Through the Ages - How to Play 

0:08 Intro 1:25 PLAYER BOARD 2:16 Difference between Cubes and Cards 2:53 Worker Pool 3:04 Yellow Bank 3:38 White & Red Cubes 4:04 COMPLETE START OF GAME SETUP 4:34 Dealing Age A Cards onto Card Row 4:58 GREEN'S FIRST TURN 5:17 Green Gains a Wonder 5:50 GREEN'S PRODUCTION PHASE 6:00 Science & Culture Tracks 6:20 Total Science/Culture vs Science/Culture per Turn 6:53 Food Production 7:25 Resource Production 7:52 RED'S FIRST TURN 8:04 Red Gains a Leader 8:20 Red Gains an Action Card 8:49 START OF ROUND 2 9:43 End of Age A 10:17 GREEN'S SECOND TURN 10:28 Building a Wonder 10:50 Building a Mine 11:31 Cube Limits 11:47 Getting more Workers 14:15 Unused Military Actions 15:24 RED'S SECOND TURN 16:01 Playing Cards From Your Hand 16:33 Playing a Leader 16:46 Technology Cards 18:23 START OF ROUND 3 19:03 Politics Phase 19:25 Event Cards 19:49 Event Area 20:15 Playing an Event Card 21:49 Playing a Tactics Card 22:32 Building a Warrior 23:17 Building a Stage of a Wonder 24:17 Gaining a Second Leader 25:35 Hand Limits 26:16 Uprisings & The Happiness Marker 29:16 Food Consumption 30:30 Territory and Defense Cards 31:52 Building a Temple 32:55 Corruption 35:16 Gaining & Playing Technology Cards 36:19 Upgrading 37:14 Disbanding 38:45 Making Exclusive Tactics Available 39:45 Completing a Wonder 42:29 Upgraded Production

The rule book drove me to drink. This vid was very helpful. Thank you

This is most probably the best rule explanation I saw in a very long time. Thank you very much.

A very smooth transfer to non-digital. Well done, Paul!

im just here because my grade 8 teachers told me to play this game for social studies, anyone else..? I think not.

Just got this game. This is the best playthrough of this game on RU-vid. Good job.

great video, Paul. I had no clue how to play this one, but this video saved my life. and my marriage. heck, it even cured hemorrhoids in the process.

Man this was priceless! I'll buy this game as soon as it gets published in Polish ;)

Yah!-A scientist called Derek! Seriusly good!Will pick this up-possibly play at Credition?

i love it l am playing it in mobile because it had not published in nepal

HA!! I just laughed out loud when I heard they way you jokingly pronounced "knights" - con-nig-uts - LOL!! Thanks for this excellent video! One more game has been added to my must have list!

Thank you for your video! Every aspect of the game has been explained so clearly from you that this is the best tutorial video I've ever seen on this game! I had been wanting to play this game for a very long time and now I can do it with no fear!

We spoke at the UK Games Expo and you explained and recommended it. I know it was a while ago but it took me this long to get around to getting and playing it and just wanted to say a BIG thank you for that strong recommendation. It is a great game. Not quite as fulfilling as the PC game but still a very enjoyable board game non the less.

Brilliant video, Ill go and watch part 2 immediately. Very good way of explaining rules incrementally. Thank you so much for making this.

Hi there, great vid! Just a question i found playing. Leaders effects last every round when active (like Hammurabi's in your vid). I played Jeanne D'arc, who gives as strenght points, as smiley faces in my temples and kingdom in general. That effect has to be repeated every round? It just seemed like an impossible advantage having like 5/6 points of strenght each round for the whole Age I. Or is that effect only used once and just keeping the logo effects from the bottom? Thanks!!!

I really want to play this now !! :)

Great stuff, thanks! Finally. another non-digital walkthough :-). Feels like the good old Mage Knight times (I did tell you that this was what got me into making walkthoughs, right?).

Great tutorial - very clear commentary and demo of the steps. Helped me to finally understand how the basics work.

great and helpful video! thanks!

What's the point of there being an A military deck if the only action you can do during the first round (which is the only time they're available) is draft cards? Are they just some events?

I love Hammurabi! It's definitely the beard and hat. :)

what is the ship symbol?

Thanks for this; trying to learn the game via the app and while it’s a good tutorial, it left a lot of small details out. Maybe I’ll win a game now that I have a better idea as to what the heck I’m doing!

