Wow, yes, it is! This game is a rich and strategic battle and impossible to convey completely here. Over a series of eight turns, pestilence tries to kill the villagers by playing the 'lords of pestilence' like listeriosis and gonorrhoea, whilst the apothecary tries to counter by throwing weapons like chloramphenicol at the horde. These interactions are highly strategic because the pestilences are only susceptible to certain antibiotics and have special abilities e.g., pseudomonas has the 'escape artist' ability meaning it needs two different antibiotics to kill it. Every time the apothecary uses antibiotics the game is made more complex, speeding up the chance of a resistant mutant arriving and putting the villagers' lives in peril. Some lords can only attack wounded villagers, whilst others can join forces and attack the same villager.
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