by Shardra
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Reply: Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie:: General:: Re: LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY HEROSCAPERS EIGHTH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CHARITY EVENT
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Thread: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: What if you're not great at Pandemic?
by Miller4h9
Okay, another question as I'm preparing for my Pandemic Legacy campaign starting next week!Um... what if you're not really that good at Pandemic? I have a ton of plays under my belt, but it is by no means a foregone conclusion that I will win a game. In fact, I still lose a lot more often than I win (at least I think). And that's just me! I'll be playing with a friend who probably has at least 10-15 plays under his belt (thanks to yours truly), a player who's played it but not too extensively, and a player who's first game was with me before winter break (I'm a college student) on the Legacy board.
Is general ineptitude going to give us a negative Legacy experience? I certainly would be ashamed if we had to open Box 8....
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Thread: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Rules:: "Grassroots program" after a disease has been cured: remove *all* cubes from a city?
by Wretched Git
If you use "grassroots program" after a disease has been cured, does it allow you to remove all of those disease's cubes from a city? Not sure, since the card doesn't mention "treatment"...↧
Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Rules:: Re: "Grassroots program" after a disease has been cured: remove *all* cubes from a city?
It does not allow this, precisely because it doesn't mention treatment. You need to read the cards and stickers very literally. It is also important to note that grassroots program allows only the removal of "cubes", which will become important.
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: What if you're not great at Pandemic?
I wouldn't worry about it. If you fail games your "funding" goes up, so you get more helpful event cards added to the player deck, which also increases the time between each epidemic. And there is no shame to opening box 8!
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Reply: Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie:: General:: Re: LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY HEROSCAPERS EIGHTH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CHARITY EVENT
by Kunonin
Thank you!! :)↧
Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Rules:: Re: "Grassroots program" after a disease has been cured: remove *all* cubes from a city?
by Wretched Git
reverendunclebastard wrote:
It does not allow this, precisely because it doesn't mention treatment. You need to read the cards and stickers very literally. It is also important to note that grassroots program allows only the removal of "cubes", which will become important.
Ah, thanks... that was my next question!
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What You Leave Behind
*please note, there is some tippy-toeing around Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 trying carefully not to spoil anything in this blog-post. We are only a single play in so I can't do that much damage, but there are some pictures of game contents and board, although only things that you see upon opening the box*
So: a new number 1 ranked game here on the geek then! That doesn't happen very often I gather (and it occurred despite the concerted efforts of some to spike the rating).
Appropriate then that we chose this day, the first of 2016, to begin our Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 campaign.
It's quite intimidating, and exciting, opening up the box - with it's mysterious sealed black boxes and the top secret dossiers containing stickers. Having just been through December with the Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015 it's a bit like that, so many doors to (potentially) open; but this is much more portentous...!
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It opens just like the regular game, although you are aware of the gravity of the situation after reading the (starting) rules and understanding the new consequences of outbreaks and possibility of permanent character death.
I will offer one solemn piece of advice, and this is nothing to do with the gameplay, protect that legacy deck and don't - as I did - knock the entire tray onto the floor in a moment of ham-fisted excitement. Our horror at seeing the game's "A.I." strewn across the floor was quite something!
Luckily the deck has sequential numbers in the corners and I was able to reconstruct it (in the rule book it suggests getting someone who is not involved in the game to do so in just such an eventuality, but I wasn't prepared to knock on a neighbour for that!!). I didn't see anything much and it certainly hasn't spoilt anything for me; phew!!
After not too long a period of playing this (first, one presumes) event happened....
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...the glee on his face as young Bill realised that we MUST destroy a game card was a sight to behold. Mrs B couldn't quite comprehend at first - "what? Really RIP it up? Surely not! We must just keep it safe somewhere.."
Nope. It's gone. For good....
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Brilliantly, maddeningly, the game got away from us.
We failed January (first attempt only so far, we'll get one more crack at it).
We're pretty experienced Pandemic players, we know what we're doing and we would have won on the very next players turn, but the wrong card came up and we were lost (to be fair, about 5 or 6 cards would've had the same effect).
