I really miss watching Wil playing board games with friends. Wish he would do streams in the future of him playing games he enjoys with friends occasionally.
I work as a nurse, when I was at a Dementia/psych hospital working the NOC shift (Graveyard), it would be my last night on before a two day break. I SO wished I have a one quiet night card to play so I could go home and relax with my fig newtons and scotch. Never worked. In a hospital you never say "Wow it is quiet tonight." In Pandemic you never say "It looks like we might just win this one". Also BTW nurses and doctors LOVE this game.
I love Table Top. Even though I haven't seen any recent videos, I have purchased so many board games because of this. It's a great way to see if I want to buy it. See the game play in a fun but educational manner. I have even avoiding buying a few games. I find it way more helpful then most written reviews.
My experience is that it is important to manage the cards you receive. At some point as soon as you can (sometimes even at the start) you need to get an idea of who is saving what color. If you don't you just end up going through all the cards and losing. The goal is to get 5 of each color in a hand and submit them at a research center. You definitely need to manage the infections/outbreaks, but only because if you don't they will get out of hand, and you will either lose because the infections/outbreaks got out of hand, or you will spend all your time/cards chasing the infections/outbreaks and not getting your cures together. As long as you get your cures submitted, it doesn't matter the state of the spreading diseases. You win by submitting the cures period. The point is that controlling infections/outbreaks is a secondary goal only to the extent that it furthers the goal of gathering and submitting the cures (5 of same color in a hand) at the research station. If you make controlling infections/outbreaks primary you will likely lose.
I have this game and the "State of Emergency" expansion, my group of tabletop friends have not yet been able to score a victory. The expansion's addition of a "super bug" makes this game both, much more difficult and much more realistic in these covid-19 times. Despite the eventual losses, we are more determined than ever to replay this game and "save humanity".
It's estimated that March Madness will cause a productivity loss of ~$67-200 million this year. These three extended TableTop videos - if all viewed back-to-back-to-back during paid work hours - should add roughly $2-5.6 million to that (math can be provided upon request). Maybe they'll talk about us if there's another sequester.
Question. I just watched the short video of this, and I'm hoping it's in this video. I noticed that there are game pieces in Greenland. Why? I was hoping I'd see Will setting up the game, and therefore get my answer; but no.
Erica Robertson why are people so afraid to use the term boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband? Partner sounds like someone is trapped in the friend zone.
Played this game last week. First player did his actions and then drew his cards. In that action he set off the epidemic, which caused EIGHT OUTBREAKS in one go. Game ended after just one player moved...
lonelongboarder27 We did. It was just the weird luck of the draws for the epidemic being right near the top of its section and cities with 3 bricks all being near each other. So the infected city count was small, we got the epidemic card early (3 cards in out of I think 15 for the section it was shuffled into) and the cities were all tightly bunched up for the triple spots. So, outbreaks galore.
Incorrect, depending on how many epidemics you are playing with, you divide the player stack into equal parts and at least for the stack on top you play the epidemic on the bottom of that stack. Sounds like someone shuffled after the fact.
lonelongboarder27 That must be a rule from the new edition. The version I have says "9. Shuffle an Epidemic card into each pile. Stack the piles on top of each other to form the Player Draw Pile." You'll note that it doesn't specify to put the epidemic at the bottom of the first stack.
This was a nice mix of people playing this game! I just recently learned about this game and me and some friends had our first attempt at it last weekend. Now that I understand how the game works, I gotta say I got all tense just by watching this video. Pandemic is truly infectious!
Bought this for a family Christmas present.. we have played this around 10 times now and are still looking for that first win. Extremely fun and difficult.
Bought pandemic mostly on recommendation from watching Table Top and a few other reviews. Wil Weaton thank you very much for being a great representative for king nerds everywhere.
Watching this today sick and getting a you-know-what test tomorrow (if anybody sees this ever yes I'm vaccinated) really brightened my day. All the commentary about masks and sanitizer in particular. :)
This extended version was actually extremely helpful to me understanding how to play the game, which I now REALLY want to play, looks so awesome and fun. Thank you so much for TableTop, and especially these long versions!
I have added something to my bucket list today. To play a game with Will Wheaton. A great game master and an awesome role model for all Gamers. Thank you Mr. Wheaton!
