Anduin wrote:
slydog75 wrote:
Can you explain the statement "Both times we immediately drew the infected city to intensify" ?
I would make sure you're doing epidemics properly.
I would make sure you're doing epidemics properly.
this happens quite a lot actually. Just as you described, you draw the bottom card, infect it with 3 cubes and put it in the discard pile. That means the infected city is on top of the deck somewhere.
Now you still have to do the infection phase. Immediately drawing the infected city to intensify is pretty common, especially if two epidemics follow close to each other.
I suspect some of the confusion comes from the fact that "intensify" is actually the term for when you shuffle the discards and put them back on top of the infection deck, while "infect" is for both drawing the bottom card to place three cubes there, but also the step where you draw 2+ cards to add single cubes.
But otherwise, yes, it's actually pretty common to infect a city with three cubes during the epidemic, and then immediately draw that same city as one of the cards on the next infection step, resulting in an instant outbreak. Our first scar of the campaign came from one such incident, where our starting city was drawn off the bottom for infection, and then was the top card in the following infection step. One player hadn't made it off the starting city yet, and immediately got a scar. We had it happen a few more times as well.
It's even worse when you get two epidemics in the same draw, because the second one is only going to be "intensifying" with one card, so you're guaranteed to draw the city you just dropped three cubes on.