Through the Ages is known as one of the top civilization games to
play. However, it’s a long game to play and could take many hours to
play with friends. Actually, trying to get your friends to play the game
is a bit hard, unless they like those kinds of games. Roll Through the
Ages is the same game but as you can tell by the name, you roll dice to
determine what you do.
First of all, the game comes with 7 wooden dice and 4 pegboards. The
quality of the components themselves is the best I’ve seen in a small
game. It’s light and feels great too so you can take it on the go. The
game also comes with a huge stack of double sided score pads so that’s
nice as well.
You start off with three dice and each side of the dice represents a
different symbol. You can either gain food to feed your cities, gain
workers to help build monuments or build more cities to roll more dice.
And you can gain goods and coins to build developments, avoiding certain
disasters or gaining extra food or workers per dice. Disasters are
represented as skulls and for everyone you roll, you must keep (unless
your playing the solo version of the game). Each disaster will cost you
points or your opponents might lose points.
Using the pegboard is easy. The green color is your food and goes up
and down with the food you get. Everything else is your goods and every
good you roll, one goes up from the bottom to the top. However, if you
have more then 6 goods out, then you must get rid of them.
The game is good when you want to play a quick solo game or with 4
players, the fun really starts to pick up. Your battling to build an
monument first so that you can get the points in the square. If you do
build it, everyone else will earn the points next to the square. At the
end of the game, whoever has the most points wins the game and has the
mightiest empire!
First of all, the game comes with 7 wooden dice and 4 pegboards. The quality of the components themselves is the best I’ve seen in a small game. It’s light and feels great too so you can take it on the go. The game also comes with a huge stack of double sided score pads so that’s nice as well.
You start off with three dice and each side of the dice represents a different symbol. You can either gain food to feed your cities, gain workers to help build monuments or build more cities to roll more dice. And you can gain goods and coins to build developments, avoiding certain disasters or gaining extra food or workers per dice. Disasters are represented as skulls and for everyone you roll, you must keep (unless your playing the solo version of the game). Each disaster will cost you points or your opponents might lose points.
Using the pegboard is easy. The green color is your food and goes up and down with the food you get. Everything else is your goods and every good you roll, one goes up from the bottom to the top. However, if you have more then 6 goods out, then you must get rid of them.
The game is good when you want to play a quick solo game or with 4 players, the fun really starts to pick up. Your battling to build an monument first so that you can get the points in the square. If you do build it, everyone else will earn the points next to the square. At the end of the game, whoever has the most points wins the game and has the mightiest empire!