Pandemic

[MumboJumbo]

That doesn't sound right. Are you playing with the researcher right?



He may only receive a card for the city with which he is in. If you stuck around in Atlanta without moving you'll end up getting over run else where in the world.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/329595/researcher-card-not-game-breakingly-overpowered

That's what I said, you play with the researcher and it's too easy. You can usually only give a card to someone if you're both in the city of the card you're trying to trade. The researcher can take cards from anyone as long as you'll both on the same square. It's very easy to win by just having a researcher plus 1 or 2 other people all hang about atlanta because you're draw cards so quickly that you'll get the 5 you need. If you have a scientist, it's childs play.

In a 4 person game, that means 1 person can go and firefight any situations developing, but the way the game works, you won't lose before you have all the diseases cured with very minimal effort. Bare in mind, you need 8 outbreaks or to use all the cubes to lose. With this strategy, you can win long before that happens. We won the game both times only using about 1/4 to 1/3 of the deck.

Honestly, it's very simple to do and I would be surprised if any mathematically minded group didn't quickly realise it. The lose conditions simply take longer than it takes to draw the cards you need to win. It's a completely different game without the researcher and a much better one. It kinda took the edge off playing the game for us because we're very strategic people and can't ignore it when we play as the researcher.

 

[Ekim]

The researcher can take cards from anyone as long as you'll both on the same square.

The researcher can only receive cards if they are the same as the city that he is currently in. He can give any cards he likes and it doesn't matter which city he is in.

That means you are reliant on the researchers draws to share with people. It might work as a strategy sometimes but I can't see it working consistently. I may be wrong though.

 

[Shicky]

Hey all,

completely new to this but considering picking up pandemic legacy season 1? I assume this is best to buy as it has the base game + an extra on top if you want? It seems bloody steep for a board game at £50!

 

[tbh]

completely new to this but considering picking up pandemic legacy season 1? I assume this is best to buy as it has the base game + an extra on top if you want? It seems bloody steep for a board game at £50!

The original was available for £13.94 on the rain forrest a few days ago, seems to have gone back up to 30-odd quid again now though.

My advice would probably be to keep your eyes peeled for a good deal on the original before spending 50 quid on Legacy, I'm sure it will discounted again soon...

 

[Bickaxe]

Played 4 games of Legacy yesterday. Much better than the vanilla game (which is great) and quite a bit harder too. You can just play the vanilla game without adding to stickers and updating the rules etc... but

Spoiler

Even a spoiler would spoil the game

Its played 1 month at a time, unless you lose that months first game in which case you get another chance. We got to March (and lost so we get 1 more chance at March).

£50 for 12 games (if you win all of them) is a good price. We have games for about the same price which we've only played a couple of times.

I couldn't play it again with a fresh copy as I would have a good idea of what's coming but will definitely buy season 2.

 

[Bickaxe]

A friend picked up Pandemic Cthulhu at the weekend so we'll break that open this week. Report to follow...

 

[TNA]

A friend picked up Pandemic Cthulhu at the weekend so we'll break that open this week. Report to follow...

Let us know how it compares to Legacy in terms of fun. I know it is not the same type of game, but just wondering in terms of fun. The vanilla game for example does not have much going on and is repetitive for us.

 

[minicle]

Make sure to pickup the expansions in order - On the brink - In the lab - there are dependencies.

Oddly the last one - state of emergency doesn't seem to require either.

 

[Bickaxe]

Pandemic Cthulhu Review

We played 2 games last night, both at introductory level to get a feel for it. I didn't get a look at the rulebook so can't be 100% that rules were interpreted correctly.
Set up was quick, you don't get 4 viruses, you have 1 load of cultists instead. Professions are still there with a Cthulhu twist (detective, driver, occultist... each has its own speciality)
The Continents have become towns (Innsmouth, Arkham....) and the cities are now locations (Library, Church etc..)

There is no cascading effect, but there are Shoggoths. Once the 3 of these are on the board at the gates, you lose. You win by closing all the gates.
Epidemic cards have been replaced with Evil Stirs. You turn the next card along on the 'Infection Rate' (Summoning) and follow what it says. You add a Shoggoth from the bottom of the summoning deck (like 3 virus cubes) and the draw like normal to infect.

Players have sanity points (4) that they lose through various actions. Your character can go insane which reduces what you can do.
You can fast travel using gates provided you haven't closed them or by taking a bus and spending a card (they no longer have cities so a red card is a red card and location specific).

We won both games fairly easily so next time will involve increasing the difficulty level.

Time: 40mins (like it says on the box
Rating: 7/10 Will play again but prefer standard Pandemic as I feel its slightly harder. Pandemic Legacy is still the preferred game in the whole series though.

