Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
132 questions players ask about Pandemic Legacy: Season 2. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-02.
Campaign, Months and Objectives
- Must you complete every mandatory objective, and how many objectives do you need to win a month?
- Does an objective stay in play after you complete it?
- If you lose the first game of a month, do objectives you completed count in the retry?
- What happens to the prologue's Build 3 Supply Centers objective?
- Do permanent supply centers count toward the Build 3 New Supply Centers objective?
- Do the three new supply centers have to be in different colored cities?
- What counts toward the Connect 2 New Cities objective?
- What if an objective becomes impossible and you cannot reach the required number?
Setup
- Where do the Hollow Men Gather cards go during setup?
- Where do the smaller Epidemic piles go when building the Player deck?
- How many cubes does each flipped card affect during the setup infection step?
- How many Supply cubes are in the stockpile at the start of a game, and can Make Supplies exceed that?
- Is there a limit on how many Supply cubes a city or haven can hold?
- How does the Stretched Too Thin setup rule decide how many extra Epidemic cards to add?
- Can Season 2 be played solo, and how many characters should you run?
- Do you create the five starting characters before the prologue?
- Where do the cards for cities not yet on the grid wait, and when do they join the decks?
- What carries over from the prologue into January?
- Do pieces on the board stay between games, or only stickers?
- Is the first player fixed for the campaign?
- Can the number of players change between games?
- Do the Utopia Infection cards from Package 8 start in the Infection deck or discard pile?
Components and Supply Centers
The Board, Havens and Forsaken Cities
- When does a city count as being on the grid?
- What are the limits on drawing a sea lane or sea route?
- What can you do while standing in a Forsaken (population 0) city?
- Can you build a supply center in a Forsaken city?
- Can you arrive in a Forsaken city by Sail or Charter Boat?
- What happens when the Infection card of a Forsaken city is drawn?
- Does a city stay infested after its population is raised back above zero?
- Can a haven become Forsaken, and can its population be raised?
- Do havens count as cities for rules and counts that mention cities?
- What if there are more objectives than fit in the board's objective area?
- Can a sea route pass through the Magellan Strait to avoid the Drake Passage red line?
Characters and Abilities
- Does the Helmsman's free Drive/Ferry work on other players' turns?
- Can players switch characters between games?
- Does the shelter-building ability need the exact city card or any card of the city's color?
- When does the Farmer's free Deliver Supplies trigger?
- How does the Radio Operator's ability work?
- Can a job's once-on-your-turn action be used more than once?
- Do cost-reducing abilities for Build Supply Center stack?
- What can the Instructor give, and can it take cards?
- How does the Broker's ability work?
- Do character abilities stack with one another?
- What happens if every character is dead?
- Where does a character start each game?
- When an ability lets you take a card from another player's hand, do you pick it?
Exposure, Scars and Death
- When does a character gain an exposure?
- Can a character gain more than one exposure in a turn?
- Does being moved out of a Hollow Men location by another player count as leaving?
- What exposure does a shelter prevent?
- What happens if a character dies on exposure during a move?
- Can you move a character out of a plague city before their turn to avoid exposure?
- Does the Xenophobia scar's extra City card have to be a different city?
- How can a character with the Carrier scar be moved?
Actions
- Does Sail or Charter Boat count as entering or leaving the cities along the sea route?
- Where can Sail and Charter Boat take you?
- Does Drive/Ferry need a card, and what counts as a line?
- Can you take Make Supplies anywhere, or only in a haven or supply center?
- How many times can a Produce Supplies card be used for System-Wide Production?
- Where does Produce Supplies place cubes, and what if the stockpile is short?
- What do you discard for a Recon, and do you need a supply center?
- Can you recon a region that is not one of the current objectives?
- Can you take the same free action many times in a turn?
- Can you use a free action during another player's turn or during an Epidemic?
- Can you deliver Supply cubes into a city that has Plague cubes?
- What can Share Knowledge pass, and where?
- Can you use Share Knowledge in a haven?
- If Share Knowledge puts you over the hand limit, what can you do?
- What if every supply center piece is already on the board?
- Does a searched city card's bonus apply again whenever the card is drawn?
- Can you search both boxes on a city card with two searches?
- How do you find the lab locations?
- What are the limits on drawing a new supply line?
- Can flights run between havens and supply centers in any combination?
- What happens to Epidemic cards revealed by the Monitor action, and how often can you Monitor?
- How does the Inoculate free action work and what limits it?
- Where do Produce Supplies cubes come from, and does Local Production check a box?
- Is a City card with a search box still a normal City card?
Event Cards and Hand Limit
- Can a Produce Supplies card be discarded to meet the hand limit?
- When can an Event card be played, and what are the exceptions?
- Can you play an Event after drawing a Forsaken City or Hollow Men Gather card but before its replacement?
- Does a play-at-any-time companion card cost an action?
- Can you play Events instead of discarding when you are over the hand limit?
- Can an Event be played right after the draw step, before the next player's turn?
- How do Unrationed Event cards differ from Rationed ones?
- Which Rationed Events can you add to the Player deck each game?
- Does Resilient Population need two copies of a city in the discard pile?
- How does the Data Transfer event swap cards?
Epidemics and Drawing Cards
- In what order does an Epidemic resolve, and do you still Infect afterwards?
- What does the Epidemic's Infect step do to the city on the bottom card?
- What if the bottom card drawn in an Epidemic's Infect step is a Hollow Men Gather card?
- What if an Epidemic's Infect step draws a Forsaken city, or the special Infection source is empty?
- What counts as a City card when working out the number of Epidemics?
Infections, Incidents and Outbreaks
- Can you use Lockdown during an Epidemic?
- Can the Topaz lab ability be used when the drawn city has no Supply cubes?
- Who can use Topaz, and does it work during an Epidemic?
- Can the Inoculation Unit event send Hollow Men Gather cards to Package 6?
- What happens when the Infection deck runs out?
- Does an outbreak itself move the Incident marker?
- Do outbreaks spread to adjacent havens?
- What if a city with 3 Plague cubes is infected but still has a Supply cube?
- In a chain-reaction outbreak, can a city lose more than one Supply cube?
- When do Infection card improvements such as Well Stocked apply?
- Does a Hollow Men Gather card count toward the number of Infection cards you draw?
- Does a Hollow Men Gather card remove Supply cubes or count as an incident, and can improvements stop it?
- Where does a Hollow Men Gather card go after it is drawn?
- What happens if a fourth Hollow Man would be added to a city?
- What happens to a supply center when a Plague cube is placed in its city?
- Is an Infection card destroyed by an event or improvement gone for good?
- How does Broken Link work, and can it be reused?
Game End Steps and Upgrades
- How does population change at game end for plague cubes, Hollow Men and supply centers?
- Which cities count toward the production units you get at game end?
- What does it cost to raise a location's population?
- How do permanent supply centers work at game end?
- Do you perform the Game End steps after a loss as well as a win?
- When are Turning Point cards checked at game end?
- Does the game end immediately when you win or lose, even mid-turn?
Rationing and the Game Calendar
Rule Clarifications
- Do new rule stickers take effect as soon as you receive them?
- Can you activate an ability if you can use only part of it?
- Do I need Season 1 to play Season 2?
- How do I put the Legacy deck back in order if it is scattered?
- Can you use a package's contents as soon as you open it?
- Can you look at the discard piles and take notes?