by nerman8r
squegeeboo wrote:
Every non-city card does spread out epidemics, but also extends the game, because you win or lose by city cards, generally speaking.
There were some months, were in our initial few turns, we ended up drawing mostly produces/unrationed events. Having 1-2 of them is great, having 5-6 is useless and hurts.
There were some months, were in our initial few turns, we ended up drawing mostly produces/unrationed events. Having 1-2 of them is great, having 5-6 is useless and hurts.
But extending the game is not necessarily a bad thing. A particularly apt example is One Quiet Night. This card gives you half an extra turn before the next epidemic, and gives you a turn where there are no infections added, so you essentially get a whole turn of actions where nothing bad happens. Even if you haven't drawn the city card you need, you can use those actions to produce and deliver supplies and do other helpful things to help meet objectives that aren't city-card-related.
I agree with you that drawing two not-helpful unrationed events is somewhat bad because you have to deal with infections on that turn without getting nearer to winning the game, but rationed event cards are powerful, and definitely worth drawing.