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Prehistory

Life in the stone Age

Food reserves are depleted, tribes looks for new areas to settle; you acquire and administrate food and other resources. Every player holds a player board with a Weather tile; the central board shows six Pricing tiles in six action areas.

In a round, you resolve phases: Winter, from round 2; a new Pricing tile is used, slots for fishing and gathering are replenished and the remaining hunting and ceremony cards are discarded and replaced by five new cards each. Spring: You rotate your Rotate Weather tile by one position, take the corresponding resources and can then use them to do, in turn, one of the six actions from the central Pricing tile, or pass. Summer - Resources cubes on the trilith bases are moved to the final plinth and thus turn into action markers; each player selects one trilith, takes the cubes and uses them for actions of the corresponding colors, in the order of Rock painting, Gathering, Ceremony, Fishing, Hunting and Migration. Then you receive victory points and development points depending on your position on the fishing track. Autumn - You can move tribe members on the area map and implement the action of the slot that you reached.

After five such rounds you score development points, rock paintings, animals, sets of gathering tiles, megaliths and, when requirements are met, for ceremony cards.

A highly complex and highly interesting game, offering various strategies; core mechanism are the resources cubes in their double function as resource for action and action markers according to color; this was already introduced in Ave Roma, here it is refined and intensified in a hidden jewel of a game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Attila Szögyi

Artist: Attila Szögyi, Gyula Pozsgay

Price: ca. 80 Euro

Publisher: A-games 2018

Web: www.a-games.hu

Genre: Resources, Worker placement

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr hu

In-game text: no

Comments:

Optimized core mechanism from Ave Roma

Many different strategies

Use resources for actions to create actions later

Compares to:

Ave Roma, Games on Settling, Resources & Worker placement

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0