12-Player Game of Age of Mythology

So I walk into the Strategy Gaming session that my buddy Tim runs with the local middle and high schoolers.  Usually I'm in the mix for the entire day but I've been catching up on about a hundred jobs around the house and yard and needed to let my son make the trip on his own this time.  But I finished up at home around 3 and headed
over early, only to find twelve kids all in on one big-ass game of Age of Empires!  He had put four tables together in a big rectangle and had two copies of the game fully used in one single game.  I just walked in and smiled and shook my head.