I just attended marcocon and when playing settlers of catan, lords of waterdeep, and forbidden island/desert all I could was how do we reach out to wil and get him here
MonkeyShaman Thank you for existing - I knew you were here. I played/saw this for the first time and it was the first thing I said. We are never alone. We are the collective of Madagascar.
I actually just recently picked up this game and Gloom (Cthulhu version) after watching you guys play on Tabletop. Pandemic has quickly become my favorite tabletop game. Me and two of my friends beat the game on Legendary level! Which is now called Heroic. Luckily, the Epidemic cards were spread out enough to where we had only one outbreak throughout the game. Medic, Quarantine Specialist, and Dispatcher were our roles.
I love these extended versions. Takes a bit longer to watch since I watch them while I eat dinner or lunch. Since youtube saves my place in the video, I really like these extended releases. Thank you G&S and Wil and the Table Top crew.
Extended Edition Table Top is BEST Table Top! Sure, the shorter versions are easier for some to watch due to the shorter runtimes, but these are so much more fun to watch! They're worth it! More like these, please!
45:15 I feel like that's a conversation that could have happened with the president. "If we let people die... we lose." Wish Wil was there to tell our gov't. that.
I think the most difficult and awkward set of things I've juggled was a tennis ball, a basketball and a paper tissue. I've never juggled burning torches or anything like that, though. Also, I've only ever been able to juggle up to 5 objects and with more than 3 they all needed to be nearly identical hand-sized objects. I have juggled rings and batons but learning was a bit tricky: I had to learn how to spin/flip them correctly. I am a proud owner of 3 sets of 3 juggling bags that I made myself. :D Yay, I'm... a clown? ;)
This is definitely one of my fave episodes, not only cause of our wonderful host, but Ms Webb, whom I have been a fan of since the spring of '02 when I accidentally discovered X-Play and Screen Savers. I have often chuckled and admired at our stoic hosts who wade into the plague infested auditoriums and convention centers year after year, and show up to work to edit and rehost while they are sick. Hats off to all of you who come out to see the fans, and get hideously sick for it. Thank you.
I just discovered tabletop and I love watching these. I just bought ticket to ride and love it. After watching this I think this will be the next game purchase.
YES! More please! I say that every episode going forward should have the edited version and the full version available! And releasing all of the old ones too...
Out of all the table tops there is now, I wish to see another round of Pandemic. This was so enjoyable to watch that I'm already thinking of people to play it with.
Black: Black Plague (for no particular reason..) Yellow: Yellow Fever (obviously) Red: Zombies (because blood is red and zombies cause a lot of blood) Blue: swine Flu (because it kinda acts like a cold and because you turn kinda blue when your cold) Logical
After a long crappy work-week, I was kinda anxious to see what Extended Tabletop would be up next. Pandemic Extended Edition was the perfect way to start my time off. :) Thank you for making my Thursday awesome GeekandSundry.
watching this while at work on my 2nd monitor with headphones.... I share an office and I'nm trying really hard not to burst out laughing out loud during some of it. I love the extended episode... wish I had more time to watch more of these. Also, I've played this game many times, I think I've won once, but it's a favorite.
A friend recently brought a copy of this after I was raving about it for years. All his dishes are named after the variants...and AIDs. Because there's always AIDs.
Whenever you [Wil] say "but we did that ahead of time because you don't want to watch that," referring to the game set-up, I almost cry... I know I am not the only one who does want to see that. I would love seeing all of those set-ups, planning, etc.. I think it would be really fascinating to see that done for Fiasco
So this just happened.... Playing with my 2 best friends.... We set up the board as normal. Playing on 5 epidemics. We had a hotspot but not a bad board set up. First round, epidemic. Next player, epidemic. 3rd and final player, at 5 Outbeaks and 6 blue cubes left in the tray, another epidemic!!! We lost by Outbreaks, no blue cubes AND running out black cubes all of a sudden. 3 Round Loss. We did laugh and it was amusing. Took us longer to set up than play.
YES! I watched EVERY tabletop in 2 days, I tried out the other things, but it wasnt my bag baby. But i'm happy to support the channel as a whole, as long as it gives me moar tabletop!
I was able to beat Forbidden Island with some friends on the easiest difficulty, this game we came close ONCE on the easiest difficulty. This game is a blast, but an absolute nightmare.
