Overview

Antike Duellum is a 2-player civilization strategy game using the rondel mechanism. Players lead ancient empires (Carthaginians vs Romans, or Greeks vs Persians) competing for military and cultural supremacy. Players produce resources, found cities, build temples and town walls, recruit military units, develop technologies, and maneuver forces. The first player to collect 9 ancient personages wins. Event cards add variability and asymmetry to each game.

Components

• 1 double-sided game board (Carthaginians vs Romans / Greeks vs Persians)
• 74 wooden pieces: 24 galleys (12 per color), 24 legions (12 per color), 2 game markers, 12 wooden disks (6 per color), 12 white temples
• 34 city tokens (10 gold, 12 marble, 12 iron) – reversible to show either player’s color
• 12 town walls
• Resource chips: marble (white), iron (blue), gold (yellow) in 1, 2, and 5 denominations
• Coins
• 54 cards: 21 personage cards, 25 event cards, 2 blank event cards, 6 short rules cards

Setup

1. Each player receives wooden pieces of their color: 12 galleys, 12 legions, 1 octagonal game stone, 6 wooden disks, and 1 town wall.
2. Place 1 disk at zero on the VP track. Place 1 legion and 1 galley in each recruitment box.
3. Mark 3 starting cities with city tokens (1 gold, 1 marble, 1 iron).
4. Each player receives 3 marble, 3 iron, and 3 gold chips as starting supply.
5. Choose starting player randomly; the other player receives 1 coin as compensation.
6. Sort 21 personage cards into 5 stacks. Set up bank with resources, coins, temples, town walls, city tokens.
7. Shuffle 25 event cards; draw 3 for an open display.

Turn Structure

Players alternate turns. Each turn has 3 steps:

1. Action Selection (Rondel): Place game stone on the rondel. First turn: free choice. Subsequent turns: move clockwise 1-3 wedges free; each additional wedge costs 1 resource or coin. Cannot stay on same wedge two turns in a row (repeating = 8 wedges = 5 resources).
2. Found Cities (optional): Found cities in regions with at least 1 of your military units. Cost: 1 marble + 1 iron + 1 gold per city, plus 1 coin per adjacent city producing the same resource.
3. Win Personages: Collect earned personages. For each personage gained, opponent draws 1 event card from the open display.

Actions

Rondel Wedges:

Wedge	Type	Effect
Marmor	Production	Gain marble: 1 per marble city, 3 per marble city with temple
Ferrum	Production	Gain iron: 1 per iron city, 3 per iron city with temple
Gold	Production	Gain gold: 1 per gold city, 3 per gold city with temple
Templum	Utilization	Build temples (5 marble each). Triples production/defense/arming. Max 1 per city.
Militia	Utilization	Recruit units (1 iron each). 1 per city without temple, 3 per city with temple.
Scientia	Utilization	Buy know-hows with gold.
Duellum	Military	Move and fight (appears twice on rondel).

Military Action (Duellum):

• Phase 1 – Movement: Each unit may cross 1 border (2 with Road/Navigation). Legions cross red borders; galleys cross blue borders. Opposing units of same type destroy each other 1:1.
• Phase 2 – Conquest: City defense = 1 (3 with temple) + town wall bonus (+1) + Res Publica (+1) + defenders in region. Attacker needs units >= defense to conquer.

Know-Hows: Technology advances purchased with gold, providing benefits like extended movement, increased production, and improved defense.

Town Walls: Provide +1 defense to a city. Players receive additional town walls at VP track milestones (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 personages).

Event Cards: When opponent gains a personage, you draw event cards as compensation. Event cards have various effects (earthquakes destroying walls, burglary stealing coins, academy granting gold, etc.).

Scoring / Victory Conditions

First player to collect 9 personages wins.

Personage	Requirement	Available
King	Every 5 cities owned	6
Scholar	Each new know-how learned	4
General	Each enemy temple destroyed via conquest	4
Citizen	Every 3 temples owned	4
Navigator	Every 7 seas with your galley at turn end	3

Once won, personages cannot be lost even if conditions are no longer met.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Coins substitute for any 1-unit resource at any time.
• Game material is limited: if no more legions, galleys, temples, or city tokens remain, none can be created until some return.
• Resource chips are unlimited.
• City tokens are double-sided; conquered cities flip to the conqueror’s color.
• Conquering a city with a temple destroys the temple, earning a General personage.
• Founding cities: only in regions with your military presence; foreign units do not prevent founding.
• Event card display is refilled from the draw deck.

Player Reference

Phase	Action
1. Rondel	Move 1-3 free, pay 1 resource per extra wedge
2. Found cities	1M + 1I + 1G + adjacency coins
3. Win personages	Check all 5 types

Resource Use	Cost
Temple	5 marble
Military unit	1 iron
Know-how	Gold (varies)
City founding	1M + 1I + 1G