Astroknights 0.2.2 Game Flow

Faction Decks

Description

Palace Phase

Use Pawns to Activate Abilities

Send out Pawns for Celestial Phase

Play Cards

Place Decrees in Agenda

Manage Palace

Celestial Phase

Use Holdings and Pawns to draw Cards

Use Holdings and Pawns to activate Celestial Abilities

Use Pawns to maneuver Fleets

Use special abilities to Dance Pawns

Building Improvements (?)

Witan Phase

Declare Victories

Advance Crisis

Reveal Public Agenda

Agenda Voting

Getting Cards Celestial

Draw from Holdings

Purchase from Freeholder Market

Getting Cards Palace

Playing Cards

Activate Faction Ability

Activate Palace Ability

Player Agendas

Limited Agenda Slots

Vote on Agendas in Witan Phase

Crisis

Check for satisfied crises

Move new crises into ongoing crisis

Resolve all additional crises and dooms caused

Crisis Defeat

When too many Dooms have been activated, the Marchers, Archivists and/or Guilders revolt against the Nobility

Public Agenda

Fill available agenda slots, minimum one per ound

Drawing a crisis leads to it being placed as a new crisis, and a new agenda being drawn

Crisis chaining is possible

Splendor Card and Deck

Special set of cards for building palaces and for voting

Splendor cards have a set voting value

Palace

Build up palace with splendor cards, special improvement cards, and face down faction cards

Minor improvements with adjacency synergies

Palace can increase splendor production

Splendor from Witan

Draw Splendor for certain Agendas and for solving certain Crises

Pawns

Used to activate abilities

Can be captured or mrudered

Fleet

Activated by Pawn

Can be used peacefully to shuttle pawns

Can be used aggressively against holdings or pawns

Celestials

Have influence slots

w/o holdings, anyone may place

With player holdings, need permission

With freeholder holdings, need pay fee

Capture Pawn

Significant mechanic for managing captured pawns

Marriage/Divorce Mechanic

For the possibility of joint victories