The Duke: Middle Ages Siege Engines Expansion
BGG rating
7.3

Expansion for The Duke

The Duke: Middle Ages Siege Engines Expansion

2013

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  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 13+
  • Complexity 3.0/5

Rules assistant for The Duke: Middle Ages Siege Engines Expansion

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The Duke: Middle Ages Siege Engines Expansion is an expansion for The Duke released in 2013 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 13 and up. It was designed by Stephen McLaughlin and Jeremy Holcomb and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Grid Movement, and Open Drafting.

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About the game

This expansion to the The Duke core game adds additional siege engine tiles as well as an engineer to utilize the siege engines to their full potential. The players lay the five tiles from the expansion pack on the side of the board, then start a standard game. Whenever a player pulls one of the five tiles noted below, they can choose at the moment to replace the drawn tile with the appropriate tile from this expansion pack. If the player decides not to replace the tile, he cannot replace the tile at any future time. Yes, this means a single player could have all five tiles on their side. These tiles replace the following tiles in the game: Battering Ram = Marshal Trebuchet = Knight Catapult = General Ballista = Priest Engineer = Oracle There are several new icons introduced with this expansion; Smash, Hammer, Area-Effect, and Non-capturing Move/Jump icons. Additionally, two new Enhanced Abilities are added, Redeploy (V) and Link (VI).

Questions and answers

The Duke: Middle Ages Siege Engines Expansion supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.