Board Game Reviews Ep #74: LEGENDS OF ANDOR 

I love Andor. It's ultimately a euro efficiency puzzle disguised as a fantasy adventure. The whole trilogy makes for a pretty epic journey.

Woah! It feels super surreal seeing you play this. I wrote the official soundtrack (and made the sounddesign) for Legends of Andor in 2018, when it was adapted as a mobile game called Legends of Andor - The King's Secret by Daedalic Entertainment. The mobile adaptation is very faithful to the board game and one of the few mobile games I've ever really enjoyed. It makes the AI take care of all the tedious bits, like the whole setup, the enemies' moves, combat calculations, the weird consequences (like battles moving the narrator up) etc. If you found the board game too complicated, the mobile game might be for you, although it's still a battle-against-time type of puzzle at its core. Best wishes from Germany!

Me, an intellectual: *knows your name is pronounced Pro Z D* Also me: *ＰＲＯＣＥＥＤ*

Can you review that Milk Magic card game you always play

I love the longer content. You're an inspiration to smaller RU-vidrs like me!!

Legends of Andor is one of my favorite games in this style, precisely because you are like the Fellowship trying to achieve an objective and not soldiers/video game characters going about trying to kill every monster in the land for its gold... you need to focus on the objectives and let the castle guard deal with some of the monsters instead (much like the Fellowship let Rohan and Gondor deal with certain monsters, and they focused on avoiding enemies if they could and moving toward their objectives while others fought). However, just a couple things I think I should add that aren't too spoiler-y that were not covered in your review: 1. Although a campaign of 5 interconnected stories that, when played sequentially, tell an overall narrative in proper order; the game is not a "campaign game" in the sense of building characters up over the game. Instead, each story is starting anew and could be played as a stand-alone session (and out of order). This isn't Gloomhaven with persistent information between games, or even Descent: Journeys in the Dark where you play a set of scenarios and tougher as you play OR play them as just stand-alone games. 2. Many of the stories have Green colored story cards that are "easy" difficulty, so there is some difficulty scaling in the game. 3. Some stories have you choose a story card at random out of a set (like randomly choose one story H card); this means that when replaying, elements of the story may change. However, much of the story will be the same - only some things will vary. Thus replay value is a little higher than it first seems. 4. There is a lot of expansion content to this game. There is a big box expansion, a stand-alone big box expansion (you can add it to the game OR you can just buy it and play it by itself), a small box expansion with a story in it, a small box expansion of "dark heroes", and a story box expansion to play with 5-6 players/heroes in a game. Basically, if you enjoy the game you can pay more to get a lot more stories. There are also online stories you can print, and if you can speak German there are more expansions that just didn't seem to make it to the English edition!

Thought this was a wheel of time game, had me excited there

This seems more confusing than the cheese theme card game

Dude prozd has the most chill content ever. Every time I watch one of his bored game reviews it feels like a rainy day and you have nothing to do. Keep it up!

Ey I have this game. 13:05 that's definitely one of my major dislikes about this game

"Brave heroes! The gor army stormed our walls, killing hundreds of civilians and badly damaging our fortifications! One more strike like that, and we're doomed! How could you let it happen?" "Well, you see, if we had stopped them, then it would have pushed the climax up closer, and we need to grind more loot before we're ready for that." "...What the heck, brave heroes." Yeah, I can see why you found this mechanic kinda weird.

I remember a few years back that my mother, my brother and I picked up this game and immediately got annihilated by a swarm of enemies and we had the choice of either letting all of them through and losing, killing them all and losing, killing a couple and being an inch away from losing to then die to the next wave, or *trying* to fight them, rolling badly, and still losing. Wasn't very fun :P I revisited the game with just my mother a few months back and with more experience with tactical games in general we did manage to eke out wins on the first two campaigns (I no longer live with her and was just visiting so that's all we had time for) mostly by abusing the teamup mechanic to actually reliably take out what monsters we needed to (and could afford to) take out. We were still one misstep away from losing in pretty much every way though (last spot on the timeline, all shields taken, a monster one turn from seizing the castle that we couldn't kill because we were on the last spot on the timeline) so it didn't feel like we really won so much as it felt like we barely didn't lose. The game's much less of an RPG than it seems, it's more of a puzzle running on an *incredibly* tight timer so I'd definitely recommend it only to people who enjoy planning under pressure. Dice rolls being able to mess up even the best strategy (looking at you, monsters-add-both-dice's-points-if-both-dice-roll-the-same-number mechanic) certainly doesn't help the stress factor either. It's a challenging game, definitely not something for a casual board game evening with a couple friends who just wanna have some fun, but for people who are there to win, beat the scenario out of sheer spite against the overwhelming odds, and can handle a new plot twist basically meaning an instant loss if you're in a bad situation. Plus, chances are that even the victories will feel sort of hollow, as the lore may say all is fine and you made it just in time, but chances are that mechanically, the kingdom is literally minutes away from crumbling under a flood of monsters by the time you get the damn letter where it needs to go or whatever you need to do. The tutorial is really nice (it even got my notoriously slow-on-the-rules mom to pick up the rules as it went on) but as soon as it ends you're on your own and you better have a plan ready.

