Pandemic Legacy: Season 0

Follow the turn sequence: Check surveillance, take up to four actions, mop up with teams, draw two Player cards, and draw Threat cards one at a time according to the current threat level. Actions may repeat. If you exceed your hand limit, normally seven cards, immediately discard cards or play Events to return to it.

Movement and surveillance: Drive or ferry along a connection to an adjacent city. Commercial Flight to an Allied city only reveals its City card; a Neutral destination requires discarding its card, and this action cannot reach a Soviet city. Unrecorded Flight discards your current city’s card to reach any city. At turn start, lose one cover per surveillance symbol in your city unless it has a safehouse. Prologue temporary aliases have no cover; when they would lose cover, discard one Player card instead.

Agents, safehouses, and intelligence: Spend an action to remove one enemy agent from your city. Discard your city’s card to build a safehouse. Share Intel requires both players to be in the same city and agree to the exchange, and only transfers that city’s card. Safehouses do not provide Pandemic’s direct shuttle between facilities.

Assembling and directing teams: At a safehouse, discard five City cards matching your current city’s affiliation to assemble a team of that affiliation. Any player can spend an action to move a team to an adjacent city without being there themselves. A team is active only in a city of its affiliation; the mop-up step removes all enemy agents from every city with an active team.

Completing objectives: Position active teams in the required cities and then take the Acquire Targets action; simply arriving does not complete a mission. An unknown target can be deduced or identified at a safehouse in its region by discarding three City cards from that region. If you attempt to acquire it directly, reveal the target city then mark success or failure according to the presence of an active team, and read the matching debrief entry.

Threats and incidents: An Escalation card increases the threat level, draws the bottom Threat card to place three agents in its city, and shuffles only the Threat discard pile onto the top of the deck. Placing a fourth agent in a city causes an incident instead; it does not spread agents to neighbours like a disease outbreak. Place the incident token, resolve cover loss, and draw another bottom Threat card for its incident effect.

Ending and evaluating a mission: End immediately when all objectives are marked complete or failed, two Player cards cannot be drawn, or a required agent or incident token is unavailable. At a campaign month’s end, mark unresolved objectives failed. All complete means advance and reduce funding by one; one failed means advance with funding increased by one. Two or more failed increase funding by two: repeat the month after its first attempt, or advance after its second. Funding stays between 1 and 10; follow campaign instructions for special conditions. The prologue uses only its specified post-game steps.