by Bremic
There are a few things in Season 2 that will have a very dramatic impact on your win/loss ratio.I have played it twice with 2 different groups, and the were so different they almost felt like different games. We didn't have the December issue you did, but we did have similar stuff happen earlier in the year; and having spoken to a lot of other people about what happened with our group that had massive problems, no one could really see a reliable solution without knowing in advance what the impact of our decisions was going to be.
When I played with the second group, I stayed silent on key decisions, and even let them make some mistakes that would make it harder for us in future; but it was still a much better experience because the cards didn't land horribly like they did for my first group.
I don't want to go into too many details, but two critical events early in the year happening 'wrong' really did turn the game from a 9 into a 6; where at one point we just wanted to give up. And this is a group that plays Pandemic twice a week.
I hope that for Season 3 there can be some effort put into mitigating this sort of bad draw that will basically screw you without recovery.
The worst thing about it happening in December, it's over and you can't go again. Although, there is nothing stopping you from taking a third stab at the month. There really aren't gaming police who are going to kick down your door and wrestle you to the floor for breaking the rules.