He is teasing doing a video trying every PopTart on his twitter and I am very excited

This is suprisingly pleasent. Didnt know you did these and very relaxing

I played the first andor game a few years ago and didn't understand that much, but after getting into it it's my favourite board game and I bought the other 2 games, Andor II and Andor III, in new maps and with new story missions. The new heroes also feel unique and at the end of the day it's a good and fun experience to play with friends, I recommend the game if you like games with a learning curve 👌

Can you do “Root” next

Ahh, finally another review with a game I haven't played! Glad to see more reviews, have you played Coup or Onirim, they are fun games and would make good future reviews.

This guy deserves more subscribers. SO underrated. You're the best dude

Well replay Value is a thing: Because you will lose. And then you try angain. I played it a few years ago. And we lost every Scenario several times, I think :P

Thanks for the review.

Andor from Wheel of Time ?

German Boardgames are back on the menu, boys!!!

You should have a game night video every Friday, playing board games with your friends and family. It'd be pretty cool.

Love this game! My friends who own it never made it through a campaign without me for some reason.

The wheel of time anyone?

You really need to try the early spinoff, Adventures of Hadria. It's been removed from the appstore, but you can still find an APK file for emulation. The English localization is quite entertaining.

Is the name Andor literally just And and Or that's so dumb I like it

That's legendary

Gotta review either the 7 wonders, settlers of catan, or talisman next!

I got this game a few years back and actually didn't like the rules/manual the first time I tried playing it; the whole narrator-story/progression mechanic was just weird for me to get my head around the first time. I think best way to think of this game is like baby's first Descent/Gloomhaven. Otherwise I agree with your view on the game overall and the weird 'don't kill all the monsters' way of playing; I feel like it'd be better if it was that the monsters got stronger as you killed more all highlander style (maybe some scenarios do that) rather than story just progresses because rules said so. I guess this was just a long way of saying "I agree."

You should review Terraforming Mars. So much fun.

Speaking of killing monsters and getting goodies. Have you played Gloomhaven? Sounds like you might like it.

It’d be super cool if you did a video on your boardgames collection. I bet you have a bunch.

Board games are underated this is so sick

You should record a session of a thematic boardgame and voice every character.

This is like for the king I play that with my friend

(Pulls out a knife and speaks in a raspy voice) Four can play at that game...

these read just like his parody videos, so I can't tell if he is serious when it says things like moving the token to the chicken....

Scarra looking weird in this video

Another great video, protector of Andor

The Wookies of Endor.

I'd love to watch you play Legend of runeterra, its card game on the app store

I really like Andor, but we play with some house rules, because advancing the story everytime you kill an enemy is kinda ruining the game in my opinion. And some stronger enemies that you have to fight throughout the story become almost impossible to defeat (cause you "need" to kill enemies to be able to use more dice for attacking, at least if there are no wells nearby and some enemies just take some time to kill) if you dont "level up" your character. Also if you play it like the official rules say, it feels more like a single player game, because there is little room for exploring or going your own way, because the timewindow to fullfill the quests feels pretty narrow. So we only advance the story with every second monster we kill. You still cant just kill everything, but it gives you a bit more freedom this way.

You should start a food review channel . . I would def watch lol

I noticed you use your left hand for almost everything. I assumed it was because you were holding the camera in your right, but there are parts where both hands are visible. You a lefty?

Never expected to see Wheel of Time on here??

You should review the fantasy board game "Talisman", it's a timeless classic.

Good vid! Can you do one on warhammer 40k?

It's really complicated isn't it

WHAT?;;; THAT EXIST???????

Is there a quiz on this later?

it really does look like a duo called Thames and Cosmos created this

If Andor needs me, I'm in

you should film you guys playing these as well also you should try root

This game looks cool

yes

I love your voice!

Cool game. Would play with the homies.

“Boss monster” next please

In 2584 this guy will be president of the United Stated

-Has fallen into a massive stupor and died- I'm too stupid to understand any of it. Haha.

Lmao this is literaly the only board game i own...

@ProZD please make chaireim anime an actual thing please i really love it BTW love ur channel too

you should put an "uh" counter in the corner

Any similar boardgames recommendations?

Umm.... So ... My name is Andor. Like, it's not a nickname. It's my actual first name given me at birth. I love my parents.

I wonder when he will do something related to memes and eat noodles again (Wow thanks for 13 likes :D )

Is gonna be a good day

SHUT UP KIMCHI. Comment if you get the reference. You should know this ProZD or should I say BRIAN

Did anyone else think of Wheel of Time?

I wish I had friends to play board games

I share a name with a boardgame.. Cool

Bring back the let's eat ramen

I have that one W

Inspired by "The Wheel of Time" book series?

hi

9:00 actually the wizard's special ability is the ability to flip their dice after throwing so you could turn that 1 into a 6. The penalty for this is that the wizard only ever has one dice. 11:00 yeah, you forgot to do that in your previous example.

We still waiting for endgame

Hi

Cool story bro

"Legends of Endor" but where are the Ewoks?

I've had this in my collection for years. No one wants to play because it's too hard. Lol

Are you Asian Andy?

106th

Do a covid skits

i find the game badly designed. the quests actions have to be planned and followed by all. Else you wont reach the ingame goal. But since players dont have any incentive to act on their own motives, they will all follow the best plan. Which means, its actually just a single person playing the game. While the layout of the secret tokens decides if you win at all.

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No views but 2 likes, okay then

Let’s try pop tarts

Early gang

Interesting...

can you make more skits?