Why on earth did you not stack the infection deck when you drew an epidemic at 32:23? You would've been able to avoid the Chennai, Kolkata, Chennai outbreak and given you a chance to cut down the disease in the area before the cards come up.
you win epidemic by CURING all diseases. Not eradicating. The game only has about 22 turns total, eradicating all 4 diseases in that time would be pretty much impossible.
It's far from impossible. But you have to be focused on a curing strategy _from the very first turn._ Our heroes got _way_ too caught up in treating infections, to the point where they pulled every cube off of cities they were in (and I'm not talking about Morgan's Medic, here). They also failed to use some critical resources - like looking at the discard pile (which is allowed) to "count" what cities were likely to outbreak and which ones _absolutely could not_ until the next Epidemic. Three of the Roles were non-curative: Medic is a Treatment Role; Researcher _gives_ away cards, which speeds other player's cures, but doesn't help with his own; and Dispatcher is a Support Role with no special ability to cure disease. So they had to be _extra_ careful to not fall behind on cures. Researcher needed to stick to Scientist like glue and feed cards _every single turn._ Scientist could have had two cures by the time Wil and friends had one. Also, I felt that there were a few rules subtleties here that were off. Wil seemed to be of the opinion that you can only _give_ cards away on your turn, which isn't true. He had a couple of opportunities to _take any card_ from Robert on his own turn and seemed to think that he wasn't allowed, which he was (not only can you _take_ cards from another player in the same city on your turn that card corresponds to that city…but if the other player is the _Researcher,_ you can take _any_ card from him - one of the few Roles in the game whose power works off-turn). They did pretty well, but there were a number of missteps - not curing a cube from Beijing in order to save Wil one movement on his next turn, for example. Or demanding that Morgan play Forecast on _the 5 cards in Wil's hand,_ rather than the six cards she could have scried once Wil set them back atop the deck after shuffling. But the thing they did most wrong was, as you observe, Jao, focusing _way too much on treating cities,_ and not enough on _curing diseases._ :^/ Still, a heck of a lot of fun watching a great game! I love this episode! :^D
Grymmorgan The sad part is that IRL this "game" isnt that easy, because finding a cure isnt easy and preventing a spreading is hard. Making this game more realistic could possibly make it too complicated, but I think there should be an automatic spreading of diseases each turn (as we see from Ebola right now) while making the curing harder. Maybe ... step 1: Get funding, step 2: research and randomly determine success ... and at the same time you have to spend money on containment of the disease.
Jao Kolad Sorry, Jao…I originally misread what you'd said. I thought you'd said that _curing_ all 4 diseases is "pretty much impossible." Which…my bad. The game would be unplayable if that were true. _Eradicating_ 4 is not actually _impossible_ …but it's very close to it. You'd need a couple of lucky early cures and a great draw where everything is close together. Medic and Scientist (in the basic game) would be mandatory. It would be slightly easier in some combos (Archivist/Dispatcher, etc.) in "Over the Brink…" but only if you were playing on Normal, or, at worst, Heroic.
Eradicating 4 (five in "On the Brink" IS almost impossible without reshuffling unless as you said you get a god draw and things go precisely right. Knowing this that you only need to "CURE" them changes things. I just had watched the video and we must have just glossed over that in the rules and "assumed' you had to eradicate the disease. That's what you get for assumptions right? lol
I said "I can't juggle" one day right as a street performer walked by. in 5 minutes, he taught me how to do it. it took many hours of practice to be able to juggle for more than a few second, but I was super happy.
+TimmyTechTV agreed, he should have used a blue card to fly to Europe and clean up. In the late game only chain outbreaks really matter. They also didn't draw enough blue cards to have a prayer to cure it any time soon.
Our diseases USUALLY have the same names although thanks to recent events Yellow went from Geriatric herpes to Ebola (because well yah) Black is usually the Zombie Plague. Read is typically SARS, and blue is Herpasyphagonalese. Though now that we have the on the brink expansion that can be the "virulent mutation" strain and blue can be something else like Swine flu or something fun like that.
This reminds me of watching Ticket to Ride, went out and bought it and still having so much fun playing it. Now I want this game. The sheer challenge is seductively enticing. Thanks for the extended video.
+El Rodrigo And you play a game with friends and only play the game without side chatter of any kind? This is how adults play games because daily life keeps them from interacting every day. It isn't like they are kids who see each other at school every day.
The extended editions are for people who want all the side chatter. If you want the episode to focus on the game, watch the non-extended one. It's win-win for everyone.
