by porkupine
- 3 players. Most played characters Dispatcher (Clarence), Quarantine (Quozzimodo Le Quince), Medic ("superman", quotes were part of his name).- C0dA was black, Delhi was ground zero.
- Lost two months in the first half of the year.
- Our traitor was the medic, which was rough. We'd given him the Veteran (which is why he could be traitor). His name was "superman" and despite his choices, we love him and miss him.
- Faded cities: all the black cities
- No fallen or collapsing cities, we had a handful of level 3 cities.
- Total score 830-ish
The month after c0dA was revealed, we put a military station in Delhi (ground zero) and with one there and one in Istanbul, we were able to use our Quarantiner (working with the Dispatcher) to quarantine a lot of black cities each time to slow the spread of faded. We also put one in Istanbul, which gave us great coverage for quarantining. The faded never made it out of the black cities.
We were incredibly lucky in the endgame tbh. We did all our searches as quickly as possible (which screwed us hard when we lost our medic/traitor, the was a tough month) but it paid off. We ended up with a permanent vaccine station in a vaccinated city in the c0dA zone by the end of the October, the same month vaccines were revealed. We cut it close that month, nearly failing it, but it was worth it. Istanbul, the unconquerable city, and it had both a military station and a research station there too. It set us up for an easy end-game.
We thought a couple of times about doing strategic fails, but we surprised ourselves, pulling victory from the jaws of defeat several times.
Best boardgame we've ever played. Season 2 is in the post.