SPOILERS for the end of the video Remember when they said "You probably shouldn't pass unless there is nothing to do" at the start of the video... 👀 they really foreshadowed the ending 😂
Pandemic was actually the last board game that I played with people outside my household before the start of lockdown. Shockingly enough, we actually won.
That ending was such a rollercoaster. From the defeatism after counting cards, to realizing they counted wrong and they would win, to losing by cubes after they were SURE nothing could stop them. The shocked reactions to the Game Lost screen were wild. What a ride.
Normally, indecision in board games merely results in analysis paralysis. But 39:15 shows us what what happens when a board game simulates indecision in the actual high-cost manner that is common to the real world. Sullivan knew this. And he taught us a valuable lesson here today.
If Adam hadn't moved Blair she was on Atlanta. She could have cured blue first, taken the cubes off of Atlanta. Flown to San Paulo and then moved down to meet Sully. Then sully would have had to take the yellow card from Blair and moved into San Paulo and cured yellow. Adam got too ability happy and just started moving people without paying attention to what he was really doing. Great game though.
I've never seen you all so shocked at an ending. It was perfect. I was watching cubes all game and once everyone got confident, I couldn't stop panicking. XD good game though. Was fantastic.
SPOILERS for the end of the video They had the game in their hands! If they played their Forecast event at that last turn, they could've stacked the deck and bought time to cure some cubes. Even Blair was wondering about playing it!
This is what I love about Pandemic. You think you have it nailed and the game punches you in the throat. It's fun but at times it's brutal. From elation to heartbreaking in the turn of a card. I love it
They only played 4 epidemics though - I'd be interested to see if the set of roles they played with would beat a 6 epidemic game, even with very good players
@@CaptLoquaLacon If the deck is merciful to the contingency planner, maaaybe? Double dipping on events can be powerful but they need to line up well. Also you'd need the researcher to ignore all cubes and laserfocus on gathering cards for the cure from turn 1.
@@kj635 I suspect it'd also need the change they meed to events they made with On The Brink added 2 events per player rather than 5 in total. It gives the CP a few more options and the players a little bit more time
So Adam how about next year during the month of April everyone makes a video from someone else's series. Sullivan makes a cosplay, Blair can do an explain, etc
One of the things I’m looking forward to about lockdowns being lifted soon in the U.K. (pray I don’t jinx it) is that soon Board Game Club might be able to just stop showing us how much fun board gaming can be even under the constraints of lockdown, and will just be able to show us how much fun board gaming can be.
I think the mistake was to not get rid of red when there was just 2 places with it, that will give you a whole lot of problems later and with 2 gone you can focus on just half the world instead. Pandemic is a pretty hard game because it tends to give you some nasty surprises just when you think it is over and you have won. I don't think I seen any player skip half their turn though, I am not sure what they were thinking and I was screaming at my screen when everybody agreed Blair should just skip.
Spoiler for the end: Blair should’ve flew to San Francisco and gotten three cubes for the reserve…but there is still potential of more blues being infected. So you still could’ve lost. Great episode guys! My favorite so far!
They should have played forecast, they should have tried to set up Sully to cure yellow sooner, Sully shouldn't have done the mad border hopping... There are lots of little points where you think they could have done better!
@@CaptLoquaLacon haha I agree. I can’t be that hard on them since they don’t play this much. It’s just a little heartbreaking knowing they could’ve done better when this is my favorite game of all time.
@@AwesomePianoMan1021 The first point I winced was about 20 minutes in - Blair was 3 moves away from Riyadh, with the Riyadh card, and I figured if she moved there and built a research station with her action, the researcher and another player who had two black cards could have met up there to get black cured a bit earlier than they did
I’d love to see pandemic become maybe a monthly show, but with different members of the board game club working in teams of four each month, can almost become a wee competition between the gang, next month could be the wrestle talk boys: Luke, Oli, Laurie, and Pete
I was praying for the blue city infection cards to stay away when I saw there's only 2 blue cubes left! We need another pandemic game so that we can see sully save the world.😂
Pandemic is truly a brutal game! Tense episode, great fun and I hope you do another! I for one, greatly enjoy Adam's pick of three core members here. These four would honestly find a way to be entertaining reading the tax registry. And of course poor Sully gets stuck with the contingency planner! x) At least in this game the contingency planner had a few moments of usefulness, so it wasn't a total waste.
