World:

@Marcher Jovian:
You are in St. Petersburg. You have 4 actions. Choose any in a mix and match fashion:

Drive/Ferry: Move to a connected city.
Direct Flight: Discard a card to fly to that city.
Charter Flight: Discard a card to fly from that city to anywhere.
Shuttle Flight: Move between research stations.

Treat Disease: Remove a disease cube from your city, or 3 of a cured disease.
Discover a Cure: Spend 4 cards of the same color at a research station to cure a disease.
Share Knowledge: Take or give a card that matches your city with someone also in that city.
Build Research Station: Discard a card matching your current city to build a research station there.

You are the Scientist.

You only need 4 cards to Discover a Cure.

Location: St. Petersburg

Current Cards

Infection Rate: 2 Cities per turn

Outbreaks: Zero.

Epidemic Possible?: Yes. (6/11 cards remain in the section)

 

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Players and Card Hands:

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Synsensa
You are the Operations Expert.

You have two special abilities:
1. You can do the Build Research Station action without discarding a card.
2. Once per turn, you can move anywhere by discarding a city card if you are at a research station.

Location: Algiers

Current Cards

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Marcher Jovian
You are the Scientist.

You only need 4 cards to Discover a Cure.

Location: St. Petersburg

Current Cards

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Timsup2nothin
You are the Researcher.

You can do the Share Knowledge action and give any card without that card matching your current city. (i.e. if you are in the same city, you can pass any card to another player. Ignore the Lab Challenge text.)

Location: Shanghai

Current Cards

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Golden1Knight
You are the Medic.

You have two special abilites:
1. You remove all cubes of one color when treating disease, even when the disease is not cured.
2. If a disease is cured, all cubes of that color are automatically removed when you are in a city (and therefore no more cubes can be placed there while you stay there).

Location: Baghdad

Current Cards

 

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Infection Discard Pile:

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Upcoming Cards in the Infection Draw Deck:

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[Golden1Knight]

Yes. Not eradicate them but cure them. Board state doesn't matter as long as you cure all four before a loss condition is triggered.

Then we might as well just ignore Delhi and Kolkata

 

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Then we might as well just ignore Delhi and Kolkata

For now, yes. You should prioritize getting to three cube cities.

 

[Synobun]

I don't see how MJ can cure this turn. He'll spend 4 actions getting to Cai— Lol, nevermind. He can go to Baghdad, take G1K's Baghdad card, and then I can burn both my event cards.

Do we want to burn my two cards already to get a cure now?

 

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I don't see how MJ can cure this turn. He'll spend 4 actions getting to Cai— Lol, nevermind. He can go to Baghdad, take G1K's Baghdad card, and then I can burn both my event cards.

Do we want to burn my two cards already to get a cure now?

Other option is go to Algiers and take your black card, then ship Tim's black over to him.

 

[Synobun]

Other option is go to Algiers and take your black card, then ship Tim's black over to him.

I think he should take G1K's... because G1K is already at 6 cards but can get 2 more reds and cure red. You mentioned that the moment you reach 8 cards you have to immediately discard one (so you can't have more until the end of your turn), so wouldn't it be more useful t— Then again, I can fly anywhere from a research station...

I'm already losing the scope of things.

 

[Synobun]

I think he should take G1K's... because G1K is already at 6 cards but can get 2 more reds and cure red. You mentioned that the moment you reach 8 cards you have to immediately discard one (so you can't have more until the end of your turn), so wouldn't it be more useful t— Then again, I can fly anywhere from a research station...

I'm already losing the scope of things.

I have a black and a red. The black goes to MJ. I have a red that I can give to G1K so long as he stays where he is. Then he'll have 4 reds and needs just one more for a cure, which he can do in Cairo.

 

[Marcher Jovian]

I don't see how MJ can cure this turn. He'll spend 4 actions getting to Cai— Lol, nevermind. He can go to Baghdad, take G1K's Baghdad card, and then I can burn both my event cards.

Do we want to burn my two cards already to get a cure now?

yeah I think we may have made a mistake going to St. P instead of Algiers but then again we didn't know we would draw that autotransfer card. I *think* the Baghdad route is the right way to go?

 

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Let me suggest going Algiers.

Here's why:
G1K can't fly anywhere except with that card.
Syn can just by going to Cairo.

 

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And actually using the free research station in Cairo means he can go anywhere anyway.