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1 Turn order is the real mechanic

Most tactical games hand you an initiative order and ask you to cope with it. Sunderfolk asks the party to choose one each round, and that single change is where almost all of the depth lives.

A chosen order lets you set up combinations that a fixed order would forbid: move an enemy into position before the player who punishes clustered enemies acts, or delay a fragile hero until threats are cleared. Treat the order itself as a resource you spend each round, not as a formality before the real decisions.

2 Announce intent, not just cards

Every player holds their own hand on their own phone or screen, which means nobody else can see what you are able to do. That privacy is good for atmosphere and bad for coordination unless the table compensates for it.

The efficient compromise is to state what you intend to achieve rather than reading out card text. Saying that you can pull one enemy away from the back line is enough information for the group to plan around, and it takes five seconds instead of thirty.

Groups that do this consistently find the pace of an evening roughly doubles, and the tactical quality goes up rather than down because the discussion stays about the board.

3 Spending priorities in Arden

Arden lets you upgrade shops, discover gear and share meals with the locals. Because shop upgrades improve what the whole party can buy afterwards, they compound in a way that an individual piece of gear does not.

Agreeing on that order once, at the start of the campaign, prevents the recurring negotiation that otherwise arrives after every mission.

4 Preparing for a boss

Bosses are described as epic encounters that ask the party to outsmart and adapt, which in practice means the first attempt is reconnaissance. Expect to lose it, and treat that loss as the price of information.

Between attempts, do three things. Return to Arden and spend rather than hoarding. Reconsider which heroes are carrying the fight. And plan an opening two rounds of turn order in advance, because the early rounds are where a boss punishes improvisation hardest.

With 14 achievements in total, the list is short enough that most of them mark campaign progress. Do not build your play around chasing them.

5 Running a campaign across weeks

A campaign built for game night faces the same enemy every tabletop group faces, which is the calendar. The advantage here is that setup takes a QR code rather than an hour, so short sessions are viable in a way that a board game rarely is.

Use that. A ninety minute evening that clears one mission and a visit to Arden is a perfectly good session, and it keeps momentum better than waiting for a rare five hour block that never quite arrives.

6 Mixed groups and absent players

Because phone play needs only the host to own the game while online play needs a copy each, a group that is sometimes together and sometimes remote faces a real decision about who buys what.

The cheapest arrangement for a group that mostly meets in person is one copy on the host machine, with the understanding that remote sessions are not possible without further purchases. Groups that expect to alternate should price both modes honestly before starting, because discovering the difference halfway through a campaign is worse than paying for it at the beginning.

Remote Play Together and Remote Play on TV are both supported, which gives some flexibility around living room setups, but they do not change who needs to own a copy for native online play.