Liaisons and Allies

[Ingix]

The Allies expansions includes a new landscape card type Ally (23 different single cards). It also contains Favor counters (with a Favors mat) and a card type Liaison that 9 kingdom cards have. How are they all connected?

Favors are a counters that players can get. In that way they're similar to the Villagers and Coffers you may already know from the Guilds and the Renaissance expansions. You can get as many of them as you can  during a game. The Favor mat is presented similar to Coffers and Villagers with an image and a number on it. The empty Favor mat online looks like this:



A card that will give you Favors has the type Liaison. That way, you can easily check when looking at your cards or randomizers if you'll need the Favor counters and the mat. The main difference to Villagers and Coffers is that what Favors are good for is different each game, and that is decided by the Ally!

There can be as many Liaisons in the game as you want. However, there is always only at most 1 Ally in a game. If you have no Liaisons, use no Ally in the game. If you have 1 or more Liaisons, put exactly 1 Ally out.

Finally, if there is an Ally in the game, all players start the game with 1 Favor. If getting more Favors is worth it, is for you to decide!

2 Liaisons:



Underling will give you one Favor each time you play it, and otherwise not get in your way. Broker, however, can make you a serious amount of Favors (or other things that are "nice to have") at once, if you are willing to trash something with high coin cost.

2 Allies:



Peaceful Cult is like most Allies, giving you a way to spend some of your accumulated Favors for a beneficial effect. Here it's getting rid of cards you no longer want. The League of Bankers is an example of a smaller group of Allies that will give you, at some time, a bonus for having Favors. So get enough Favors, and the Bankers will pay you interest.

[dwvanstone]

This is very exciting! I hope to try out some of the new cards.

The announcement on Dominion.games reads:

"From Monday February 28th until Sunday March 6th a special queue will be available that lets you play with a couple of the new cards online for free."

How do we access this special queue?

Thanks!

[Ingix]

I hope this helps:

[dwvanstone]

Yes - thanks. That helped!

[ppsacco]

Yes - thanks. That helped!

Actually, automatch on my computer shows no preview key.  I am not happy with many of the changes to the site.

None of my friends are either and there are a good 25 of us that play regularly.

Limiting rated games to random sets is also not making any of us happy as the random sets do not compare to our theme kingdoms for playability.

Somebody needs to rethink what you are doing.  You are making the game more restrictive, not user friendly.

[Ingix]

For the previews, those are over now, so you don't see the option any more.

For the games with your friends, the question is why those need to be rated. If you want to play kingdoms that lean a certain way (like the "theme kingdoms" you mentioed), then you can certainly do that with unrated games.

[artsfols]

The Allies expansions includes a new landscape card type Ally (23 different single cards). It also contains Favor counters (with a Favors mat) and a card type Liaison that 9 kingdom cards have. How are they all connected?

Favors are a counters that players can get. In that way they're similar to the Villagers and Coffers you may already know from the Guilds and the Renaissance expansions. You can get as many of them as you can  during a game. The Favor mat is presented similar to Coffers and Villagers with an image and a number on it. The empty Favor mat online looks like this:



A card that will give you Favors has the type Liaison. That way, you can easily check when looking at your cards or randomizers if you'll need the Favor counters and the mat. The main difference to Villagers and Coffers is that what Favors are good for is different each game, and that is decided by the Ally!

There can be as many Liaisons in the game as you want. However, there is always only at most 1 Ally in a game. If you have no Liaisons, use no Ally in the game. If you have 1 or more Liaisons, put exactly 1 Ally out.

Finally, if there is an Ally in the game, all players start the game with 1 Favor. If getting more Favors is worth it, is for you to decide!

2 Liaisons:



Underling will give you one Favor each time you play it, and otherwise not get in your way. Broker, however, can make you a serious amount of Favors (or other things that are "nice to have") at once, if you are willing to trash something with high coin cost.

2 Allies:



Peaceful Cult is like most Allies, giving you a way to spend some of your accumulated Favors for a beneficial effect. Here it's getting rid of cards you no longer want. The League of Bankers is an example of a smaller group of Allies that will give you, at some time, a bonus for having Favors. So get enough Favors, and the Bankers will pay you interest.

Note that the word "favor" is properly spelled "favour".  The corrupt spelling comes from Americans who use "nite" instead of "night", "check" instead of "cheque", and "plow" instead of "plough".   Everything is too difficult for Americans.  Nice people, but never follow their lead.