three games and i still don't know how I feel about the age transitions. you build up your civ, get attached to your guys, then the screen goes black and suddenly im playing the Normans? cool i guess. some of the leader/civ pairings are funny in a bad way. crises are interesting on paper but in practice it's just a debuff window where you wait for the next age to start. UI is rough too, took me an hour to find where they hid trade routes. if you can wait a year or two this will probably be the civ to play. right now it feels like they shipped the skeleton