One I took a few turns on TTS, the other I played twice on my table… caveat: both in multi-handed variants without true opponents.įirst: For me there is no connection to Terra Mystica or Gaia Project. So to improve the comparison, I finally did what I’ve been meaning to do for weeks now and taught myself Arnak. Personally, I find the cover of Arnak is just so busy and Dune looks cool. I am an SF fan, so if I had to choose between never watching Star Wars or never watching Indiana Jones again… I bought Dune. Those two have actual maps.īoth Arnak and Imperium (btw over here Imperium is ~10€ cheaper on average) have less of a map but simply an accumulation of worker placement spots and tracks (4 short faction tracks in Dune, 1 dual-use longer research track in Arnak) The first of these types of deck builders I encountered was Clank! but El Dorado also counts. For me both the games fall into the broader category of “Deck Building with a Map” where map = board. So I had only watched a couple of videos before making my own decision. So it captured that vibe with the right length and complexity, while being much more different from GP compared to Terra Macmystica Clans. It at first feels like you can’t do anything, but then you figure out the combos and all the different ways to spend and gather resources, so you are thinking “do this, then do this, then do this to do this…” and just trying to extend your round a few more actions. Bear with me… what struck me about it was the whole “here’s a dollar, go kill a guardian and find the temple” vibe. What caught my eye about Arnak is actually I think it could fire Clans of Caledonia as my Gaia project lite. But then Imperium is in stock right now, so…ĭisclosures: I already have Viscounts for the genre but have not played it because I have not played Paladins and feel like I’m supposed to do this in order.

can you walk me through why a person should get Arnak over Imperium or the reverse? Recently got turned onto these.Īrnak gets a slight nudge as I think the theme will help me get it to the table and it is cheaper.

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