Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Deploy armies across a planet line, secretly commit your warlord, and win the command economy and decisive battles of a two-player sector war.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Area-Impulse
Players alternate short actions within contested areas until everyone passes.
Read the full game description
Warhammer 40,000: Conquest is a two-player Living Card Game about controlling the Traxis sector. Each player builds around a warlord and faction deck, then alternates deployments of units, supports, and attachments across a row of planets. Both warlords secretly commit to a destination, creating a tense reveal before command struggles distribute the cards and resources needed for later rounds. Battles then resolve at the first planet and wherever a warlord is present, with alternating attacks, shields, routing, and faction-specific abilities giving every card multiple tactical uses. Capturing three planets that share a matching symbol wins the campaign; defeating an enemy warlord—first bloodying it, then striking again—wins immediately. Faction alignment rules expand deck construction without erasing identity, while the fixed core set establishes the card pool rather than randomizing boosters. Conquest combines strategic positioning, an interactive economy, and highly consequential combat in a compact head-to-head format.
