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Alternatively, you could burn Madrid for your move rather than Seoul, which given we have the Blue cure ready to go and a research station right next door, might be a good choice.

Oooh. I like that idea. Little setback as my computer died, but hopefully I will be able to fix it soon.

Alternatively, you could burn Madrid for your move rather than Seoul, which given we have the Blue cure ready to go and a research station right next door, might be a good choice.

Yes, I really like the idea of burning Madrid. You could either treat both Algiers and Mumbai once by doing that. Or, treat Algiers once and head straight to Hong Kong and hand off the Chennai card. Then, if you draw black, we'd be at a cure on the QS's turn.

Raq has posted an article on her blog you should check out: [link]

Thanks for the link, dcp. Very interesting, and always a treat to sample Raq’s spicy brains

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I have replaced my motherboard and am back in action.

The researcher will kill a cube worth of zombies in Algiers, move to Madrid, burn her Madrid card to move to Hong Kong, and hand over Chennai to the QS.

After doing this the researcher, draws Karachi (Black) and... an epidemic.

The Blue Fever hits San Francisco hard, putting it on the brink.

I should pause here in case we want to use an event card.

Situation:

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Since we have a couple of places on the brink, and the Medic is somewhat limited as to what they can get to in the upcoming turn, I'm inclined to use Forecast. That way we can frontload Shanghai, delay potential hits to SF and Mumbai until the Medic/QS can reach them, and/or see what else is coming up and act accordingly. Then we will have the Ops Ex turn to take care of anything leftover that we know isn't in the next few draws.

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I particularly like the idea of frontloading Shanghai (if that proves possible). I feel Forecast is possibly better to play on an earlier epidemic like this one, while we're still drawing two infection cards per turn; we can set up three turns this way rather than just two.

And on another topic, Black card! I'll be set up for the Black cure as soon as I can get to a research station.

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I'm good for this plan, although as someone who doesn't have the physical game, can someone summarize Forecast for me?

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Forecast allows you to see the next 6 cards in the infection deck and reorder them as you see fit. So, if you play it after the first or second epidemic, you are seeing which cities will get hit with the next three draws but control the order. After the third or fourth epidemic, since you draw three on each turn, you only control two draws. Like bt, I prefer to use it early for that reason. Also, I generally play it first, and then see whether it might make sense to play 1) One Quiet Night after one of the turns to delay the inevitable, or 2) Airlift to move the QS to prevent a hit that very turn.

ETA: As an example, if we saw that Shanghai was in the group of six, we would arrange to have it hit first since the QS is already there protecting it. If SF or Mumbai is there, we would put it last to give us time to get either the Medic of QS there beforehand.