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OMG, I just realized this whole time I have been playing this game there was a box checked to explicitly do this! Or not do this, as the case may be. (It's in Options.)

No wonder Contingency Expert is the only character I haven't liked playing with.

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Man, you never know what you're gonna learn when you wake up in the morning.

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I really felt really bad for our Contingency Planner in the last game, it took almost to the end of the game to finally get an event card.

So, hold onto the event cards for now?

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I really felt really bad for our Contingency Planner in the last game, it took almost to the end of the game to finally get an event card.

That is certainly a problem with that character. My bigger problem is that I totally forget to use their special retrieve ability on their turn.

And, yes, I would hold for now.

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I'm good with that too. The last epidemic is our biggest remaining threat.

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(recap...)

The Medic takes a train to Montreal. Then charters a flight on Gulfstream G650ER to Beijing. Then he goes on a voyage of curing all the way to Taipei.

Next, he draws Lima, and an event... Forecast!

Meanwhile zombies go crazy in Cairo putting it on the brink, and the red death re-appears in Shanghai and spreads in Tokyo (curse you red death! - The red death is personal for the Medic)

The Situation:

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My thought is that the Dispatcher can move the Cairo, kill one cube worth of zombies, then move to Baghdad and bamf the Scientist there (remembering that Jakarta is the new Cairo).

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My thought is that the Dispatcher can move the Cairo, kill one cube worth of zombies, then move to Baghdad and bamf the Scientist there (remembering that Jakarta is the new Cairo).

Agreed. And then we just have to wait out the Researcher's turn. Fingers crossed for Mumbai.

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Agreed. And then we just have to wait out the Researcher's turn.

Sure, put it all on the giant nerd.

Fingers crossed for Mumbai.

Never fear! Mumbai has done been Resiliated! This is my new role, the Resiliator.

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Man, you never know what you're gonna learn when you wake up in the morning.

Hah!

I feel pretty stupid to be sure, but it has been great training I suppose. In any case, I look forward to a new easier world of Pandemic now that I've reset the options. Let's see if the CP rises in my esteem!

Because right now I would say most characters are good to have, although replaceable, but I never miss the CP if I don't have them.

Note: After the first few games, I've mostly been playing games with a random selection of 4 characters in random turn order. So, at this point, I've seen lots of different combinations. I definitely have preferences, but most characters can be paired off in successful either/or combinations (in that, if I don't have one I want the other).

Top choice would always be Medic/Quarantine Specialist. I really miss them if I don't get them, and if I don't get either then I truly despair for the fate of the world.

Next slot would be probably be the movers and shakers, i.e., Dispatcher/Operations Expert. Operations Expert is particularly good early on, especially if they go first.

Then right below that are the cure facilitators, Researcher/Scientist. For me, these are more in the nice-to-have category only because they are far more card dependent than the others.

Still it should be noted that, despite the above, the team that has most crushed this game for me so far was the four women. However, the card draw on that one was incredible. I think there were only 5 or 6 cubes on the board when I cured the fourth disease; the other three were already eradicated.

In any case, I say thank you and simultaneously shake my fist at Gud for introducing this game here. I am now thoroughly addicted.