Current Events Player League Volunteers Survey Prec. All characters have allegiances to different factions within the game, which determines how much it costs to recruit them and be able to play them from your hand.
Most characters have some special ability that they can use as listed in their effect text.
The numbers in these colored boxes are how many dice the character rolls of that color. Troops are like characters, but they represent large amounts of secondary characters in the game and they usually only have a Combat Ability. Troops and characters usually participate in challenges, but do not interact with one another directly. Instead, characters interact with characters and troops interact with troops. Fleets represent the primary military capability of any race.