Face dangerous new threats as a fifth virus spreads across the globe and Hot Zones make their entrance, changing the rules? for the worse! Fortunately, new medical experts have joined the fight to help you. Experimental Meds is a healthy dose of expansion contents to Pandemic: The Cure.
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Description from the publisher:
Face dangerous new threats in Pandemic: The Cure – Experimental Meds as a fifth virus spreads across the globe and Hot Zones make their entrance, changing the rules…for the worse! Fortunately, new medical experts have joined the fight to help you.
Part of the Pandemic series.
| Ages | 8+ |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Cooperative Play, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Press your Luck, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Player Powers |
| Play Time | |
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Publisher | Filosofia Éditions, Z-Man Games, Inc., Z-Man Games |
| Designer | Matt Leacock, Thomas Lehmann |
| Theme | Dice, Expansion for Base-game, Medical |
getsumaiki
Pro: New roles are great. Neutral: 5th Virus and green dice are okay, don't change the game that much.
FrancoisX
Excellent expansion. It greatly increases the replayability by allowing a staggering number of role combinations.
Eeeville
If you have The Cure, you need to own this. I felt the base game had a lack of variety among the roles and an extreme lack of variety among the events. This expansion has more roles than the base game and the same number of events. This alone makes the expansion a must buy. I also like that 3 of the 'curing' type roles make it so that less of your dice are likely to be locked up when gaining samples. The mutation challenge is interesting. There is an unpredictability with this challenge which mirrors the normal Pandemic game. It does make the game take longer due to needing a 5th cure. I feel it can make it the game easier in two ways: (1) I feel as though you're much less likely to lose the game due to the dice bag being empty, due to the 12 additional dice being added to the bag. Even though the purple dice can remove dice from the game, I don't think you're likely to remove 12 over the course of the game. (2) With the removal of some dice from the game, it may be harder to get an outbreak in those colours, depending on how you can balance their distribution between locations and the CDC. That said, I think it also makes the game harder in 2 ways: (1) It can make outbreaks more likely when the x2 is rolled often, depending on what's in your bag and the game state. (2) Needing 5 cures does make the game longer, and this means you can hit more epidemics and roll 5 dice during the infection phase more often than playing without the module. Overall, I think I would rather play without this module, due to the extra time it requires. The Hot Zone module is, in my opinion, the better of the two challenges in this game. I feel this way for 3 reasons: (1) It doesn't add time to the game, (2) It makes the choice of how to spend your CDC dice even harder, (3) It makes movement characters more useful, turns where players a rolls nothing but movement a more satisfying turn, and tougher decisions with regards to movement. This is a fun module that usually makes the game harder and makes decisions more difficult. Excellent. Includes: 08 Roles (1 more than the base game) 10 Events (1 'make your own' blank card)