"Have you ever played Stone Age wargames?" Topic

Have you ever played Stone Age war games?
a) Yes
b) Yes, but I won't admit it.
c) Yes, with dinosaurs.
d) Yes, with Nazis.
e) Yes, with dinosaurs and Nazis
f) No, but I would.
g) No, never, no way, no how.
h) Maybe.
i) No comment

A,C,want to do D

I want to. I bought Prehistoric Settlement from Steve Barber a long time ago but never got around to playing it. I came across a bunch of figures for it at a convention flea market a couple of years ago but they havent made their way into my painting rotation yet.

a, but have never found aa set of rules which I liked.

No, but I would play anything if it had dinosaurs and Nazis

Yes, with log canoes made from twigs

A and C
Two Hour Wargames Adventures in the Lost Lands

Mike

E. Eat Hitler from pulp action library

E. Eat Hitler from pulp action library

No.

Someplace is my "Sticks and Stones" board game. Woolly Mastodon hunt is calling.

No, but I would with dinosaurs and Nazis

No.

F

f

I've played Prehistoric settlement and it is an excellent game. Painting Lucid Eye Neanderthals currently but my cavemen are definitely destined to appear alongside dinosaurs!

A & C.

a) Yes

But probably not how you're thinking. You seem to have 'Stone Age' pegged as cave men and dinosaurs. I collect and build for pre-contact North America, and it's all Stone Age baby, with feathers. I haven't found a fully satisfying set of rules yet, but I'm working on a few. "Going Native: Warpaths" is in play for big battles, and "Song of Drums and Tomahawks" is interesting for very small skirmishes. The new "Flintlock and Feather" rules from Mexican Jack Squint et al are also under study.

I also tried out the Steve Barber Prehistoric Settlement rules, but this is a cave man game, and not what I had in mind. I tried to adapt it for paleo-Indian caribou hunters, and there was too much chrome in the way. I'm sure it's a good game in its own right.

I picked up the board games "Mammoth Hunters" and "Settlers of the Stone Age", and they're not bad games, but neither of them does what I want. Also, my wargaming friends won't touch them, because they're not bloody enough – my boys want sweaty warriors to stab each other with pointy sticks, or they're not playing. I'm not having much luck getting my wife's friends to play, either.

I have a copy of the old Steve Jackson Games "Sticks and Stones", and it's set in kind of an odd world, where mammoths still roam, but people live in settled villages with domesticated goats. Still, if it was more miniature-oriented, less of a stacked-counters-in-a-hex design, this could do it. I'm interested in warfare among late-neolithic village farmers, and a rule set that could also cover People of the Wolf ice-age paleo-Indians would meet all my needs.

f

E – Eating Hitler with the local gaming club

Surprisingly fun – took the Little Prince who had a blast (and won)

g

Wait, there's a pre-historic board? Good grief!

F.

F

A&C

Hopefully Far Cry Primal on the PS4 in a few weeks does that count?

Let me shill for mine own work, which is fabulous in all ways, and dead cheap:

Caveman! Complete

ossibly the least evolved set of wargame rules ever. By which I mean "Since the glaciers retreated." Less than the price of a polished skull.

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Eat Hitler!

Berlin 1945: When Hitler and his cronies use a time machine to evade the final Soviet attack, things go from bad to ---- something else!

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Or both as the Prehistoric Bundle:

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C: what an absurd option – there were no dinosaurs in the Stone Age.

But, yes, I've played Stone Age games – but with proper hominids and fauna.

If you want C, you need to ask "have you ever played a fantasy game that mixes dinosaurs and cave men?" Or, maybe, Lost Worlds. I might go for a Lost Worlds game – but dinosaurs in the Stone Age. Pshaw!