Some are simply a multiplier per item eg. Now, before we begin, one of the greatest things about Stone Age is that there is lots of strategies to choose from. You can mix together so many aspects to create a fantastic strategy that wins on all fronts. Today though, I thought we would look at one aspect of the game, zooming in, to explore how collecting tools can create fantastic end game results.
Okay, so there is a story behind this article today, and before we go any further I thought I would just explain it a little bit. This strategy kind of became infamous in our group. After winning a couple of games this way, it become known and now unfortunately it is impossible to pull off. In Stone Age , there are four basic types of multiplier you can get, leaving aside collecting the different technologies.
Those four basic types of multiplier are on buildings, people, agriculture level and tools. With each one of those, it is possible to get 10x the multiplier throughout the game by ensuring that you get the right civilisation cards.
So, what are the maximums you can get? Through tending to the field, it is possible to also build your agriculture up to a maximum of You can, in theory, build a large number of buildings, and there is also a building modifier; however, huts are hard to get and maximise the multiplier strategy on. They are amazing in their own right, but getting the multipliers and the buildings can be very resource heavy. Not impossible, but difficult to optimise. Buildings can form a massive part of a large number of Stone Age strategies; however, maximising building the buildings and the end game multipliers is not easy, especially in a game with four players.
Tools, on the other hand, are relatively easy to get. Like with all of the multipliers, within the civilisation cards, it is possible to get 10x the tools in points in the end game. The biggest difference is that, where you can get 10 tribe members and 10 levels of agriculture, you can get 12 levels of tools in a game of Stone Age.
That makes it a maximum of points directly from the size of your tribe or the amount of agriculture you have. Meanwhile it means there are points available from tools. Twenty points can make all the difference. This left the tools available most rounds. The very core of the strategy is to use the tool workshop as often as you can.
To use this strategy you also need to focus on picking up the tool multipliers on the civilisation cards, sometimes paying an extortionate amount for them. The upside to this is that, through getting so many civilisation cards, you will get a large number of cards allowing you to roll dice equal to the number of players and choose a result based on those dice.
Get a 5 on the dice and you can pick up a tool, making those cards incredibly useful. The tool strategy works incredibly well with games with high player counts. Two player games tend to be higher scoring, so the role that the multipliers play on tools fluctuates.
Where those potential points are incredibly helpful in a 4 player game, they can be hard to get. The tools we have today are paradise compared to the Stone Age tools that the primitive man used to have to make themselves and use. Thousands of years ago many of the Stone Age tools were made from stone that would be shaped and sharpened so it could be used for things such as cutting and chopping as well as hammering and pounding.
There were also many ancient primitive tools that were made from wood and animal bone, and the bone could also be made to be very sharp. Once they learned how to use things they found in their surroundings they took advantage of it and tools became progressively better and more efficient. Stone Age tools can be divided into various categories based on the period during which they were used or the material they were made of.
The Stone Age is composed of the following stages. The Paleolithic period covered the maximum technological tools of human history. This is the longest Stone Age period. It started 2. The traces of certain arts like personal caves, paintings, and ornaments can be found from the end of the Paleolithic era. Oldowan is the earliest of the Stone Age industries. The Oldowan industry contains very basic and simple choppers and flakes. The Oldowan series of tools originated almost 2.
The Acheulean series of tools come after the Oldowan industry. They are almost 1. The Acheulean industry contained more complex and more symmetric shapes. These tools were harder to break and had sharper edges which did the job more conveniently.
The Mesolithic period started towards the end of the ice age i. Some new tools along with the Paleolithic tools were used in the Mesolithic tools. The new tools used in the Mesolithic period contained the following tools:. It was a carpentry tool used for making certain objects like boats, fishing platforms, and houses. It was made by re-sharpening a crosswise flake using teeth.
This tool was in use almost years ago. A variety of scrapers like end scrapers, side scrapers, and combined scrapers were used during the Mesolithic era. These scrapers turned raw hides into tents, clothing, and other utilities. They varied in size and weight. They were small and delicate scrapers for small and delicate work and large and heavy scrapers for big and rough work.
During the Mesolithic age, people started using multipurpose tools. For example, a flake could be a tool whose one side could be used as a knife, the second side could be used as a hammerstone, and the third side could be used as a scraper. These tools were made very fine. They were made by breaking down stones into flat, straight, and parallel-sided flakes from stones. Microliths were used to make arrowheads, spears, and other weapons and tools.
Handheld microliths were made by attaching them to wooden or metallic handles. Burins were stone tools of the Mesolithic age made from flint flakes or blades.
They had sharp edges and were used to score bones and antlers to create thin pieces like needles and fish points. The backed knife was used for cutting purposes. It was a double-sided sharp blade, like a sword made of stone or bone. One end of the knife was flattened to be held in hand and the blade was used for cutting things. The Neolithic age is also known as the new Stone Age i.
This period started about 10, years ago when farming started in the world and ended about years ago when the copper age started. People started getting to know of agriculture and domestic animals like sheep, meat, pigs, and goats — for food and clothing.
People needed multipurpose tools that could be used both for farming and defense against wild animals. Some of the tools and weapons are given as under:. They were used as arrows and knives. They were made of flintstone. They were also used in farming for digging the soil.
They needed to be very sharp to dig and cut easily. Axe was an important tool and weapon during the Neolithic era as it was used for planting, cutting trees, and defense against wild animals. The edges of the axe were sharpened by rubbing them against a rough surface. The hammer was made by drilling a hole through a round rock.
While attaching a sharp stone to a stick makes a chisel. Hammers and Chisels were used together in woodwork. An adze was a flat blade attached to a handle just like axe. An adze was used in woodwork. It was used for chopping wood and larger adzes were used for digging soil and cutting roots of trees. More sophisticated and fine arrows and spearheads were made in the Neolithic age.
Arrowheads were made of flint which was less fragile and sharper as compared to wood and bones. But sharpening and tapering these arrowheads made them more fragile.
During the Stone Age, people used sharpened sticks for hunting and protection purposes. They were a very basic tool used for hunting and protection. They were used to hunt certain animals like wolves, foxes, bears, deer, hyenas, and much more.
A spear is an advanced form of a sharpened stick. A long and strong stick is chosen with a pointed end. Some metal or other material may be attached at the pointed end. Big wild animals could be hunted and killed using spears.
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