Monumental Duel: Espionage Strategy Board Game

About this product

Build a brilliant civilization, send spies into enemy territory and outmanoeuvre your rival through the ages.

A competitive two-player civilization and deck-building game for ages 10+, featuring Aksum, Greece and the Mughal Empire plus an exclusive espionage module.

Develop your city, expand your civilization and deploy agents to disrupt your opponent in a tense head-to-head duel.

Product Description

Lead a civilization through the ages and prove that yours deserves a place among history's greatest.

Monumental Duel: Espionage brings the Monumental deck-building experience to a focused game designed specifically for two players. Each player develops a growing civilization by constructing Buildings and Wonders, advancing scientific Knowledge, developing Cultural Policies and conquering Provinces.

At the beginning of each round, you activate one row and one column of your City, generating resources and making selected card abilities available for the round. From there, players alternate actions as they develop their cities, acquire new cards, construct Wonders, compete for Provinces and strengthen their civilizations.

The Espionage edition introduces Aksum, Greece and the Mughal Empire, each with its own civilization cards, Cultural Policies, Warlord and Scout.

Its exclusive Espionage module gives your Scout a new role: spying on your opponent. Train agents to build your pool of Agent Dice or deploy them to activate effects from your current Espionage Card. Dice can be rerolled by spending resources, creating another layer of decisions as you decide how far to push your espionage efforts.

Monumental Duel: Espionage is completely playable on its own, but it can also be combined with other Monumental Duel boxes. Civilizations can face those from other sets, while the different gameplay modules can be mixed to create an even broader range of strategic possibilities.

Why You’ll Love It

• Designed specifically as a competitive game for 2 players.
• Develop a civilization from antiquity towards the modern era.
• Build your City through an evolving deck of Buildings, Knowledge, Wonders and other cards.
• Choose one row and one column to activate each round, making City layout an important part of your strategy.
• Manage Production, Science and Military alongside longer-lasting Gold and Culture resources.
• Compete to acquire Provinces and even conquer Provinces controlled by your opponent.
• Construct Wonders in stages for powerful bonuses and valuable end-game points.
• Develop Cultural Policies to shape your civilization's abilities.
• Use the exclusive Espionage module to train and deploy agents against your rival.
• Agent Dice introduce calculated risk and tactical reroll decisions.
• Three included civilizations provide different strategic possibilities.
• Compatible with other Monumental Duel boxes for additional civilizations and gameplay combinations.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Funforge
• Designer: Matthew Dunstan
• Edition: Espionage
• Language: English
• Players: 2 players
• Recommended age: 10 years and older
• Playtime: 60–90 minutes
• Product type: Strategy board game
• Game style: Competitive
• Main mechanisms: Deck building, card acquisition, resource management and action selection
• Exclusive module: Espionage
• Civilizations included: Aksum, Greece and Mughal
• Agent system: Train and deploy Agent Dice
• Theme: Civilizations through history
• Standalone: Yes
• Can be combined with other Monumental Duel boxes: Yes

Good to Know

• Complete standalone game: Monumental Duel: Espionage contains everything required for two players to play.
• Three civilizations included: Choose from Aksum, Greece or the Mughal Empire.
• Espionage gameplay: Each player receives their own set of Espionage Cards and can use their Scout action to train or deploy agents.
• Agent Dice: Players may hold up to three Agent Dice and can spend resources or Gold to reroll them when deploying agents.
• Build your City: Your civilization develops through a 3 × 3 City grid, with one row and one column activated each round.
• Multiple paths to development: Buildings, Knowledge, Provinces, Wonders and Cultural Policies all contribute differently to your civilization.
• Advantage system: Players can compete for the Advantage, which unlocks Warlord actions and can strengthen other effects.
• End-game scoring: Provinces, Knowledge, completed Wonders, Cultural Policies and Victory Point Tokens all contribute to your final score, while Unrest costs points.
• Mix the series: Civilizations from Monumental Duel boxes can play against one another, and the Exploration, Trade and Espionage modules can also be combined.
• Rulebook: View the Monumental Duel: Espionage Rules (PDF)

Components

• 144 Cards: (6 Starting Civilization Cards,12 Era I Development Cards,12 Era II Development Cards, 6 Era III Development Cards, 20 Basic Building Cards, 10 Espionage Cards, 10 Unrest Cards, 3 Era Separation Cards, 4 Helper Cards, 1 Advantage Card )
• 70 Resource Tokens: (15 Production Tokens, 15 Science Tokens, 15 Military Tokens, 10 Culture Tokens, 15 Gold Tokens )
• 13 Action Tokens
• 28 Victory Point Tokens
• 6 six-sided Agent Dice
• 3 Wonder Construction Counters
• 1 First Player Marker
• 1 Rulebook