Boardgamegeek link

 

[tonym]

My copy of Pandemic: Legacy arrived on Friday. Playing 2 player with my wife. We have made it through two months so far. It has been great - first 'Legacy' game we have played.

Anyone else picked it up?

I pay it with a mate of mine and his wife, we're up to April at the moment.

It's superb!

 

[Droolinggimp]

Having read and watched plenty of reviews about this game I am tempted to buy it now. However I am looking at getting Legacy version. I know it has one play in it as you will know the spoilers for the second game and you are required to deface the game in many ways but would having a few new players for the second play through be ok? I am in the mind of not sticking, writing, ripping anything on the game. I would use blutac to stick the stickers on and white board marker for writing on cards etc, obviously not rip up cards but put them away in a safe place. All this for the long game btw. I am aware that I could play the vanila rules first off with my wife and friends as non of us have played it yet and once we are ready we could break out the full game.

It's just that second replay of it. Would it be spoiled too much, like I said I could get a couple of new players to play along. Saying all this, 12 to 24 'games' for £50 is a bargain. I can spend that in one go at the shop for munchies and beer. At work we have a sort of games night after shift on Thursdays, granted all of us who play games are not on every thursday night so I would imagine this would possibly take an actual year to play. I guess getting 4 of us to play the vanilla version first, if they like it we could all go 25% on the game and play it the once.

 

[TNA]

I just got the normal version for a friends birthday. Shame cheapest is £25, as it was under £14 last year. But oh well, I know it will be fun and more than worth it. Easy to teach also

As I have had and restored the legacy version in the past, it is possible to re-use it as a normal game after. There are a few city connections you would need to make yourself with a pen or something and it will be like a normal version as far as I remember.

You can also replay it a second time easily with different friends, though it won't be the same experience for you obviously. As long as you do not rip cards and put them aside and remove the other cut out things slowly/not press down the stickers hard on the board, they come off easily.

I personally restored mine and sold it on getting most my money back. Looking forward to season 2.

 

[Bickaxe]

Been playing Pandemic Iberia recently. Quite interesting as you can't eradicate the virus's's, merely control them.
We've won every easy game but it has come right down to the last card most of the time.

Legacy season 2 will be pre-ordered when available, season 1 was great fun but as has been said, would be nowhere near as enjoyable to play a second time round. Although destroying cards was good, despite every urge to put them back in the box.

 

[Droolinggimp]

I have the base game on order from Amazon for delivery today, also Monopoly deal game too. All being well we will have a game or two tonight and pack it away for our holiday. Ibiza for 11 nights on Monday so something to do on balcony at night with a few drinks

 

[Droolinggimp]

Well. What can you say!!! Fantastic game.

Played it with my wife tonight (just finished) for the first time, plenty of rule checking but grabbed the game after 4 or 5 rounds so to speak. At first it all cracked off in Asia, as my wife had the role of quarantine specialist so where ever she was that city didn't get the blocks put down after drawing the infection cards, neither did the joining cities. that saved us from being overwhelmed first off so she made her way over there whilst I picked off the random cities that has infections. We soon found a cure for the Reds. Blacks started to crop up but again we cured it same with blue. We thought maybe we were playing it wrong but soon enough we got overwhelmed by the yellows. Towards the end of the game we sort of got yellow under control I had 3 yellow card and wife had 2. So we made our way to meet up on the cities that we had to share knowledge only to become low on player cards. I had the last go, we couldn't meet up and there was 2 cards left in the deck. 2 yellows. I could have cured it if we had one more turn left but it went to the very last turn for us to lose.

We played with 4 epidemic cards as stated in the rules and one role each. We are going to Ibiza tomorrow and it's coming with us. I can see us playing this most evenings whilst kiddo is in bed. We have got monopoly deal too. Not played it yet so that's on the evening plans for this evening along with another game of Pandemic.

Very very good game and recommend it 100%

I think we might have a few more one role games then try it with and extra role each OR stick the other epidemic cards in the deck to really get us thinking about what we should do. Can't wait to play it again.

 

[Droolinggimp]

just finished a 4 player game with the full 6 Epidemic cards in play. We got owned. It was fun and we all worked as a team but the outbreaks killed us off. So tense. 10/10 for all of us. Can't wait till next games night.

 

[Bickaxe]

Season 2 ordered....

 

[TNA]

Season 2 ordered....

Mine arrives tomorrow. I had it on pre-order from some time ago.

This weekend is going to be good

 

[TNA]

W00t! My copy has arrived!!

According to Dice Tower this is even better than Season 1

 

[planty]

I have the base game and am looking to get one of the expansion packs for christmas to spice things up a bit and add support for more players. There seem to be quite a few options, so can anyone give some recommendations on their preferred expansion?