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Let's get semi-cooperative and introduce the Bio-Terrorist.

Here are the rules for the base game: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/file/download/2ccgb5zbx6/Pandemic_Rules.pdf?
Here are the rules for the expansion: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/file/download/4oxrcf4len/PandemicOTB_rules.pdf?

Pandemic is a cooperative game. You and your fellow players are members of a disease control team, working together
to research cures and prevent additional outbreaks. Each of you will assume a unique role within the team, with special
abilities that will improve your team’s chances if applied wisely. The object is to save humanity by discovering cures to
four deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red) that threaten to overtake the planet.
If you and your team aren’t able to keep the diseases contained before finding the necessary cures, the planet will be
overrun and the game will end in defeat for everyone... Do you have what it takes to save humanity?


Setup:
This is a 4 player base game with randomized roles.
And we're playing with the Bio-Terrorist.
Difficulty level: Standard, so there will be 5 Epidemic cards.
Player cards are not visible to everyone, they will be sent via PM.

Short Rules Summary:
1.) On your turn make 4 of the following 8 availiable Actions:
a.) Drive/Ferry Move your pawn to an adjacent city.
b.) Direct Flight Play a card from your hand and move your pawn to the pictured city.
c.) Charter Flight Play the card corresponding to your pawn’s current location, and move to any city on the board.
d.) Shuttle Flight If your pawn is in a city with a Research Station, move it to any other city with a Research Station.
e.) Build A Research Station Play the card corresponding to the city your pawn currently occupies, then place a Research Station in that city.
f.) Discover A Cure If your pawn is in a city with a Research Station, discard 5 cards of the same color to cure the corresponding disease.
g.) Treat Disease Remove a disease cube from the city your pawn occupies. If the cure of that color is already discovered, remove all disease cubes from that city.
h.) Share Knowledge If your pawn and another player’s pawn are in the same city, you may transfer the card of the city that you are in together to this player.

2.) Draw 2 Player Cards
Hand Limit is 7 cards. Special Event cards can be played at any time.

3.) Infector
Draw cards from the Infection Draw Pile equal to the current Infection Rate and add one cube to the pictured cities, using a cube of the same color as each card. If a city already has 3 cubes in it of the color being added, instead of adding a cube to the city, an Outbreak occurs in that color. That means that you move the Outbreaks Marker up one space on the Outbreak Indicator. And any adjacent city gets a cube of that color instead what may cause another Outbreak and more and more chain reactions.

Bio-Terrorist
The Bio-Terrorist gets Infection Cards instead of the Player cards. After the setup he chooses any city. This is the city he will begin the game in.
The Bio-Terrorist takes his turn after each other player's turn after the Infection phase. He submits his move via PM to me. His pawn won't be on the board as he's hidden.
On his turn he can make 2 of the following 8 available Actions:
a.) Drive/Ferry Move your pawn to an adjacent city. Once per turn you can do this without spending an action.
b.) Direct Flight Play a card from your hand and move your pawn to the pictured city. I will anounce that he has been spotted in the new city.
c.) Charter Flight Play the card corresponding to your pawn’s current location, and move to any city on the board. I will anounce that he has been spotted in the old city.
d.) Draw a card (Same hand limit of 7 cards)
e.) Pass Do nothing.
f.) Infect locally Place a purple cube in your current city.
g.) Infect remotely Discard an Infection card to place a purple cube in the pictured city.
h.) Sabotage Remove a search station from your current city by discarding an Infection of the matching color to this location.
Per turn each of the actions f.) to h.) can be chosen only once per turn and only if he's hidden

If the Bio-Terrorist gets spotted and is on the same location as another player, his pawn will be put on that location and the player gets a ninth available action:
i.) Capture The Bio-Terrorist must discard all his Hand cards.
The other players still submit their whole turn and I will interrupt if the terrorist is spotted mid-turn.
While captured the Bio-Terrorist can only perform these actions:

a.) Escape Dicard an Infection card to escape via an Direct Flight to the pictured city. He's now hidden again.
b.) Draw a card (Same hand limit of 7 cards)
c.) Pass Do nothing.

