Ankh: Gods of Egypt FAQ
124 questions players ask · Updated Nov 9, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Basic Concepts
- Are Follower counts open information?
- Are the Battle cards a player has already used, or has left in hand, open information?
- How many Guardian types and figures are used at setup for each player count?
- Is Ankh a campaign game, and do I have to use a scenario?
- Must players use the gods pictured in a scenario's setup diagram?
- Can Ankh be played with six players?
- Do all gods have the same Ankh powers and Battle cards?
- Can a hex hold both a figure and a Monument?
- Can a god be killed, and can a player lose all their figures in a region?
- Where do killed figures go, and can they be summoned again?
- Are Followers or Ankh tokens limited?
- Does a figure on a Water space fight in every region that Water borders?
- Does a Water space count for regions it does not touch directly, for example through a chain of Water hexes?
- If my figure is adjacent to a Water space that touches another figure, are we adjacent in both directions?
- In a scenario that bans tokens next to cities, do Monuments count as tokens?
Actions and Turns
- Are actions and events mandatory, or can I choose not to resolve them?
- Can I pick an action I cannot perform, such as Summon Figure with nothing left or Unlock Ankh Power with too few Followers?
- Must I take a second action, and can I pass or do only one action?
- When do I take only one action on my turn?
- What does 'a lower line' mean for the second action?
- After an event, a merge or an elimination, which starting space do Action markers reset to?
- Can figures move through other figures, Monuments and Water, and can two figures swap places?
- If I can afford an Ankh power, must I unlock one, and what Guardian do I get?
Events: Monuments and Camels
- Can a Control Monument event take a Monument another player controls while neutral Monuments remain?
- How many Monuments does a Control Monument event take?
- Is taking a Monument in a Control Monument event mandatory?
- Can a Monument sitting on an Osiris Underworld token be taken by another player?
- In the Great Rebuilding scenario, what happens if I must take control of a Monument but have no Ankh tokens left?
- Can I skip placing camels when a Camel Caravan event is triggered?
- Where and how can camels be placed in a Camel Caravan?
- Can a Camel Caravan leave a Monument with no adjacent space, so nobody can control it?
- How are Conflict Order tokens handled when a Camel Caravan creates a region?
- In the Guardians of Kemet scenario, does the Guardian Bid event replace the Control Monument event?
Conflict and Battle
- In what order does a Battle resolve?
- Do I need a figure in a region to score Monument Majority there?
- If a player controls the most Monuments of a type but has no figures there, do their Monuments still block others from a majority?
- Do I need more than half of a Monument type for majority, or more than all opponents combined?
- Do I need a figure next to each Monument to score its majority?
- How much Devotion do I get for dominating a region, and is there a battle?
- What happens when Battle strengths tie, and who can use the Battle Tiebreaker?
- Do Battle cards from earlier battles add to my strength?
- In what order are regions resolved in a Conflict?
Devotion and Winning
- How do stacked Ankh tokens on the same Devotion space rank, and can two players tie on Devotion?
- In what order is Devotion gained within a Battle?
- Does the game end the instant someone reaches the top of the Devotion track, even mid-Conflict?
- If two players would reach the top in the same Battle, who wins?
- Does Worshipful pay out before a 4-Devotion loss in the Twilight Over the New Kingdom scenario?
- Who wins if players are close to the top and both gain Devotion from Miracle?
- How is the game decided if nobody reaches the top and several gods remain after the fourth Conflict?
Merging and Forgotten Gods
- Do gods merge in a two-player game?
- Which gods merge?
- What happens to the lower-merging god's pieces, Followers and Devotion?
- Which Guardians does a merged god keep?
- Does Petsuchos stay on the board when its controller merges?
- Can both players of a merged god use the same Ankh power, or do powers stack?
- If a merged god's Cat-Mummy is killed, how much Devotion do the merged players lose?
- How do turns work after two gods merge?
- Who makes the Battle decisions for a merged god?
- When Osiris is the lower-merging god, do his Underworld tokens stay on the board?
- Who is eliminated at the end of the fourth Conflict?
Ankh Powers
- Which Devotion gains trigger Bountiful?
