The legends of Andor
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author | Michael Menzel |
graphic | Michael Menzel |
publishing company | Kosmos , Devir, Giochiuniti, Iello, Albi, 999 Games |
Publishing year | 2012 |
Art | Board game |
Teammates | 2 to 4 (with extension to 6) |
Duration | 60 to 90 minutes |
Age | from 10 years on
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The Legends of Andor is the first board game by Michael Menzel , who also did the illustrations. It was published by Kosmos- Verlag in 2012 and was voted Kennerspiel des Jahres 2013. The board game is one of the cooperative games . The aim is to play through the eponymous legends in which the players have to complete tasks together. So the players win or lose together. In the following years several expansions were released, which also added a legend that can only be won by a single player. In addition, in 2015, at the suggestion of Michael Menzel, and illustrated by him, the two-person card game “The Legends of Andor - Chada & Thorn” developed by Gerhard Hecht and the mini-expansion “Stinner - The Sea Warrior” appeared.
Also in 2015 the Kosmos-Verlag published the novel “The Legends of Andor - The King's Song”, written by Stefanie Schmitt and illustrated by Michael Menzel, which tells the story of the game.
Theme and equipment
The players slip into the role of heroes who protect the land of Andor from the invasion of evil creatures and have to complete various tasks. The heroes usually only work 7 hours a day, extra work is only possible with a special effort of will. In both parts of the introductory game, the players get to know the essential elements of the game based on the instructions for the first legend. Which tasks the players have to fulfill, they only find out in the course of the various legends. Five legends are played in the basic game, a sixth legend can be created by the players themselves. Michael Menzel offers a “Developer Guide” on the game's website for this purpose.
In addition to the game instructions and a lottery guide for the first legend, the game contains a lot of game material with which the various legends can be played:
- A double-sided game board - the fictional land of Andor is on the front and is used for the first three legends, the back shows the entrance to the mine and is used in the fourth legend.
- 71 legend cards that describe each legend and are read by the narrator
- a checklist card
- an equipment board, on the back is the combat board
- four hero panels
- a narrator character
- eight hero figures, one female and one male:
- Archer Pasco / Archer Chada from the Watchful Forest (green)
- Krieger Thorn / Kriegerin Mairen from the Rietland (blue)
- Magician Liphardus / Sorceress Eara from the north (purple)
- Zwerg Kram / Zwergin Bait from the deep mines (yellow)
- 28 creature figures
- 16 gors
- 5 skrals
- 5 trolls
- 2 wardraks
- 5 more figures
- dark magician
- witch
- Prince Thorald
- Shield dwarfs
- Dragon
- a tower
- 20 dice, of which 4 are blue, 5 are green, 3 are yellow, 3 are red, 1 is purple and 4 are large black
- 9 wooden discs, two of which are blue, green, yellow and violet and one red
- 5 wooden stones, one each of blue, green, yellow, purple and red
- 4 fountain tiles
- 15 fog tokens
- 8 asterisks
- 3 red crosses to indicate blocked paths
- 1 N plate
- 7 blue text tiles for the first legend
- 15 creature tokens
- four farmer tiles with a shield on the back
- 66 event and fate cards
- 26 gold tiles with the values 1, 2 and 5
- 6 parchments
- a poison tile and 3 medicinal herb tiles
- 6 rune stones
- 11 gemstones
- 8 rubble tiles
- 24 pieces of equipment: 4 shields, 3 bows, 2 falcons, 3 helmets, 5 drinking tubes, 2 telescopes and 5 witch potions
Gameplay
The gameplay of The Legends of Andor is kept simple despite the complex background story: the heroes can either run as many spaces as they want across the board or fight against their opponents, and they can also carry out special actions on certain spaces. You have a certain number of game rounds available for your task, which are determined by the progress of the legends. To complete the tasks, the heroes have various tools at their disposal that can be found in Andor or purchased from traders and the witch. A legend ends when either the players have completed their task and kept enough creatures away from the castle to win, or when a certain number of creatures have reached the castle or the narrator reaches the end of the legend track (the letter N). In the last two cases, the players lost.
Extensions
Extensions (official)
- The Legends of Andor - The Star Shield , due fall 2013
- The Legends of Andor - New Heroes , expansion for 5 to 6 players, release date spring 2014
- The Legends of Andor: Part 2 - "The Journey to the North" , due fall 2014
- The Legends of Andor: Part 3 - "The Last Hope" (Standalone Game) Release date Fall 2016
- The Legends of Andor - "Dark Heroes" , due spring 2017
- The Legends of Andor - The Bonus Box, due fall 2017
- The legends of Andor - The lost legends "Old Spirits", publication date autumn 2018
- The Legends of Andor - The Lost Legends "Dark Times" , due fall 2020
Mini extensions (official)
Hero boards:
- Wolf Warrior Orfen / Marfa (replace the dwarf Kram and the dwarf Bait)
- The Stranger (template for creating your own heroes)
- The Unknown Warrior (template for creating your own heroes)
- Naraven (template for creating your own heroes)
- Juna (template for creating your own heroes)
- The Dark Eara / Der Dunkle Liphardus (replacing Sorceress Eara and Sorcerer Liphardus)
Game variants:
- The reputation of the Skrale - card with which the difficulty level of Legends 2 to 5 can be increased.
