I fitted in a short game of Palaeo Diet whilst I was on holiday. I'd loaded up my terrain because I'd planned to play HOTT with my sone, so sticking in the Palaeo Diet rules and the two small boxes with hunters and beasts in was no great hardship.
It was a basic no-frills hunt. I had four hunters - one each of the basic types. There were two large grazers and four herd grazers. So a win would be one of the rhinos or a couple of horses.
I sent most of my hunters to teh left, whilst the fire-wielder went to the right, upwind of the beasts. The aim was to use fire to drive the animals into the hunting party.
As it was, the bow-armed hunter took a shot at a horse and killed it instantly, so that was 50% of their target achieved with virtually no effort.
As it was, the bow-armed hunter took a shot at a horse and killed it instantly, so that was 50% of their target achieved with virtually no effort.
The animals panicked as a series of fires started by the fire-wielding hunter raged towards them. Interestingly beasts still base their moves on hunter proximity, so although fire dictates a reaction coumn, the move is still driven by the nearest (or active) hunter. This does mean animals will try and run towards (or around) fire. You have to position your hunters carefully to use a ground fire to move the animals in a specific direction. Panic is panic, I guess.
Anyway, the horses (which were now the primary target) moved towards the hunters.
They managed to wound one, which caused the three horses to race off past the fire. The hunters set off in pursuit.
The bowman brought down teh wounded horse. When hunting her grazers someone with missile weapons is worth their weight in meat.
The rapidly spreading fire also scared a couple of critters out of a thicket, but the hunters elected not to chase them. They concentrated on moving their first kill out of the path of the fire.
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