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Image 1 — First time playing the Campaign: Some takeaways
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First time playing the Campaign: Some takeaways

After one year of playing Arcs we finally tried the Campaign. Took us two sessions: we left the last act for the next day. Both Conspirator and Redeemer (red) won the objective, but red won by power.

We had a very clear turning point in act 2, 2nd chapter, when my opponents had to turn outlaw after I (Redeemer) called the summit 3 times. With 2 crises I caused earlier and huge fleet of empire ships (and my lore that enabled me to build cities in gates) it became obvious that I will achieve my goals and win.

So here is what I took from this game:
- it’s really hard to win against 2 C fates if you’re still playing A/B fate
- we underestimated how important the summit is
- you got to pick your battles more selectively
- there is so much going on in the first game: you will forget stuff and make blunders
- my friends shouldn’t have let me to became a regent so easily after act 1 (I had to turn outlaw immediately in ch. 1 to score)
- we prepared well, but still spent significant time on understanding how specific fates score

Overall it was a mesmerising experience and playing a lot of base game payed off. Can’t imagine going into the Campaign without playing the base game first.

So what were your biggest takeaways in the campaign?

PS: Would you fight against two C fates in 3-player game or would you change to C fate yourself?

u/pintoli3 — 1 day ago
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Fanmade Stickers are so good

As far as I am aware, the consensus around miniatures pack is they look awesome but aren't best for actually playing the game. After all I'm happy I didn't get it because I bought a pack of custom stickers from https://www.pimpmymeeples.pl/ and it's fantastic. Look at this guys! They are so distinct and yet fit so well to the overall visuals of the game. I love how they all have different body shapes despite all being placed on same shape agents.

I am in no way related to the seller, this is not an advertisement, I just drool over how cute the little guys are

EDIT. One important thing to mention. Author confirms that the graphics are handmade WITHOUT use of AI.

u/Mroovek — 2 days ago
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How many Movements from A to B?

How many Movements does it take for red to get from A to B?

u/Schichi — 2 days ago
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Arcs Leader tier list - day 13, where does the Anarchist go?

Noble is one of our first tied votes with both an S and an A tier winning - ultimately I opted for A due to the S vote also mentioning A tier

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 13 - Anarchist

u/Widgeet — 2 days ago
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Replacing box due to mold

TLDR: What you guys do you recommend after replacing the box due to mold, do you clean the components before putting them in the new box?

Ok so I finally got the Arcs campaign expansion (yay!) from a third party, however upon opening it I noticed that the base of the box have some mold stains. I so I contacted Buried Giant Studios for a box replacement and they are willing to send it at no extra cost, nice! I did some research and I’ve noticed that it was kind of a “common” issue with the first printing.

I know this case is somewhat niche but for the people that have replaced the box or had similar issues with other games or whatnot, did you clean your components (cardboard, inserts, cards, wooden pieces) before placing them on the new box? I haven’t opened the cards and punch the cardboard yet. What do you recommend to clean them if so?

Thank you!

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u/Luigivaldo — 16 hours ago
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Arcs Leader tier list - day 14, where does the Shaper go?

Anarchist also enters in perhaps unsurprisingly at S tier

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 14 - Shaper

u/Widgeet — 23 hours ago
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Arcs Leader tier list - day 12, where does the Noble go?

Corsair is our first into D tier

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 12 - Noble

u/Widgeet — 3 days ago
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Arcs Leader tier list - day 11, where does the Corsair go?

In one of the more predictable votes, we see another S tier for the Overseer this time.

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 11 - Corsair

u/Widgeet — 4 days ago
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Box lid got wet...and now super flimsy

Odd post. So due to a small leak, my CAMPAIGN box got a little wet. I was able to save the game, and no components for wet, just the lid and the side. Whew. BUT, even after drying out for a day, where it got wet it is REALLY flimsy like tissue paper. So much that I just ripped the corner picking up the box.

So I think the lid might be toast, but obviously this games need one. Is it repairable? Do you think leder might have spares?

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u/apache_alfredo — 4 days ago
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Biggest ouff :'( (rules mistake)

So... three campaign games done now. Everyone constantly liking most aspects of the game, but hating the terrible randomness.

Second to last turn of the third game's final act, and we notice that when surpassing, you only compare to lead card, not the previous card in the trick.

We didn't even think at first that it's such a big deal, but then we were like *mind blown* when we realized how much that changes about how we played the game and in particular how frustrating to have that made ~50-60% of the cards we got each act.

Ouff.

So suffice to say I withdraw whatever criticism I voiced before. Not only do I love the arc (heh) of the game's campaign mode, I think I don't mind the randomness, now that I realize it was only so punishing because of the rules mistake.

... it annoys me that it took us three campaigns to notice!

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u/Carighan — 5 days ago
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Demagogue enters in at C tier

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 09 - Archivist

u/Widgeet — 7 days ago
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Games ending with one person completely obliterating the other?

Hey, people!

Me and my GF had our 7th play of Arcs last night. It happens that on the previously game and at this one, the result was a massacre of ships. In both scenerios the ships were locked behind no one declaring warlord, leaving the player kinda crippled on what he could do. We ended up conceding the victory to the other.

I was wondering if that is a thing on 2 players games or we might be overlooking some rule? Or just a bad playstyle? Also I wanted to triple check if you are able to attack with more than 6 dices, if you have, of course, more than 6 ships.

We still haven't played with the leaders.

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u/GrimDiscoJesus — 6 days ago
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I play and love quite a lot and I heard that arcs was a pretty good game as well so I’m wondering how I can learn this game. Are their any online stuff like how to play videos on certain channels or is it just best if I read the rule book I’m just wondering. Thank you.

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u/calmerous5888 — 7 days ago
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Warrior also enters C tier, behind the Rebel

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 07 - Feastbringer

u/Widgeet — 10 days ago
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I’ve heard of Arcs, don’t know what’s it about, how it’s played, if I should buy it? I have 3 other game by Leder games. (Root, Fort and Ahoy) I wanted to ask the community about this and if I should buy it?

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u/InfinitePresence4229 — 14 days ago
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Confused about 5 player mandate cards

I feel like i understand the first part fine, when you lead you may take 1 of any action and declare any ambition but the number of the card is basically zero.

The pivoting part confuses me. Does this mean that i take as many actions of types listed on the lead card as the card has pips (like a super copy)? Can i preform a regular pivot with a mandate where i take one of any action? What happens if you copy with a mandate card is that illegal or redundant or both?

u/Frothy47 — 6 days ago
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Arcs Leader tier list - day 10, where does the Overseer go?

A very fair and dominant S tier for the Archivist

Rules:

  • We're assessing on strength of the leaders not fun, pls tier list according to strength
  • Will post daily
  • Top upvoted comment wins and will ultimately place the leader in our follow up post tomorrow
  • Please give an explanation for your vote
  • Someone also made a good point to decide where in the tier a leader should be - leftmost is best, so if you're placing in an existing tier, let us know where you think they should be

Leader 10 - Overseer

u/Widgeet — 6 days ago
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Some fates are well known to be much more difficult to achieve the objective of than others. In addition, some fates have very difficult or easily preventable Grand Ambitions. I know that some argue that this imbalance is fine and can be corrected through player behavior, but I was curious if there were any official or unofficial attempts to rebalance any fates, even if just changing a couple of numbers. I don't necessarily want 90% of campaigns to have a failed Believer, for example.

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u/LegOfLambda — 9 days ago