From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Settlers of the Stone Age
Settlers of the Stone Age
The Settlers of the Stone Age is a German board game, heav- A player has a limited supply of settlements, and if the
ily based on The Settlers of Catan, with a stone age theme. supply is exhausted, one settlement must be disbanded to
It is a member of the Catan series of games, and as such make room for the new settlement.
it is created by Klaus Teuber and published by Kosmos in Resources may also be spent on developing technolo-
German and Mayfair Games in English. gies in one of four different paths, each of which has their
own benefits. The first player to reach the highest level
Gameplay in any given technology is awarded victory points.
Scattered throughout the board are exploration
The game is played upon a fixed board representing a markers, which may be uncovered if a player has the
map of the world. Each player is in control of a separate sufficient levels of technology and has an explorer that
tribe, and the tribes have, at the start of the game, colo- moves past the marker. Exploration markers may grant
nized the entire continent of Africa. Players seek to gain victory points, cause desertification in Africa (where hex-
victory points by settling in the four other major areas es cease to become productive), or allow the player to
around the board: Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Amer- move either one of the game’s two robber figures: the ne-
icas. anderthal and the sabre-toothed tiger.[1]
Gameplay is similar to Catan in that resources are col-
lected in the same manner, but that is how the similari-
ties end. To expand, players must use their resources to
References
create explorers, then use resources to move the explor- [1] http://www.profeasy.com/SettlersoftheStoneAge/
ers to a new location, where, for an additional cost in re- index.html
sources, the explorers are turned into new settlements.
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