Ally

This article is about the type of card-shaped thing. For the expansion, see Allies.

Allies are a landscape type introduced in the Allies expansion, which provide ways to use Favor tokens in games in which they are available.

Allies are not Kingdom cards, but are added to the game whenever one or more Kingdom cards have the Liaison type. In any game using Liaisons, exactly one Ally is chosen, and it determines what effect Favor tokens have in that game. Since Allies are not considered cards, they cannot be bought or gained; the way to take advantage of their abilities is to accumulate Favor tokens and then use them as instructed by the Ally.

There are 23 Allies, printed on cards in a landscape orientation with yellowish grey/parchment frames.

List of Allies

• Architects' Guild
• Band of Nomads
• Cave Dwellers
• Circle of Witches
• City-state
• Coastal Haven
• Crafters' Guild
• Desert Guides
• Family of Inventors
• Fellowship of Scribes
• Forest Dwellers
• Gang of Pickpockets
• Island Folk
• League of Bankers
• League of Shopkeepers
• Market Towns
• Mountain Folk
• Order of Astrologers
• Order of Masons
• Peaceful Cult
• Plateau Shepherds
• Trappers' Lodge
• Woodworkers' Guild

Gallery

Trivia

In other languages

• German: Verbündeter

Preview

Allies are landscape cards that tell you how a Favor token can be used. Favor tokens are produced by Liaisons. In games with a Liaison, you put out a single Ally (even with multiple Liaisons), and well that's that, it tells you what the token does. There are 23 Allies, in their own separate deck, which is like having 23 new kinds of tokens. Only we use coin tokens for all of them, and put them on a mat.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Allies Preview 1:Allies