Tuesday Games Part Two

The "filler" game on Tuesday, after Android, was Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age. This is a cut down "Civ" game with a simple dice-based mechanic and all-wooden components, apart from the scoresheet/player aid. A quick game and very enjoyable although it is not clear to us yet whether it is possible to score consistently with a deliberately chosen strategy given the powerful random element. In the end my score was considerably higher, it seemed because of the choice of the "coinage" development which increased the value of the coin face of the dice from 7 to 12 each. This enabled the purchase of the highest scoring developments which also entailed an additional points bonus at the end of the game. This path was only successful in tandem with a number of lucky rolls, however, and it is perfectly possible to choose an advantage tied to a particular face of the custom dice only to have it never turn up.