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Moving from Through The Ages, which uses a shortened version of the game's official title.
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''Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization'', commonly abbreviated to ''Through the Ages'', is a EuroGame with a civilization-building theme. It has a video game adaptation for iOS and Android.
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!!This board game provides examples of the following tropes:
* FourX: A curious version without a map. There's not much exploration, but certainly lots of expansion, exploitation and extermination. (Well, it's also a Eurogame, so "extermination" isn't literal. The other players are still in the game after being stomped, although they may not have much chance of getting back on their feet.)
* AlternateHistory: Emphasised by the use of real-world names for wonders and leaders. Gandhi as president over a nation of scientists kept happy by BreadAndCircuses? UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton builds the Taj Mahal and discovers computers? Music/ElvisPresley conducts espionage, declares Holy War and builds the Kremlin? All are plausible occurrences and add significant amusement to the game.
* AncientEgypt: ThePyramids and the Library of Alexandria are both buildable wonders.
* ArmyOfTheAges: It's quite possible for an army to consist of some Bronze Age warriors, mediaeval knights, Renaissance-era cannons and modern air forces. This can result in situations where the tactics card in play means those Bronze Age warriors are utterly vital to your military strength, and losing just them would remove the majority of your military power.
* BreadAndCircuses: A technology card that allows you to assign workers to it to keep your citizens happy.
* {{Conscription}}: When a war is declared on you, you have one turn to raise your military power. Expect to see scientists and miners kicked out of their former occupations and hastily drafted into the military.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: Being without a map, all players' civilisations are considered adjacent to each other.
* HomeFieldAdvantage: In aggressions and wars, the defender has a lot of advantages. The aggressor has to use up military actions, and has to make all their unit sacrifices first. The defender can see precisely what strength is coming up against them, and can also play defensive military cards.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Building Team Sports or Pro Sports buildings ramps up your civilization's military strength.
* NewTechIsNotCheap: It'll cost you one or more civil actions to take the card, another civil action and a bunch of science to play it, and then in most cases more actions and resources to build the unit/building needing it. You can't have enough science to develop all the available technologies; choosing which ones to focus on is one of the key decisions in the game.
* PyramidPower: In this case, the power is to give you one extra civil action per turn. Probably not thematic, but nevertheless powerful.
* SchizoTech: You don't need to develop the mediaeval technology in any category, you can skip straight to the renaissance or modern version. So it's normal for a civilisation to have, say, journalism without the printing press, computer labs without the scientific method, movies or opera without having discovered drama, and so on. Many civilisations will never develop such niceties as a Code of Laws or the ''concept of Warfare or Cartography''.
* StoneWall: UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi. You cannot play Aggressions or Wars while you have this leader in play -- but other players must pay twice as many Military Actions to play them against you.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: UsefulNotes/BillGates, Creator/SidMeier and Music/ElvisPresley are all Age III leaders in the original version. In later editions, the leaders that replace them are, respectively, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, AlexRandolph and RockAndRoll Icon. Their properties, however, are unchanged.
* WeHaveReserves: Sacrificing military units in a war or colonisation effort is always costly, but rather less so for players with lots of food production, and the impact is lower for the player whose turn it is because they can immediately build replacements.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: There are several resources to keep track of. You've got food, "resources" (which is sort of an abstract of money, materials and energy), science, as well as yellow tokens representing potential citizens and blue tokens representing potential stuff. Building a solid infrastructure is almost always key to success.
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!!This board game provides examples of the following tropes:
* FourX: A curious version without a map. There's not much exploration, but certainly lots of expansion, exploitation and extermination. (Well, it's also a Eurogame, so "extermination" isn't literal. The other players are still in the game after being stomped, although they may not have much chance of getting back on their feet.)
* AlternateHistory: Emphasised by the use of real-world names for wonders and leaders. Gandhi as president over a nation of scientists kept happy by BreadAndCircuses? UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton builds the Taj Mahal and discovers computers? Music/ElvisPresley conducts espionage, declares Holy War and builds the Kremlin? All are plausible occurrences and add significant amusement to the game.
* AncientEgypt: ThePyramids and the Library of Alexandria are both buildable wonders.
* ArmyOfTheAges: It's quite possible for an army to consist of some Bronze Age warriors, mediaeval knights, Renaissance-era cannons and modern air forces. This can result in situations where the tactics card in play means those Bronze Age warriors are utterly vital to your military strength, and losing just them would remove the majority of your military power.
* BreadAndCircuses: A technology card that allows you to assign workers to it to keep your citizens happy.
* {{Conscription}}: When a war is declared on you, you have one turn to raise your military power. Expect to see scientists and miners kicked out of their former occupations and hastily drafted into the military.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: Being without a map, all players' civilisations are considered adjacent to each other.
* HomeFieldAdvantage: In aggressions and wars, the defender has a lot of advantages. The aggressor has to use up military actions, and has to make all their unit sacrifices first. The defender can see precisely what strength is coming up against them, and can also play defensive military cards.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Building Team Sports or Pro Sports buildings ramps up your civilization's military strength.
* NewTechIsNotCheap: It'll cost you one or more civil actions to take the card, another civil action and a bunch of science to play it, and then in most cases more actions and resources to build the unit/building needing it. You can't have enough science to develop all the available technologies; choosing which ones to focus on is one of the key decisions in the game.
* PyramidPower: In this case, the power is to give you one extra civil action per turn. Probably not thematic, but nevertheless powerful.
* SchizoTech: You don't need to develop the mediaeval technology in any category, you can skip straight to the renaissance or modern version. So it's normal for a civilisation to have, say, journalism without the printing press, computer labs without the scientific method, movies or opera without having discovered drama, and so on. Many civilisations will never develop such niceties as a Code of Laws or the ''concept of Warfare or Cartography''.
* StoneWall: UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi. You cannot play Aggressions or Wars while you have this leader in play -- but other players must pay twice as many Military Actions to play them against you.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: UsefulNotes/BillGates, Creator/SidMeier and Music/ElvisPresley are all Age III leaders in the original version. In later editions, the leaders that replace them are, respectively, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, AlexRandolph and RockAndRoll Icon. Their properties, however, are unchanged.
* WeHaveReserves: Sacrificing military units in a war or colonisation effort is always costly, but rather less so for players with lots of food production, and the impact is lower for the player whose turn it is because they can immediately build replacements.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: There are several resources to keep track of. You've got food, "resources" (which is sort of an abstract of money, materials and energy), science, as well as yellow tokens representing potential citizens and blue tokens representing potential stuff. Building a solid infrastructure is almost always key to success.
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