Through the Ages - How to Play - Part 2

[@avo8]

0:07 Intro 0:50 Aggressions 4:37 Wars 7:09 Changing Governments 8:55 Urban Building Limits 10:50 Military Hand Size 12:27 Additional Wonders 13:13 End of Age Effects 15:37 Pacts 19:09 Advanced Tactics Cards 20:20 Territories 25:23 Upgrading Leaders 26:48 Other Urban Buildings

[@Lucky_Red_Fish]

Thanks again!

[@AhJong0]

It boggles my mind that 27,000 people watched Part 1 and only 8,000 wanted part 2! Thanks so much for these, was thinking of picking this up at the UK Games Expo and will find it hard to resist now I know how it's all played!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+Off-The-Cuff Gaming A lot of those 27,000 didn't actually watch it. There is a small % of those views that are actually full views. Stop by the CGE booth at UKGE (I'm running it), say hi. Ask maybe get a play of TTA if you like - just a demo - not the full game :)

[@AhJong0]

Lol much as I'm looking forward to a full game, not sure I'd be able to give up the UK Games Expo hours - but I'll definitely swing by the booth, love CGE!

[@ToThePointGames]

You saved us at least 4 headaches. Thank you so much for this video. Great work!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+ToThePointGames That's what I'm here for. If you have any other queries, just drop me a message of FB / Twitter / here

[@GuiltySpark1817]

Great video! You are a natural at this sort of thing.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks. It helped that I'd been playing the game since 2006 :)

[@sephirich]

Excellent run through the rules to this relatively complex game. I've subscribed--best rules explanation channel I've found.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks for the support. I dont put out many videos, but spend a lot of time on the ones I do create :)

[@onderbox186]

@@GamingRulesVideos which makes it a timeless video. Thanks for your work.

[@paullucas1579]

This has been in my FLGS for a while but I've been a bit overawed by it , thinking it would be too heavy, but having watched your tutorial videos , I think I might add it to my collection. You've made it seem a lot less scary,thank you.

[@foxedfolios]

Awesome couple of videos Paul - really appreciate your efforts. I just received my copy of 'new' TTA from the UK and your rules overview has significantly accelerated my progress along the rules learning curve! I'm probably in the minority here (minority of 1? :-D), but I actually prefer this style of video. Don't get me wrong - all your videos are great, but I find this more 'organic' style without the graphics easier to follow / more instructive. Not sure why and just sharing my view. Anyway, whatever form they take, I'm grateful for your clear explanations of some very complex games. Cheers!

[@ilqrd.6608]

Paul this is amazing. Thanks. You look so much younger here wow. Hard to believe this is merely 4-5 years ago! I think it’s the hair and the beard!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

The last 4-5 years have been pretty tough for me, so yeah, that makes sense :)

[@ilqrd.6608]

@@GamingRulesVideos Bless you Paul. Stay strong and thank you for filling our days with such great content and your personality!

[@Santanilla]

Thanks!!!!, I watch these every time I bring back the game to the table , helps me with the small rules a lot.

[@mattlowder]

thank you thank you thank you! I've heard about the old version of this game for over a year, and now that the new game has come out my interest is piqued! Thank you for this playthrough! I decided it's perfect for me and my bro. I have subscribed to your channel. the distributor and game developers should thank you. You have sold a copy for them!

[@AnaIvanovic4ever]

Haven't played Through the Ages but looking forward to pick up a copy of the 2nd edition! Good rules runthrough as usual.

[@benanderson46]

I've recently discovered your channel and very much enjoy the way you teach! Keep it up!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks Ben. If you have seen any of my other videos, they are very different from this one :) This was unplanned and unscripted, but this is the way that I teach people when at conventions running demos.

[@hazboy13]

Thanks for the excellent videos - played my first game of this today/yesterday after getting it for Christmas and this was a great way to get two new players up to speed. :)

[@GamingRulesVideos]

glad it helped! :)

[@yacoubhs]

I can't thank you enough, you ve made real easy for me to get into the game, I played it last night and it was amazing

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks for the comment. Glad it helped. The game is fantastic. One of my favourites of all time.