Also, love the long versions. I've seen the short versions, so these are great to have on in the background, while playing video games. Castle Panic and Small World were great to have on while playing Empire: Total War. So thanks, and I hope the censored/uncensored idea helps.
The juggling conversation reminds me of the time someone came to my school and we spent all PE learning to juggle with him and he gave everyone a set of hackysacks for it. It was great, and I still can juggle somewhat.
I have to say, this is probably tied for favorite game I discovered as a result of this show. Tied with Castle Panic. I love introducing this game to friends. Once they realize how much the game is trying to beat the players, there is a FURIOUS need to play it until we win. :D
This aged well.
Exept it f*cking didn't xD
TRUE
I really miss watching Wil playing board games with friends. Wish he would do streams in the future of him playing games he enjoys with friends occasionally.
Yes yes yes please do Wil
I work as a nurse, when I was at a Dementia/psych hospital working the NOC shift (Graveyard), it would be my last night on before a two day break. I SO wished I have a one quiet night card to play so I could go home and relax with my fig newtons and scotch. Never worked. In a hospital you never say "Wow it is quiet tonight." In Pandemic you never say "It looks like we might just win this one". Also BTW nurses and doctors LOVE this game.
Man, this whole episode hits different after COVID. Like the whole talk about wearing face masks.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if wearing a mask when sick was just common courtesy? (like many Asian countries have done for years)
"A game that's so much scarier then the world we leave behind...." And then 2020 happened...
Now it's a happy fantasy game about a world where governments ACTUALLY unite to fix the plague
@@saber1epee0 this hurts.
Ouch 😅😅🙌
Oh good, now I don't need to write that. I'll just ditto for 2021. ✌️
2021 is almost done and things ae looking up but we cant let up our guards yet..
I love Table Top. Even though I haven't seen any recent videos, I have purchased so many board games because of this. It's a great way to see if I want to buy it. See the game play in a fun but educational manner. I have even avoiding buying a few games. I find it way more helpful then most written reviews.
I've just been binge-watching Tabletop ALL DAY. Anybody else?
It's a nice breather from all those Dead By Daylight videos...
My experience is that it is important to manage the cards you receive. At some point as soon as you can (sometimes even at the start) you need to get an idea of who is saving what color. If you don't you just end up going through all the cards and losing.
The goal is to get 5 of each color in a hand and submit them at a research center. You definitely need to manage the infections/outbreaks, but only because if you don't they will get out of hand, and you will either lose because the infections/outbreaks got out of hand, or you will spend all your time/cards chasing the infections/outbreaks and not getting your cures together.
As long as you get your cures submitted, it doesn't matter the state of the spreading diseases. You win by submitting the cures period.
The point is that controlling infections/outbreaks is a secondary goal only to the extent that it furthers the goal of gathering and submitting the cures (5 of same color in a hand) at the research station. If you make controlling infections/outbreaks primary you will likely lose.
I have this game and the "State of Emergency" expansion, my group of tabletop friends have not yet been able to score a victory. The expansion's addition of a "super bug" makes this game both, much more difficult and much more realistic in these covid-19 times. Despite the eventual losses, we are more determined than ever to replay this game and "save humanity".
I actually prefer the extended editions
I love full game playthroughs on TH-cam. Was so happy when these TT ones happened! :)
Entertaining and eerily relevant. Even their commentary isn't far off from what we're experiencing now.
It's estimated that March Madness will cause a productivity loss of ~$67-200 million this year. These three extended TableTop videos - if all viewed back-to-back-to-back during paid work hours - should add roughly $2-5.6 million to that (math can be provided upon request).
Maybe they'll talk about us if there's another sequester.
I never watched personal stuff while at work, was always to busy to even consider it.
Question. I just watched the short video of this, and I'm hoping it's in this video. I noticed that there are game pieces in Greenland. Why? I was hoping I'd see Will setting up the game, and therefore get my answer; but no.
Ha, who's watching when the pandemic of the coronavirus is happening haha!!??
My partner wont let me play it right now so now im watching it instead lol
Erica Robertson why are people so afraid to use the term boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband? Partner sounds like someone is trapped in the friend zone.
@@robopurty2625 come here and we will play 2gether... oh.. no planes :(
Started re-watching this and 10 min in I've started coughing... coincidence? Yes, that's what it is :D
I bought the game 2 years ago and want to open the wrapping to try playing it.
