Great teach of one of my favorite game of all time. I don't care about how fiddly it may be, I will always try to play it with friends at the table (2 or 3 players max though). Thank you, Edward. As an aside, I am also re-watching your old teach of Teotihuacan from over 5 years ago, with the old Denver crew (I am introducing it to 3 new players on Sunday 8/18/24. It holds up wonderfully after all these years). Your cadence and confidence have really improved over time. It's quite striking and delightful to watch the progression. Keep on doing what you do best! Much admiration from a proud French patron. 💙
Love Through the Ages, love Nations - it's got 60% of the depth with 20% of the rules of TTA, both are wonderful. Please stream it! :) The expansion to TTA is well worth it!
Great play through. Absolutely love TTA, it does everything a civ game should do, but in a relatively streamlined way despite how long it takes to play. Just very, very nicely designed.
TTA is a great game. Very nice stream. 1) The app is fantastic. Takes away the fiddliness away. Plus, AI expert and the challenges are excellent. Played 100s of times. 4p AI is 30 minutes on app. 2) When playing with high level players, you absolutely can’t fall behind in military or you will get pummeled. 3) I actually prefer Nations as a) you will get punished by falling behind on military, but it doesn’t destroy your game which happens in TTA and can ruin a game play session as that person who falls behind can become highly demoralized and know it will take several rounds to recover and they have no chance to win. b) you have asymmetric civs c) you can scale for levels of difficulty so an experienced player can better play a novice to put them on more equal footing d) less fiddly and plays a little quicker and the concept of take an action and it goes to another player in Nations is better than TTA where you take a boatload of actions and then realize you need to redo something and start your turn over AND the downtime in TTA much longer and is less desirable versus Nations where it’s take an action then play rotates e) tons of cards and not all get played so card “anticipating” is minimized and I think the card timing is less of a luck factor that affects gameplay from player to player f) has a solo mode. g) great expansion also … not just extra cards as also brings in the exploration concept on wonders and new civs h) weaves a better historical theme … the cards have many little known events and people so neat learning. i) less “Swingy” on final scoring (albeit some may like TTA for that on seeding end of game scoring). I could probably list more but I would choose Nations every time over TTA (and again, I’ve played TTA close to 1,000 times). Nations is a 10/10 for me with TTA an 8.5/10 So absolutely please give Nations some additional love and if you play try and play with the expansion if you can as it doesn’t increase the difficulty at all but does enhance the play.
It's the end of the second age and I am baffled by the fact that only a single production tech has been played; a mine from age one. Both Ed and Ken still have the two food production they started with. This is NOT how I was taught to play. I've been practically screaming, "BUILD MORE FARMS AND MINES!", the entire game.
Nice thanks for the stream! I decided to go on BIOS: Origins instead of this one. Never tried TTA but interested if someone tried both to give some intels. Thanks again!
Great teach of one of my favorite game of all time. I don't care about how fiddly it may be, I will always try to play it with friends at the table (2 or 3 players max though). Thank you, Edward.
As an aside, I am also re-watching your old teach of Teotihuacan from over 5 years ago, with the old Denver crew (I am introducing it to 3 new players on Sunday 8/18/24. It holds up wonderfully after all these years). Your cadence and confidence have really improved over time. It's quite striking and delightful to watch the progression.
Keep on doing what you do best! Much admiration from a proud French patron. 💙
Love Through the Ages, love Nations - it's got 60% of the depth with 20% of the rules of TTA, both are wonderful. Please stream it! :)
The expansion to TTA is well worth it!
I can't recommend the expansion enough. The base game was already incredible, but the expansion elevated it to another level.
Do they still give away a Steam code for the app in the expansion box, or was that just some preorder thingy?
Great play through. Absolutely love TTA, it does everything a civ game should do, but in a relatively streamlined way despite how long it takes to play. Just very, very nicely designed.
TTA is a great game. Very nice stream.
1) The app is fantastic. Takes away the fiddliness away. Plus, AI expert and the challenges are excellent. Played 100s of times. 4p AI is 30 minutes on app.
2) When playing with high level players, you absolutely can’t fall behind in military or you will get pummeled.
3) I actually prefer Nations as a) you will get punished by falling behind on military, but it doesn’t destroy your game which happens in TTA and can ruin a game play session as that person who falls behind can become highly demoralized and know it will take several rounds to recover and they have no chance to win. b) you have asymmetric civs c) you can scale for levels of difficulty so an experienced player can better play a novice to put them on more equal footing d) less fiddly and plays a little quicker and the concept of take an action and it goes to another player in Nations is better than TTA where you take a boatload of actions and then realize you need to redo something and start your turn over AND the downtime in TTA much longer and is less desirable versus Nations where it’s take an action then play rotates e) tons of cards and not all get played so card “anticipating” is minimized and I think the card timing is less of a luck factor that affects gameplay from player to player f) has a solo mode. g) great expansion also … not just extra cards as also brings in the exploration concept on wonders and new civs h) weaves a better historical theme … the cards have many little known events and people so neat learning. i) less “Swingy” on final scoring (albeit some may like TTA for that on seeding end of game scoring). I could probably list more but I would choose Nations every time over TTA (and again, I’ve played TTA close to 1,000 times). Nations is a 10/10 for me with TTA an 8.5/10
So absolutely please give Nations some additional love and if you play try and play with the expansion if you can as it doesn’t increase the difficulty at all but does enhance the play.
It's the end of the second age and I am baffled by the fact that only a single production tech has been played; a mine from age one. Both Ed and Ken still have the two food production they started with. This is NOT how I was taught to play. I've been practically screaming, "BUILD MORE FARMS AND MINES!", the entire game.
Sorry. We will try to play better next time!👍🏼
@@Heavycardboard Don't sweat it. You put on a good show.
I have only played the app, but it is an awesome game for sure. Reminds me a little of Ark Nova (my favorite game).
would love to play this live
great Stream....but a little bit to short😛
All in a day’s work.
I prefer TTA, but the war/military system in Nations is cool
Nice thanks for the stream!
I decided to go on BIOS: Origins instead of this one. Never tried TTA but interested if someone tried both to give some intels. Thanks again!
As someone who has played both a number of times, they’re both great and completely different.
yeah, love 'em both