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Bios Megafauna

Dinosaurs vs. Mammals

Players take up the roles of proto-saurs or proto-mammals, in the aftermath of the great mass extinction of the Perm catastrophe. You must adapt to the changes of environment and competition among species, must create new species and let them mutate, even to bizarre chimeras. The development of a species is recorded using dental information, size and behavioral characteristics throughout the game. Extinct plants and animals are collected in the tar pit.

In each turn you can resolve one action - a card action, change size of a species, enter an animal from stock according to requirements or enter an animal from stock into a habitat within the limits of the migration radius. Then conflicts between herbivores and then conflicts between herbivores are. In the aftermath of those conflicts animals or immigrants without feed or losers of conflict are culled. In a scoring round after the last card of an era has been played, populations are counted, the sum of all animals for the species of t players; the player owning the highest population gets the Leader position and the positions Two to Four are determined; then the Leader takes half of the tiles in the tar pit, rounded up; those tiles are the “Fossil Record” and each tile is worth one victory point at the end of the game.

Bios Megafauna is the latest game in a range of games in which Phil Eklund has been featuring the topic auf plant and animal evolution for years; a great, highly interesting game when you are willing to delve into the topic and the terminology which is quite unusual in a game; both rules and topic demand a bit of gaming experience.

Players: 1-4

Age: 12+

Time: 90+

Designer: Phil Eklund

Art: Tim Park

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Sierra Madre Games 2011

Web: www.sierra-madre-games.com

Genre: Development game

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Sequel to American Megafauna

Rules demand intensive looking-into and familiarity with biological terms

Same gaming experience necessary

Compares to:

American Megafauna, Origins

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0