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1. Take out the core game components:double-sided board,Hero pawns,Hero sheets,Kingdom tiles,Legend cards,tokens, dice and other necessary elements.
2. Place the central boardand set up the exploration, combat, and non-player character zones.
3. Choose your heroesfrom among the archer, sorceress, dwarf, or warrior, each with their own sheet and unique abilities.
4. Select a Legend(scenario) to play: each Legend introduces a distinct story with specific objectives and effects that influence the game.

A game of Andortakes place in structured roundswhere players cooperate to fulfill the Legend's objectives while managing enemy threats:

1. Exploration and Movement: Your heroes traverse the kingdom to reach key locations, discover new areas, and accomplish missions.
2. Legend Cards and Narrative: At defined moments, a legend markeradvances, triggering the drawing of a Legend cardthat moves the story forward, adds new elements to resolve, or modifies game conditions.
3. Cooperative Actions: Players discuss, plan, and execute the necessary actions to manage enemies, help allies, or retrieve useful items.
4. Time Management: Certain actions or combats consume game time (marked in hours), and a race against timebegins to achieve your goals before threats become too numerous.

This combination of narration and tactics forces players to coordinate their plans, anticipate dangers, and optimize each turn to progress through the story.

Andoris not just about accumulating points: each Legendhas its own victory conditions, which may include defending the castle, defeating a major threator completing specific questsbefore time runs out.

• Collective Victory: All players win by achieving the Legend's objectives before enemies or time overwhelm your abilities.
• Defeat: If too many enemies reach the castle, if time runs out, or if certain critical conditions are not met, the game is lost.
  

Each Legend is designed to be replayed with different strategies, even when the overall story is already known.