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Disease Annihilator achievement in Pandemic: The Board Game

Disease Annihilator

Eradicate all four diseases in a game.

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How to unlock the Disease Annihilator achievement

  • Pandaman822Pandaman822
    01 Aug 2019 02 Aug 2019 30 Dec 2019
    This is one of the most challenging tasks in standard Pandemic with 4+ Epidemics. Fortunately, you can change the difficulty to only have 2 Epidemics and help yourself tremendously.

    The Medic is Strongly Recommended based on their ability to clear cubes of cured diseases quickly . I would also recommend the Dispatcher to be able to move the Medic 4 additional moves each round when you are attempting to Eradicate diseases.
    Recommended Characters
    Researcher/Scientist/Medic (+Dispatcher if you're struggling to clear cubes)

    Strategy
    To have all 4 diseases Eradicated when you win the game, you have to either cure the 4th disease with no cubes at all on the board, or cure the 4th disease with the Medic occupying the same space as the last cubes on the board (they will get cleared once the disease is cured). Your goal throughout should be to eradicate diseases as you go, leaving yourself less work at the end where you might run out of time. As you get down to 2 or 1 diseases left to cure/eradicate, try and remember which cards are in the infection pile so you can locate your characters strategically for easy treating of cubes as they come on the board.

    Forecast Exploit
    Thanks to Taro Korya San for identifying this exploit. If you have the Forecast event card, you can play it to see the top cards of the Infection Deck. Before finishing the action, quit out to the main menu. You can then reload the game and you'll have the Forecast event back in your hand and you'll know the next cards coming up and can plan movements accordingly. Be aware, once you draw an Epidemic, the Infection Deck gets shuffled and you'll have to check the top cards again.

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    DragamaroonThis achievement was rough. I did it with the three recommended (researcher, scientist, and medic). Even then it came down to the last turn needing to not hit my last colour so I could cure it. Just so much rng involved.
    Posted by Dragamaroon on 02 Jan 21 at 17:23
    WaffleOutlawI've managed to crash the game multiple times by using the airlift event card on my medic and placing him on the final infection cube of a disease that I have the cure for. Seems the game doesn't like the airlift/eradication combo so, you know, watch for that.
    Posted by WaffleOutlaw on 12 Mar 21 at 15:16
    WileyOldFoxDid it first try with the 3 you recommended with 2 cards left...thumbs up from me
    Posted by WileyOldFox on 23 Aug 21 at 12:53
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  • festermk2festermk2
    15 Apr 2020 18 Apr 2020 18 Apr 2020
    The technique that worked for me was using the scientist and medic.

    The scientist stayed within 3 moves of atlanta so she could cure the first 3 quickly and I had the medic move around eradicating them as quickly as possible. I wasn't swapping cards so used the medics to fly him when necessary.

    When it came to the 4th, I saved my forecast card and was able to use it so that only cities with eradicated viruses would show for a couple of turns, which gave me enough time to get rid of all of the last virus before the scientist cured it. By chance the blue was the last one I had, which meant I was able to use the scientist to help treat before curing it.

    To be honest there is a bit of chance involved as well, but this worked for me the first time I tried it.
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    BLOOdREDkN7GHT+1 from me, the Scientist and Medic worked after hours trying with different combos. I did get very lucky and was able clear blue, yellow, black fairly quickly so it all came down to getting red cleared. Also was very lucky with the event cards. If you've played the game enough to know when you are getting good deals, this should come with practice. Thanks!
    Posted by BLOOdREDkN7GHT on 13 Jan 21 at 01:51
  • Sazaq213Sazaq213
    24 Mar 2020 24 Mar 2020 24 Mar 2020
    Hi

    thanks to thanatos8285 for the idea of the dispatcher and the medic.

    it is with these 2 characters that I managed to do it.
    (I put the medic first and dispatcher the second)
    We easily get to 3 eradicated diseases.
    Many times I could have arrived at 4 but I missed 1 round lol.
    I don't really have a technique to give.
    It's a bit depending on what's going on in the game.

    to have it I treated the cities with the medic. I used the skill of the dispatcher to easily move the medicine once the illnesses had healed.
    I also used the dispatcher to join the medic or have the medic join the dispatcher.

    concerning the cards I gave to the one with the most of the same suit.
    As well thought of setting up centers to cure illnesses it saves time by avoiding returning to Atlanta.

    I hope my comment will help you get it.smile
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    PaladinX87I will admit this didn't seem to make sense at first but this method worked (most likely with some help from RNG). My main tactic for this:
    Medic - Primary job is clearing cubes (basically started with whatever section I had the most cards for already) and the secondary function was building a research station and finding a cure for a different color from what the dispatcher had (in the game I had, this ended up only being one cure)
    Dispatcher - Primary job move the medic and find a cure (again, different colors from whatever the medic has) with a secondary function of keep the US clear (or limited) in infections

    RNG really plays into this.
    Posted by PaladinX87 on 03 Mar 21 at 12:54
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