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Pandemic (board game)
2009-01-24 12:44I got two new LJ friends overnight. This is unusual. Dare I ask who and why?
We played my new copy of Pandemic, the "cooperative Risk", last night at Guild. It went pretty well and matched the linked review. We barely won the first time, lost the second. Turned out we'd been playing a bit wrong, letting players hold more than 7 cards between turns after a Share Knowledge action, but they should discard down to 7 right away, so the reported "game wins" ratio of 4/5 seems roughly plausible. The players win if they find all 4 cures; the game wins if a disease gets out of hand, there are 8 Outbreaks... or the players run out of cards to draw. Budget simulation? Keeps the game length capped, but the game might be easier with some houseruling, like reshuffling the discards once, or getting to play out your hands. Conversely, if that time limit is removed, the player goal might shift to eradicating all four diseases, not just finding cures; don't know how hard that'd be.
My Lunar Exalt requires completion.
There's been minor updates to my surprising ignorance thread; feel free to chip in if you have new stories.
* Peter Watts defends Bush. Well, says they were a very successful administration, in terms of their goals. Not quite the same thing.
* Long anti-Bush rant.
We played my new copy of Pandemic, the "cooperative Risk", last night at Guild. It went pretty well and matched the linked review. We barely won the first time, lost the second. Turned out we'd been playing a bit wrong, letting players hold more than 7 cards between turns after a Share Knowledge action, but they should discard down to 7 right away, so the reported "game wins" ratio of 4/5 seems roughly plausible. The players win if they find all 4 cures; the game wins if a disease gets out of hand, there are 8 Outbreaks... or the players run out of cards to draw. Budget simulation? Keeps the game length capped, but the game might be easier with some houseruling, like reshuffling the discards once, or getting to play out your hands. Conversely, if that time limit is removed, the player goal might shift to eradicating all four diseases, not just finding cures; don't know how hard that'd be.
My Lunar Exalt requires completion.
There's been minor updates to my surprising ignorance thread; feel free to chip in if you have new stories.
* Peter Watts defends Bush. Well, says they were a very successful administration, in terms of their goals. Not quite the same thing.
* Long anti-Bush rant.