Antike Duellum (2012)

Antike Duellum – previewed at Spiel 2011 under the name Casus Belli – is a two-player strategy game based on modified rules from Mac Gerdts' Antike. The game includes two scenarios: Punic Wars (Rome vs. Carthago) on one side of the board, and Persian Wars (Greeks vs. Persians) on the other. The goal of the game is to be the first to gain nine ancient personages (Kings, Scholars, Generals, Citizens, Navigators).

Examples of modified rules from Antike:

• Modular layout - when a player founds a city, he chooses whether it produces Iron, Marble, or Gold
• Over 20 event cards, which provide more variety in the game
• Town walls for individual protection of cities
• Each "Know-How" costs a different amount - for example, inventing the market is more expensive than inventing the wheel
• A new Know-How for trading goods with the bank
• Higher costs for legions and galleys - they are first recruited from the bank to the personal supply (paying gold)
• Easier rules for conquering cities with no movement of units

Casus Belli is based on the rules of Antike, with adjustments and new elements to create a challenging 2 player strategy game. In order to play this Casus Belli kit (Pre-publication edition) you additionally need material from original Antike.

The Casus Belli Kit contains (Pre-publication edition):

• 1 game board
• 25 event cards to cut yourself (some copies come with cards already cut)
• 1 game rules

You need from original Antike (Pre-publication edition):

• 21 Personages (cards): 2 Navigators, 4 Citizens, 4 Generals, 5 Scholars, 6 Kings
• Resources: Marble, Iron, Gold and coins
• 12 black disks: town walls
• 12 blue disks: Marker for Iron cities
• 12 grey disks: Marker fpr Marble cities
• 10 yellow disks: Marker for Gold cities
• 12 Temples

The following wooden bits in green and red:

• 12 Legions, 12 Galleys, 25 disks, 6 octagonal game stones (rondel and 5 know-hows