Caveman!
First off was Pulp Action Library's Caveman game, a very fun, quick & simple game about prehistoric warfare. The things that sold me on this game were:
- Players actually threw "rocks" at the other players (not the figures) to see if they hit with their missiles.
- Combat is determined by rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissor (originally Cavemen played Rock, Rock, Rock, but that lacked the sophistication to provide a suitable resolution for the wargame rules).
- The only "dice" used in the game are flat rocks with red goo on one side & black goo on the other. Red is good, black is bad, since it's better to be red than dead.
- The players are expected to actually dance & chant to get the favor of the Gods (GM), & only communicate in grunts & hand gestures.
3 people played the game. I called them Lar, Atouk & Gog since they couldn't talk. This is the board laid out. Each tribe of cavemen came in from one of the corners, with the objective of getting food.
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The food is a family of mammoths, with a saber tooth tiger stalking them in the bushes.
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A few pictures of the different tribes.
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They are the Tim Mee 1/48 scale plastic cavemen that you can still get on Amazon.
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& these are the tools of the game: magic yellow totems used by the tribe's shaman, "rocks" for throwing made out of foam, & cave "dice". The caveman on the right is the shaman since his blonde hair is obviously magical.
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The tribe converge on the Mammoth family...
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The Mammoths scattered, but the cavemen quickly realized ganging up on the Mammoths is the way to go.
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One tribe killed & drug off the saber tooth tiger, but another tribe finally killed one of the Mammoths, winning the game.
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Eat Hitler
The 2nd game was another by Pulp Action Library, Eat Hitler. In 1945, Hitler & his senior staff try to travel back to 1939 to do it right the 2nd time. But they have a faulty ocillation overthruster & instead travel back to the Jurassic era (which looks strangely like the Paleolithic era where the Cavemen live).
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In the game, you play dinosaurs trying to get through the crunchy Nazi shell to the soft chewy Hitler center. There are dinos from T Rex down to Raptors & Pterodactyls. The players also move the Nazis & herbivore dinosaurs to either get them in the way of the other players, or move them out of the way of their own dinos.
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We had players from 6 yrs old, on up, & all had fun.
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First on the officer buffet was Himmler with all the Raptors joining in.
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The Pterodactyls gobbled up a trooper before confronting Hitler. But once they finally grabbed him to take him back to their aerie, the Raptor player used his Nazi activation to shoot the Pterodactyl & make him drop Hitler.
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Then the Allosaurus gobbled Hitler up before the other 2 could move again.
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You can barely see Hitler throwing his Heil Nazi gang sign before greasing the Allosaurus' gullet.
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& here is the final count for the Pterodactyl's larder to feed their young.
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The Allosaurus won since he ate both Hitler & Goering, & immediately went to the Dinosaur Emergency Room with severe stomach pains.
DUST Rumble in the Jungle
The final game was a joint effort by my local club. I was one of the assistant GMs & helped a bit on the terrain.
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We played a big game of DUST Warfare simplified for the convention. For those not familiar with the DUST family of Weird World War 2 games, it's the 1950s & WW2 is still going, but with alien and advanced technology. The game includes rocket jump packs, zombies & gorilla troops, plus a variety of walkers.
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Our game centered around an alien flying saucer that crashed into the African jungle (& there also happened to be dinosaurs in the area).
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The saucer was built by one of our club members. He used 2 plastic snow saucers, & put flickering LED tea lights the smoke to make it look like it was on fire.
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He even put bits & pieces inside the saucer to make it look completely alien.
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Allied rocket troops fight with Axis gorillas over control of the saucer, with the rest of the troops try to pick up the alien debris scattered behind the crash.
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We ran 2 games for 10 players each & both went well. We'll be running the game again at Kublacon & Pacificon if you're interested in trying it.
Fantastic! My kind of kooky madness and fun!
ReplyDeleteA rumble in the jungle: looks like it was lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure!!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff!
ReplyDeleteBrian