Excellent family game

For many Stone Age is the game of the heart in 2008 and I also wonder how Keltis could make against this pearl the race. Classic family games can be found on this blog rather rare, but when Stone Age I had during the first party the impression of having available an optimal family game. But before I go into detail on the feel, I put the game first of all.

Why is?
Stone Age has actually not really a lot to do with the Stone Age. People come out of their sockets crept and begin to build huts and to grow crops. The game board is beautifully designed and has, like the entire game graphics, a large share of the high proportion of the game from Stone Age. There is a hunting ground, a forest, a Lehmabbaugebiet, a quarry, a river for gold panning and a village with a hut to increase the clan, a field in order to develop in the area of ​​agriculture and a forging is produced in the tool. Finally, we find currently expensive cabins, which are represented by stored platelets and four card storage places where workers can also be placed. In the village can only be placed one worker (in the hut of course two, alone can ill offspring testify), in the hunting area as many workers and on the resource fields of up to 7 workers. Each card or cabin that can be bought eventually requires a worker.
The workers are employed in turn, until each has no workers. Then the workers can carry out their work, where the player can decide on their own order. The raw materials are rolls, for every worker to have been used, one must roll a die. Depending on the resource you get a different number of raw materials. A food there for each full two, wood for each full three and finally gold for each completed six.
So once you have eg four workers in the forest, you roll four dice. The eyes are totaled. Once you erwürfelt example worth a total of 11 eyes has three full threes and gets correspondingly three wood. Food is therefore the easiest to kill, to erschürfen Gold hardest. Using tools can improve dice results, and thus sometimes the lack of an eye that would a gain a commodity more to add even more. Any progress in agriculture ensures that you automatically generate more food per round and must send fewer workers to hunt.
This is important, because after every execution round you have to take care of the family with a food per member.
Tickets cost between one and any four commodities and bring an end VPs. The Genäude also cost raw materials, sometimes fixed, sometimes arbitrary and immediately bring raw materials.
Once either one of four building stacks or the deck is empty, the game ends.

What is good for the whole?
Stone Age bridges the gap between heavy duty and light player. It is complex enough to also meet the requirements of multi-players simultaneously but also accessible enough for little players to enable rapid access and high gameplay.
That comes on the one hand by the dice. We must and can not be expected by all accurate, but is a little bit of luck with the dice depends. However, even in the related dimensions. I'll send some workers to search for gold and for that I must still without tools do not be surprised if they come empty handed. When hunting, however, also with little people, a high yield is possible, so that I can then send in a lot of people to build up stocks, I have to do but.
On the other hand, as already mentioned, the graphics very nice and invites you to play. The strategies are diverse, but manageable. One can perceive, however, a disadvantage that a direct interaction is not possible. One can only indirectly influence, where one is required by the players places. Although this is a bit of a shame, but. In most games of this genre is the case, even when Primus Agricola The game works by minor Regelanpasungen which do not alter the feel, in any occupation wonderful.

Conclusion
Stone Age provides for a very fair price high gaming with an unbeatable in this class material wealth and quality. The manual is very exemplary and enables a quick introduction to the game. Anyone looking for a great family game that provides hours of replay appeal or often plays in groups where multiplicity is hit Little players with this game, well served: missing for hardcore strategists certainly something of complexity and depth but also for me Stone Age is the true game 2008.