Questions tagged [pandemic-legacy-season-1]
A version of Pandemic involving persistent gameplay, including permanently altering the board and tearing up cards. Questions and answers which reveal changes and other hidden content should use spoiler markup where appropriate.
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Can Pandemic Legacy be played as "vanilla" Pandemic?
I've never played Pandemic, but thinking of getting the Legacy edition. Is it possible to play it without the legacy elements a few times first, and get an experience that is same or similar to that ...
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What's the difference between Pandemic Legacy Red and Blue?
So, basically what the title says. Is there any difference at all in the contents of the boxes or anything else? (without spoilers!)
Maybe it'll make a difference in "Season 2"? (it does say "Season ...
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Would it be possible to play through Pandemic Legacy more than once?
I am about to start a Pandemic Legacy campaign. I have managed to avoid spoilers so far, but I have read enough to know that the game is essentially designed to be played through once - changes are ...
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How many plays of Pandemic Legacy until it is complete?
I've seen and read a few spoiler-free reviews of Pandemic Legacy, and it looks great. As such I have a question I've not seen covered yet. I was wondering how many times the game is played until it is ...
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Is there an extension that converts regular Pandemic to Pandemic Legacy: Season 1?
I own Pandemic. I want to buy Pandemic Legacy: Season 1. It's quite expensive though and it seems that the game board looks the same.
Is there an extension to the Pandemic game that reproduces ...
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Is it advisable to play Legacy without having played Pandemic before?
My group and I are planning to start playing Pandemic Legacy.
While we haven't played Pandemic before, we're accustomed to decision making games like Dead of Winter or Small World.
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Pandemic Legacy Season 1 September: Where to search if the conditions can’t be met?
In September we are supposed to
...but we don’t have one! We have the former and the latter, but not both at the same time. We could build one, but then the story does not make much sense, as we ...
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How is Pandemic Legacy impacted by playing with two characters?
What are the mechanical/strategic differences in playing Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with just two characters, as opposed to three or four?
If discussing Season 1 spoilers is unavoidable, please ...
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How do character upgrades interact with Dispatcher's special ability?
(This should be spoiler free, all of this info is available at the start of the season.)
In our game we upgraded the dispatcher with the Pilot upgrade to Direct Flight without discarding the card. ...
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What constitutes a month?
What is a month in Pandemic Legacy? We are not sure.
We were new to Legacy version so we first played the game simply like Pandemic and are now ready to play first round as a Legacy version.
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Pandemic Legacy, February, and Epidemics
In Pandemic Legacy, February gives you
But what happens if you have an epidemic outbreak on a such a city? That is, when you draw a card from the bottom of the deck to infect,
What happens?
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Is Pandemic Legacy as good with 3 players as it is with 4?
I have gathered 3 players (including myself) for Pandemic Legacy and we are eager to begin, but I'm wondering whether I should take the time to find a 4th. I've played Risk Legacy with 4 and it was a ...
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Pandemic Legacy: lost characters
We are about to start the first season.
If we lose a character, at the start of the next game, do we choose another character?
If we are 4 people to play and is is possible to lose 2 characters, do ...
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Pandemic - Can an action be performed by different players during action phase?
In Pandemic, can an action be performed by different players during action phase, by using Funded Event cards?
For example:
"Flexible Aid Package" allows a. player to perform 1-3 extra actions (by ...
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Does order matter when drawing player cards? (Efficient to Sequence + Epidemic)
One of the positive disease mutations in Pandemic: Legacy is Efficient to Sequence. A disease with this mutation is cured immediately when a player discards the correct number of cards. The rules ...
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Question about April
For example the Funded Event card Remote Treatment, which allows removal of 2 cubes from anywhere on the board,
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Pandemic Legacy: Question about missions (Spoilers)
We just played a game where a mission card says : destroy it if you completed the mission. We completed the mission, but we lost the game.
For the second try do we have to do the mission again? Or ...
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Efficient to Sequence - do you have to discard cards first?
The Efficient to Sequence positive mutation allows a disease to be cured as soon as one player discards the necessary number of cards
My question is, what happens if a player draws their eight card? ...
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Can a player take a card from the researcher on their turn if they have the co-worker relationship but are not in the same city?
It is the generalist turn. Can she take a card from the researcher if they have the co worker relation?
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Victory bonus for November and December
After finishing October, we had found
The event cards then told us to
But still, a possible victory bonus for the start of November and December is
However, this seems now utterly useless.
Am I ...
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How often do you have to move the outbreak marker in a chain reaction?
So if an outbreak occurs, I do move the outbreak marker one forward. If this triggers a chain reaction in one city, I move it forward once more. But what happens if I have several chain reactions? ...
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What is the purpose of opening this package in March?
Spoilers for the Pandemic Legacy Season 1 Legacy Deck for the beginning of March below.
According to the legacy deck in Pandemic Legacy Season 1, in the beginning of March, you are instructed to open ...
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Pandemic Legacy Researcher relationship (Feb spoliers)
I am not sure if this is asked before but I don't want to search too much as keep coming across spoilers.
My question is, if you have a coworker relationship with a researcher, I know the researcher ...
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How do I complete the immunologist's request? [spoilers]
My gaming group is playing through Pandemic Legacy Season:1. We've just completed August and located the immunologist. Now, we have a card full of items to retrieve for the immunologist. We can't ...
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By the end of the month, should I drop unused event cards?
I've just finished January game. The instruction for end game for either case says:
Discard all City cards. These all reset for the start of the next game. Do not put any Legacy cards back in the ...
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How are scars assigned?
The rules say that characters should receive scars that have an outbreak.
But how do we determine which scar the character receives? Do we choose it ourselves?
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Which city is the one being searched for the virologist?
Question in spoiler tags below
The actual text of the card can be seen in this image
Relevant text copied below as well
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Researcher with the coworker relationship (spoilers)
The coworker relationship sticker states:
Co workers: you may share knowledge as long as one if you is in the
correct city. (The researcher may give any card to their co worker for
one action)
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How much does the difficulty change based on game 1
I have just started playing the game and realized that it would be a very different game depending on which virus gets the sticker in the first game. I am wondering if my think is correct and which ...
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Pandemic Legacy: play 2 people [duplicate]
To be more fun.
If you are 2 people to play, would you play each 2 characters?
With only 2 characters into play, I fear that we would lack some expertise.
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