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Lead the Netherlands into the Industrial Age in the latest version of the cooperative classic! It is the dawn of the Industrial Age in the Netherlands. For centuries, the country has relied upon a series of dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep it safe from the constant threat of flooding from the North Sea. But this system is no longer enough.
agentpatman
This was obviously another game in the pandemic system so not much different on that front. However in this one you will be focusing on building more infrastructure like windmill pumps and dikes to prevent the flow of the water. The water flow adds some interesting decisions as removing water cubes doesn't help as they come right back. Instead you need to block the water in the first place to be able to move it and add pumps to help you get the water out for no actions. The difficulty is higher than the original and there are some setups that fail immediately at the start of the game due to existing water in purple territories and having to apply 3 more damage to multiple purple cards. I get that it's supposed to start off with a challenge but it's unfortunate that the game can end in turn one due to random setup when they could have added a rule that if you draw multiple purple during setup to ignore the third. All in all its different enough that I owe multiple but that difference might not be big enough for most people.
booned
I like the water spreading mechanism, it works very well, and I love that the board has character. Not in terms of art (although that's fine), but in terms of gameplay. Every region has a different feel which gives the game personality and makes me want to play it repeatedly to learn how to play best on it. As opposed to generic Pandemic which doesn't have much appreciable difference between all the different regions. The only advantage of the original, to me, is ease of teaching (but I'd prefer Forbidden Island for that, anyway), and the setup is a lot easier and quicker.
Alan Stern
An excellent reimplementation of Pandemic! I like the use of the dikes and how the game flows. I would (will) probably play this over vanilla Pandemic.