by Wretched Git
This doesn't really speak to the OP's particular issue, but August seemed "too easy" for us as well because of the "frequency scanner." We sort of guessed that the first epidemic card would come out on the fourth turn or so, so on that turn we used the scanner and, sure enough, got to discard the epidemic card. Then that same character did the scanner action on his next turn (3 turns later), and discarded the second epidemic card. Then, 3 turns later, the third, then later the fourth!So we never had an epidemic, which meant we never had to shuffle in the infection discard pile (except for once, just before we won, due to the deck running out) -- and so no hollow men came out at all.