Adventure humanity

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Adventure humanity
Game data
author Klaus Teuber
graphic Tanja Donner
Michaela Schelk
publishing company Franckh Kosmos ,
Mayfair Games ,
999 Games
Publishing year 2002
Art Board game
Teammates 3 - 4
Duration approx. 75 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

Adventure Mankind is a standalone board game from the Catan family by Klaus Teuber for three to four players, which was published in 2002 by the Kosmos Games Gallery ( Franckh-Kosmos ). At the same time (issues 46 to 52), Stern published a seven-part series of articles dealing with the development of mankind, as well as a book. The graphics and illustrations for the game were created by Michaela Schelk and Tanja Donner.

Game material

Game material made of cardboard
  • 1 game board (map of the earth "in Catanian")
  • 4 overview boards with construction costs and reminders
  • 32 peoples chips, round chips with faces and different background colors, which mark the inhabitants and habitable places of the continents:
    • 8 Asians (yellow)
    • 8 Austronesians (brown)
    • 8 Indians (pink)
    • 8 Indo-Europeans (white)
  • 18 rectangular event chips
  • 2 display "disruptive figures"
    • 1 Neanderthal man
    • 1 saber-toothed tiger
  • 10 hexagonal desert fields
Game material made of wood
  • 8 nomads (round turrets), each 2 × blue, ocher, red and white
  • 20 trunks, 5 each blue, ocher, red and white (figures that may represent a flickering campfire, but could also be "crowns" or "ships")
  • 16 marker stones (cube-shaped), each 4 × blue, ocher, red and white
  • 2 six-sided number dice (white, with black "eyes")
Plastic game material
  • 2 base plates for the "disruptive figure" display
Playing cards
  • 80 resource cards:
    • 20 × fur (background: forest)
    • 20 × flint (background: mountains)
    • 20 × meat (background: hill country with hunters and wild horses)
    • 20 × bones (background: steppe with hunters and mammoths)
  • 10 victory point cards
    • 4 × adaptation, 1 × Asians, Austronesians, Indians and Indo-Europeans each
    • 1 × exploration
    • 4 × art, 1 × cave painting, jewelry, animal sculpture and Venus
    • 1 × spread
Other Material

1 set of instructions (8 pages, multicolored)

Gameplay

At the beginning of the game each player starts with three tribes in Africa, which becomes deserted in the course of the game. As in the other Catan games, the individual landscapes where the tribes settle provide income, here it is meat from the hill country rich in animals, bones from the animals of the steppe, flint from the mountains and skins from the animals of the forest. Analogous to human development, nomads from Africa set out to conquer the earth and found new tribes in the other continents. To get to the most remote locations, players need to develop in hunting and fighting, clothing, construction and food. A flint has to be paid for the first stage of development, the 2nd stage requires bones, the 3rd and 4th stages flint and bones and the 5th stage fur, flint and bones. The 5th level of each area can only be reached by one player at a time, it is worth one victory point. The spread of the players is disturbed by the Neanderthals resident in Eurasia, who are relocated within Eurasia on a seven. In addition, it allows any further development in the field of hunting and fighting or the uncovering of special event chips to move the Neanderthals or the predator native to Australia and America. Landscapes occupied by these then no longer produce any raw materials. If you have more than seven raw material cards in your hand with a seven, you have to give up half of them, but in contrast to the other Catan games, an uneven number is rounded up.

The game ends as soon as a player reaches ten victory points. Each peoples chip that you receive by founding a tribe counts one victory point. If you have founded tribes in four continents, you receive the “Spreading” card, which earns you two more victory points. Additional victory points are obtained from the “Adaptation” cards, which can be obtained by revealing event chips.

Availability

The game is out of print at the publisher.

Translations

  • English: The Settlers of the Stone Age ( Mayfair Games ) - with different box cover
  • Dutch: De Kolonisten van de Prehistorie ( 999 Games ) - with a different box cover
  • Russian: Каменный век ( German  Stone Age )

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