Played this game last week. First player did his actions and then drew his cards. In that action he set off the epidemic, which caused EIGHT OUTBREAKS in one go. Game ended after just one player moved...
That's Pandemic for you.
You more than likely didn't set up the deck how the rules show you.
lonelongboarder27
We did. It was just the weird luck of the draws for the epidemic being right near the top of its section and cities with 3 bricks all being near each other. So the infected city count was small, we got the epidemic card early (3 cards in out of I think 15 for the section it was shuffled into) and the cities were all tightly bunched up for the triple spots. So, outbreaks galore.
Incorrect, depending on how many epidemics you are playing with, you divide the player stack into equal parts and at least for the stack on top you play the epidemic on the bottom of that stack. Sounds like someone shuffled after the fact.
lonelongboarder27
That must be a rule from the new edition. The version I have says "9. Shuffle an Epidemic card into each pile. Stack the piles on top of each other to form the Player Draw Pile." You'll note that it doesn't specify to put the epidemic at the bottom of the first stack.
This was a nice mix of people playing this game! I just recently learned about this game and me and some friends had our first attempt at it last weekend. Now that I understand how the game works, I gotta say I got all tense just by watching this video.
Pandemic is truly infectious!
Whoever did the sound design for tabletop deserves some epic credit... so catchy and fits the theme very well!
Bought this for a family Christmas present.. we have played this around 10 times now and are still looking for that first win. Extremely fun and difficult.
Bought pandemic mostly on recommendation from watching Table Top and a few other reviews. Wil Weaton thank you very much for being a great representative for king nerds everywhere.
I love how Pandemic always teases you to think you're still in it up until that point where everything blows up.
Watching this today sick and getting a you-know-what test tomorrow (if anybody sees this ever yes I'm vaccinated) really brightened my day. All the commentary about masks and sanitizer in particular. :)
"I've had more fun losing this, then winning others"
WIl wins games?
I swear, I think I saw one that he won. I am likely mistaken though.
reallunacy he won shadows over Camelot
Your joke dodging skill has increased to 74.
He was the traitor as well
Mike H and was playing as King Arthur
This extended version was actually extremely helpful to me understanding how to play the game, which I now REALLY want to play, looks so awesome and fun. Thank you so much for TableTop, and especially these long versions!
I have added something to my bucket list today. To play a game with Will Wheaton. A great game master and an awesome role model for all Gamers. Thank you Mr. Wheaton!
They need to invite normal gamers on, maybe a raffle??
I just attended marcocon and when playing settlers of catan, lords of waterdeep, and forbidden island/desert all I could was how do we reach out to wil and get him here
Only one way to win; starting in Madagascar.
MonkeyShaman Thank you for existing - I knew you were here. I played/saw this for the first time and it was the first thing I said. We are never alone. We are the collective of Madagascar.
MonkeyShaman If I could like this comment ten thousand times I would
The person who wrote the subtitles is amazing
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I actually just recently picked up this game and Gloom (Cthulhu version) after watching you guys play on Tabletop. Pandemic has quickly become my favorite tabletop game. Me and two of my friends beat the game on Legendary level! Which is now called Heroic. Luckily, the Epidemic cards were spread out enough to where we had only one outbreak throughout the game. Medic, Quarantine Specialist, and Dispatcher were our roles.
29:48 I love whomever edited this video.
I love these extended versions. Takes a bit longer to watch since I watch them while I eat dinner or lunch. Since youtube saves my place in the video, I really like these extended releases. Thank you G&S and Wil and the Table Top crew.
Actually, Morgan, in this game, the healer is effectively the damage dealer.
Good point
Exactly. It's everyone else who is playing support roles.
Extended Edition Table Top is BEST Table Top!
Sure, the shorter versions are easier for some to watch due to the shorter runtimes, but these are so much more fun to watch! They're worth it! More like these, please!
21:42 aged like milk Wil
I've been watching Wil since he was a kid; why have I not ever see him juggling? I feel so betrayed... PS: Bought the game, love it.
yes, we the fans demand a Wil Wheaton juggling video
45:15 I feel like that's a conversation that could have happened with the president.
"If we let people die... we lose." Wish Wil was there to tell our gov't. that.
"Wash your hands and put on a face-mask"
Holy shit
"Fever in the Hospital" is the name of my hair metal, Dr. Dre cover band.