- How much extra Devotion does Bountiful give for several majorities or a win in one region?
- How does Bountiful work in the red zone, and when does it stop?
- How often can I use Worshipful, and can it be paid with Followers just gained from Commanding?
- Can I use Worshipful after losing all my figures, or when Plague wipes me out?
- When does Magnanimous give Devotion, including ties and Plague?
- When does Glorious give 3 Devotion?
- Can Obelisk Attuned be used when I am alone in a region or when another player dominates it?
- How exactly does Obelisk Attuned move figures?
- How does Temple Attuned's +2 strength work?
- How does Pyramid Attuned's extra summon work?
- Does Resplendent add to the God's strength or replace it?
- How do Revered and Omnipresent work?
Battle Cards
- What happens in Plague of Locusts if bids tie or everyone bids zero?
- What if several Plague of Locusts cards are played in one Battle?
- If Plague of Locusts kills all my figures, what can I still do in that Battle?
- Does Isis's protection, Flood or a Guardian ability stop Plague of Locusts killing figures?
- How many Devotion does Miracle give?
- How does Drought work with Bountiful and Plague?
- When does Flood give Followers and who benefits?
- How do I get my played Battle cards back?
- In what order are Build Monument cards resolved and what if only one space is free?
Gods
- When can Anubis trap Warriors, and how many?
- Can Anubis trap a Warrior that dies while Set controls it?
- How do I get my Warrior back from Anubis, and what does it cost?
- What happens to Warriors trapped by Anubis if a god merges or is forgotten?
- Does Isis's Protected status stop Plague of Locusts?
- Which Isis figures are Protected, and does Isis need to be in the region?
- When can Osiris place an Underworld token, and does losing a Plague bid count?
- How does Osiris's extra summon onto an Underworld token work?
- If Sobek and Osiris both place tokens after a Battle, which resolves first?
- How does Ra's Radiant token work?
- How does Amun's Mysterious Forms work?
- How far does Set's control of enemy figures reach?
- Does Set's control affect an opponent's Monument majority or Obelisk Attuned?
- Are Bastet's cats figures, and do they start a Battle or get killed by Plague?
- Can Hathor's ability summon a Priest or a figure into a Palace room?
- Can Hathor use Selfless Devotion or Inspiring if she spends no Followers?
- How do Ptah's Exalted Followers work?
- How do Sobek and his water tile interact with regions?
Guardians
- Can the Giant Scorpion destroy a Monument that is one space away across a river or camel line?
- Who chooses where the Giant Scorpion's claws point, and can it hit my own Monuments?
- How can Apep be summoned and move?
- What happens when a Mummy is killed, and does re-summoning count as a Summon Figure action?
- When Cat-Mummy dies, who loses Devotion and when?
- How does Satet's push work?
- How does the Androsphinx work against gods and other Guardians?
- Do two opposing Shezmu in a region cancel each other?
- Do Guardians count toward the six-Warrior limit?
- How does Petsuchos occupy space and move?
Ankh: Gods of Egypt – PharaohExpansion
- When are the Palace rooms resolved, and who resolves a room?
- Who can move the Pharaoh figure, and what does the Pharaoh do?
- Does Xerxes stop all Devotion in his region, including Monument Majority?
- Does a Sphinx count as a Pyramid, Temple or Obelisk for Resplendent, Griffin and the attuned powers?
- Does a War Room replacing a Monument with a Sphinx count as building for Ptah's power?
- What does Ramses's Infantry do to figures next to it, for example Seth?
- If Anubis wins a Palace room against Akhenaten's Priests, are they trapped?
- When can I play Political cards, and is there a limit per turn?
- Can Justice of Ma'at skip the Ankh unlock order, and can Join the Pantheon summon any Guardian?
- How does Declare War place its two Warriors?
- Are Guardians used with the Pharaoh expansion, and where are they placed?
- Are the extra Priests for Sobek and Ptah usable outside the Pharaoh expansion, and can any god use the Pharaoh?
- What happens when the Sphinx supply runs out?
- Does Amenhotep's +1 Devotion apply to each majority?