Pandemic legacy: December
We got to December, where the goals completely change. We now know that the zombie outbreak is artificial, and that the shady world military government thing has a stockpile of mutations so they can keep the population down even if the world is vaccinated.
No curing diseases - instead, every faded city must be vaccinated and the stockpile of mtations destroyed.
Rachel was keen to play another game with us, so we played as medic (me), generalist (C) and immunologist (R). We had 2 or 3 vaccinated cities out of 20 faded cities. We found and destroyed the stockpile reasonably quickly, and I tried to contain the normal diseases while C & R vaccinated. That worked pretty well, but I didn't quite manage to fight all the fires and we died of too many outbreaks in Sydney (still red) with a couple (again, I think it was 2 or 3) of cities still to go. Victory felt so close though, so we played again, same characters, and won within two rounds. That was our first time playing with the generalist, who was more useful than we'd guessed.
Overall, we scored in the second band, not brilliant but better than average. If we'd had better luck with the cards earlier on (two games with an epidemic in the first draw meant we went down rather more than we should have, and we should have done more vaccinating earlier to win a game earlier) we'd have been easily in the top band, we were 20 points off. So I'm not too disappointed, and it was fun, which is the main thing.
Now we have two new games - Ghostbusters, which is also a campaigny game but a bit less long term and the littles are more enthusiastic about it, and Atlantis, which is a game lots of people may age played while I was playing Labyrinth and Fang Den Hut and other games whose English name I didn't know. I played a lot of Cluedo and Risk, too. Fang den Hut is sort of like a better balanced Ludo. Often it comes down to the last turn before it's obvious who wins, which I like, but it is mostly chasing players around the board trying to capture their pieces. Wikipedia says its English name is Coppit. Labyrinth is called that in English too.