Never played Pandemic, and 20 minutes in so far. I could imagine this game having a social deduction mechanic, where one guy is secretly a saboteur who wants to watch the world burn and he keeps giving really bad ideas and the team have to a) save the world and b) figure out who the saboteur is so they can counteract them and save the world
@Marc - it almost does: the excellent expansion 'On The Brink' has a Bio-Terrorist scenario which pits the team against the viruses AND an extra hidden player roaming the board dropping a 5th virus strain.
Pandemic, to me, is a great example of how themeing is important in board games. I didn't care about Pandemic at all until Reign of Cthulhu, then I bought it. Logically I know it's more or less the same game but the theme just appealed to me so much more.
"There's no way we can lose this" I really like this confidence when they're only one round into the game. edit: *spoilers* For context, I'm watching through all of the earlier BGC videos I missed, and I've already watched their playthrough of Pandemic last month, so watching everyone be so confident at the beginning of a game that I already know they lost is really enjoyable. The dramatic irony in their first-round confidence is just...*mwah*
@@NoRollsBarred So you DEFINITELY wouldn't want someone to point out that you could have Airlifted from the discard pile to put Blair directly at St Pete to remove ALL the cubes with one action, right? So I won't point it out then. Fun game, would love to watch you play it again!
Yeah, I wondered what Adam was on about until he corrected himself - the contingency planner does rather suck if the events don't get dealt out and played early, and in the normal base game there are only 5 events, rather than the 2 per player that was introduced by On The Brink. The poor cyan doofus can be really underwhelming in the base game
I bought a copy of pandemic legacy about a month before lockdown started and yet haven't even cracked it to this day... Man, I can't wait to get back to in person gaming..
It's pretty great! When we played, it ended up being surprisingly emotional; the permanent mechanics such as named characters that can get scars/meet their ends and the lasting city changes got us surprisingly invested! My favorite character was my Medic, Rafael, who earned some abilities and relationships but whom I was *terrified* of getting into harm's way after his first scar.
*SPOILERS* On the last round of turns, if adam hadn't zipped Blair to South America, on her turn she could have Cured in Atlanta, treated in Atlanta, flown to the research center in South America, and moved beside Sully. That would have gotten added the 1 extra blue cube needed and Sully could take the Yellow cards and cure on his turn. ...I think.
I feel like they did more harm earlier - Adam discarded the Miami card when Sully was near it. The thing I've found with Pandemic is that you need to commit early to someone curing a colour, I don't think they did until people had 3 cards, but by that point it can be a bit late in proceedings. If they had made more of a move on yellow, they may have had a few players freed up to firefight in the later rounds
That would have been better for sure. But Adam had Sao Paolo and could have used himself as the airlift to Sao Paolo and then pulled Sully with him. That leaves Blair in North America with 3 actions after curing so she could have pulled four blue cubes on her turn between Atlanta and Washington. John had blue cards as well and could have pulled four more blue on his turn getting it to Sully.
Ops expert one of the worst?! My go-to role every time - special action fly to a 3 cuber, drop a research station, cure 2 - rinse and repeat - board rarely in danger, is super connected for everyone else and late game good for trades and dropping stations for cures. Easily top tier alongside medic and scientist. Also - love your channel - discovered it last week and have been working through it all - top notch stuff edit: just watched a little further - turns out you got the role mixed with contingency planner - total agreement - utter garbage role
i didn't think blair could get any cooler and then she has a hardcover copy of Gyo in the background. anyone who likes junji ito is instantly like 14% cooler.
I would love to see you guys play some Resistance: Avalon. Don’t get me wrong, I love the BotC episodes, but the myriad complexities of it can get a bit overwhelming, whereas Avalon/Resistance is really just all about the “Are you evil?” For this reason, I insist that both Brooke and Sully participate.
