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2017 Ranked #15,436

Pentaurus: Duel

This sci-fi conquest card game has rivals colonize planets, build ships, capture satellites, and earn pentanium. Race powers and action cards support attacks, while controlled worlds provide the resources needed to reach the target.

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Players

1-2

Play time

30-45 min

Age

8+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.89

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.6/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Pentaurus: Duel is a card game where two players take turns, opponents compete for colonizing planets, building spaceships and conquer satelites.

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Pentaurus: Duel is a card game where two players take turns, opponents compete for colonizing planets, building spaceships and conquer satelites. They have to put cards face up to build their planetary colonies, get spaceships from the market, use action cards from their hand to fight and use their habilities from their races cards. The sequence of the turn is: Make the discards, draw cards, play planets and satelites, Spaceship market, play action, facilities and character cards, and launch attacks against enemy planets. The player who reaches 12 units of pentanium wins the game. This pentanium parts are given for the played cards, planets conquered and satelites owned.

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
2
Play time
30–45 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Javier Fuentes Rafael Oliva

Artists

1
DanielRGB

Publishers

1
Amphora Games

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