Another Hunt Down-Under

I decided to use a larger group of my Australian Aboriginal hunters for my latest Palaeo Diet game. This time six hunters were looking to pick up six Bulk of food. On the table were three Diprotodons and five kangaroos. A Megalania was also lurking about.

I chose three spear-armed hunters, one with a ranged weapon, one with a club and one with fire. The latter was to keep the predator away.

As is standard, the hunters spread out ready to take up positions where they could split one Diprotodon from the group for their first kill. Then they'd either pick off some roos for the rest or take another giant wombat.

They pelted the Diprotodons with rocks and two of them shuffled off out of the way. The kangaroos were strangely unconcerned.

The hunters isolated a Diprotodon, and attacked, but they couldn't seem to wound it. The Dipotodon got tremendously angry and charged.

In fact it was so angry that it charged and crushed one of the hunters.

A second Diprotodon also wounded one of the hunters. This group was particularly stroppy.

The hunters continued to throw spears at the first Diprotodon, and seriously wounded it. This only seemed to make it even more angry, and it charged again, wounding one of the hunters.

The Megalania was very excited by all of the bloodshed, and came over to investigate, but was driven off by the fire-wielder.

The Diprotodon crushed another hunter.

The Megalania continued to be frustrated, unable to close up on all of the tasty meals that were available because of the pesky fire-user.

The club-armed hunter moved up to finish off the Diprotodon. He missed and the Diprotodon killed him as well.

And it kept attacking. With three of the six hunters now out of action, I decided to call it a day for this hunt. It was a complete failure.

The final positions. Three hunters were down and a fourth was injured. I'd sent the hunter with boomerangs out to see if he could take down some roos, but he never got the chance.

So a terribly short game, despite all of the moving parts involved.