Typically you want the first epidemic card to come out early on, as you have at least 9 city cards already out (following setup), this dilutes the risk of being hit with city card with three disease cubes on it, and also the longer it takes for the first epidemic card to make its appearance, the increased likelihood of having two epidemic cards come out in quick succession.
I'm finally having my first session of Pandemic Legacy today. I got the game for Christmas in 2019 and wasn't able to play because of the actual pandemic... Now rewatching this in anticipation for a return to in person gaming!
As an American, hearing the first words someone said in the face of a mounting pandemic being, "This looks complicated, I don't know what I'm doing!" was...far, far. far too relatable.
It’s an absolutely beautiful game design. Not to be the sort of nerd who has a favourite board game mechanic, but the epidemic system in Pandemic is probably my favourite board game mechanic.
SPOILERS for the end of the video
Remember when they said "You probably shouldn't pass unless there is nothing to do" at the start of the video... 👀 they really foreshadowed the ending 😂
"Let's play Pandemic!"
Oh Adam you silly sausage we've played it for fifteen months.
Well, 16 months now...
@@HeartlandNewsfeed wow you sound fun!
Adam? OH YOU MEAN The Sullivan
Pandemic was actually the last board game that I played with people outside my household before the start of lockdown.
Shockingly enough, we actually won.
“Let’s play Pandemic.” - The Sullivan, 2021
So glad The Sullivan keeps introducing us to these wonderful games.
Oh my goodness. The last 5 minutes were a rollercoaster of emotions.
That ending was such a rollercoaster. From the defeatism after counting cards, to realizing they counted wrong and they would win, to losing by cubes after they were SURE nothing could stop them. The shocked reactions to the Game Lost screen were wild. What a ride.
Normally, indecision in board games merely results in analysis paralysis. But 39:15 shows us what what happens when a board game simulates indecision in the actual high-cost manner that is common to the real world.
Sullivan knew this. And he taught us a valuable lesson here today.
Me lying in bed with suspected covid: “Ooh, NRB have just uploaded a new let’s play. I wonder what game it is. This’ll take my mind off things…”
😂😂😂
Well, at least you're not adding cubes to the map?
But seriously, get well soon.
Hope you only have mild symptoms and get well soon
May your recovery be pure Sully!
If Adam hadn't moved Blair she was on Atlanta. She could have cured blue first, taken the cubes off of Atlanta. Flown to San Paulo and then moved down to meet Sully. Then sully would have had to take the yellow card from Blair and moved into San Paulo and cured yellow. Adam got too ability happy and just started moving people without paying attention to what he was really doing. Great game though.
Man, I saw how low the blue cubes were getting when Blair passed and was like "Oh, that's gonna be how they lose, ain't it?"
I’m not sure what I preferred: Sullivan leading this team with boundless experience or Adam’s “your life bores me” comment to Blair at the start
I've never seen you all so shocked at an ending. It was perfect. I was watching cubes all game and once everyone got confident, I couldn't stop panicking. XD good game though. Was fantastic.
That seems to be a theme with this game. Once everyone gets confident. That's when it's going to explode and ruin it.
Jesus, what a final 10 minutes this has... I've never been so on the edge of my seat for anything. Looking forward to more co-op games in the future!
WELCOME BACK BLAIR, BLAIR, BLAIR!!!!
In true Pandemic fashion, the last 10 minutes or so were a fuckin' trip and a half
SPOILERS for the end of the video
They had the game in their hands! If they played their Forecast event at that last turn, they could've stacked the deck and bought time to cure some cubes. Even Blair was wondering about playing it!
No, no, they said it very clearly. There was nothing they could have done--
"But what about--"
NOTHING they could have done! :-D
This is what I love about Pandemic. You think you have it nailed and the game punches you in the throat. It's fun but at times it's brutal.
From elation to heartbreaking in the turn of a card. I love it
That thumbnail was class 😁
sully laughing at the end like he was thrilled about the turn of events....
Sully was the disease imp all along.
As a person from Chennai, I applaud every single person in this video for pronouncing the name right ❤️
THE CUBES
YOU WERENT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CUBES
No Laurie or Tom this time, but happy to have Blair back and thoroughly enjoyed this episode!