I think the most difficult and awkward set of things I've juggled was a tennis ball, a basketball and a paper tissue. I've never juggled burning torches or anything like that, though. Also, I've only ever been able to juggle up to 5 objects and with more than 3 they all needed to be nearly identical hand-sized objects. I have juggled rings and batons but learning was a bit tricky: I had to learn how to spin/flip them correctly. I am a proud owner of 3 sets of 3 juggling bags that I made myself. :D Yay, I'm... a clown? ;)
But Wil, some of us DO enjoy set up, even if it is a spin off vid only.
Yup!
Same
And all of it together made it all so amazingly wonderful.
honestly relative noobs shouldn't be playing on legendary. even the easy level is challenging for new players
Michael Moore They wanted the game to last a reasonable amount of time.
Samuel Faulkner if they had played on easy the game wouldn't have lasted much longer. also editing.
This is definitely one of my fave episodes, not only cause of our wonderful host, but Ms Webb, whom I have been a fan of since the spring of '02 when I accidentally discovered X-Play and Screen Savers. I have often chuckled and admired at our stoic hosts who wade into the plague infested auditoriums and convention centers year after year, and show up to work to edit and rehost while they are sick. Hats off to all of you who come out to see the fans, and get hideously sick for it. Thank you.
they should do this game again with the expanded editions
This is the best episode of tabletop! Thank you for introducing me to this game, it is amazing to play with on the brink!!!
hands down Morgan is one of the more beautiful women on the planet
she's charming
I just discovered tabletop and I love watching these. I just bought ticket to ride and love it. After watching this I think this will be the next game purchase.
the extended are the greatest.
YES! More please! I say that every episode going forward should have the edited version and the full version available! And releasing all of the old ones too...
In 2020, pandemic plays you.
😅 well done
Out of all the table tops there is now, I wish to see another round of Pandemic. This was so enjoyable to watch that I'm already thinking of people to play it with.
Black: Black Plague (for no particular reason..)
Yellow: Yellow Fever (obviously)
Red: Zombies (because blood is red and zombies cause a lot of blood)
Blue: swine Flu (because it kinda acts like a cold and because you turn kinda blue when your cold)
Logical
After a long crappy work-week, I was kinda anxious to see what Extended Tabletop would be up next. Pandemic Extended Edition was the perfect way to start my time off. :)
Thank you for making my Thursday awesome GeekandSundry.
Referring to the start, you don't need to eradicate, you just need to find all the cures.
watching this while at work on my 2nd monitor with headphones.... I share an office and I'nm trying really hard not to burst out laughing out loud during some of it. I love the extended episode... wish I had more time to watch more of these. Also, I've played this game many times, I think I've won once, but it's a favorite.
Naming the diseases be like
2013: bird flu, swine flu, ebola and zombies
2021: everything is Covid
A friend recently brought a copy of this after I was raving about it for years. All his dishes are named after the variants...and AIDs. Because there's always AIDs.
So happy you guys are back! I missed you Wil... loved Hannah and Greg this week, and keep up the internet celebs! Woot Woot welcome back Tabletop!
Who's here watching in 2020... during an ~actual~ Pandemic?!
"Wash your hands and put on a face mask... we're the world's last hope..."
Haha wow great minds and whatnot.
@@1234ermac Right?
and oh look... watching it AGAIN... in 2020... when shot got so much worse.
Whenever you [Wil] say "but we did that ahead of time because you don't want to watch that," referring to the game set-up, I almost cry... I know I am not the only one who does want to see that. I would love seeing all of those set-ups, planning, etc.. I think it would be really fascinating to see that done for Fiasco
So this just happened.... Playing with my 2 best friends.... We set up the board as normal. Playing on 5 epidemics. We had a hotspot but not a bad board set up. First round, epidemic. Next player, epidemic. 3rd and final player, at 5 Outbeaks and 6 blue cubes left in the tray, another epidemic!!! We lost by Outbreaks, no blue cubes AND running out black cubes all of a sudden. 3 Round Loss. We did laugh and it was amusing. Took us longer to set up than play.
dreadpiratexx you realise the epidemic cards are shuffled into 5 different decks ? Its possible to draw 2 in consecutive rounds but not a 3rd
YES! I watched EVERY tabletop in 2 days, I tried out the other things, but it wasnt my bag baby. But i'm happy to support the channel as a whole, as long as it gives me moar tabletop!
