Father & Son game

 My clubs voted on playing Paleo Diet Eat or be Eaten for our September game. Unfortunately the only members who could make it were my son Thomas and myself. We ended up just having a good father and son game together. 

I set up the terrain and then let Thomas pick what animals, their numbers, and distribution we'd be facing. 

He put a small pack of wolves in a thicket of trees.

A small flock of Terror Birds with a nest (I ended up changing it to 1 instead of 3).

A Cave Bear prowling the hill top.

A young Mastodon drinking from the marsh and a small heard of Antelope in the central clearing.

Prepping the game aids.

I selected a hunting party of 8, 4 with clubs and 4 with spears. I then let Thomas pick 2 from the spear group and 2 from the club group to make up his party. I took the remaining 4. 

Thomas's hunters started in the center of his side, between the hill and the woods with wolves. This put him in close proximity to all 3 of the predator groups on the table.

I split my part in half and spread them out. This way I could coral the Antelopes if they started to flee. 

Thomas cautiously snuck up behind the Mastodon while I approached the small herd of Antelope from 2 sides.

The Antelope got spooked by one of my groups and began wandering off.

Thomas tried to stab the Mastodon in the rear but it just got annoyed and maid a loud trumpeting causing his hunters to slink back in fear.

However his huntress was not deterred and made another attempt. This time the large beast took a wound. It tried to flee but got bogged down in the...bog. 

He was quite happy to get first blood.

I continued to pursue the Antelope but just drove them towards Thomas's hunters.

Thomas made another attempt on the Mastadon but this time he just pissed it off and it turned on his huntress. Luckily she nimbly dodge the swinging tusks and trunk. A follow up attack by one of the club armed hunters resulted in a wound for the hunter.

Thomas then got a bit of luck by slaying one of the Antelope I had driven his way. This gave us our first to bulk of meat (needed 8 for a successful hunt).

I followed up his success by downing a second Antelope, but not before it managed to gore one of my hunters.

A few turns later I had managed to get a second hunter wounded while supporting Thomas going after the Mastodon. Then the beast panicked and tried to flee from the hunters on hemming it in. In its flight it ran into my huntress and gave her a nasty wound.

Shortly after I was able to put a second wound on the Mastodon and then Thomas's huntress brought it down with 2 more successful attacks. She was able to do it by resisting the fear inducing trumpeting and dodging any attacks back her way. We managed to get our 8 bulk food quota to feed the tribe but half of our party was wounded. Fortunately none of our hunters were killed.

Thomas was gushing about how much braver his huntress was then the other hunters, even though she does not look as tough. He insisted I take a solo shot of her up on the cliffs to honor her accomplishment.

Homosapien Characters

I also finished up some Homosapien Characters from Copplestone Casting. These will give more options and flavor for the games I'll run. Most might not have too much to do in Paleo Diet but I have several ideas for Fist Fulls of Lead.

 Here is a group shot of the new characters.

 This older gent will make an excellent Shaman or Witch Doctor.

This ancient (45) man will serve as tribe Elder

I'm considering the use of a bow as brand new "advanced" tech and so making him a character.

Finally a champion with decorative beads and feathers. Could also be a chief or leader of the tribe.

Neanderthals

Finished my batch of Neanderthals from Lucid Eye Publication's Savage Core range. Its a great range and I'll be painting up the Cro Magnons from them next and would love to get my hands on their Amazons.
I tried my best with these to give some variety to the animal skins they where wearing so it would get boring. Overall happy with the end result.

Here is the lot of  the Lucid Eye miniatures. The photo below them are Neanderthals from Zombiesmith Games. I plan to use both sets for an Ice Age campaign where the 2nd pic is who the Neanderthals would start but as they advance they would end up like the 1st pic.

Boss/Leader

Might have this guy as the 2nd in command since he has two weapons.

Here are the rest of the group.

At least 1 has something other then a Spear or Club.

Prehistoric Animals

 So I recently finished up the rest of my Prehistoric animals for use in Ice Age and Stone Age games. My to main rules sets will be 'Paleo Diet Eat or be Eaten' for hunting games and Fist Full of Lead core rules for tribe vs tribe.

Here are all my Carnivores. 3 Terror Birds, 1 Saber-tooth Tiger, 1 Cave Bear, and a pack of 5 wolves.

Here are all my Herbivores.  1 Woolly Mammoth, 1 Brontotherium, 2 Mastodons, 2 Woolly Rhinos, and a herd of 8 Pronghorns. 

Here are closeups of the new additions.