Daaaaaaaaaaaamn, Y'all are playing without any medics and/or scientist and no Quarantine Expert
.... You guys are Hardcore
They only played 4 epidemics though - I'd be interested to see if the set of roles they played with would beat a 6 epidemic game, even with very good players
@@CaptLoquaLacon If the deck is merciful to the contingency planner, maaaybe? Double dipping on events can be powerful but they need to line up well. Also you'd need the researcher to ignore all cubes and laserfocus on gathering cards for the cure from turn 1.
@@kj635 I suspect it'd also need the change they meed to events they made with On The Brink added 2 events per player rather than 5 in total. It gives the CP a few more options and the players a little bit more time
Literally anyone: Istanbul
Me; *Shakes profusely*
**don't say... It**
You know someone HAS to do this right? Yeah...yeah...I mean someone has GOT to do this...
*Not Constantinople*
OOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOO
Istanbuuuul
Istanbul
So Adam how about next year during the month of April everyone makes a video from someone else's series. Sullivan makes a cosplay, Blair can do an explain, etc
One of the things I’m looking forward to about lockdowns being lifted soon in the U.K. (pray I don’t jinx it) is that soon Board Game Club might be able to just stop showing us how much fun board gaming can be even under the constraints of lockdown, and will just be able to show us how much fun board gaming can be.
I love how Adam jump in happiness when he thought he was gonna win
I honestly liked that Sully hadn’t played before, he asked a lot of questions I was also wondering since I’ve never played either!
This game needs a variant with a traitor mechanic... so Adam can fulfill his dream by destroying humanity.
Jon: “Is there a way we can lose on outbreaks?”
Literally the moment he finishes the question, they lose to an outbreak. Lol
So Quizzlemania this week kinda had 3 Sullys. Can we top that on Board Game Club?
I don't think you could have picked a better group for this. Amazing work y'all!
I think the mistake was to not get rid of red when there was just 2 places with it, that will give you a whole lot of problems later and with 2 gone you can focus on just half the world instead.
Pandemic is a pretty hard game because it tends to give you some nasty surprises just when you think it is over and you have won. I don't think I seen any player skip half their turn though, I am not sure what they were thinking and I was screaming at my screen when everybody agreed Blair should just skip.
Incredible finish. What a twist!
Sully: im going home, im going home, im going ... HOME TO BOGOTA
This just proves the theory. Sully in the thumbnail= dimes.
Yes! This is my daughter's favorite game!!! Going to have to sit down and watch this with them when I get home after my interview
Hope your interview goes well
@@CaptLoquaLacon Thanks for the well wishes
You won’t be disappointed….. the ending is epic!!
Hope it went well 👍
*UPDATE*
Got the job!!!!
Spoiler for the end:
Blair should’ve flew to San Francisco and gotten three cubes for the reserve…but there is still potential of more blues being infected. So you still could’ve lost. Great episode guys! My favorite so far!
They should have played forecast, they should have tried to set up Sully to cure yellow sooner, Sully shouldn't have done the mad border hopping... There are lots of little points where you think they could have done better!
@@CaptLoquaLacon haha I agree. I can’t be that hard on them since they don’t play this much. It’s just a little heartbreaking knowing they could’ve done better when this is my favorite game of all time.
@@AwesomePianoMan1021 The first point I winced was about 20 minutes in - Blair was 3 moves away from Riyadh, with the Riyadh card, and I figured if she moved there and built a research station with her action, the researcher and another player who had two black cards could have met up there to get black cured a bit earlier than they did
WELCOME BACK BLAIR!!!
I really wanted Sully to save the world
I'm so glad you guys are doing coop games too. It's one of my favorite mechanics!
I’d love to see pandemic become maybe a monthly show, but with different members of the board game club working in teams of four each month, can almost become a wee competition between the gang, next month could be the wrestle talk boys: Luke, Oli, Laurie, and Pete
So, Sully now has an excuse to buy a new hat
Ahhhh, what an end!! :D :D :D Brilliant!
