by Antistone
It seems like your objectives might be a little jumbled.
When you opened
box #6:
[o]You should have
1. destroyed the "have a military base in every region" objective,
2. gained the "sabotage 2 military bases" objective, and
3. added a new setup rule that causes you add 1 military base and 1 starting military base sticker to the first city that receives cubes/faded and doesn't already have a military-base-related sticker
At this point, your objectives should be:
1. (mandatory) cure the 3 normal diseases
2. quarantine 7 faded cities
3. sabotage 2 military bases
4. any searches you've received but haven't completed
[/o]
When you opened
box #7:
[o]You should have
1. destroyed the "quarantine 7 faded cities" objective
2. added a "have 3 vaccine factories on the board" objective
3. added a "vaccinate 6 faded cities" objective
At this point, you'll have 4 objectives (including the mandatory one), so you can complete at least 1 game without sabotaging any military bases at all.
However, the "vaccinate 6 faded cities" objective is destroyed at the end of the first game where you complete it. So if you've already completed that, you end up with a list of objectives that is just:
1. (mandatory) cure the 3 normal diseases
2. sabotage 2 military bases
3. have 3 vaccine factories on the board[/o]
When you get to
December:
[o]You destroy all previous objective cards and get new ones, so the one about sabotaging military bases is no longer relevant.[/o]
Now, it
is possible to get into a situation where you have to build and destroy the same thing. That could happen if:
[o]If you lose in the first half of September, but not until you've completed all searches and destroyed all military bases, then in the second half you will have exactly 3 objectives, but only 1 new military base placed during setup (technically, you could have 0 new bases if all of the stickers have already been used up because you chose them as upgrades a lot).
Or, after opening box #7, if you complete the one-time objective and still have games left before December, then you'll be down to 3 objectives again, so you have to use the "sabotage 2 military bases" objective.
But it's unlikely you'll complete the one-time objective in the same game you receive it, because it takes a fair amount of work. So this probably only becomes relevant if you complete a lot of objectives
while still losing somewhere along the line. But yes, it's possible.[/o]
If you get in this situation, some approaches you could use to deal with it include:
[o]1. Have the Soldier use any card with an equipment sticker to build a military base, then use his ability to pick it up from the discard, so he can use it a second time to destroy that base
2. Have the Operations Expert build a military base without a card, then use the city card for that location to destroy it (you mentioned you lost this character, but included for completeness)
3. Build a military base in the normal way, then destroy it using one of the two C4 equipment stickers
4. Build a military base in the normal way, then use the "Shady Background" character upgrade to let you sabotage with any card of the right color
5. Build a military base in the normal way, then use the "Flexible" character upgrade to take the used card out of the discard (in exchange for another card of the same color) so you can play it again to sabotage.
6. Build a military base in the normal way, use the Rivals relationship to have your Rival pick up the card you used from the discard, then have your Rival sabotage the base with that card
7. Use the funded event card "Remote Outpost" to create a military base, then sabotage it in the normal way (again, if you got into this situation, you probably lost a game, and therefore have some funding)
8. Plan ahead in the previous game, building extra military bases and using game-end upgrades to make them permanent so you'll have something to sabotage in the next game.
9. House-rule the "sabotage 2 military bases" objective to say "sabotage 2 military bases OR have zero military bases left on the board"
I think that objective could have been designed better, but there are a few ways to play around it.[/o]