Normal set up, playing Soldier, Quarantine Expert,
Medic and Dispatcher. We need to find Virologist from August and Paranoid Soldier. Two turns in we complete the Soldier search quest but we don't get chance to find the Virologist.
Paranoid soldier tells us its all a ploy by terrorist group and we've been played. Our 6 military stations now need destroying, our upgrade game based on these. Our Soldier who we have built all our recent strategys around is now lost as he was a plant. We realise we made Mumbai fall in August on purpose and what we had become. But worst of all, we had a lot of faded on the board and no way to reduce their numbers without our soldier.
Our draw is horrendous. Faded breakout into Africa and across Europe. The middle east became a reinforcing loop of breakouts. Last game we engineered a rioting city in CoDa, we now have 5. We lost from all faded being on the board and all 8 breakouts. We need roadblocks to contain but none are even on our board. More pressing, we need a new method of reducing faded across the board, especially as they appear from both decks. Next game, our problem only gets worse.
We were so destroyed after the game that we couldn't even face placing our end-game upgrades. Like I said, Empire Strikes Back moment.
I think it is time we call up the Colonel from retirement...