I was praying for the blue city infection cards to stay away when I saw there's only 2 blue cubes left! We need another pandemic game so that we can see sully save the world.😂
Pandemic is truly a brutal game! Tense episode, great fun and I hope you do another! I for one, greatly enjoy Adam's pick of three core members here. These four would honestly find a way to be entertaining reading the tax registry.
And of course poor Sully gets stuck with the contingency planner! x) At least in this game the contingency planner had a few moments of usefulness, so it wasn't a total waste.
As soon as Pandemic appeared on BoardGameArena, I've been looking forward to this! Happy that we're doing this
I really like this implementation of the game, honestly. Really clean, while not losing the aesthetic.
What an ending!
Never played Pandemic, and 20 minutes in so far.
I could imagine this game having a social deduction mechanic, where one guy is secretly a saboteur who wants to watch the world burn and he keeps giving really bad ideas and the team have to a) save the world and b) figure out who the saboteur is so they can counteract them and save the world
@Marc - it almost does: the excellent expansion 'On The Brink' has a Bio-Terrorist scenario which pits the team against the viruses AND an extra hidden player roaming the board dropping a 5th virus strain.
Having dealt with more anti-vaxxers that I want to contemplate, this would be incredibly realistic.
Pandemic, to me, is a great example of how themeing is important in board games.
I didn't care about Pandemic at all until Reign of Cthulhu, then I bought it. Logically I know it's more or less the same game but the theme just appealed to me so much more.
Jon Gracey stealing Blair's kaiju gimmick by wiping out Tokyo.
Big Jon Dot Com.
Next board game club, football might be home
"There's no way we can lose this" I really like this confidence when they're only one round into the game.
edit: *spoilers*
For context, I'm watching through all of the earlier BGC videos I missed, and I've already watched their playthrough of Pandemic last month, so watching everyone be so confident at the beginning of a game that I already know they lost is really enjoyable. The dramatic irony in their first-round confidence is just...*mwah*
So a 'Sullivan Brown Play' is the new 'Pulling a Homer'?
"it's all waisted actions till we get to Sullly!" Well apart from travelling to a blue city and curing. Defiantly nothing to do! :)
ADAM: LOOK YES FINE SHUT UP
@@NoRollsBarred So you DEFINITELY wouldn't want someone to point out that you could have Airlifted from the discard pile to put Blair directly at St Pete to remove ALL the cubes with one action, right? So I won't point it out then. Fun game, would love to watch you play it again!
Come on Adam! I LOVE the operations expert... he's key in getting the initial Research Stations set-up. Then people can get around the world FAST!
Yeah, I wondered what Adam was on about until he corrected himself - the contingency planner does rather suck if the events don't get dealt out and played early, and in the normal base game there are only 5 events, rather than the 2 per player that was introduced by On The Brink. The poor cyan doofus can be really underwhelming in the base game
This video got the best worst thumbnail I've ever seen lol
This was an emotional rollercoaster I was not prepared for.
I bought a copy of pandemic legacy about a month before lockdown started and yet haven't even cracked it to this day...
Man, I can't wait to get back to in person gaming..
It's pretty great! When we played, it ended up being surprisingly emotional; the permanent mechanics such as named characters that can get scars/meet their ends and the lasting city changes got us surprisingly invested! My favorite character was my Medic, Rafael, who earned some abilities and relationships but whom I was *terrified* of getting into harm's way after his first scar.
More of this please, I liked it, it was long!
Really enjoyed this game, glad to see Blair back.
Yay, we have Blair back!
You can tell Blair is so tired! Moving really does drain a person!
*SPOILERS*
On the last round of turns, if adam hadn't zipped Blair to South America, on her turn she could have Cured in Atlanta, treated in Atlanta, flown to the research center in South America, and moved beside Sully. That would have gotten added the 1 extra blue cube needed and Sully could take the Yellow cards and cure on his turn. ...I think.
