We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


Gudanov - Aug 31, 2020 1:08:56 pm PDT #25895 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping

PANDEMIC

Another option would be to dispatch to Cairo, share the card, then go to Baghdad and dispatch the Researcher to Cairo. That doesn't take another city off the brink, but that puts you in Baghdad on a research station if you draw Baghdad (which I don't think has been drawn yet) which is a 12% chance. The researcher can then share a card, move to Algiers, treat once, move back to Cairo. Then if the Researcher gets any black cards the scientist and pick it up, move to Baghdad, and win the game.


megan walker - Aug 31, 2020 1:41:38 pm PDT #25896 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

PANDEMIC

Note that if you instead dispatch to Cairo, move to Algiers and treat twice, we preserve an option to switch curing black to you if you draw black since we are both currently 3 cards away from the cure.

Basically we are betting on who is or is not going to draw black over the next few turns.


chrismg - Aug 31, 2020 2:00:16 pm PDT #25897 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

PANDEMIC

Or, I can move you to Algiers, Dispatch me to Algiers, and treat twice. Although that probably loses a move going back to Baghdad....


Gudanov - Aug 31, 2020 4:07:32 pm PDT #25898 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping

PANDEMIC

I think we should try everything we can to get a cure on the Scientist's turn. I don't like the odds of surviving much longer than that.


chrismg - Aug 31, 2020 4:30:21 pm PDT #25899 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

PANDEMIC

Alright then....let's take the path that treats a city and gets her a card:

Dispatch myself to Cairo

Pass the Cairo card

Move to Algiers

Treat Algiers once.

Gud, Do the thing!


billytea - Aug 31, 2020 5:02:46 pm PDT #25900 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

PANDEMIC

I think we should try everything we can to get a cure on the Scientist's turn. I don't like the odds of surviving much longer than that.

For that to happen I need to draw a Black card on my turn. For which purpose I'm happy to contrive to end my turn in Cairo, assuming that's possible.


Gudanov - Aug 31, 2020 6:15:35 pm PDT #25901 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping

PANDEMIC

The Dispatcher meets up with a Russian pilot in a Bangkok bar and arranges to hitch a ride on an Antonov An-22 destined for Cairo. There she meets up with the Scientist in the backroom of a Museum serving as a sanctuary from Zombie infestation. She hands over a dossier on a Russian zombie study in Cairo that she nicked from the Antonov. After that, she takes a bus to Algiers to hunt down a few zombies, as one does.

Then she draws Baghdad (Black) and Paris (Blue). Meanwhile the red death spreads in Taipei and COVID emerges in London.

The Situation:

[link]

[link]


billytea - Aug 31, 2020 7:08:00 pm PDT #25902 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

PANNDEMIC

The Situation:

I think the first picture there may be a repeat.


Gudanov - Aug 31, 2020 7:12:09 pm PDT #25903 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping

Fixed it up.


billytea - Aug 31, 2020 7:24:40 pm PDT #25904 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

PANDEMIC

The Braaainns Trust and I have a proposal: We discard Jo'burg to move there and clear it out, then double hop it to Cairo, ready for the Scientist to pick our braaainns. If we should happen to draw Black - about a 50/50 chance, I think - then that would give us the Black cure. Airlift would also do it.

How does that sound?