During the infection phase, if an Infection card is drawn for a city with at least 1 purple cube on it, both 1 purple cube and 1 cube of the indicated color are added. When drawing a card from the bottom of the Infection Draw Pile to resolve step 2 of an Epidemic, a purple cube isn't placed even if one is already in the pictured city. The purple disease can be cured if a player, for an action, discards 5 city cards (in any combination of colors) at a research station. At least one of these cards must depict a city which currently contains one or more purple cubes. Purple Outbreaks are different. They flare out, leaving the cities they break out from with just one purple cube.

Winning/Losing conditions:
You win if you have cured all 5 diseases or the 4 basic diseases and fully treated the purple disease.
You lose if
a.) there aren’t enough cards in the Player Draw Pile to draw.
b.) there aren’t enough cubes left of any color in the supply.
c.) the eighth outbreak occurs.

The Bio-Terrorist wins if the players lose and there is at least 1 purple cube on the board.
The Bio-Terrorist immediately loses (and is out of the game) if the players eradicate the purple disease.
Everyone loses if the players lose and there are no purple cubes on the board, or if they lose after eradicating the purple disease.

Roles:
The Dispatcher may move other player’s pawns on his turn (Basic actions a-d) as if they were his own pawn. He may also move a pawn to any city that contains another pawn.
The Operations Expert may build a Research Station without discarding the corresponding card of the city he's standing on. Once per turn, for an action, while his pawn is at a research station, he may discard any city card to move to any city.
The Scientist only needs 4 cards of a color to discover the cure of the corresponding disease.
The Researcher may give a player any card from his hand when involved in a Share Knowledge action even on another player's turn.
The Medic may remove all the cubes of a single color when performing the Treat Disease action. If the cure of the city he's standing on is already discovered, all disease cubes from that city are automatically removed without spending an action.
The Archivist's hand limit is 8 cards. Once per turn, for an action, you may draw the city card matching the city your pawn currently occupies from the Player Discard Pile.
The Generalist gets 5 actions to spend each turn.
When the Containment Specialist enters a city, if 2 or more cubes of the same color are present, 1 of them is removed.
The Epidemiologist may take a non-matching city card from a player whose pawn is in the city you are in.
The Troubleshooter At the start of your turn, peek at the number of cards equal to the current infection rate on top of the Infection Draw Pile. When moving to a city via a Direct (not Charter) Flight, the utilized city card doesn't get discarded.
The Field Operative may once per turn, for an action, take 1 cube from a city he is in to his Role card. He may cure a disease at a research station by turning in 3 cubes and 3 cards, all of the same color.

Event Cards:
Airlift: Move a pawn (yours or another player's) to any city. You must have a player's permission to move their pawn.
Borrowed Time: The current player may take 2 additional actions this turn.
Commercial Travel Ban: The Infection Rate becomes 1 until the start of the current player's next turn.
Forecast: Examine the top 6 cards of the Infection Draw Pile, rearrange them in the order of your choice, then place them back on the pile.
Government Grant: Add a Research Station to any city for free.
Mobile Hospital: The current player may remove 1 cube from every city he Drives/Ferries to during this turn.
New Assignment: Any player (including the current player) may discard their current Role card and select a new one from the unused ones in the box.
One Quiet Night: The next player to begin the Playing the Infector phase of their turn may skip that phase entirely.
Rapid Vaccine Deployment: Play immediately after a cure is discovered to remove up to 5 cubes of the cured disease. These cubes must come from connected cities.
Re-examined Search: The current player may draw any one city card from the Player Discard Pile and add it to his hand.
Remote Treatment: Remove any two cubes from the board. Play at any time during any turn before the infection phase of that turn begins.
Resilient Population: Take a card from the Infection Discard Pile and remove it from the game.
Special Orders: During this turn, the current player may move one other player's pawn (with permission) as if it were his own.

