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Pandemic Legacy: The virus board game

27.2.2020

Translation: machine translated

Will we manage to eradicate the virus within a year or will the world come to an end? I'm not talking about corona, but about Coda, the virus that threatens the world in the board game "Pandemic Legacy".

Moscow has fallen, the city is in lockdown. Roadblocks prevent a further outbreak of the virus, we have left the inhabitants to their fate. Our focus is on the Middle East, where three cities are on the verge of collapse. Five cities are already on high alert. In the next game, we would have our backs to the wall. "We need to get the pressure off!" says my mate Tobi, ignoring Asia. "What are we going to do with Hong Kong? If there's an outbreak there, we've lost the game!" I say back abruptly and move my pawn to China's Special Administrative Region on my own initiative. The virus promptly breaks out in the Middle East and Tobi throws a tantrum. We should lose March.

"Pandemic Legacy" is a board game that is constantly changing. The changes are permanent. Each game lasts for a month, after which you settle up. After a few months, the game board and rule book look like a half-filled Panini collector's book, covered in stickers. New rules and game pieces are added, old ones no longer exist or you destroy them. Every decision has consequences for the next game. It is therefore best to play the game with a fixed group of up to four people.

Better than Netflix

As in the basic version of "Pandemic", you have to fight four viruses together and develop a cure. You take on different roles. For example, a paramedic can rid a city of a virus in one go, a scientist can research vaccinations more quickly or the operations expert can build important laboratories more easily. The distribution of roles determines victory or defeat. Your character also changes over the course of the game.

"Pandemic Legacy" is like a TV series, as the story continues with each month. The game is even divided into seasons. We've already finished "Season 1" and "Season 2" is already waiting for me. If you don't dare go out because of the coronavirus, you have enough time to fight viruses in "Pandemic".

Season 1 [[productlist:5818583]]

Season 2 [[productlist:10002125]]

Image: Flickr user Sean Hagen

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