[@mariusferreira1297]

Excellent game tutorial, very helpful, I found these videos very effective by reading the rule book and watching these videos at the same time. Excellent work very well done 👍

[@85DrFeelgood]

Thanks for these videos. We played one game and after that i watched these videos.There were few things we got wrong, so this was a huge help.

[@GetReadyforGameNight]

Great video! Bit of a odd question... What video editing software do you use? It appears as though the raw footage is just a still shot and you edit in the zooms and pans after the fact. Is that the case? I'm a budding KZbinr and would love to use a technique like this.

[@Keindzjim]

These videos are great! Can you do a third video on final scoring (first game, short game, full game, scoring variants)?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

No plans to, but happy to answer any questions.

[@mtbell68]

Fantastic video - you are a great teacher. Thanks!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks for the comment. My other videos on this channel are far more professional :)

[@GamingRulesVideos]

@UtterDancers - I cant reply to you for some reason - your post is coming up as a LINKED COMMENT (not sure what that is).I think the timestamp you mean is 22:40, and there is an annotation to show what Green's Strength should be. 2 (Swordsmen) + 1 (Warrior) +1 Fighting Band + 2 Colossus. But the 2 strength from the colossus cannot be part of the bid.

[@Papayaparade]

Paul, I am loving your videos. Great job!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+Papayaparade Much appreciated :)

[@mojo9502]

Thanks a ton!!! Just got the game and your video help me to get an idea of how it' work!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Great news. Hope you enjoy the game.

[@farnea11]

Thanks, your english is clear also for me! Great video for a medium difficult game , very usefull

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+Alessandro Farnè Glad it helped. Thanks for the comments.

[@robertkirti5949]

Hi there, a question about aggression cards, i see someone else asked but you didnt answered. It was about destroy grey card, but you only removed its worker from the card. Does it mean that the card stays in game and i can still build workers for it, or the card should be removed to discard pile. All others is clear and thanks for the great videos.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

oops. I try and answer every question, so apologies for this. The card itself is NOT the building. The card just represents that you know how to build that thing. The yellow cube on the card is the building (and the person working in it).

[@TheEmo0407]

Thank you for this fantastic tutorial. Maybe it's too late, but I have a question on tactics: If we have the right counts for the tactic card, I can add a +1/2/3... on my strength. What happens if I send my troops to gain a territory ? Do I have to remove the +1/2/3 ... that I added before, because I don't have the whole army anymore ?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Your strength is always adjusted. So, if you have Medieval Army (1 Infantry and 1 Cavalry), you get a +2 Strength for each pair of INF+CAV. So, if you have two pairs, you get +4 Strength. If you then colonise with 1 INF (so that you now have 1 INF+2CAV, you only get +2 from your Tactics instead of +4. And of course, you lose the Strength of the unit sent to colonise.

[@TheEmo0407]

Thank you!!!!

[@goldwing2001]

Question about "Territory" action... I know in your example you had the red player win the bid (territory card). But lets say the green player won the bid (bidding two armies/forces), he removes the yellow cube from his "Swordsman" card and that satisfies his bid of two. My question is, he no longer meets the prerequisites of his "Fighting Band" tactics card (two infantry men). Does he pull his flag marker off the tactics card and adjusts his strength on the strength track (-1) for losing his tactic and (-2) for losing his swordsman? Thanks, Tony

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+Tony Brum Hi Tony, his flag would stay on the tactics card, but he would lose the strength bonus from it.