Forum Rules:
Please try to look in this thread at least once per day.
I don't think we need a move deadline. But try to make a move within 2 days.
I'll then update the map regularly.
Communication isn't only allowed, it's demanded.
In your turn, write all your 4 player actions in bold (The terrorist send his move via PM). I may interrupt your move if the terrorist is spotted.

Example:
Charter Flight to Essen (discard Santiago)
Build a Research Station (discard Essen)
Discover the blue Cure (discard Paris, Madrid, London, Atlanta, San Francisco)
Treat Disease


Sign-up:
Please post here if you want to sign-up. Signup closes when 4 players have signed up. Please state if you want to randomize who the terrorist is or - if not - if you want to be the terrorist or not.

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Re: Pandemic III - The Bio-Terrorist (Signups, 0/4)
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2012, 05:03:50 am »

/in don't care either way as to assignment of the terrorist
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Re: Pandemic III - The Bio-Terrorist (Signups, 0/4)
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2012, 07:20:24 am »

Any reason for not revealing roles? Is it to help or punish the bioterrorist?

Anyway, I think choosing the bioterrorist is best, or at least randomizing among those interested in being it. I will /in and express interest in setting off disease bombs everywhere.

Also you say we're playing base, does that mean 5 base special events, or are we using 8 random special events (I'd advise the latter)?
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2012, 07:42:04 am »

Any reason for not revealing roles? Is it to help or punish the bioterrorist?
What do you mean with not revealing roles? I'm sorry but I'm not sure if I understood.

Also you say we're playing base, does that mean 5 base special events, or are we using 8 random special events (I'd advise the latter)?
Yeah, the latter. I forgot to change this.

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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2012, 07:44:59 am »

Ooh, I misunderstood "Player cards are not visible to everyone, they will be sent via PM." I thought you meant player roles, but I get what you mean now.
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2012, 07:46:52 am »

:) And Tables, I sign you up, but I think it's fair if I prefer players currently not playing in Pandemic II.

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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2012, 07:48:37 am »

Yes, that's fine.
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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2012, 08:16:47 am »

IN IN IN IN IN IN
I think I would like to be the bio-terrorist. I also have a question about the bio-terrorist's (BT) options when it is his turn, and he is hidden.

In the OP, you have the following bolded statement at the end of the section on the BT:

Per turn only one of the actions f.) to h.) can only be chosen and only once per turn and only if he's hidden.

Does your statement mean that (assuming the BT is indeed hidden) if (for example) action "f" is taken, then "g" and "h" are no longer available on that turn?  I ask because in reading the rules on BT's Hidden Actions, the wording is (emphasis reproduced as printed):

Each of these actions can only be performed once per turn.

This wording implies that the BT could take actions f and g, or f and h, or g and h, but not f and f, or g and g, or h and h.  This is a bit different from what I'm reading into your statement.
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2012, 09:19:57 am »

Just watching this one too.
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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2012, 09:24:46 am »

IN IN IN IN IN IN
I think I would like to be the bio-terrorist. I also have a question about the bio-terrorist's (BT) options when it is his turn, and he is hidden.

In the OP, you have the following bolded statement at the end of the section on the BT:

Per turn only one of the actions f.) to h.) can only be chosen and only once per turn and only if he's hidden.

Does your statement mean that (assuming the BT is indeed hidden) if (for example) action "f" is taken, then "g" and "h" are no longer available on that turn?  I ask because in reading the rules on BT's Hidden Actions, the wording is (emphasis reproduced as printed):

Each of these actions can only be performed once per turn.

This wording implies that the BT could take actions f and g, or f and h, or g and h, but not f and f, or g and g, or h and h.  This is a bit different from what I'm reading into your statement.

One of your 4 actions can be f, g or h. You can't choose f twice and you can't choose f and h in the same turn.

