Throught the Ages: Advanced Game Session#2
Ξ October 28th, 2008 | → | ∇ Boardgames |
Played this at Mage Cafe on Deepavali 27th October 2008 with Ryan and Jefg8.
Ryan won this handily despite lagging behind in Military. Both Jefg8 and myself got pwned by Ryan’s Libraries and Effiel Tower while we were building up a cold war between the both of us.
I think what happened was that both of us did not manage to get too many agression cards to use on Ryan. Playing Agression cards require the usage of Military actions, thus limiting the card draw for the military player at the end of turn. The defensive player on the other hand still has his military actions and in Ryan’s case, fortunately draw enough defensive bonuses to fend off Jefg8’s advances.
One rule we did play wrong in this game was that the Urban Building Limit was not adhere to (again!). While this may have been a factor in Ryan’s overwhelming victory with his army of libraries, Jefg8 and myself also violated this rule without noticing it by building 3 labs and 3 temples respectively.
The other rule played wrong by one of the guys was that a tactics card was played into the future events deck, this is wrong as only events and territories card can be played into the events deck.
There were definately more events played in this game and although the weakest player (Ryan) suffered some setbacks from the events that punished him, his civilisation engine still manages to churn out an impressive lead.
The final score I believe was about 10-20 points difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd while the average score was about 100 points. (1st - Ryan, 2nd - me, 3rd - Jefg8).
I love this game and although it went a little long, 3 hours, I still find it all compelling. In my first game, I found that I had a food over production problem, and in my second game, I found my invention points lacking. In this game curiously I found my food production lacking and end up with an abundance of resources with nowhere to spend it. It is still difficult to juggle the various aspects of the invention-food-resources-culture balance. I am happy to report though, that Ryan and Jefg8 handled corruption like champs and rarely was corruption a problem for them.
Looking forward to the next game.