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Read Empire of Silence based on your recommendation back in the ARCS campaign preview, one of the best books I had the pleasure to read.

OMG😱, start with Hyperion. There are 4 books. The first 2 are sufficient. The latter two have been written by the author a decade later if I am not mistaken and content wise will not answer your questions that will arise when reading the first two 😁. Hyperion is a masterpiece in the "classic" sci fi domain.

The video I didn’t know I needed! It’s been entirely too long since I’ve read a good sci-fi story!

Root did have a learning curve but this looks so complex and so many pieces, is it actually easier then Root?

As the Necro, Tech was an S-Tier pick for me twice. Buying command tokens at a cost of 6 resources for 6 tokens was great to start me off with so many tokens. Doing that twice just made it so I never had to worry about command tokens for the rest of the game. And I think that is what allowed me to win.

53:40 is this the reason run is declared a movement action? Otherwise you could not have used those points to lean?

Maybe you can use your influence to get Mythic games to put out some updates to any of their other Kickstarter campaigns. Over a year and a half since the last update on Rise of the Necromancers...

i stopped eating scented candles to watch this

Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find a proper, comprehensive strategy guide. This is exactly the basics we need to know to be like the advanced BOTC players. I really wish we could have more of this because there's no series like Clocktower Corner.

Absolutely phenomenal video. Great work!

This this really does seem like an issue. Forced positioning board-wide is really the issue. I can’t think of any other operator that can kill from anywhere without LoS on top of that Buck is really great. Rn Buck is too strong. I think his ability should only allow throwables . As is rn It forces players to have to use two or more operators to nullify it, or have a defender or permanent upstairs duty until he dies, and Buck is still great by default. It may not be broken, but it is unfairly strong

I think the TTS scripted setup is wrong. You have to deal court row before you shuffle in lore cards.

Never knew about the issue but your video convinced me it is absolutely a problem. Forced position with the threat of multikills. Able to attack almost anywhere with no ability to respond? Thats huge value. Just the threat of it makes Buck beyond S tier. Buck is already great without it. Thanks for more content though! Love the 6 Siege vids.

Really interesting campaign, watched the whole thing. Want to firstly thank you for generating so much good content for this excellent game, I’ve watched all of it. Secondly, thanks for introducing me to White Bat Audio - fantastic music!

Wait, people play attack? 🤪

Deploying as opposed to throwing should only be possible if in the room. You can throw a grenade but not a claymore or camera etc, they need to be placed and set up.

Oh btw, the average when rolling 2 red dice is 4. Great advice overall !

Hats off !

This is an awesome video! Explains the game so well and the production is great

Hope to see more ARCS! Also Burning Banners would be fun to watch!

Ooh man, I've been waiting for this one

Hell yeah! Been waiting for this one. Ggs to all, whoever wins!

LET’S GOOOOOO

We just finished. Smugglers - 43. Sharkfin - 36. Molluscs - 19. Molluscs got absolutely hammered by sharkfin using bombard or convincing comrade to move tokens. Smuggler running away with the game while the other 2 were at war.

~ 26:08 -- Doesn't Administration have the most pips, with an extra one for their 5?

Damn I think I would have gone after the Planet Breaker too.

This is my favorite review of Arcs: Campaign. I love Tom's review from SUSD, but you were able to provide concise examples of how the campaign mode creates stories and Tom was only able to allude to it. This is the definitive review that I'm passing on to my friends. One of my gaming groups is going to play the campaign mode for the first time tomorrow night - very excited!

This is definitely the best review I've seen of Campaign Arcs. I love how you communicate lots of different perspectives and preferences through dialogue. It really works well!

I know its kinda unrelated, but what gaming table is that ? Did you buy ? custom made ? What are the measurements ? Please

Just ordered this. Looking forward to playing it this weekend.

It feels like the Steward was playing more to stop everyone else from succeeding in their objectives than playing to further their own. There were a lot of daring raids and decisive battles (mostly on the left, already imperial side of the map) that did nothing to advance his objectives, doubly so as Warlord was never declared. Damaging the Regents (and everyone stayed a Regent, which would normally be great for the Steward!) crippled the economy, stifling taxes. A good example of the key differences between the base game and the campaign: opportunistic strikes to cripple an enemy on the board is not always preferable to cooperation and largess.

Great review but the guy with the cap talks way too much 🤡

Good analysis of a complicated game. I liken the base game to a regular Boardgame. The campaign is more of an RP experience - with rules attached. The downside to the campaign is the rules overhead can swamp people. But I think its a necessity of the emergent gameplay experience.

Wow, epic take. I don't get tired listening to Oath takes, and now in preparation for the campaign watching everything out there and short of susd, that's the best campaign explanation and demonstration

What an awesome review!! Great style and love having the different perspectives delivered in dialogue. Great summaries!

I love the idea of a friend pausing a game to share a PowerPoint presentation about why he likes it.

I'm confused how someone would double declare ambition in a turn. how do you acquire initiative back consistently? is this not dependent on your hand?

It's The Expanse

Hey great review! I find it really crazy that after playing my first campaign, I talked with my friends about a similar feeling of storytelling to what you described, during the games I am only thinking in mechanic terms, and then the next day while thinking about the game I realize of the narratives present. Still, a great experience all the same

You make good videos, dude. Keep it up

Star Wars shouldn"t be in any scifi argument. It's fantasy disguised as scifi.

Overhyped! Too random! If you don't draw the right cards you automatically lose and there's LITERALLY nothing you can do to mitigate it. People interacting with me and not just letting me run away with the win makes me feel sad. People running away with the win because I don't interact with them makes me feel sad. Time to play a game where luck of the cards won't make my big brain moves meaningless - time to go back to Ark Nova I guess.

I’m about to finish my first campaign game tonight, thanks for the video. I’ve been looking forward to this one. Good job.

amazing review. i see the amount of effort and love you put into this. thank you. also seeing your sci fi books (i read almost all of them) i was wondering: any chances to get a sci-fi books recommendation video? :) - given that our sci fi taste seems similar, i would like to hear from you about your favourites

I see Arcs like Starcraft. You have a narrative campaign that you will enjoy and learn the world you're playing in and then a multiplayer mode where you build a base and army and go and destroy each other. You'll probably play the campaign a number of times while the multiplayer will be played for years and years to come.

They should definitely watch Dune and Andor season 1 is indeed great.

Managed to find the base game in a board game store in Boston, but still haven't found the blighted reach expansion anywhere. I pre-ordered the retail version. Any idea when that comes out?

Hoping to get arcs next month. Excited:)