Stone Age Strategy Compilation. This is my 1st in depth strategy posting for a game but my win ratio in Stone Age has been pretty solid so hopefully I can add at least one branch to all of your strategy trees.
I'm going to divide this Stone Age strategy guide into two sections. 1st, and I know this has been talked about ad-nauseum, my take on The Relative Strengths of Meeples vs. Fields vs. Tools. 2nd. Before I go into depth about the 1st, let me clearly and concisely give you my take on the 2nd. How to Use the Starvation Strategy in Stone Age. Blog: Basic Strategy for Stone Age: Probability Analysis and a Downloadable Strategy Guide. Jenny (my wife) and I recently started playing Stone Age(links: BoardGameGeek, Amazon) by Rio Grande Games.
We have really enjoyed several of Rio Grande's games, including our all-time favorite, Dominion. Stone Age is also very fun. It revolves around strategically allocating workers ("people") to do one of several tasks such as acquiring resources, creating tools or generating more people. The resource acquisition game mechanic is of some interest because I found I didn't quite have an intuitive feel for the underlying probability distribution.
Workers can acquire one of several resources, each having a particular cost: food (2), wood (3), brick (4), stone (5), and gold (6). Example: If a player decided to acquire wood with four workers, four dice would be rolled. The maximum number of workers that can be allocated to any given resource acquisition project is seven, so a maximum of seven dice can be rolled. In this example, we look at the brick table in the row for "At least 4... ". Winning Stone Age Strategies. This is my 1st in depth strategy posting for a game but my win ratio in Stone Age has been pretty solid so hopefully I can add at least one branch to all of your strategy trees.
I'm going to divide this Stone Age strategy guide into two sections. 1st, and I know this has been talked about ad-naseum, my take on The Relative Strengths of Meeples vs. Fields vs. Tools. 2nd. Before I go into depth about the 1st, let me clearly and concisely give you my take on the 2nd. Cards are almost ALWAYS better than huts until the end of the game. The math is simple for everything except the shop cards. At the end of the game, you must concentrate on getting points fast and furious and finishing with no excess resources in your possession. Okay, not so concise, but you get the picture. Alright, now that we got through the easy part lets confront the more debated issue, the relative strengths of fields, tools, and people. FarmA farm produces 1 food per turn, and each food costs 2 pips. -Dave.