[@goldwing2001]

+Gaming Rules! Got it! Thanks for the clarification Paul. :-)

[@jeffjrgensen8854]

Q: Da Vinci leader card says "Your best lab or library PRODUCES an ADDITTIONAL amount of science equal to it's level" Is this extra production influenced by the number of yellow tokens on the card or should I just add 1 science on the science score each round (if my best lab/library is level 1) no matter how many yellow tokens on the card? Example: My best library is Printing Press ( level 1 = 1 science), I have 2 yellow tokens on it. Should I with Da Vinci recieve 2 + 1 extra = 3 science or 1 ekstra science pr yellow token (2 x 2 = 4)?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

The extra production is not influenced by the number of tokens on the card. The text says “your best library produces science equal to its level”. Each yellow cube on a card is a building, if you have two cubes, that’s two libraries. So, the “best one” produces 1 science. If you had a level 3 library and a level 1 library for example, the level 3 library would produce 3 more science. Hope that helps.

[@ralmeida1971]

Great video! You helped me a lot. The game should come with a DVD with your videos on it, because the rulebook is so complicated...

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks, and yeah, it is a complex games. Other CGE rulebooks have links on them to the youtube channel.

[@markegli7370]

Just ordered thanks to you. Looking forward to a great game.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

+Mark Egli Hope you enjoy it. Get all your players to watch the video in advance of the game, and it will save you a lot of time at the start :)

[@404ErrorPage]

Hi Paul. On the example of the territory card - when the player wins the bid and places the Vast Territory near their playing board, does the culture token in the top right act as a +U culture bonus each round or does the U score one culture immediately?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

The harp icon in the top right of the territory just indicate that this is an event card that you play onto the event space on the board.

[@carrickrichards2457]

Really good game but hard to teach. Very helpful, thanks

[@ahmednour8780]

Hello Paul, Great Job, Regarding the Urban building limit, say Im still on despotism I have limit of 2, and I have 2 labs, can I buy a third lab but not upgrade it till I upgrade my government? Or I'm limited to 2 cards same as I'm limited to 2 cubes? Thanks

[@GamingRulesVideos]

The urban building limit is on the "number of cubes on lab cards", not the number of cards. I.e. you can still be a despot and have Philosophy, Alchemy, Scientific Method, and Computers all in play - just no more than 2 cubes on labs in total.

[@BrunoVackier]

keep up making very good How to play videos! great help!

[@UtterMarcus]

20.40: green should have 5 of strength right? Colossus gives 2 and 4 of warriors and with tactic it is 6 or I miss something

[@BaltuKobalts]

Once again, thank you Paul!

[@matisshansens6557]

Ha wow, es nebiju gaidījis vēlvienu latvieti.

[@nathano1599]

Thanks for the video, that rulebook was hurting my head

[@nikghalb1]

Hi Paul.thanks a lot for the video it was great. I'm learning the game so we can play it with my friends ;-) love from Iran

[@astrangecoincidence]

Thanks for this, Paul. We'd got a few things wrong first time but this really helps. I like the unscripted video btw!

[@TheXtreme32]

thanks so much for those 2 videos. Great help!!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Glad they helped.

[@ericortiz6893]

Excellent video you made me add this game to my collection!

[@martonszurdoki5839]

Hi! Question about discarding military cards: What if you spend all your 2 red tokens (for example to copy a tactics.). Because of this, do you need to discard all your military cards at the start of your turn ending sequence? Or you can keep the 2 cards because of your government, despotism?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

You only discard down to the number of mil actions you have in total, not how many you have left.

[@martonszurdoki5839]

Thank you very much! :) I found another thing which isn't obvious in the rulebook. (Maybe it's because of the translation.). If you play a leader with a one time ability (Julius Ceasar, and the + military action.) you can only trigger this ability on the same turn you played down the leader, or you can play the card now but save the ability for later?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

The bonus mil action from Caesar is permanent. It gives you 1 extra mil action as long as he is in play.

[@citruunaw7862]

I have one question: When changing government with the revolution it has to be the first civil action you take, right? Now, does purchasing that card from the row count as civil action ergo do you have to wait until the next round to play that revolutionary govenrment change?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

correct. the first civil action you take. And you are right, taking a card from the row IS a civil action, so you can't take it and change government in the same turn.

[@citruunaw7862]

@@GamingRulesVideos Thank you very much!

