Arcs: The Blighted Reach Campaign Expansion - A Casual How To Play Explanation | Optimal Play

Looking for the scoop on how to take this hot new space opera board game to the next level? Join us as Jordan (with Drew's help) teach me how to play the Blighted Reach campaign expansion for Leder Games' ARCS!
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Timestamps!
0:00 Intro chatter
1:12 Explaining the general expansion 3-session game structure
Setup
2:35 What the board looks like at setup (for 3 players)
3:15 Picking fates
4:00 Fate decks
6:45 Putting initial buildings on the board
Gameplay / Differences between base game and expansion
7:35 Intro
7:50 Empire ships (laws of control, movement, harm (battle, tax))
10:44 Empire ship rules if you're an Outlaw
11:24 Empire ships and catapulting
12:18 Blight
13:00 Free cities (taxing, raiding) - can use 1 key to get a resource from the bank when raiding
14:15 Event cards (added to the action deck)
Summits
15:40 Spending favors
17:50 Negotiations
18:30 Becoming an outlaw (if you called the summit), reviving the Empire
19:07 Event dice (triggers crisis phase or edict phase)
19:50 Edict phase - First regent can swap war/peace policy, edicts evaluated in numerical order
21:50 Crisis phase (+ details about blight crisis)
23:20 Types of crisis (blight, court, personal player crisis)
25:00 Summit/crisis/edicts can also be triggered by the 'imperial counsel in session' card being secured
Acts
28:59 End of Act 1 - scoring, continuing your A fate or replacing your A fate with a B fate
31:48 Flagship rules
32:55 Flagship - building
36:15 End of act 2 - C fates (some have different instant-win conditions)
45:15 Teardown/Storing the game between acts
47:20 Outro

[@runswithbees]

I cannot believe this is the first physical teach of the campaign rules! Well done, thank you!

[@OptimalPlay]

Us either! We don't do learning videos regularly but try to do our part with one of these 'casual how-to-plays' when we see a void in the resources on youtube.

[@The-Duke-of-Zill]

Fantastic video guys! Finally a campaign teach! One thing though, the resolution order of Crises is Blight THEN Personal Fate crises and finally Court Crises

[@sdcwarzone]

Thanks for this! Already excited about the campaign, but was looking for something like this. You found a subscriber here!

[@tylermacfarland9483]

Thank you guys! This was really helpful as we break into our first campaign!

[@user-cw4zj6kc8u]

Yup. I really wanna try the Campaign now.

[@nin_4_me58]

Very nice video! Just in time for my first campaign today!

[@ChadUrsoMcDaniel]

Great teach!
One correction about Blight attacking Imperial ships & leftover damage. From p18, Outlaws are treated no differently than any other player.

[@MrCristoflanga]

Small clarification: The concept of harm does not include taxing. The rule that prohibits regents taxing each other in imperial systems is mentioned separately from them not being able to harm each other in those systems. Other cards that refer to harm exclude taxes. This can become important for some fates

[@drewconley951]

You're right, harm does not include taxing rivals. But both concepts are covered under the Truce Law, so a regent would need a way to bypass that law in order to do either.

[@steinfi3]

This was very helpful, thank you.

[@markyturner]

This was well done. Thanks!

[@lennaylennay2]

One odd thing I noticed is that first regent can’t force citizenship on outlaws but outlaws can force citizenship.

[@BabushkaKing]

Great teach, I feel like I understand it now. Good job!

[@OptimalPlay]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching!