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Pandemic: On the Brink includes new event cards, new role cards, rules for five players, and optional game challenges to increase the difficulty of the Pandemic base game. These new challenges, which can be used individually or combined for even more difficult play, are as follows:
The Virulent Strain challenge makes one disease become particularly deadly in unpredictable ways.
The Mutation challenge adds a fifth (purple) disease that behaves differently than the original four.
The Bio-Terrorist challenge pits one player against the others!
Part of the Pandemic series.
| Ages | 8+ |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Cooperative Play, Hand Management, Partnerships, Point to Point Movement, Secret Unit Deployment, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Player Powers |
| Play Time | 45m |
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Publisher | Bergsala Enigma, Devir, Filosofia Éditions, Gém Klub Kft., Hobby Japan, HomoLudicus, Jolly Thinkers, Lacerta, Lautapelit.fi, Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd, MINDOK, Quined White Goblin Games, Z-Man Games, Inc., Zhiyanjia, Albi, Asterion Press, Pegasus Spiele, Wargames Club Publishing, Z-Man Games |
| Designer | Matt Leacock, Thomas Lehmann |
| Theme | Environmental, Expansion for Base-game, Medical, Science Fiction |
Aberrix
The new role cards are nice, I would almost argue they made it easier though. The petri dishes pumped the theme up even higher and honestly is 80% of why I bought the expansion. I never got to play the bio-terrorist though as within a couple plays the game itself started lacking flavor for me. I'd play it again, but I've since traded my copy away due to lack of table time.
acook1956
Bought this to add variety when we had outplayed the base game. Still in shrink as we haven't needed it yet
alexdrazen
:) :D :D :) :yuk: Great expansion (really many expansions in one) and makes Pandemic very challenging, especially if you play both Mutation and Virulent Strain simultaneously.