[@PauloRenato23]

Another Awesome video Paul :) Thank you for this :)

[@moritzp.4437]

A question...On the aggression card it said destroy a (don't no the name) grey card...dos that mean that you also have to take that card away?

[@Keindzjim]

No just 1 worker I guess

[@georgesomlea5195]

Great video. Just one thing: i think that there they are not allowed to bid more than 3 since 3 is written on the Colony.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Hi. I'm not sure where you got that rule from, this is not true, you can bit any amount.

[@georgesomlea5195]

sorry, that is true. I misread that rule. Thank you!

[@wemser82]

Fantastic explanation, thanks a lot! Sooooo helpful!!!

[@cobloeqzz2002]

Thanks a lot for the guide!

[@Safersephiroth777]

How many rules are in this game? Damn!

[@mjdehayes]

Another awesome video, Paul, especially since it was unscripted! I would like to point out one error though. Declaring a revolution does not have to be the first civil action you take in your action phase. A revolution requires that you use all of your civil action tokens. You may be able to take a civil action and still have a revolution if there is some effect which allows you to get your civil action token back (such as if you were to replace a leader).

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks. And yeah, you are correct on that one :) 15 Gaming Rules! points for you :)

[@audraogilvy2605]

Thank you so much! Awesome!

[@PwndNewbie]

How does the game end?

[@robc9337]

Can a player be at war with more than one player? What happens in that case?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

When YOU declare war on someone, you play the war card as your Political action, and it is resolved at the start of YOUR next turn. At which point, you can then play another war card as your next political action. But... there is nothing to stop a player having war declared on them multiple times. e.g. in a 4-player game, if 3 players are on 30 strength, and the 4th player is on 0 strength. Players 1, 2, and 3 might, on their turn declare war on player 4. If this happens though, player 4 is likely to drop from the game on their turn. :)

[@robc9337]

Thank you, this is what I was thinking, but I needed confirmation :D loved the rules explanation, respect ++

[@reefermadness5049]

great job, thank you so much

[@AogNubJoshh]

Hi there! When red gains 3 food from the territory, if he has irrigration, does that mean he only needs to take 2 cubes? 1 cube in irrigation (worth 2) and 1 cube in agriculture? Also, what happens if you want to spend an odd number of food to increase your population, but your blue cubes are only worth even amounts (e.g. you have 4 food from 2 blue cubes, but you need to spend 3 to increase population)? Thanks :)

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Hi. When you gain 3 food from the territory, you can take it however you want. So, if you have Irrigation, you are right, you can take just 2 cubes. If you ever want to spend an odd number, you get change. So, if you had 1 cube on Irrigation and needed to spend 1 food, you would just move the cube down to the Agriculture. Hope that helps.

[@AogNubJoshh]

Ah thank you, that's really helpful! Great video :)

[@igorj3804]

please make a playthrough video with your famous digital efects

[@UtterMarcus]

Ok Paul thank U, I can watch annotation, thank U for reply me! Ok understood how bid work now. thank U so much.(I don't know what a linked comment is I write here and press post thats all :))

[@leagueofminecraft6964]

When you have a revaluation how much is it discounted?

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Did you mean Revolution? If so, the government cards have 2 costs, one higher number, and one lower. The lower one is used when you do a revolution.

[@matteobrughera3722]

thank you!

[@geraldoamaral3000]

Excelent video! I have to say, however, it has a lot of useless use of hands and shaky hands. But it does not diminishes its quality. Thanks.

[@GamingRulesVideos]

I move my hands a lot when talking as I'm always so excited :)

[@beladaubner]

Thx a lot!

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Thanks for watching. Hope the video helped.

[@beladaubner]

I think, the simpliest way to understand this games rules that watch yours videos..soo yes, helped:) i will test my knowledge at the weekends (first game) subscribed and thx again

[@Keindzjim]

My partner never wants to play this game, cause it's too complicated... Bad luck for me, cause I think it's a great game

[@BeeCeeJay]

FIRST! :D (Never gotten the chance to do that before... hehe!)

[@supakornkk]

thx

[@youtubeyoutube3575]

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