by joakim589
We were supposed to play Puerto Rico: Limited Anniversary Edition tonight me and three friends. One of them where supposed to come earlier, he did, and we played Summoner Wars as a starter. After that we made the setup for Puerto Rico, went for a pizza, and then waited for our two fiends. I called one of them. Oops, he had went to Skåne. Called the other guy, he didn´t answer, asleep after work? So... instead we played...Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Setup
This was the first time we played the "advanced" version of the game. So the setup took a bit longer, and we had to check the rulebook for some things. My friend was close to fall asleep after the pizza. But, wakeup when we began to play.
I did play with the Rescue specialist (+3 AP walk, double cost extinguish), my friend play with the firefighter (+3 AP extinguish)
Beginning was good
The fire was in the middle of the house and in one of the corners close to one door and close to two POI. I did fight the fire in the corner, and then started to help people out. In my part of the house but down to the other corner there was smoke and two hazmats. I help out one guy and the down to the smoke. Now there was a new POI in the middle of the house. I went there and put out fire on the way. Then I was two spaces from a exterior door, with a guy with me, something went wrong...
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Meanwhile...
Meanwhile my friend had put out the fire in the middle of the house, and then move to the part of the house where I had started. So I was in the part there he had started, and he in the part where I had started. In the part he was were a POI to rescue. It was a problem with this. He was the firefighter. He only had 3 AP. He had +3 AP for extinguish. But no fire to fight. The rescue job for him went slow. But soon the fire would spread, but not in the part of the house he was, and he only had 3 AP to move. He ran slow, the fire ran rapidly... in my part of the house...
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Disaster
Boom. We had put out all the fire in the house except two spaces. One of them was directly beside me. The other one two spaces from the other fire. Now there was an explosion in the fire next to me. It spread to the other spaces, so it was 6 spaces with fire beside each other and in the last space was another explosion because of shockwave, now 8 spaces with fire and damaged walls. I was in the middle of the fire, was knocked down and taken to the ambulance. And the guy a was only two spaces from rescue died...
I was still quite close to the fire. But my special power was to rescue not to put out fire, had double cost when extinguish. And the firefighter were just on the way. Then, two time in row, we rolled advance fire into a space of that 8 space fire room. Explosion after explosion. Wall damage after wall damage. And wrong guys at the wrong places. After the third explosion in the advance fire phase, the last black cube was used, and the house did collapse.
Conclusion
We were unlucky with the dice rolls. We were also unlucky so were the fire came, the rescue expert was. It didn't go so well, it was a fast game. We only rescued one guy, and one guy had died, before the collapse. Better luck next time.