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Through the Ages Learning Game Discussion Thread
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Chill, I tend to feel like I'm doing well at the beginning, right until the point where Darian stomps me. He's always the real threat.
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Words to live by.
A different Tactic will help too. Heavy Cavalry is really hard to get into play; the bonus strength is great, but you really need to prioritize cavalry to make it worthwhile. Of course, so much of that is the luck of the draw.
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I've got a mini-revolution going here with an opportunity to pick up both Code of Laws and Warfare, so I jump on that. Falling a bit behind on the military, but my infrastructure seems to be developing well. Missing out on Knights has hurt my ability to keep up with the strong armies.
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Evil had finally slain the forces of Justice. There would be no symbol for children to look up to anymore.
Oh, cute, you think you're a Netrunner? Come join us!
Evil had finally slain the forces of Justice. There would be no symbol for children to look up to anymore.
Oh, cute, you think you're a Netrunner? Come join us!
... and it was me and I must have gotten an email and looked at it without taking my turn.
Edit: BAD BOY!
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Oh yeah sorry - I did read that, but this is my first non-2P game so I forgot.
Nothing to see here... move along... post redacted.
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Other than that, grabbing napoleon seemed a good move. I'm tired of Darian's bullying.
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edit: I should mention my last turn; finally had a chance to pick up a wonder that I like, snagging Ocean Liner to make up for my inability to produce food.
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Coal is also worth grabbing if you have the Railroad.
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At any rate, I finally decided to get into the military game. Invested in a couple of Swordsmen and Classic Army to get a stronger position; hopefully I'll at least be able to get one or two attacks in while on top. Grabbed Breakthrough (a favorite card of mine, and I was VERY happy to see it for 1 action), Engineering Genius to help with my train. Took Journalism, I always like having a nice science/culture source, and it helps in case I can't take First Space Flight and have to settle for the Internet instead.
Next turn I'll just be able to squeak out finishing the Train. I hope that will solidify my military position, then I can start focusing on culture.
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edit: A note on military--I've been trying to not be last place while these Age I events go through. Once he hit Age II, though, a lot of the events punish the last two places instead of just last.
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Losing Joan of Arc was a huge blow. How do you tell when the Age is going to change and therefore obsolete leaders, strategies etc?
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The Age ends as soon as the Civil deck runs out
Currently:
So we just started Age III, which will end when 45 cards have been taken/discarded.
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Of course, Wars are always a gamble. I'm hoping that Darian has so few resources available this turn that he won't be able to build up much, especially with the lack of food; that's why I targeted him over Niall, who has a somewhat better chance of responding. Few things in this game are worse than declaring a War only to have your opponent defeat you.
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Once I hear back from poshniallo on this treaty.
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Still sitting over 30 culture behind Tayrun, though, so I'll need to start bridging that gap soon. Tried to talk poshniallo into a treaty that would protect him from any Wars while giving me a bit extra culture, but he didn't accept.
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Well I thought that Treaty was essentially saying 'I'm not going to win' by giving up that culture. Now, I don't think I'm going to win - probably I'll come last, in fact. But giving up at this point seemed dull.
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Do you guys always find that military is an integral part of your strategy? Do you have any/many games where a militarily-weak player wins?
High military games tend to be low scoring (for obvious reasons), and you can sometimes win with like 90 Culture.
I don't often go military because it's not in my nature (in any sort of Civ-type game I'm almost always a builder, not a warrior) but I'm consciously trying to add more of it in TTA.
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I think even if you're going for military, throwing all your early resources at military units is unwise - the point is to build an infrastructure of rock and science generation in the early stages, while trying to draw three military cards each turn. And trying to be among the two strongest players. Then if you get good tactics and aggressions you can cash them in in the late game, and if not the infrastructure should make you able to make a late push for culture instead (and the amounts of culture generated in age 3 and 4 are so much larger than in age A and I, and of course culture could be said to even more than military be something that doesn't directly benefit you, so it's best to build it as late as possible.
Against an opponent ignoring or under-prioritizing military, I think a competent military-heavy strategy will always win. As soon as everyone learns how important military is, and to keep up with each other, the game becomes about who can build the most efficient culture machine.
I generally tend toward peaceful building as well, in computer and board games, but repeatedly getting my ass kicked by more aggressive friends in various games made me change that - I'd never won a single TtA game until I started going heavy military. And while I like building stuff, it's not like I have a problem being a dick (favourite Chaos god Tzeentch).
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Managed to grab and build a computer on that last turn, so Einstein will actually give me a bit of a benefit from here on out. Have to wait and see if it will prove to be too little, too late. Keeping an eye on the cards, everyone will get at least two more turns starting from Tayrun's current go. We get 3 turns if we don't pick up many cards this round.
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