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Through the Ages

Eine neue Geschichte der Zivilisation

A new story of civilizations! Again you lead a nation from ancient times into modern times and develop lots of culture. The determining facts of a nation are population, production, science and military as well as a balance of those powers. Influence of literature, drama, religion, buildings, personalities or international treaties give you points. A player turn comprises: Start of Turn with Card Row replenishing, resolving s War and Making exclusive tactics available – Politics phase with the option of Prepare an event, Play an Aggression, Declare a War, Offer a Pact, Cancel a Pact or Resign – Action Phase – with the options of Take Non-Wonder Card or a Wonder Card, Increase Population, Build a Farm, Mine or Urban Building or Upgrade one of them or Destroy one of them, Play a Leader. Build a Stage of a Wonder, Develop a Technology, Declare a Revolution, Play an Action card, Build a Military Unit or Upgrade it or Disband it, Play A Tactic or Copy a Tactic – End-of-Turn Sequence with Discarding of Excess Military Cards, Checking for an Uprising, Production Phase if there is no Uprising, Draw Military Cards and Reset your Actions.

Basically, all is the same as in the first edition and yet a lot has changed in the new edition: If you change your leader you take back a Civil Action. Tactic is played as usual, but is marked and others can spend two military actions to copy the tactic. Sacrificing units in War or Aggression is forbidden, there are new events, new leaders and new wonders …

Through the Ages is still one of the best games on development of civilizations; if you missed out on the first edition, you should grab a copy now! 

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Vlaada Chvátil

Artist: Milan Vavron, Jakub Politzer, Filip Murmak, Radim Pech

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2016

Web: www.heidelberger-spieleverlag.de

Genre: Civilization development

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: cz de en fr it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Title changed from “Im Wandel der Zeitalter” to „Through the Ages“ 2016

New edition, first edition as “Through the Ages” at CBG 2006

Analogous to the 1^st edition, changes in detail mechanisms

Compares to:

Through the Ages, Civilization and other civilization development games

Other editions:

Im Wandel der Zeitalter, 2015, Through the Ages, CGE; Iello, Cranio Creations, Rebel.pl

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0