Pandemic Legacy - February

I'm a bit behind with the blogging so this is a wee recap (really for me and my buds) of last Sunday's game of Pandemic:Legacy. I do have socks and sewing queued up for another day - feel fee to skip!

Here's our set up before hand. We're slowly sussing what works best for us so Biff is in charge of the rules book (with additional rules this month - woop!), Sue does the outbreaks (I've started calling her Typhoid Tallulah - long story. *g*) so is in charge of moving markers and sticking stickers on panicking cities and Moira is our card shuffler. I even bought her her very own automatic card shuffler so there's no excuses for badly mixed cards. Well, so you'd think - more on that later. Me? I'm doing the legacy deck which is really just reading cards at the beginning and end. Easy peasy. We also got to open our first box which was most exciting - there's 8 of them to be opened at certain points. This one had new tokens in it. 

Now we've had trouble the last few games (well, to be honest, I have had trouble) remembering whose meeple belongs to whom (feel free to correct my grammar here - I'm fed up changing it!) and so I thought I'd make us personalised ones. Here's the game ones on top and mine underneath. They're only about an inch tall so were a pig to make (also my white Fimo is very old and not very malleable!) but were worth it for the giggles they induced and the added bonus of no mistaken moving of pieces on the board!

See? Here's Biff's Cliff the Dispatcher (you can name your character - that's a Postman Pat reference!) quarantining Santiago to stop the spread of our untreatable mutated CodA disease. Heh heh.

And here's where we finished. We won!! Woop! You get 2 goes at each month and haven't needed either late game to proceed. Of course, our funding is now at zero - you know how it is, the government going "you're doing fine, you're getting no cash" so we get no extra goodies going into March. Rats. Moira's Bryony the scientist has a scar (affecting her movement in Asia) but also a nice extra skill and we eradicated the Black Zombie virus (which we get to officially name) so got to add a positive mutation for next time. Great stuff.

And the card shuffling? Well due to some fluke, Moira (who we affectionately call Brian after the unfortunate guy in the rulebook example who unleashes an epidemic on the world) pulled 4 of the 5 epidemic cards from the deck one after the other. Which was bad for her but funny for us. And almost all the red Asia player cards were in the bottom half of the deck. Which was bad. But yellow South America came out the infection deck loads and we quarantined like mofos down there so the cards were cruel but also kind. But I think we might get gubbed when we play March. Fun!