Starcadia Quest: ARRRmada
Starcadia Quest: ARRRmada Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Components
- 3 Game Tiles
- 1 Pirate Ship Dashboard
- 1 Campaign Sheet Pad
- 2 Hero Cards
- 22 Quest Cards
- 10 Pirate Assault Cards
- 22 Upgrade Tokens
- 5 Monsters Cards
- Miniatures: 1 Barb, 4 Bonehead, 1 Crabby Meg, 1 Wet Willy, 1 Marsh Mellow, 2 Jolly Jock, 2 Dog Watch
- 1 Rulebook
ARRRmada Overview
Wet Willy has a plan. Not of world domination or tacos, but for all the booty that is available for the taking! With the Starcadian Alliance preoccupied with dealing with the threat of Supreme Commander Thorne, the time is ripe to plunder anything and everything that comes in the way of the fleet! Players must juggle the threats they currently face, all while having to deal with the endless assaults from these pirates!
ARRRmada Upgrades
This campaign includes a variety of new, unique, and thematic Upgrades, allowing players to create original combos and strategies. When setting up the campaign, players put together the Upgrades included in this expansion with the Upgrades from the Starcadia Quest core box, adding them to their respective Decks. In addition, players can also choose to include Upgrades from other expansions.
Campaign Against Wet Willy
Starcadia Quest: ARRRmada contains a total of 6 Scenarios. From those, players will forge through a series of 4 Scenarios. The first and the last Scenarios will always be the same, no matter the choices made. Once Scenario 1 is played and conquered, the winner will be able to choose between Scenarios 2A or 2B. Similarly, Scenario 2A and 2B will lead to Scenario 3A or 3B. All campaigns end with an epic faceoff against Wet Willy in Scenario 4!
The printed campaign map lays out Scenario 1, then Scenarios 2A and 2B, then Scenarios 3A and 3B, then Scenario 4.
Pirate Ship Dashboard
When playing ARRRmada's campaign, you must use the Pirate Ship Dashboard. To do so, replace the Monster Dashboard with the Pirate Ship Dashboard. The Pirate Ship Dashboard functions basically the same as the standard Monster Dashboard, with an added layer of mischief: Pirate Assaults!
Dashboard Setup
For the ARRRmada campaign, the Pirate Ship Dashboard is always filled with all ARRRmada Monsters, placed on their respective spaces, regardless of what the Quest's Monster Setup indicates.
The printed setup diagram marks the placement spaces as: Place Bonehead here; Place Jolly Jock here; Place Dog Watch here; Place Crabby Meg here; Place Wet Willy here (Villain space).
Note: When using the Pirate Ship Dashboard, the [Designation icon] and [Designation icon] Designations both refer to Bonehead.
(The two Designations in this note are printed as icons, not text; they are shown here as placeholders.)
Monster Spawn
During the ARRRmada campaign, when an Event card causes the Activation of a Monster, players refer to the Pirate Ship Dashboard as they would to the Monster Dashboard in a normal game. HOWEVER, if they need to Spawn a Monster instead, then they refer solely to the Monsters indicated in the Scenario's Monster Setup card. If the Monster Setup does not have a specified Monster for the required Designation, do not spawn anything, even though there is a Monster in that Designation on the Pirate Ship Dashboard.
Pirate Assaults
Pirate Assaults are pesky randomized events that aim to give players a hard time! Shuffle the cards into a deck and place it facedown on its respective space of the Pirate Ship Dashboard. Whenever a player completes a Quest, if there are any ARRRmada Monsters on the game board (Bonehead, Jolly Jock, Dog Watch, Crabby Meg, or Wet Willy), they reveal the top Pirate Assault card, resolve its effect, then place the card faceup on the Discard space.
Besides this effect, Pirate Assaults allow the pirates to loot Upgrade tokens from the Scenario's Level Deck. The more Pirate Assaults take place, the more Upgrades are looted. At the beginning of the Upgrade Phase, before rewarding players with their hard-earned Upgrade tokens, for each Pirate Assault card revealed during the previously completed Scenario, randomly remove one Upgrade token from the Level Deck.
Additional Rules
Pirate Ship in Other Campaigns
To use the Pirate Ship Dashboard with other campaigns in the Starcadia Quest universe, players must include Bonehead, Dog Watch and Wet Willy and set them up according to the example below. They replace any Monsters on the Quest's Monster Setup that would be filling those Designations. In the event that a Villain that isn't Wet Willy is requested by the Monster Setup, that Villain is not replaced. Instead, place that Villain's card close to Wet Willy on the dashboard. Note: When using the Pirate Ship Dashboard in other campaigns, Monster Spawns are handled normally, referring to the Monsters on the Pirate Ship Dashboard as if it were the Monster Dashboard.