Pandemic Legacy, Season 1, August : first attempt

This time around Hannes played the Medic, Kobe the Quarantine Specialist, Leander the Solder, and I played with the Dispatcher. Tarek was absent.
Last game we played first of all to get the Paramilitary Escort upgrade for the Soldier (whenever leaving a city with Faded Figures, remove one Figure from the board). This to prepare us better for countering the Faded.
Quite early in the game it became obvious that we were not going to win this game because the red disease was plentyfull on the board, as were the Faded (as obvious from the picture). So we decided to go full on for finding the immunologist (which was harder than finding the Virologist), and pulled it off just in time. The immunologist told us to find 3 things : the gene sequence of COdA, DNA samples and the virus development records (this will probably be 3 searchtracks in September).
We managed to cure one disease, but the rest of the objectives were unreachable this game, but we still managed to peeling the game very far : the outbreak marker reached it’s end, the infection rare was at 4 and the player deck was almost finished. In the end it was the blue disease (normally the easiest) that exploded in the last outbreak. One player (Leander) even git 2 epidemic cards in the same hand.
At the end of the game, we received a new character :
The Virologist : can discard a city card of the COdA-color (yellow) to remove a Faded Figure from any city, can discard a city card matching your city to remove all the Faded Figures from it.
We also Received 2 gale end upgrades we used immediately :
- one-time event : Nuclear option : destroy one card in the infection discard pile. Remove all cubes and Faded Figures from that city, mark it ass falen, then distroy this card (still have to find out if this can only be used one time only, dangerous card)
- unfunded event : tactical centers now online : place a roadblock marker on any three routes on the board (we are going to try and use this one on the three roads in between the three falen cities in the pictures, so they can’t Keep infecting each other).
Possible character upgrades :
- chopper pilot : cross any roadblock without discarding a card when taking the drive/ferry action.
- Determined : you may put a scar on top of this upgrade.
- Hacker : increase you hand limit by 1 card.
Some medical & military equipment :
- Med Kit
- Grenade belt
Can’t wait for the next game