You see, we had a chance to do something "cool", and we stretched ourselves too far in trying to do it. Now we have permanently altered our game board in a detrimental way and Mrs B's character carries a scar.
We were overconfident and a bit cocky, and the game slapped us down. Hard.
We f***ed up and now we have to deal with the consequences.
And do you know what? It's absolutely exhilarating.
We've had a single play.
And already I can tell you that it's quite some legacy...
So: a new number 1 ranked game here on the geek then! That doesn't happen very often I gather (and it occurred despite the concerted efforts of some to spike the rating).
Appropriate then that we chose this day, the first of 2016, to begin our Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 campaign.
It's quite intimidating, and exciting, opening up the box - with it's mysterious sealed black boxes and the top secret dossiers containing stickers. Having just been through December with the Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015 it's a bit like that, so many doors to (potentially) open; but this is much more portentous...!
It opens just like the regular game, although you are aware of the gravity of the situation after reading the (starting) rules and understanding the new consequences of outbreaks and possibility of permanent character death.
I will offer one solemn piece of advice, and this is nothing to do with the gameplay, protect that legacy deck and don't - as I did - knock the entire tray onto the floor in a moment of ham-fisted excitement. Our horror at seeing the game's "A.I." strewn across the floor was quite something!
Luckily the deck has sequential numbers in the corners and I was able to reconstruct it (in the rule book it suggests getting someone who is not involved in the game to do so in just such an eventuality, but I wasn't prepared to knock on a neighbour for that!!). I didn't see anything much and it certainly hasn't spoilt anything for me; phew!!
After not too long a period of playing this (first, one presumes) event happened....
...the glee on his face as young Bill realised that we MUST destroy a game card was a sight to behold. Mrs B couldn't quite comprehend at first - "what? Really RIP it up? Surely not! We must just keep it safe somewhere.."
Nope. It's gone. For good....
Brilliantly, maddeningly, the game got away from us.
We failed January (first attempt only so far, we'll get one more crack at it).
We're pretty experienced Pandemic players, we know what we're doing and we would have won on the very next players turn, but the wrong card came up and we were lost (to be fair, about 5 or 6 cards would've had the same effect).
You see, we had a chance to do something "cool", and we stretched ourselves too far in trying to do it. Now we have permanently altered our game board in a detrimental way and Mrs B's character carries a scar.
We were overconfident and a bit cocky, and the game slapped us down. Hard.
We f***ed up and now we have to deal with the consequences.
And do you know what? It's absolutely exhilarating.
We've had a single play.
And already I can tell you that it's quite some legacy...
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: What if you're not great at Pandemic?
by damianbis
I played with a group where none of us had played more than ~10 games of pandemic. and All of our ~10 games of pandemic had been with 3 or 4 epidemic cards. (so never played with 5 epidemics like in legacy)We are up to December in 17 games. at most we will play 19 games.
We felt like there were only maybe 2 games where we were not going to win the game from early on. even some of the games we felt like that we ended up winning. most of our losses were VERY close losses and it came down to us having to take a gamble on which city would outbreak and the wrong one outbreaking.
We played most of the game with funding of either 0 or 2. so if i was you i wouldn't be too concerned.
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Rules:: Re: "Suppressed" Mutation (No Spoilers)
by mleacock
clivej wrote:
I guess the interpretation for your first question hinges on whether "When you Treat, ..." means "When you Treat Disease", or "When you Treat this disease".
For me, the latter makes much more logical sense. And it would have been easy enough for them to say the former if, somehow, for some reason, they'd intended it.
On the second question, by "your city", does it mean "the city you are in" or "the city you are Treating"? Again, the latter makes more logical sense.
I agree that could have been more tightly worded, though.
For me, the latter makes much more logical sense. And it would have been easy enough for them to say the former if, somehow, for some reason, they'd intended it.
On the second question, by "your city", does it mean "the city you are in" or "the city you are Treating"? Again, the latter makes more logical sense.
I agree that could have been more tightly worded, though.
Our intention: "When you do the Treat Disease action ..."
In some cases (due to space constraints) we've had to favor brevity over clarity. We plan on using this more explicit wording where possible.
If you see an action word capitalized (for example, "Treat") we explicitly mean the action.
