You can use Administrative cards to develop the infrastructure and economic capacity of your empire. Furthermore you may build spy networks to enable covert actions against your opponents. Several Military cards may actually be played on another player’s turn, as a response to that player’s action. Diplomatic cards will let you form diplomatic relationships by forging alliances, arranging royal marriages and more. Military cards may, unsurprisingly, give bonuses in battles or increase your military capacity in various ways. By paying the Monarch Power cost you may perform the action described on the scroll that covers most of the card. This color system is used throughout the game. Red is military, blue is diplomatic and green is administrative power. The color of the circle behind the number clearly indicates what type it belongs to. The type of Monarch Power is always associated with the deck it was drawn from. The action on each Action Card has a Monarch Power cost stated in the top left corner of the card. Prototype cards from the Administrative (green), Diplomatic (blue) and Military (red) deck. The text and graphics on these cards are not final, but they show the basic layout. This ensures that player down time is low. You can either play an Action Card or execute a Basic Action. In the Action Phase players take turns performing one action at the time. You may always choose which type of Action Cards you want to draw in the Draw Cards Phase. Accordingly, there is a Military Deck, a Diplomatic Deck and an Administrative Deck. These are divided into three decks that correspond with the three types of Monarch Power. While players may always perform certain Basic Actions, you will often find the more specialised actions on the Action cards.
Last time we offered some insights into the Monarch Power system – a form of resources that players in Europa Universalis: The Board Game will depend upon to perform actions in the game. In the third chapter of this Development Diary we will talk about actions and Action Cards.
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