Age of Mythology

    6 player boards (2 Egyptian, 2 Greek, 2 Norse)
    6 plastic runners containing pieces (2 Egyptian, 2 Greek, 2 Norse)
    3 decks of cards (each deck containing battle cards, permanent action cards, and random action cards for one culture)
    4 victory cards
    1 sheet of cardboard tiles (buildings and resource producing)
    8 T6 dice
150 wooden cubes (30 of each: green, brown, yellow, blue, and red)
             Green, Blue, Light Brown, and Yellow are used to represent “Resources”, and Red is used to represent “Victory Points”.  
    1 rules manual
    1 reference card

Deciding how many Random Action cards to have in your hand is one of the key decisions in the game. If you have too few in your mix, you run the risk of falling behind players who play more of these powerful cards. Selecting too many Random Action cards can easily lead to disaster when you draw cards that you cannot use effectively.

This is why advancing to later “Ages” is so important. It allows you to select enough Permanent Action cards to ensure that you can always do what you need to, while simultaneously selecting enough Random cards to ensure that you have access to more powerful actions.

The game consists of the following phases each round:
- Placement of 3 Victory Point Cubes on one of the Victory condition cards (limits the game to 10 rounds)
- Action Card Draw (keep 4-7 cards depending on Age)
- Three Rounds of Action Card Play
- Resource Spoilage (keep max 5 cubes of each type between rounds)
- Discarding (you may discard some random event cards in your hand, the rest are kept to the next Action Card Draw)
- Starting Player Rotates  

The weakness of the game is that battles has plenty of dice rolling and they are often exhausting the involved parties and rather makes the non-participant player the real winner. The miniatures are a kind of rock-scissor-paper style, as Mortals are better than Heroes, which are better than Myth creatures, which are better than Mortals. It's both an advantage and disadvantage than this makes the game pretty peaceful, as the resource collection and building up of your city is the most fun of this game. I enjoy the game, but it's difficult to convince my friends to play it.