"hail caesar mammoth hunt" Topic

I'm working on a scenario for hail Caesar, with Clovis culture native Americans hunting mammoths. Each player will either control atlatl and sling wielding mammoth hunters, or packs of feral wolves, or the wooly beasts themselves.
What do you think? Doable?

Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

I'm treating atlatls like slings, and taking the sling rule away from the slings. Wolves are tiny groups of light infantry, mammoths are elephants with a stat-boost. The native Americans come in 2 varieties, sling wielding skirmishers, or atlatl and spear wielding light infantry, they can also take hunting dogs, which I will count as tiny groups of skirmishers, they just find the mammoth.

Do you think you could do more with a sling than annoy a mammoth? Seems to me you need to put a stone point deep into a vital spot, preferably more than one point. The sling might discourage a wolf.

For realism, you need to put your hunters in danger, but have only a tiny chance that one will be killed or crippled. It takes 15 or 16 years, minimum, to make a hunter. A band that routinely loses hunters is a dead band. A lost hunter should yield a lost game. Of course since it's just a game, you might choose to go for drama over realism.

Caribou are safer prey to take. But a mammoth is a big meat package. You can feed the whole band for a week on one mammoth, longer if you can preserve the meat by jerking it or sinking it in cold water.

Sounds like fun.

Well hail Caesar works with units, rather than individuals. Of course each of my units for the native Americans is comprised of about 6 bodies. This is made to represent a large hunt, days of tracking, multiple bands working together.

If one guy dies, it is a loss to the band. Although, if a band reaches half "health " nature does win the scenario. also if wolves kill the mammoth before the hunters do, the hunters lose as well.

As to the sling, it is prime for ing off mammoths. I read an article a few days ago about using slings to scare mammoth, while the atlatl wielding troops buried darts in his side.

I don't play Hail Caesar, but if it's a set of wargame rules, it's probably geared towards causing casualties on both sides. Cool. Have fun.

I'm watching ICE AGE GIANTS with the cute Alice Roberts currently. Some nice CGI Mammoth action & data

also if wolves kill the mammoth before the hunters do, the hunters lose as well.

How so?

That just means its time to kill the wolves instead! ;)