This is SUCH a helpful practical video. Having played Arcs three times so far, I can see exactly what you're saying about these tips. Some of them I already gathered and others I hadn't even considered. So thank you!

Did my first game ever a few days ago. Really interesting. Very simple and hands down the most straightforward rule book Leder Games has put out. I really like how simple it is and yet the figuring out how to strategize your way through the mechanics is complex. The trick taking makes it harder to simply just do what you need to do. By the end of the game I realized I probably should just use my resources and copy more. Hoping to play it again soon.

Hell yeah man. Great video. My copy should be coming soon! Can't wait!

I like and agree with your take on raiding. There was a discussion in the Woodland Warriors where someone was arguing that games would necessarily devolve into just raiding back and forth and they were trying to say that raiding was op. And I really think it's far more situational than that. Like everything in this crazy weird awesome game.

19:47 Something else related to this that took me a few plays to internalize: you also don't need control to Build. You just need a Loyal piece already present in the system. So you have a city all by itself on a planet with another building slot, you can Build a second city there, or a starport there, no ships needed. (Of course, it's gonna be built in a damaged state if a Rival has control.)

Fantastic video!

Thank you, this was amazingly useful.

Helpful vid, thanks man!

Dude this video blew up, excited for more arcs content! Maybe a guide on different leaders

Thank you for making this guide! Now I just have to convince my group to get it haha. We have one player that I swear prefers no player interaction AT ALL so it will be a hard sell.

This is a really well made video! Would be great if you set up chapters so I could skip back to/forwards to different parts :)

oh we never realized you could raid starports. we thought it was just cities for some reason.

Wow jealous… your 6 Siege pledge actually delivered I never got mine…

Thank you for sharing your tips. I'm waiting eagerly for my copy to arrive. Is there a discord for Arcs players on TTS?

Is arcs available at game stores yet? My algorithm is bombarding me with this game lol. Also, do you think there’s a steeper learning curve than Root?

Just played my first game this afternoon and I wish I had watched this first - made a lot of the mistakes you identified. Very helpful!

20:27 How do you pull an Agent directly from the City in TTS?

I have only played once, but I think I want to start counting total pips in a chapter for both me and everyone together and see what the average is. In the game I played I did better in chapters where I seized even though I was doing nothing last round. If I knew those averages I could have a sense of the tempo and how I was doing relative to the other players. I could also make a better calculation on when to seize

Is it generally worth it to influence cards someone else has started to influence before you? Like if someone has placed two agents on a card, is it efficient, power point wise, to place three agents on that card to possibly capture the opponent's agents?

Learned it the hard way: 3 raid dices are not enough for two keys 😢. So much pain and regrets.

When you say 3+ do you mean "three or more" or "more than three"? It should mean "three or more" but from the way you were talking about it I got confused on which you meant.

The comment on here about crypto bs is hilarious, nice YT spam, creator should’ve already deleted