I feel like they did more harm earlier - Adam discarded the Miami card when Sully was near it. The thing I've found with Pandemic is that you need to commit early to someone curing a colour, I don't think they did until people had 3 cards, but by that point it can be a bit late in proceedings. If they had made more of a move on yellow, they may have had a few players freed up to firefight in the later rounds
That would have been better for sure. But Adam had Sao Paolo and could have used himself as the airlift to Sao Paolo and then pulled Sully with him. That leaves Blair in North America with 3 actions after curing so she could have pulled four blue cubes on her turn between Atlanta and Washington. John had blue cards as well and could have pulled four more blue on his turn getting it to Sully.
Before I begin watching the video and will forget what I wanted to say, I just wanna say... I really like this thumbnail lol
Absolutely Tragic! 😢
You guys should honestly play this again 😃 Twas so much fun!!! 😁
Welcome back, BLAIR! Great to see you guys play a coop.
*10+ Board Game Clubs later* "And Still! You're Board Game Club Champion... Pandemic!" Really gonna miss Blood on the Clocktower.
*Spoiler*
Oh man that end was brutal! I saw it coming and yet couldn't look away.
Ops expert one of the worst?! My go-to role every time - special action fly to a 3 cuber, drop a research station, cure 2 - rinse and repeat - board rarely in danger, is super connected for everyone else and late game good for trades and dropping stations for cures. Easily top tier alongside medic and scientist.
Also - love your channel - discovered it last week and have been working through it all - top notch stuff
edit: just watched a little further - turns out you got the role mixed with contingency planner - total agreement - utter garbage role
Love watching this game, I have played so many pandemics where I forgot the cubes
A typical rollercoaster ride. Great game folks :)
This has kept me very entertained on a very long train journey.. thank you NRB x
Imagine thinking you've beaten pandemic
I’d love to see NRB do the legacy version of this!
Oh! Yes please!!
i didn't think blair could get any cooler and then she has a hardcover copy of Gyo in the background. anyone who likes junji ito is instantly like 14% cooler.
Welcome back, Blair!
Pandemic is super hard. Played it with friends multiple times.
I would love to see you guys play some Resistance: Avalon. Don’t get me wrong, I love the BotC episodes, but the myriad complexities of it can get a bit overwhelming, whereas Avalon/Resistance is really just all about the “Are you evil?” For this reason, I insist that both Brooke and Sully participate.
The end of the intro was very Table top starring Will Wheton... Im not complaining
a couple friends and I beat Pandemic Legacy season 1 a couple years ago. definitely a top tier game
I personally hope yall will run a Legacy game as a series on the channel when you get back in person. Pandemic Legacy is so great
I liked how for 60 minutes I had no idea what was going on and then we discovered they didnt either! :)
This was such a great watch! Hope to see another attempt happen in a future BGC!
I love Sully. He's a 2 drink minimum
Me: why is Adam not curing some blue? There is a lot of 3 cube blue cities
Minutes later
Everyone: we can't lose this
Too many blue cubes. Game Over
from 100 to 0 to 100 to 0 real quick
Typically you want the first epidemic card to come out early on, as you have at least 9 city cards already out (following setup), this dilutes the risk of being hit with city card with three disease cubes on it, and also the longer it takes for the first epidemic card to make its appearance, the increased likelihood of having two epidemic cards come out in quick succession.
I'm finally having my first session of Pandemic Legacy today. I got the game for Christmas in 2019 and wasn't able to play because of the actual pandemic...
Now rewatching this in anticipation for a return to in person gaming!
I need a video of Sully's travels around the world 🌎😄
As an American, hearing the first words someone said in the face of a mounting pandemic being, "This looks complicated, I don't know what I'm doing!" was...far, far. far too relatable.
I been waiting for you guys to play this game. Oh my God
The ending was soooooo good!
Fantastic
I never understood how the walls will just slowly close in on you in this game.
I had heard about it, but I never really felt it.
It’s an absolutely beautiful game design. Not to be the sort of nerd who has a favourite board game mechanic, but the epidemic system in Pandemic is probably my favourite board game mechanic.
Too soon, man. Too soon
I was screaming for Blair to move to a (research centre) Blue and remove the cubes but not sure it would of been enough haha, so close
>Look at the jobs involved
>Not running with the OG power couples Researcher/Scientists and Dispatcher/Medic
This will not end well.
I want to see another episode of this please