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: What if you're not great at Pandemic?
by clydeiii
Legacy is easier than vanilla. Also so what? You lose some, you win some. It's not like you're playing against humans. It is a nice coop puzzle that people are rating high for the experience more than the game itself.↧
Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Variants:: Re: We need you to go back in time. Two-board Pandemic. (spoilers; play after Legacy is finished)
by Serendip01
Mike - that's a really original and well-thought out scenario. I like the way you've incorporated both the PL board and the regular board into the gameplay.We've finished PL: S1 and I'm definitely keen to give this a go!
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Reviews:: Re: A step down from Pandemic - avoid like the plague.
by Myoman
Didn't terra mystica shoot up to the top 5 that fast?↧
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Thread: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: What is the objective of the game?
Disclaimer - haven't played yet.
Since the game is a campaign, I searched the PDF manual for the victory condition of the campaign, but found none. Is it a spoiler? Do you win the campaign by winning at month 12? By winning all the months once? By having more total wins than losses? Is there no victory condition and you should pretend that every game is its own entity, even when you're obviously at a huge disadvantage from having won too much (and you'd thus rather prevent scars and maximise eradications than win the game)?
Since the game is a campaign, I searched the PDF manual for the victory condition of the campaign, but found none. Is it a spoiler? Do you win the campaign by winning at month 12? By winning all the months once? By having more total wins than losses? Is there no victory condition and you should pretend that every game is its own entity, even when you're obviously at a huge disadvantage from having won too much (and you'd thus rather prevent scars and maximise eradications than win the game)?
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: How many games did you play up to the end of your Legacy Experience? *NO spoilers*
by Styyx
getsumaiki wrote:
I should add, that particular rule caused numerous outbreaks for us, in fact i dont know how you could avoid at least a few outbreaks from happening because of that rule.
Well they don't cause outbreaks themselves, so they can be managed if you keep an eye on the cards that are cycling through your infection discard pile.
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: Rules:: Re: "Suppressed" Mutation (No Spoilers)
by Antistone
mleacock wrote:
Our intention: "When you do the Treat Disease action ..."
I don't think there was really any question over whether "Treat" was referring to the "Treat Disease" action (it's capitalized and everything).
Clive seems to think that saying "Treat Disease" instead of "Treat" would clarify that you meant the less-intuitive version I outlined in the OP (where you can spend an action to treat 1 yellow cube and then remove all blue cubes for free). But personally, my analysis would have been unchanged.
If I were going to rewrite it to try to resolve this ambiguity, I would probably say either (key changes underlined):
(A) When you Treat this disease, remove all cubes of this color instead of one.
or
(B) After you Treat any disease, remove all cubes of this color from your city.
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: Season 2 - wild speculation and deepest desires.
by quadparty
rmsgrey wrote:
The obvious issue here is that either the replacement disease affects exactly the same cities as the original, or you find yourself with cities that are two different colours at once, and cities that have no native disease. I'm not saying it couldn't work, but it's going to throw all sorts of things off-balance...
I like base Pandemic, and I suspect this might unbalance or break the game, but I've always found it odd that, if the red virus has migrated to North America, red cubes don't get added in addition to blue cubes when a city card is drawn (I think this is how the purple cubes in On the Brink work). I'm not saying it should change, but it might be more thematic. Once a disease has spread to another area of the world, it's very hard for it to spread further, which doesn't seem like how it'd work with an actual disease :-)
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: How well did you do in the game? (ENTIRE season 1 spoilers!!!)
by webs05
getsumaiki wrote:
I wonder if people that say this games was easy either
1. played with two players
or
2. Didnt follow the ...
1. played with two players
or
2. Didnt follow the ...
My wife and I found this to be generally easier than regular Pandemic. But we've attempted regular Pandemic with 7 epidemics (of course we lost).
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Reply: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1:: General:: Re: Grats Pandemic Legacy...
by squidy
It deserves Rank 1 far more than Twilight Struggle does in my oppinion. But i dont want to play it right now or anytime soon - because i am done with that game and that means it doesnt beat a lot of other games i want to play right now in my personal ranking.↧