I have a pretty cool idea for an expansion, called “Wartime”. The main niche of this is to introduce a new pre-phase (ie before ABC) on player’s turns where, if a player wants,he can initiate an attack on another player in hopes of gaining vp tokens and/or causing the losing player to lose vp tokens. The wartime outcome will be determined by which player had higher wartime power in hand during an attack. Before a player starts his turn, he may declare an attack on a player. Once this happens, the involved players reveal their hand and the hand with the most wp (wartime power) wins. The winning player recieves 2 vp tokens and the loser loses 1, but never goes below 0. In the event of a tie, the attacker loses 1 vp token and only draws 4 cards on the next hand, but nothing happens to the defender. Wartime power is dedicated to new cards, which have various strengths and powers. In a game with 3 or more players, a player may only attack one player per turn. You don’t play cards during wartime, but just reveal your hand and add up the wp. The effects on Soldier cards only get resolved during the regular abcn phases of players’ turns. A reserve buy token, called a “stock”, is introduced.
Setup:
New supply pile cards, non supply cards, new events. Players start with 5 copper, 2 generic 1wp (wartime power) soldiers with +1$ and +1 action, 2 estates, and a draft card (which, when played, causes you to trash it and gain a starting soldier of one of the 8 archetypes into your discard pile for free).
New card characteristics:
There will be soldier card archetypes in the supply, that have 5 tiers, that function like peasant/ page, where after playing the supply card, you can start the exchange process with non-supply cards that increase in power as you move up. Except in Wartime, there are 8 cards like this, and they are always played with each other in every setup. Each archetype card will have you pay 2$ to exchange for the next tier during the night phase.
Archetypes: Construction, naval, engineering, Garrison, and reconnaisance, magic, mounted, and industry.
Soldier cards:
Construction soldiers focus on granting villagers, having the passive moat effect, and trashing/gaining. The top tier construction soldier is worth 4vp
Naval soldiers focus on exiling cards and attacking the top 2 cards of a player’s deck and trashing one treasure of the attacked player’s choice
Engineering will focus on these effects: reducing the costs of cards, and [eventually]gaining “launchers”, a card that sends an untrashable “heavy stones” card (does nothing, but you may pay 2$ to exile it). Both “launcher” and “ heavy stones” are non-supply cards only gained from the engineer soldier. There will be twice as many “stones” cards in a kingdom as there will be curse cards, because they can be exiled quickly.
Garrison will focus on gaining cards (higher tiers gain starting garrison soldiers for free), drawing an extra card into your hand after a defending win or tie, and granting + cards/actions at the start of next turn.
Reconnaisance is a night card soldier that focuses on spying/ discarding cards in other players hands/ top of deck when played at night, and reacting to attacks/ gains passively, by allowing you to topdeck, trash, or send back to the instigating player a gained card. Top tier recon’s spy ability cannot be blocked
Magic is also a night card soldier, whose starting tier cost 3$+potion. Magic soldiers will focus on granting boons/hexes (both at the same time, eventually), increasing the price of cards on other players’ turns, and being able to gain from the trash, or choose one player from whose exile you will remove a card and place into their discard pile.
Mounted soldiers will focus on gaining horses into the discard pile, attacking the top cards of other player’s deck and having the option of trashing it if it is between 3-6. And if it does, it trashes itself. Whenever a horse is returned to its pile, you may reveal a mounted soldier to cause all players to reveal the top card of their deck. You choose whether to keep or discard them.
Industry is focused on granting coffers, gaining vp tokens when buying another soldier, and adding 1$ to other soldiers played on turn.
Each tier has a corresponding number of wp; so, the first archetype soldier has 1wp, the 3rd has 3wp, and the top tier has 5wp. Also, the 4th tier soldiers are worth 2 vp each, and 5th tier soldiers are worth 4 vp each. You may gain 1 “general” card per each tier 5 soldier archetype you play a card from, with a maximum of 8.
This makes the game go longer, but will have more interesting interactions and scenarios to plan for, and have a semi-RTS feel
It might be good to add 1 or 2 extra supply decks to each kingdom.
Some other content ideas are: have a pre-game draft, called “constitution”, where, in reverse order of turns, each player may choose an event, landmark, or project to be used in the game. This would mean the inclusion of past content into the physical game.
Other cards
5$ “Barns” worth 2 vp. Whenever a card is bought or returned to a pile, you may reveal this to gain a horse or a 3$ card onto your deck
3$ “Auctioneer” . Gain a coffer. Choose a card from the supply costing up to 6. Beginning with the player to your left, players may bid any amount of debt to purchase that card, ending with you as the last bidder. The player with the highest bid after your turn gains the card and debt.
6$ “Blacksmith” Whenever a player gains a soldier, gain a coffer. You may trash a treasure from your hand. Per it’s value in $, you may gain up to that amount in cheaper cards.
7$ “General” +3 actions. All other players must reveal their hand. You may pay 2$ to discard a soldier to gain a starting supply soldier from an archetype. This can only be blocked by a general. The soldier you discard must be at least a tier 3 soldier or higher to be exchangeable. This is not in the supply.
2$ “Bonds” +1 coffer, villager, and stock.
3$ “Wart”. + 1 coffers, 1 villagers If you have at least 4 coffers and villagers, you may take the “sword in the stone”, an artifact which grants +1 card, +1wp at the start of your next turn. This remains in play for a player until another player has more of both coffers and villagers. Then that player controls it.
3$ + potion .“Mim” Each other player reveals their hand. They must trash the cheapest card in their hand and gain a curse or heavy stone into their discard pile. If they cannot, they take the next hex.
4$+ potion .“Old Wizard” Whenever an attack is played against you, you may reveal this to instead receive the next boon. When another player receives a boon, you may reveal this to cause them to instead receive the next hex. Old wizards cannot undo the effects of other old wizards.
6$ “Industrustrial merchant”. Pick one: All players reveal their hand, and whoever has the most $ in hand gets 2vp. Then you decide whether each player keeps their hand, or discards and draws 5 cards. Or, reveal your hand. Gain a card costing up to the amount of revealed treasure cards in your hand.
A new hex: “meteroids”, where you gain a “heavy stone”
A new boon: “laborers”, where you may exile a card from your hand.
New project: 5$ “agriculture”. You may discard a soldier from your hand. If you do, gain a barn onto your deck
New project: 5$ “Empirical Study”. Gain a silver and a duchy, or a gold and an estate.
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