Game Info
Year
2022
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Stone Age game where players lead tribes scouting new lands harvesting resources building villages through point-to-point movement
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Pros
- Clear setup and playthrough for Fire and Stone
- Demonstrates how to handle conversions of resources, huts, and regions
Cons
- Pace may be slow for some players; a lot of components to manage
Thematic elements
- tribal survival, exploration, invention
- Board divided into three regions; players spread across the globe hunting and gathering to survive, building huts and inventions
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cave_card — A cave tile allows paying food to buy top VP cards; can be used only once per game.
- discovery_tiles — Tiles are flipped to reveal their type; some have discovery effects resolved immediately.
- end game bonuses — End-of-game scoring comprises VP cards, huts majority, lake adjacency bonuses, and final scoring after all players take final turns.
- end_game_scoring_and_final_turns — End-of-game scoring comprises VP cards, huts majority, lake adjacency bonuses, and final scoring after all players take final turns.
- forest_and_animal_tiles — Forest tiles allow moving animal tiles from the area and placing them on your mat or back to discard; animal tiles provide ongoing benefits.
- gathering_tiles — Gathering tiles offer choices to gain food or place tiles on one of two tracks, with track-type restrictions.
- hut_tiles_and_tracks — Revealing huts adds huts to a hut track; entering regions becomes allowed after certain thresholds; huts trigger region unlocking.
- inventions_and_shipbuilding — Inventions grant permanent effects; shipbuilding enables moves along certain connections; placing VP cards on inventions.
- main_actions — After revealing a tile, you may perform its main action.
- Move — On your turn, move a scout up to two spaces (minimum one); cannot end on the starting space; multiple scouts may share a space.
- Multi-use cards — A cave tile allows paying food to buy top VP cards; can be used only once per game.
- Resource management — Gain food and bag tokens; food capacity limited by number of bags; discard excess food if full.
- resources_and_storage — Gain food and bag tokens; food capacity limited by number of bags; discard excess food if full.
- Tile/Map Shifting — Tiles are flipped to reveal their type; some have discovery effects resolved immediately.
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Quotes (from this video)
- in fire and stone you and the other players will spread out across the globe hunting and gathering food developing new inventions and building huts for your growing population all in an effort to gain the most victory points by the end of the game
- the forest's main action is to take all of the animal tiles from that area
- on your turn you'll perform two steps, starting with the move step here you move your scout from the space it's in up to two adjacent spaces away
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