by chooi
In our 4-players game, we had it all sorted by November ready to do full plan for December. During first go, we set up Supply Centre in Johannesburg Jade station(making it permanent after of course) & found Pearl lab but died straight after. All red cities were connected. Rest of world well connected too.So all planned route of 3 reds, 2 blacks, 1 Yellow and 1 red from Pearl to Jade. Setup began badly with 3 plaque cubes. Despite my character able to immediately move to Pearl on start, none of us started with any red cards. Our plan of another player's Sam supplying required cards (as his ability can freely pass a card) combined with my Frodo carrying the cure using extra free move & ability swap 2 cards for 1 in bag of removed cards seemed viable, especially as another player had drawn card to provide me 4 extra actions when needed.
Alas, we still only got fewer than 2 full rounds. I made it to Shanghai and we died from too many outbreaks. I did not think anything we could do to prevent the bad draw.
Final score 632. Disappointed we could not win despite clear plan and ability to if we had at least 3 rounds.
Seems quite a few winning it here, some first time (though one clearly played wrongly by flying directly to Johannesburg!). Was it just us who lost? I know two local groups who did. Wonder what ratio of win to lose is?