- The last campfire - card with which the difficulty level of Legends 2 to 5 can be reduced.
- The wishing well - card with which wishes are granted through the sacrifice of wells.
- Solo variant for legend 3
- The tavern of Andor, mini expansion for legends 2, 3, 5 and the era of the star shield (supplement to the 2015 novel)
- Koram, the Gor Chief (mini expansion for Legends 2 to 5 and the Era of the Star Shield)
- The Chaos (mini expansion for legends 12 to 16)
- Garz, the trade dwarf (mini expansion for legends 12 to 17)
- The light of the 5th hour (mini expansion for all legends)
- Moody forest spirits (mini expansion for the lost legends "old spirits")
Bonus legends:
- The liberation of the mine
- The King's Escort
- The battle for Cavern
- The hunt
- The return of the Black Cog
- The return
- The fourth statue (Lost Legends "Old Spirits")
Fan legends
There are now over 200 fan legends in the official forum supported by the author.
Digital implementations
The app "The Legends of Andor - The King's Secret" was released in January 2019 for iOS and Android. The single player game consists of twelve additional legends that are set in Andor's past.
Awards
- As d'Or 2013 in the Jeu de l'Année category
- Play Hit with Friends 2013
- Kennerspiel des Jahres 2013
- Juego del Año 2013
- Graf Ludo - best family game graphics 2013
- Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2014 Experts
Translations
- English: Legends of Andor (at Fantasy Flight Games)
- French: Andor (near Iello)
- Greek: ΘPYΛOI THΣ ANTOP
- Italian: LE LEGGENDE DI ANDOR
- Dutch at 999 Games : De Legenden van Andor
- Polish at Galakta: Legendy krainy Andor
- Spanish at Devir: Las Leyendas de Andor
- Slovak and Czech at Albi: Andor - dobrodružné legendy
Web links
- Game website
- Website for the app [3]
- Information on the publisher's website
- Test report and rules of the game on Brettspiele-Magazin.de
- Interview with author Michael Menzel on the stimulus to replay on reich-der-spiele.de
- The legends of Andor in the Luding games database
- The legends of Andor in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Booklet for the basic game (PDF document; 3.0 MB)
- Overview map of the country Andor (PDF document DIN A3; 1.7 MB)
- How to play: The Legends of Andor - The Star Shield (PDF document; 3.4 MB)
- Rules of the game for part 2: The journey to the north on Brettspiele-Magazin.de
- The Andor Wiki (unofficial)
- From Ludopedia - The Games Encyclopedia (revised for Wikipedia)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jury Game of the Year: Kennerspiel des Jahres 2013 (accessed on March 11, 2018).
- ↑ kosmos.de: "The Legends of Andor - Chada & Thorn" ( Memento from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ kosmos.de: "The Legends of Andor - The King's Song"
- ↑ legenden-von-andor.de: Andor Developer Guide (PDF; 2.9 MB)
- Jump up ↑ Board Game Review: The Legends of Andor Part III - The Last Hope. January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cliquenabend.de/news/705900-Die-Legenden-von-Andor-erh%26auml%3Blt-drei.html?switch_desktop=1
- ↑ Wolf warrior from the high mountains (PDF; 1.9 MB)
- ↑ Blank Hero: The Stranger | Legends of Andor. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Blank Hero: The Unknown Warrior | Legends of Andor. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Naraven | Legends of Andor. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Juna | Legends of Andor. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Mini expansion for legends 2 - 5 (PDF; 866 kB)
- ↑ Mini expansion for the "Era of the Star Shield" (PDF; 664 kB)
- ↑ Solo variant for legend 3
- ↑ The Liberation of the Mine
- ↑ The King's Escort
- ↑ The Battle for Cavern
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ The return | Legends of Andor. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
- ↑ The Tavern of Andor • View forum - Fan legends. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ spellenprijs.nl : " Winnaars Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2014" ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ fantasyflightgames.com: Legends of Andor ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Andor ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ kaissagames.com: TPY? OI THS ANTOP ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ giochiuniti.it: LE LEGGENDE DI ANDOR
- ↑ 999games.nl: De Legenden van Andor
- ↑ galakta.pl: Legendy Krainy Andor
- ↑ devir.es: Las Leyendas de Andor
- ↑ hrajeme.cz: Andor - dobrodružné legendy