I love how only half the 'shits' were bleeped
This is one of my favorite episodes and I'm SO glad they made an extended version of this. Next up: Extended Ticket to Ride, please!
Florence Nightingale is evolving! Florence evolved into Jesus!
Jesus used get red cure. It's not very effective
Yes,yes,yes. My favourite episode. So much thanks for this feature length fun!
New Zealand isn't even on the map...I don't know how I feel about that. =/
first thing I said when I saw this 😂
New Zealand isn't even on the map... I don't even know what is Zealand.
Evgeniy Sergienko
New Zealand is a country.
+Star Light I know how I feel about it
Samuel Holm And how do you feel about it?
I was able to beat Forbidden Island with some friends on the easiest difficulty, this game we came close ONCE on the easiest difficulty. This game is a blast, but an absolute nightmare.
"have you ever put one of those (face masks) on?" "I would in Japan, but I would never do that here"........ OH YOU SWEET SUMMER CHILD
Hearing will say that they don’t work 😂
Well this was way ahead of its time
this must have been a beast of a video to edit!!
Miss these videos so much. Loved Will on these.
Why on earth did you not stack the infection deck when you drew an epidemic at 32:23? You would've been able to avoid the Chennai, Kolkata, Chennai outbreak and given you a chance to cut down the disease in the area before the cards come up.
Fred Donoso I know! It drove me crazy when they didn't do that.
+zip zop Morgan Webb had a 'Special' that would have allowed her to stack the top 6 cards. They didn't use it when they should have.
I would have won the worst disease debate
These extended vids are GREAT!!!! I'm still waiting for Gloom, but loving everything you're giving me, G&S.
you win epidemic by CURING all diseases. Not eradicating. The game only has about 22 turns total, eradicating all 4 diseases in that time would be pretty much impossible.
It's far from impossible. But you have to be focused on a curing strategy _from the very first turn._ Our heroes got _way_ too caught up in treating infections, to the point where they pulled every cube off of cities they were in (and I'm not talking about Morgan's Medic, here). They also failed to use some critical resources - like looking at the discard pile (which is allowed) to "count" what cities were likely to outbreak and which ones _absolutely could not_ until the next Epidemic. Three of the Roles were non-curative: Medic is a Treatment Role; Researcher _gives_ away cards, which speeds other player's cures, but doesn't help with his own; and Dispatcher is a Support Role with no special ability to cure disease. So they had to be _extra_ careful to not fall behind on cures. Researcher needed to stick to Scientist like glue and feed cards _every single turn._ Scientist could have had two cures by the time Wil and friends had one.
Also, I felt that there were a few rules subtleties here that were off. Wil seemed to be of the opinion that you can only _give_ cards away on your turn, which isn't true. He had a couple of opportunities to _take any card_ from Robert on his own turn and seemed to think that he wasn't allowed, which he was (not only can you _take_ cards from another player in the same city on your turn that card corresponds to that city…but if the other player is the _Researcher,_ you can take _any_ card from him - one of the few Roles in the game whose power works off-turn).
They did pretty well, but there were a number of missteps - not curing a cube from Beijing in order to save Wil one movement on his next turn, for example. Or demanding that Morgan play Forecast on _the 5 cards in Wil's hand,_ rather than the six cards she could have scried once Wil set them back atop the deck after shuffling. But the thing they did most wrong was, as you observe, Jao, focusing _way too much on treating cities,_ and not enough on _curing diseases._ :^/
Still, a heck of a lot of fun watching a great game! I love this episode! :^D
Grymmorgan
The sad part is that IRL this "game" isnt that easy, because finding a cure isnt easy and preventing a spreading is hard.
Making this game more realistic could possibly make it too complicated, but I think there should be an automatic spreading of diseases each turn (as we see from Ebola right now) while making the curing harder. Maybe ... step 1: Get funding, step 2: research and randomly determine success ... and at the same time you have to spend money on containment of the disease.
Jao Kolad Sorry, Jao…I originally misread what you'd said. I thought you'd said that _curing_ all 4 diseases is "pretty much impossible." Which…my bad. The game would be unplayable if that were true.
