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A quick civilization game with dice that works! |
May 31, 2012 |
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EndersGame from BGG
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Roll Through the Ages is a brilliant and innovative design for a dice game with a strong civilization theme.
Player pegboards have tracks for managing different goods: Wood, Stone, Pottery, Cloth, and Spearheads. A Food track is used to record food production, needed to feed your Cities, which are represented by large wooden dice with icons depicting food, workers, resources, coins, and disasters.
You roll the dice Yahtzee style to determine what you do on your turn: producing goods and food, building cities and monuments, and developing technologies like Agriculture and Coinage, while avoiding disasters. As a dice-rolling filler, this has to be commended for offering a genuinely civilization experience packed into 30 minutes. There's a basic tech tree, interesting choices, tension, and a high fun factor. The innovative game-play and civ-theme makes this a favourite.
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