Through the Ages: New Leaders and Wonders Review - More Stuff For A Great Game

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This is your chance to make history! Throughout time there have been courageous women and imaginative men who changed history, and whose legacy we carry with us to this day. Some of those men and women, along with some of their most wondrous creations, are now joining the new and long awaited Through the Ages expansion.

The New Leaders & Wonders expansion brings exciting new content to the base game, adding leaders, wonders, and military cards so you can change the flow of history and build even greater civilizations!

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:04:53 - Going Through Some Cards
0:09:05 - Review
0:10:22 - Is it Worth It?
0:11:28 - Final Thoughts & Rating

5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.

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[michaelhall]

Love this expansion! I was already a huge fan of Through the Ages but this expansion raised the bar for me. We had played the original TTA and the improved ver (a new story of civ) many, many times. I loved it but the new cards brought much needed new paths and options to the game and really cranked up the variability in this game. Thx for giving it some love on your channel.

[CG_Hali]

Like the yellow light, it gives a nice vibe to your video. Thanks for talking about this one, been curious about it. Still haven't found a civ game that seems to fit me though, they are usually wayyy too long lol

[chinnmw]

Uggh, I don't know about drawing a random leader/wonder every time a placeholder comes out. Part of the fun is knowing what leaders and wonders are in the game and figuring out on the fly if that Catherine the Great is worth it, now that the age is 2/3s over, knowing what the possibilities are that are coming.

[svachalek]

If I include app versions of board games, this game with the expansion is my favorite of all time. So good. It’s still good on a table, just big and slow, so it’s one I rarely have time for.

[matissmatiss]

This is also one of my favorite games of all time. It is so great, and app is a must 😅

[missingdays]

Your jacket gives a bulletproof vibe. Which is fitting and unsettling at the same time

[RulebooksForYou]

This game is too good. When I get rid of this or Mage Knight, I will have quit board games.

[user]

I personally think they fumbled the bag with many of the new leaders and wonders. Their benefits are too complicated and require a lot of careful reading and heavy strategic deliberation. For my game group, it has added a lot of more idle thinking time and analysis paralysis. I think they should have kept them simple. I really love the game but the last thing this one needs is more complex and highly specialized decisions to consider. And to be honest - where's Stalin? Hitler? Mao? Putin...? Whimps.

[marcowood]

Thanks for this video ... but for non english native speakers, you definitely speak too fast !