great hang

Arcs: Leaders & Lore, 2024-12-20

winners and losers

Player	Color	Leader	Lore	Final Power
S	red	Corsair	Hidden Bases	36
Me	yellow	Warrior	Signal Breaker	171
M	blue	Noble	Empath Vision	13

After a slow first two chapters for S and I, M seemed dominant. But M started a two-front war. (Or did I open the second front when he attacked S? “He started it.” “No he started it!”) In any case, chapter three aw S lock in two big wins with Keeper and Empathy, and M as Noble got none of the second-place spoils. In the fourth and final chapter, I roared back with great raids that netted me 15 points. S’s counter-raid against me (and his Hidden Bases, which stopped my attempted counter-counter-raid in its tracks) secured a first in Keeper and the victory, his first in Arcs.

learning

I made one major mistake that I know of. (I surely made others! How I led with Initiative in the first chapter was maybe another. And my city-first build strategy maybe was another.) That one I know of—declaring Tyrant, then dangling a Courtier—gifted 5 points to M in chapter 1. Perhaps another was continuing to fight M and not pivoting to attack S in chapter 3.

high points

• an inaugural game on M’s new copy of the game
• Five Guys lunch run
• catching up with S in the car
• a beautiful sunny day
• the start of winter break

low points

• a sick kid
• getting glum about bad luck

start

finish

Footnotes

1. My (yellow’s) power total was truly 17, not 13 as the final board pic shows. The board did not include my points for scoring second for Keeper in the final chapter. ↩