Long been a fan of Geisha games SOBH and the other having a collection of the skirmish table top games, so when the Palaeo Diet skirmish game was on the LAF with some reports and AAR's I looked into it. Its a cave man hunting game for the table top a band seeks food and must hunt the animals /creatures and gain food, using a reaction roll for the beasts they all react to the situations around or that affect them. I have a vast collection of beast/ animals and cave people so give it a go.
I rolled for the locations of the beast and set them up on a 3x3 table and added 4 terrain pieces a simple test game, pitting 5 cave men against them
The tribe of Yug enter the table, each time a miniature is activated up to 3 dice can be rolled affect the outcome for the beasts around. the party moves trying to outflank the beasts.
The leader Tor alone seeks honor fo the kill
in the undergrowth a panther smells new prey himself
Disturbed by the hunters the panther charges attacking the closest hunter
the panther hits and wounds the cave man
Tor still tries to sneak close to his target
the panther slays the hunter
as another charges and strikes hard with his club
A second finishes it off aiding his fellow hunter
Tor attacks a heard of wild pigs
Another gets close to a young bull wounding it
Tor suddenly finds himself attacked by the pigs and a charging bull (reaction rolls the beasts attacked loads of fun)
the young bull makes a dash but the hunters spear stops it in its tracks
a scared huge grazer moves off in the commotion of the hunt
Tor slays one wild pig as another achrage him
he slays the last one in a sweep of his axe
a hunter throws his spear felling the last bull
The hunters collected only 10 food, as the rest left the table in fright, so perhaps not a very good day out and lost one of there own to the panther
The second game as a larger 2x4 party hunting 4 mighty Shaggy Rhinos
I placed 4 in random on the table and the 2 groups entered at separate corners
3 almost in once quarter so perhaps flank an get them all
Tors hunting party on the left and
Teelas on the right
the hunters rush and the Rhinos react
Tor and lak charge forward
Tor seeking glory attacks a mighty beast
it roars and all back off then flees away into the right party of hunters who approached
it charges a hunter head on
and his fate is sealed by the mighty beast who turns and charges back at Tor
striking hard he is wounded as lak throws her spear at the beast
it roars and backs off unharmed
the right party tires to close the gap
the left rushes pushing the Rhino back
surrounded it stands it ground
Laks spear throwing finds a vital spot the beast is wounded badly it staggers angry
another hunter howls and the mighty rhino is scared into the the hunters again
passing spears it seems to find escape
But tor charges in though wounded he stops the beast dead, victory but only 1 of the mighty beasts from 4 is a poor days work, also the loss of a hunter and tors wounds
the heard is free.
The game works very well and is loads of fun once you get the reactions and how things work. very enjoyable and recommended to all gamers of this time and place
