Triumphal Arch

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Triumphal Arch
Info
Type	Landmark
Set	Empires
Illustrator(s)	Claus Stephan
Landmark text
When scoring, 3  per copy you have of the 2nd most common Action card among your cards (if it’s a tie, count either).

Triumphal Arch is a Landmark from Empires. It rewards players with   for accumulating lots of copies of at least two different Action cards.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• For example, if you had 7 copies of Villa and 4 copies of Wild Hunt, you would score 12 .

Other Rules clarifications

• The tie can be for either first or second place: if you had 7 copies each of Villa and Village, you would score 21 . If you had 7 copies of Villa, then 4 copies each of Village and Wild Hunt, you would score 12 .

Strategy

Triumphal Arch is a situationally powerful landmark that adds significant alt-VP when there are at least two actions that you want multiple copies of inside your Engine, and sources of +Buy or a Gainer on the board. Often this will mean that you will have a village as your primary action and a source of draw or (preferably non-terminal) payload or as your secondary action to activate Triumphal Arch.

This landmark works even better when your opponent(s) are not going for the same strategy as you (i.e. a non-mirror (strategy) game). A non-mirror matchup reduces competition for the second action that you want for Triumphal Arch, and if your opponent(s) go for it to deny you VPs, it will likely hurt their own existing strategy.

Synergies

• Slog games
• Card you want a lot of (Minion, Hunting Party, etc)
• Gainers and +Buy

Antisynergies

• Big Money games
• Trashing attacks
• Castles, Fairgrounds, Prizes, Knights, Menagerie (sort of)

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		When scoring, 3  per copy you have of the 2nd most common Action card among your cards (if it’s a tie, count either).	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Triomfboog
Finnish	Riemukaari
French	Arc de triomphe
German	Triumphbogen			Beim Zählen der   Punkte: 3  pro Karte, die du von der zweithäufigsten Aktionskarte unter deinen Karten besitzt - bei Gleichstand zählen beide.	error: "... count both." (2016)
German	Triumphbogen			Bei der Wertung, 3  für jede Karte, die du von der zweithäufigsten Aktionskarte unter deinen Karten hast (bei Gleichstand zähle eine davon).	2. Edition (2021)
Japanese	凱旋門 (pron. gaisen-mon)			ゲーム終了時、あなたが持っている中で2番目に多いアクションカード1枚につき3 (同数の場合、いずれか1種類を数える)。
Polish	Łuk triumfalny
Russian	Триумфальная Арка (pron. triumfal'naya arka)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

It started at 2  per copy of your 2nd-most copious Action; Matt argued for bumping it up.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Empires Cards

Theme

It's Triumphal Arch because there are the two cards, the legs of the arch.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.