r/Arcs

Decided to purchase the game as I’ve had an incredible time playing Root and wanted to play another game Ledger has released, they again did not disappoint!

Our group decided to overall enter the game blind, other than the watching a quick 22 minute YouTube vide and briefing the rules before starting.

We definitely made a bunch of subpar plays, I feel we never placed down any cities nor taxed very much because ransacking the court felt just far to powerful, looting was the main reason for battles, and we placed a ton spaceports because of just how aggressive the board was.

Overall, everyone in the group found the game to be amazing; the game presented a very captivating puzzle system, having your actions limited to tour card draw was very frustrating but made such interesting plays and made you think instead of “how can I make these cards work towards my plans” to more “what can I do with my cards?”

I finally got myself the Blighted Reach campaign box and it came with two Event dice, but no Number dice. I'm sad since the 6 sided numbered dice are so rare. But, I managed to find a couple of them and now I have a set for both sides of the table! Extremely lucky!

I saw Corsair, Agitator, and Shaper ranked pretty low in recent tier list, so I tried making small homebrew buffs for them.

My goal was:

• Keep each leader’s downside trait unchanged.
• Only buff their upside trait.
• Keep the text short and close to the original flavor.
• Make them more viable, not top-tier broken.

What do you think?

Are these enough to make them more competitive, or did I push any of them too far?

The Quartermaster takes our final spot in A tier.

Thanks a lot for voting - if the top comment of today's post suggests any changes, happy to do them but think we've landed in a decent space

I’ve made 8 new Leaders for Arcs as part of the Celestial Leader Expansion:

• Full Leader Expansion

I’ve also made many improvements and balance adjustments to the existing Leaders based on feedback and playtesting over the past month.

For anyone who missed the original post with the full project overview, PnP, TTS mod, etc.:

• Original Reddit Post

As always, feedback and playtest impressions are very welcome.

Agitator also makes it into D tier - he clearly isn't many people's favourite leader as he got an astounding lack of engagement

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

Now for the final one

Leader 16 - Quartermaster

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?

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.

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

Shaper is our 2nd D tier leader, above the Corsair based on other votes but top comment had him at D. Nearly at the end now...

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 15 - Agitator

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

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