Epic game tonight, well 3 actually, but one, the first, really stood out.
End of the Third Age and 6 Gods, The Gate and 6 Progress Tokens are in play.
The War Track is on the last space (on my doorstep). 4 more shields came up after that, but no Mars or Wonder to access, and I scraped through.
I have 0 resources (2 gold cards, but no brown, no grey), Meg was plenty, but I still have 4 Wonders built (thanks to Architecture) and a wealth of blue cards (thanks to Masonry), Meg has 3 Wonders built.
I am sitting on 4 Science icons (with all 8 of the Age I & II science cards thanks to Hades) and Ishtar. Three more came into play, but Meg managed to deny me, while I denied her War cards.
Unusually, but not surprisingly, we were both near broke at the end.
No military victory, no science victory, only a reasonably strong points victory (to me surprisingly) 68 to 57 thanks to 2 Temple cards (sacrificed by Meg to deny me science cards and the win).
Meg won the next 64 to 61 despite me having my new favourite Engineering Card early and then I pulled off my second military win ever using The Mausoleum for a sneaky 3 shield card re-draw, early in the Third Age.
In comparison to the first game these seemed tame.
Our play has definitely stepped up.