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Both Shanghai and Tokyo cost two black cards, don't they?

ETA: Nevermind. I forgot you are still in Atlanta and can clear Tokyo without using any cards.

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I think I agree with the Medic. Plus, if I get company it kills this whole Lost in Translation vibe I've got going on here.

I also think the Scientist should flip to pursuing a Red cure first. You're just as close to either Red or Yellow now (and I can help with either one), but Red's become more urgent.

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At great expense the Medic catches a Gulfstream G700 and jets to Shanghai with refueling stops in Mumbai and Delhi. Once there, the Medic makes like McCoy and starts injecting everybody, wiping out all disease for now.

Then the Medic drew Manila and... a Government Grant!

Meanwhile.... the Zombie situation gets worse in Tehran resulting in an outbreak, and red plague spreads in just cleared Shanghai.

The situation continues to not be great...

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The Government Grant means that we can build a research station anywhere at anytime. It doesn't have to be on the Medic's turn.

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The situation continues to not be great...

True, but thank god we cleared Shanghai.

the Zombie situation gets worse in Tehran resulting in an outbreak, and red plague spreads in just cleared Shanghai

So our current danger zones are Baghdad and Tokyo, correct?

It doesn't have to be on the Medic's turn.

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Just noting that the even though the Medic has the Government Grant card, it can be played on anyone's turn at any time.

Yep. Tokyo and Baghdad are the most dangerous situations right now.

Just noting that the even though the Medic has the Government Grant card, it can be played on anyone's turn at any time.

Oh, duh. I forgot it was a Medic draw and was wondering if building research stations was a Medic thing I missed.

Does it count as an action?

It does not. Events are awesome.

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We're clearly still under serious pressure but your turn was a great result. I think Government Grant gives us two excellent options. This is based on the premise that we'd want the Dispatcher to use their Shanghai card to build a research station right in the Red hotspot. Now we have two possibilities:

1. If we use the Government Grant to build the Shanghai station, the Dispatcher could instead pass their card to the Scientist when the opportunity arises. We could thus be very close to a Red cure. (I won't say immediately; we could do it this round but at the expense of leaving cities on the edge for longer.)

2. However, I think there's a better option. We now have two hotspots. We'll need to be able to move between both of them. We could do this: the Dispatcher moves to Tokyo, cures a cube, moves to Shanghai and builds the research station. On my turn we can use the grant to build a station in Baghdad, I can use the two stations to trip over there and get to curing.

I think option 2 is our fastest way to get things under some semblance of control for a bit. It delays the Red Cure a little, but I think we can still manage that in not much more time.

I think option 2 is our fastest way to get things under some semblance of control for a bit. It delays the Red Cure a little, but I think we can still manage that in not much more time.

Not necessarily. If you move to Cairo on your last action, I can join you there on my turn and pick up Ho Chi Minh City. Since, if the dispatcher doesn't move me on their turn, my turn will be fairly useless where I am (unless Johannesburg gets hit, and even then I think getting another red would be more important).

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Not necessarily. If you move to Cairo on your last action, I can join you there on my turn and pick up Ho Chi Minh City. Since, if the dispatcher doesn't move me on their turn, my turn will be fairly useless where I am (unless Johannesburg gets hit, and even then I think getting another red would be more important).

Ah, I have some thoughts there too. If we're ok with delaying the Yellow cure, you can move back to Bogota and discard it to move anywhere on the board, with two actions left.

It's still, strictly speaking, going to delay the Red cure. If we went hell-for-leather you could cure it on your next turn. Say we use Government Grant to build the station in Shanghai, the Dispatcher moves there, hauls you over and passes the card; then on my turn I get to Shanghai too and give you Ho Chi Minh City. You're set to cure Red on your first action and still have a bunch of options to go. (Maybe steal my Buenos Aires and then go clear Tokyo or Seoul.)

I don't recommend this, I think it's too dangerous to leave Tokyo and Baghdad on the edge for longer than we absolutely have to. But it would be possible.