Questions tagged [through-the-ages]

Through the ages is a civilization building game. Each player attempts to build the best civilization though careful resource management, discovering new technologies, electing the right leaders, building wonders and maintaining a strong military. Weakness in any area can be exploited by your opponents. It can be played with 2 to 4 players.

Through the Ages : A Story of Civilization; is a civilization building game. Each player attempts to build the best civilization though careful resource management, discovering new technologies, electing the right leaders, building wonders and maintaining a strong military. Weakness in any area can be exploited by your opponents. The game takes place throughout the ages beginning in the age of antiquity and ending in the modern age.

One of the primary mechanism in TTA is card drafting. Technologies, wonders, and leaders come into play and become easier to draft the longer they are in play. In order to use a technology you will need enough science to discover it, enough food to create a population to man it and enough resources (ore) to build the building to use it. While balancing the resources needed to advance your technology you also need to build a military. Military is built in the same way as civilian buildings. Players that have a weak military will be preyed upon by other players. There is no map in the game you cannot lose territory but players with higher military will steal resources, science, kill leader, take population or culture. It is very difficult to win with a large military but it is very easy to lose because of a weak one.

Victory is achieved by the player whose nation has the most culture at the end of the modern age.

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What should I be trying to do strategically in Through the Ages?

I played Through the Ages for the third time last night and am struggling to come up with a decent strategy to assist in winning. I am not sure if my problem is due to the random nature of the events and tech upgrades, or if my strategy is just…
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Can Scientific Cooperation happen when there's no science to share?

The text for the Scientific Cooperation Pact reads: Every time one of the civilizations plays a technology, it pays 2 science less and the other civilization pays 1 science. What happens if the other civilization has zero accumulated science?…
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Reign of Terror on Through the Ages

On the "Reign of Terror" event, do you lose one worker from the worker pool or the population bank?
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Power strength too important in Through the Ages

In Through the Ages, there are some optional rules to prevent power is too important, e.g. by not ganging up on the weakest player. However, still a lot of event cards affect the weakest and strongest player. So if one player is the weakest, he…
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What is the no agressive variant (Peaceful Variant)?

Yesterday I played on Board Game Arena a non agressive variant of the game. The only difference I saw was a lack of wonders of age A (that could be just luck) and no agression cards. The game itself was very boring, with nothing else to do only a…
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Civilization - Through the Ages with old game

I own the 'old' version of Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization from 2006. There is also a new version (Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization) from 2015. Some rules have been added and cards have been changed (among others). I'm…
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PvP strategy for Through the Ages

I recently purchased the Steam version of the board game so I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post my question. I’ve been successful in winning vs the AIs; however, am struggling to keep afloat in PvP games online. I understand…
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Do Age II or earlier events happen at the end of the game?

The front page of the "Through the Ages - A New Story of Civilization" Code of Laws says, at the end of the game: All Age III events in the current and next events deck are evaluated in any order. Having not yet played a full game, I haven't had…
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