_Eradicating_ 4 is not actually _impossible_ …but it's very close to it. You'd need a couple of lucky early cures and a great draw where everything is close together. Medic and Scientist (in the basic game) would be mandatory. It would be slightly easier in some combos (Archivist/Dispatcher, etc.) in "Over the Brink…" but only if you were playing on Normal, or, at worst, Heroic.
Eradicating 4 (five in "On the Brink" IS almost impossible without reshuffling unless as you said you get a god draw and things go precisely right.
Knowing this that you only need to "CURE" them changes things. I just had watched the video and we must have just glossed over that in the rules and "assumed' you had to eradicate the disease. That's what you get for assumptions right? lol
I said "I can't juggle" one day right as a street performer walked by. in 5 minutes, he taught me how to do it. it took many hours of practice to be able to juggle for more than a few second, but I was super happy.
21:40............😳
Love Table Top! More Table Top!!! More Extended Editions!!
1:17:17 - Lost the game on this move.
+TimmyTechTV agreed, he should have used a blue card to fly to Europe and clean up. In the late game only chain outbreaks really matter. They also didn't draw enough blue cards to have a prayer to cure it any time soon.
Damn it... You spoiled me. I thought they were going to win.
Gil Joshua Uy haha, well... looking at the comments before the end was not the best idea if you're looking to avoid spoilers ;)
The music for this episode was amazing. God job whom ever was in charge of that! :)
watched video > washed hands
Watched video in bed > Changes bed sheets half way through
MOAR TABLETOP! In all seriousness, love these extended cuts :)
Blue is obviously the horrible outbreak of Blue Waffles.
Oh barf lol
Our diseases USUALLY have the same names although thanks to recent events Yellow went from Geriatric herpes to Ebola (because well yah) Black is usually the Zombie Plague. Read is typically SARS, and blue is Herpasyphagonalese. Though now that we have the on the brink expansion that can be the "virulent mutation" strain and blue can be something else like Swine flu or something fun like that.
Love the extended versions guys. Keep them coming!
Any chance you guys could replay this game in season 4 on normal mode? I really want to see this game lose!
This reminds me of watching Ticket to Ride, went out and bought it and still having so much fun playing it. Now I want this game. The sheer challenge is seductively enticing. Thanks for the extended video.
Will Wheaten should've been head of the CDC for 2020
the game that is contagious...28 weeks later
Honestly, I think these guys are trying too hard to make jokes and fake laugh. It takes you out of the game!
1:03:34 And now I like Wil Wheaton even more - painting 40k minis in the TNG dressing room? Hell yes.
man some turns you wish the forced banter would be dialed down just a little.
+parqbench I agree, there are a few moments where they do nothing but yak yak yak instead of playing the game.
+El Rodrigo And you play a game with friends and only play the game without side chatter of any kind? This is how adults play games because daily life keeps them from interacting every day. It isn't like they are kids who see each other at school every day.
Maybe so, but when you're filming it for an audience to watch, it's a different story.
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Then don't watch the extended version. I enjoyed the side chatter
The extended editions are for people who want all the side chatter. If you want the episode to focus on the game, watch the non-extended one. It's win-win for everyone.
Also, love the long versions. I've seen the short versions, so these are great to have on in the background, while playing video games. Castle Panic and Small World were great to have on while playing Empire: Total War. So thanks, and I hope the censored/uncensored idea helps.
The juggling conversation reminds me of the time someone came to my school and we spent all PE learning to juggle with him and he gave everyone a set of hackysacks for it. It was great, and I still can juggle somewhat.
The person who edits these videos needs a raise.
Awesome! Please more extended editions, no matter how long they are. Keep up the great work :)
"Sometimes the world does not wanna be saved" describes a certain group of someones.
I have to say, this is probably tied for favorite game I discovered as a result of this show. Tied with Castle Panic. I love introducing this game to friends. Once they realize how much the game is trying to beat the players, there is a FURIOUS need to play it until we win. :D
1:19:58 was the "You are so dead" moment. Along with the epic music
Loved the punch to Pandemic's face the first time, loved it the second time. Great show, guys.
I´m your big fan. I´m from PARAGUAY, and this is my favorite youtube channel. Thank you to exist.
It sucks this show's been cancelled, I would've loved to see them play this again, lockdown edition
Love the extended editions! Keep them coming, Wil. Looking forward to TableTop Season 2!
whomever came up the idea of extended Table Top episodes is a Genius!
The fact that this foreshadowed future events.....kinda scary