Just out of interest, I played my first game of Stone Age on Sunday afternoon, another game Sunday evening and another Monday night. I have a session at my house on Friday where we are expecting to introduce Stone Age again.
The first game, as expected, was slower. We like to introduce a new games rules slowly over a few rounds, rather than giving a list of rules that players are expected to remember before play begins. After a brief explanation of the rules we played a couple of rounds just gathering resources (seeing how the dice affected the gathering of food, wood, gold etc.), then went on to introduce the three 'huts' (Love, Tool and Farm), followed by obtaining the Huts (spending resources), leaving the explaination of the Civ cards until a few rounds in (which was about as difficult as it gets in terms of rules, which isn't too difficult at all
). Once everyone had the hang of it the game flowed like a dream
The Sunday evening game was better, as players began to get accustomed to the way the game plays, and Mondays game was excellent.
This is a great game. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It will take a bit of practice regarding strategy (as games do), but what a wonderful way to relax.
I agree with Jambo, this is a very neat game
Edited for spellings.
