Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 - Tips & Strategies

There are several steps to the setup, and since it differs slightly from vanilla pandemic, it can be easy to just start playing, but missing something slight. Keeping to the setup guide is a great way to always stay on target without missing something.

In vanilla Pandemic, a loss is a loss. But here, there are actually preferable ways to succumb to disease, and there’s a pretty good way of dealing with loss if you know you’re doomed ahead of time.

As outbreaks have a lasting negative effect on cities in ALL future games, it’s obvious that you’ll want to avoid an 8-way Outbreak at all costs. On the flip side, whilst losing due to running out of player cards isn’t preferable, there are certainly worse ways to die.

I’m not here to tell you that losing is a wise choice of course, but it can be helpful to bring a dose of healthy pessimism to your games. If it gets to a point where it’s looking exceptionally unlikely you’ll complete all your necessary objectives, your team’s priorities should be assigned to hoovering up cubes, treating the likes of card trading and other potentially time consuming objectives as distractions. This will mean your game will last slightly longer (and hey, a miracle may occur as the cards fall in the right place), but more importantly, the risk of outbreaks and therefore the increase of panic around the globe is kept to a minimum, ensuring that the board is at least a little safer and morale isn’t torn to shreds.

So, there are places in the rule book which will call for you to open tabs on the game dossiers and place stickers into the rule book—adding rules to the game as it evolves.

While it would seem self-evident (hangs head in shame) it can also be confusing… Therefore, NEVER open any of the tabs on the dossiers until EXPRESSLY INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.