This was REALLY helpful and clear, thank you !

Looks like a super fun game! Thanks for the great explanation!

Looks like an interesting game, but it makes no sense that science is already happening before the superstition. That is not historical at all. But it is a game after all.

OMG what a fantastic game, we had our first game tonight and it was great, thank you so much for explaining everything i especially love the way avo888 indexed the video which made it simple to look up how its works as we played. THANK YOU

Great video, if you need to pay one food and you have a cube that represents 2 food do you get one cube back on the card that represents one food? Or do you lose the two food? Basically do you get change back when paying for food or resources?

At 32:48 the green "Culture-for-turn" token should be moved foward by one space because of the bonus provided by the temple builded thanks to the event effect (sorry for my english, i hope that i was able to explain myself ... ^^') From Italy: "Thanks alot for this video, really clear even for a non-English native speaker like me ;)"

Great video! I last played the original TTA over a year ago and my copy of the new game arrived today without the Handbook (as it wasn't ready in time for Essen, but it's due around the end of October) so this helped to refresh my memory in the meantime. Looking forward to part 2.

thanks Paul for getting this video on so quickly. I look forward to the next part

Excellent intro. Clear and concise. Thank you!

Wonderful video, thank you! At 35:37 you mention that taking a technology cards causes a player to gain one science. I can't seem to find that rule anywhere else.

Thanks for those 2 videos! On my board game rules, they dont mention about that first "military card" for the first player that you placed for the green player

Whatta pro!!! In one take, well done.

0 dislikes .. COOL

Which edition of the game is this? Having a hard time to find game with this printing

Thanks for the video, Paul! I'm having future players watch this before we sit down at the table. Here are a few facts that were omitted from this video: 1. After shuffling the future events deck but before placing it in the current events space you must sort the deck by age having the earlier ages higher in the deck. 2. When gaining food or resources from a card or effect (not production), they are gained at the "one" denomination. (I'm incorrect on this one.) 3. A player's tactics standard is placed on it when it is played. 4. Unused tactics standards are placed in the common tactics area.

Thanks, this is a very clear introduction to the game!

this game looks great

Age III Air Force units, can someone please break down the calculations in the simplest form for Air Force and tactics I just can’t grasp it.

Hello, thank you very much for this video! I have question. What for are the military cards from age A, when we have no military cubes and right after first round is the age 1, so we have no chance to draw them. Or are there only events in them?

This is a great explanation for a complex game.

Amazing! Thanks. Will watch part 2

In which part of England do they pronounce knights as "knigets"? Is it near Mancester? I understand that for locals, some times, cities such as knutsford might be pronounced "kanutsford" (with the "u" pronounced in a closed manner). Great job with this demo, Paul. Keep up the good work.

Excellent video Paul... really good stuff :)

Really GREAT game but complex enought to REALLY need your teach. Thank you for sharing and helping make this classic more accessible

Did you say… Kneeghets?

At the end of Green's 1st turn you didn't threw out the first 3 cards nor filled up the board, is that intended? you did it tho' after green's 2nd turn.

at 15:30 you remove the first 3 cards before the 2nd player play's his turn ? that's normal ?? (Age A you had both player choose before doing so.) so in between each players turn you remove the appropriate number of cards, move down the remaining and add new cards ? so that the card row is always full before a players turn ???

Do you draw military cards, during the production phase, on your first turn as well?

Phenomenal work! Thanks a lot. The Polish edition has been released without the rulebook (there have been so problems with translation on time) and the publisher directed to an instructional video, so the game could be released on time. Although, this video has been done rather well, your's fantastic, so logically, I prefer yours :) I've subscribed to your channel and I'll have a look at some of your other videos later on :) Keep up the good work, cheers,

Bloody brilliant Paul

Hello, 1st of all nice video. I have a few questions because i cant quite understand the rule book about this one. 1. For example, if you have a tactics card (2 cannons) that gives you a bonus strength of 5, can you make 2 more cannons and get another 5 bonus strength ? 2. Can you have more than 2 tactics ? 3. Do you lose your strength when you sacrifice your army while colonizing a territory ? 4. For example, you want to upgrade your military card. Does it make you spend 2 of your military actions? 1 to play the card from your hand and 1 to actually upgrade/build your unit? 5. Can you play 3 lab cards if you have a limit of 2 urban buildings, and then have 2 yellow cubes on one of them? That still counts as 2 labs cause there are only 2 yellow cubes on them, right ? Sorry if there are too many questions, but please answer if you can. :)

Thanks for doing this video, I went to play today against two people who had played before. One suggested to me watch this to get a better idea of how to play. I was able to sit down and play with only a few questions.