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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2012, 09:26:41 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.
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« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2012, 09:36:58 am »

IN IN IN IN IN IN
I think I would like to be the bio-terrorist. I also have a question about the bio-terrorist's (BT) options when it is his turn, and he is hidden.

In the OP, you have the following bolded statement at the end of the section on the BT:

Per turn only one of the actions f.) to h.) can only be chosen and only once per turn and only if he's hidden.

Does your statement mean that (assuming the BT is indeed hidden) if (for example) action "f" is taken, then "g" and "h" are no longer available on that turn?  I ask because in reading the rules on BT's Hidden Actions, the wording is (emphasis reproduced as printed):

Each of these actions can only be performed once per turn.

This wording implies that the BT could take actions f and g, or f and h, or g and h, but not f and f, or g and g, or h and h.  This is a bit different from what I'm reading into your statement.

One of your 4 actions can be f, g or h. You can't choose f twice and you can't choose f and h in the same turn.
So is this a restriction you've added for this game, or is that how you interpret the rule as it is printed?  Also, the BT doesn't get 4 actions, just 2.
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« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2012, 09:40:44 am »

I'll play... never had a chance to play with the BT.

(I'm willing to be the BT, but unless SFS changes his mind, he called it and I'm totally fine with it going to him.)
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2012, 09:42:10 am »

Hm, SWS, I just reread the rules and yeah you might be right. I had it wrong in my mind. I think you can choose f and g in the same turn. This is even harder for the players  :o

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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2012, 09:44:17 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.

I wanted to start this as soon as the spots are filled up. But if the players agree we can start this next week.

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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2012, 09:44:31 am »

Yeah, the rulebook also says "Maximum once each per turn", which would seem to definitively point to allowing you to do f, g, and h all in the same turn (just not any of them multiple times).
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2012, 10:14:04 am »

I'll pass. I'm not as big on this version. I enjoy pure co-op, with hard as hell mode on. ;D But I'll watch!
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2012, 10:15:24 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.

I wanted to start this as soon as the spots are filled up. But if the players agree we can start this next week.
I'd like to start as soon as we have 4.
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2012, 10:15:41 am »

Yeah, the rulebook also says "Maximum once each per turn", which would seem to definitively point to allowing you to do f, g, and h all in the same turn (just not any of them multiple times).

Except the Terrorist is still limited to 2 actions total on his turn.

So if he infects locally AND infects remotely on the same turn, he's not drawing any cards, nor is he moving anywhere.

Watching this one with interest.
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2012, 10:17:19 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.

I wanted to start this as soon as the spots are filled up. But if the players agree we can start this next week.
I'd like to start as soon as we have 4.

Ok, then I say we wait a few hours if someone joins and replaces Tables. If not we start the game with Tables. TheMunch, maybe next time, ok?

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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2012, 10:20:21 am »

-snip-
Except the Terrorist is still limited to 2 actions total on his turn.
I think this helps keep things balanced, since the BT has twice as many turns as the players.

Also edited number 11 above as a reminder.
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2012, 10:22:19 am »

Of course the Terrorist has only 2 actions. I was just confused and mixed even more together  ;D

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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2012, 10:28:15 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.

I wanted to start this as soon as the spots are filled up. But if the players agree we can start this next week.
I'd like to start as soon as we have 4.

Ok, then I say we wait a few hours if someone joins and replaces Tables. If not we start the game with Tables.
Sounds good.  Thanks for setting this up again.  I really enjoy this game.
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2012, 10:47:39 am »

When is this starting?  I really want to /in but I dont think I could start until next monday.

I wanted to start this as soon as the spots are filled up. But if the players agree we can start this next week.
I'd like to start as soon as we have 4.

Then I'll /out.  You chaps have fun.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2012, 04:41:12 pm »

Ok, I think let's get this started. Tables, you can play then.

All 4 players have expressed interest in being the Bio-Terrorist. Please determine a Bio-Terrorist, otherwise I choose a player randomly.
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