
- BGG rank
- BGG #4,500
- BGG rating
- 7.7
The Duke: Lord's Legacy
- 2 players
- 30 min
- Complexity 2.1/5
- 2018

Rules assistance for The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

What would you like to know?
Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.
The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising is an expansion for The Duke released in 2019 for 2 players and 30 minutes per game. It was designed by Stephen McLaughlin and Jeremy Holcomb.
8 new tiles for The Duke! After players select their bags of Troops Tiles and the gameboard is setup, they take their appropriate-colored tiles from Gunpowder Uprising and add them to their bags.
The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising 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.
The listed playing time for The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising is 30 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising belongs to these categories: Expansion for Base-game. Categories describe the theme, setting and style of a game rather than its rules. Filter the catalogue by the same category to find similar games when you enjoyed The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising and want something comparable for your next game night.
The credited designers of The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising are: Stephen McLaughlin and Jeremy Holcomb. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists The Duke: Reinforcements – Gunpowder Uprising as an expansion for The Duke. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need The Duke to use it. Check that your edition of The Duke is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.