While we waited for Marty to show up, we played a couple of hands of Big Three.
Its sad that out of all of the more than five-hundred games that I own, Jon only wants to play less than a handful of them. He didn’t even want to play Antiquity, which I thought that he liked. So we played Through the Ages.
I tried going for a military economy. Chapel was out in the lead with a good point generating economy. At the mid game, Chapel was still in the lead, so we knew that we had to do something. I was able to assassinate his leader only two turns before the era ended. Marty built up his military and declared war on Mike. Mike was not able to defend against the aggression and went from first to third. Marty scored a lot of points towards the end of the game and this clinched first place for him. I secured second and Chapel was able to beat Jon for third place.