Nice explanation, appreciate your work.

Paul, I just came across this video from years ago! You gotta grow back the beard/12 o clock shadow dude!!

13:40 it hurts to see someone taking hammurabi and not playing it and using a military action for other thing you did. It's like a waste of CA

Glad for the Video as my essen game came without a rulebook and I haven't played the 1st edition.

Do we re draw the cards before every player's turn? Or at the end of the round?

Looks fun, I just wish I knew people that actually were into playing something this large of scale.

Thank you Paul! You're the best!

thank you for this!! Want to play on BGA and def buying this after corona's done

Nice explanation, as a non-english speaker I actually understood. Very clear.

Napoleón, Julio César, Einstein AND who Is the other????

very good, best i've saw

hi. are you the designer by any chance?

Thanks a lot Paul!!

Keep going with your amazing introduction videos!!!

Just got this game at Boxing Day. Want to get this to the table soon! Good job.

Hey there. Great Video! We Played it yesterday with 4 Players. In the 3rd Age i declared a war to another player. There was no Chance for Him to Win this war so he surrendered. He gave up, quit and we went on with 3 Players. Now my question: We did not find Anything about whats Happening if One player is Going to surrender (because of no Chance to win, to be honestly.) Do You Know how to handle this Kind of situation? Thank You and excuse me for My Bad english.

I keep coming back to this video! It's the best how to play video on this game

First of all, sry for my english ;) Thanks for the video, it helps a lot :) But I have two questions: If an action card says: XY player gets 3 food, and you have an Irrigation, for example, then you may take 2 cubes? 1 to agriculture, and 1 to irrigation? Or you have to put 3 to agriculture? Another: If I have 2 cubes on irrigation, and I have to pay 1 food, then, is it correct to put one cube from irrigation to agriculture? Thanks a lot!

who the heck says Keh-nee-Guts instead of Knights 18:55

Thank you for this amazing tutorial Paul

A perfect explanation of how to play "TtA". Congratulations and thank you for publishing it!! :-)

Very nice introduction ! thanks can't wait to play this game)

I've recently brought this game and have read through the rule booklet a few times over by this point, however your videos (part 1 and part 2) really started me off and have really been helpful. I've watched them more than twice to get a full flavour of the turn play and rules. Great pace and information, good use of close ups. Thank you so much for your effort Paul.

Immensely helpful. Got this game for Christmas - love it

Hey Paul! At [42:00] you mention that playing Irrigation costs an amount of science that green does not have. However you kept irrigation on the table, and upgraded to it. How did that work? Thanks for your awesome vids!!!! ;)

Great video! Thanks so much for that! I ordered the game :))

At 39:00, explaining Tactics Cards - you said that Red in his next turn could just copy Green's tactic card. I thought that Green would have exclusive use of the tactic for a *whole round* i.e. until every other player has had a one turn. So Red could not immediately copy the tactic in the turn directly after Green.

You slide cards down after every turn?

Well explain! Thanks a lot! Lazy me is happy

from watching your video, it seems to me that you would never have the opportunity to draw an age A military card from the military deck/stack. So why us it there?

Thank you! Excellent and really helpful!

At 5:30 the rulebook suggests playing the Wonder card sideways so that its clear its still "under construction".

Nice Video! Im really obssesed with the first version and I live in the US. Where did you buy the new version.

Nice explanation, appreciate your work.

Great Job mate

Thanks for making these tutorials! It makes the rulebook much less intimidating

Sweet. Thx

best !

Epic, big pp

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Quick question: when you defend yourself against aggressions, you get to use a maximum number of cards equal to that of your military actions. By military actions you mean the number of unused military actions or the maximum potential number of military actions your government allows? Thank you for the video! It was freaking useful!

18:58 Is this supposed to be joke? Knight? kunigit?

thanks for the rules vid. Paul. What's the purpose for drawing the "A" military card under greens player board at the beginning of the game?

43:15 om nom nom nom nom nom

Nice walkthrough. Nothing against Rahdo, but I found his akin to sitting through an ADHD kid's oral report of what they did for the day.