Pandemic The Board Game: Part 2

The first game I played we were three players. As it was our first game we chose to play an introductory game, with slightly easier game play. I got the researcher role while the two other players got operations expert and scientist. At the start of the game we made sure to try to utilize our special roles to the best extent while also trying to use all four actions each turn. This was based of the fact that the game was branded as a cooperative game, and we deduced that if we were given special abilities and a certain number of actions that we should take full advantage of it. We started off in Atlanta and decided to try to spread out on the map in order to treat the few starting diseases that had occurred. As the game progressed we got unlucky with the disease cards and soon Europe was covered in blue cubes. The operations expert built a research center in Milano while I, as the research, shared knowledge with the scientist and we discovered a cure for blue. We decided to let one player focus on treating all the blue cubes while trying to get around to other diseases. After completely eradicating blue, I travelled to South America to take care of the Yellow disease while the operations expert and scientist focused on red. I managed to build a research station and discover a cure for yellow. We decided not to try and remove all the yellow cubes, as we believed we could find a cure for the black and red disease before any outbreaks would occur. Unfortunately, while in the closing stages of curing red, we drew an epidemic card that resulted in an outbreak in Southern America. We decided to fight through it and discovered a cure. I shared my knowledge with the scientist once again and went of to South America in the attempts at treating the worst cities and trying to avoid another outbreak or chain reaction. As before the operations expert set up a research station in Northern Africa while the scientist, using our combined cards discovered a cure for the black disease. We won without much trouble.