In Civility you are the leader of a growing city and its people. It is your responsibility to raise an army, strengthen your city through economic and technological growth, and make sure your people are healthy and well educated. War will gain you more power and status, but the pacifist will acquire allies and other important skills. The choice is yours; strategy and planning is key. Will you choose the path of war and manipulation? Or will you be the great leader in Civility?

7 Wonders: Cities, the second expansion for 7 Wonders, includes optional team rules, a new type of card (black, representing the remains of cities), and new cards of old types (two new wonders: Petras and Byzantium, new guild and leader cards associated with black cards). This expansion is more aggressive, with greatly increased interaction between players, who are still trying to score more points than anyone else.
With the team rules, you can play with up to eight players, with the players divided into teams who sit next to one another …

In Archipelago, players are Renaissance European powers competing in the exploration of a Carribean archipelago. They will explore territories, harvest resources, use those resources in markets both internal (for their use and that of the natives) and foreign (to sell it in Europe), build markets, harbors, cities and temples, and negotiate among themselves (and maybe betray each other) – all this to complete their secret objectives.

An instant classic. Caylus is a medium-heavy worker placement and resource management board game centering around civilization building in 13th century France.

Work together with the other players to build a space station before the Sābēn can send enough enemy ships to wipe you out.

One of the most important games out of the 80′s – with a reach across many different categories of gamers.

Game about the growth and expansion into North America.

The designer of a few key games that significantly effected the general (and my) gaming world.

In Age of Renaissance, each player takes the role of one of six commercial capitals of Europe: Venice, Genoa, Barcelona, London, Paris, andHamburg.

What choices would you make building Civilization !