Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

This is a great game, though I still don't understand why you can't draft military cards like you can civil. For a game where you have so much control, and military is so overpowered, the luck of the draw can really mess you up.

I've played this almost exclusively at BGO, so I'm not sure how high I would rank this if I had to play face to face and wait to play, which I can avoid with a turn-based online game.

Excellent game. Hours of fun. Best with 2 or 3 players. Highly recommend it!

Exactly what an updated edition of a classic should do. Wonderful game.

One of the best games I ever played. Building economy, arms racing, planning how to get ahead of opponent victory point and everything what strategy games needed are included. It also has game-ish entertainment, a solid strategy can be beaten by opportunistic flexibility differ from Chess or Go. Only problem is it is too heavy to recommend to my friends and even for me.

I love this game but good lord it's long. My favourite 2p game, will never play with 4.

Play it digital ist much more fun

I've only played the app, and don't really want to play the real game, because the app is so nice and quick.

Masterpiece. One of the best game I've ever played. It has strategy, theme, interaction, lots of cards for replay value.

I haven't got a chance to play the original version of the game, but I wanted for a long time. Now I'm glad I did not, because this is an improved version of the game in every aspect.

Only downside is downtime, since every player has many actions during a turn. Also, long play time can be considered a downside - average 3 player game for us lasts around 4.5 to 5 hours - but when you have time to invest, that time invested is an upside to the game because of a very rewarding experience.

Update: average 3 player game now lasts only for about 2.5 to 3 hours tops, since now we all know what we are doing. With 4th player added, it can go to 5 hours easily. Great experience with 4, but huge time investment :)

Played once, and ordered it right away. Rating based on one play. Very exciting in that "can hardly sit still" kind of way.

Theme and mechanisms are well integrated, which means that I find it accessible despite its obvious weight.

Got rid of the game while purging some non-soloable stuff. A great game, but the only friend that's interested in playing it has his own copy...