So, today we continued our quest to save the planet, we start to fear that the faded could start to overwhelm everything.
In May the first setup sounded not too bad.. okay, some more come into play but nothing that should devastete us.. man were we wrong..
What happend? We had a nice setup with only 2 CoDa cities, one with 1, the other with 2 faded on it. But black was quite crowded and also some yellow corners were filled.
We decided to change the team. Since for blue and yellow only 4 cards are needed we decided to exchange the medic with the scientist so we could get the first two cures with only 3 cards, so basicaly first turn. We kept the quarantine expert to control the faded from a distance and start building up military bases.
After the second epedemic some tough decisions had to be made. Three cities fith faded adjacent to each other were about to blow with the next card and in that case SanFran also would get faded. The epedemic led to an outbreak in SanFrancisco so there were 3 cubes. In addition Algier hat three cubes and was in the mix for getting the fourth one soon.
We decided to secure SanFran from the faded, so the Quarantine Expert, who had SanFran as a card went there, build a military base and put on road blocks between sanFran and the other adjacent cities.
Then the scientist had the tough decision: Go to San Fran and reduce the number of cubes there or save the Quarantine Specialist from an outburst in SanFran if the third epedemic was coming or try to keep algier save. We decided to go for Algier and then the ultimate desaster happend:
Epedemic, outburst in CHICAGO, directly adjacent to SanFran.. so a dircet outburst in Chicago triggering SanFranCisco..
Then of course Chicago and SanFrancisco were triggered again by the cards so in total we got 10 Outbursts with 3 Wounds on the Quarantine Specialist in one epedemic.
Devasted we discussed what to do for the next month and how to handle the loss of Samantha. We came to the conclusion that it is time to include the military more into our plans and that we have to build up an infra structure for future games. Since we protected SanFran in this game we decided to keep the road blocks between SanFran and the CoDA cities and give the scientist the ability to put on adjacent Quarantines from Military Buildings.
In the second try of May we introduced Travor, the guy who puts up constructions to build up the infrastructure as a rival to our scientist.
To make the story short: We had bad luck when drawing cards, we got black quite quick but blue and yellow took forever (inspite of having a scientist who needs only 3 cards.. In the end we waited for 4 turns for the last yellow card and only tried to contain what was possible but the worst happend, a chain reaction in CoDA ending the game just one turn before the next yellow card.. At least everything was contained within the red zone but another lost.
This time we took the Veteran Upgrade for our scientist and a permanent military base in Shanghai. Hopefully we get some time to recover in June but I doubt it...
In May the first setup sounded not too bad.. okay, some more come into play but nothing that should devastete us.. man were we wrong..
What happend? We had a nice setup with only 2 CoDa cities, one with 1, the other with 2 faded on it. But black was quite crowded and also some yellow corners were filled.
We decided to change the team. Since for blue and yellow only 4 cards are needed we decided to exchange the medic with the scientist so we could get the first two cures with only 3 cards, so basicaly first turn. We kept the quarantine expert to control the faded from a distance and start building up military bases.
After the second epedemic some tough decisions had to be made. Three cities fith faded adjacent to each other were about to blow with the next card and in that case SanFran also would get faded. The epedemic led to an outbreak in SanFrancisco so there were 3 cubes. In addition Algier hat three cubes and was in the mix for getting the fourth one soon.
We decided to secure SanFran from the faded, so the Quarantine Expert, who had SanFran as a card went there, build a military base and put on road blocks between sanFran and the other adjacent cities.
Then the scientist had the tough decision: Go to San Fran and reduce the number of cubes there or save the Quarantine Specialist from an outburst in SanFran if the third epedemic was coming or try to keep algier save. We decided to go for Algier and then the ultimate desaster happend:
Epedemic, outburst in CHICAGO, directly adjacent to SanFran.. so a dircet outburst in Chicago triggering SanFranCisco..
Then of course Chicago and SanFrancisco were triggered again by the cards so in total we got 10 Outbursts with 3 Wounds on the Quarantine Specialist in one epedemic.
Devasted we discussed what to do for the next month and how to handle the loss of Samantha. We came to the conclusion that it is time to include the military more into our plans and that we have to build up an infra structure for future games. Since we protected SanFran in this game we decided to keep the road blocks between SanFran and the CoDA cities and give the scientist the ability to put on adjacent Quarantines from Military Buildings.
In the second try of May we introduced Travor, the guy who puts up constructions to build up the infrastructure as a rival to our scientist.
To make the story short: We had bad luck when drawing cards, we got black quite quick but blue and yellow took forever (inspite of having a scientist who needs only 3 cards.. In the end we waited for 4 turns for the last yellow card and only tried to contain what was possible but the worst happend, a chain reaction in CoDA ending the game just one turn before the next yellow card.. At least everything was contained within the red zone but another lost.
This time we took the Veteran Upgrade for our scientist and a permanent military base in Shanghai. Hopefully we get some time to recover in June but I doubt it...