Game Night Light 26

Last night was the weekly game night and beer exchange.

First, the beers:

The game was Through the Ages. We played the simple game.

That's the main board above with all the cards you draw for different capabilities you can use; and markers for points in science, culture, and military power. Each player has their own board to keep track of people and production. In many ways this is a simpler version of the Castles of Burgundy game. And it reminds me of Scythe in some ways, although that impression is not based on playing the latter.

The game can be played by 2-4 players. You build your empire with technology, culture, military power, growing your population, and building up your government, agriculture, mining, and wonders of the world. At the end of the game you convert your assets to culture points and the player with the most culture points wins.

There is an events deck, which in the simple game just provides good things.

You have action points for civilian and military actions that can elevate your civilization. Your type of government can affect those points.

We didn't jump right into the game. And the learning curve was actually pretty rapid. We didn't know how you win until we got to the end of the game. And as we added up the points, we .... tied!

So that was interesting. We each had different means of getting to the same number of points. You do have to balance your limited actions to do a lot of different things. I for example, tied up resources making the Great Wall. Luckily I had a card that helped build it faster, freeing up resources more quickly.

Anyway, we both liked the game. I think we played this in a maybe 2-1/2 hours. It would be fun to try 3 or 4 players.