Paleo: Une nouvelle ere (French Edition)

To set up the game, first place the farm board next to the camp board. Take the night token from the expansion and place it adjacent to the base game's night token. Arrange the fences, scythe, and millstone tokens below the farm board, ensuring one fence token is placed on top of the fence track. The farm structure and its roof should be kept separate for later assembly. Place the wheat resources and obsidian tokens alongside the other resource tokens from the base game. For the card decks, use the expansion's character deck (all cards numbered 7), replacing the base game's character deck. Integrate the five new dream cards into the base game's dream deck and shuffle them. Similarly, mix the three new idea cards with the base game's idea deck. Add the new event cards (numbered 23-30) to the event deck, making sure that event cards 6 and 7 are always included in the deck for any mission. Finally, use the expansion's basic deck (all cards numbered 6) instead of the base game's, and incorporate the module cards (letters M through R) according to the specific mission being played.

The overarching objective of the game, with this expansion, is to guide your prehistoric tribe through the challenges of the Stone Age and successfully transition into the Neolithic era. This involves effectively managing resources, domesticating animals for sustained production, and constructing essential structures like the cabin's roof. Players must work collaboratively to ensure the tribe's survival and achieve the specific goals outlined in the chosen mission.

After completing the regular night phase, the game proceeds to the new farm phase. During this phase, players can utilize the farm board to perform various actions. These actions include collecting resources produced by any domesticated animals currently in their possession, or sacrificing an animal to immediately gain its hunting rewards. Players can also discard cards from their hand to acquire wheat resources, or discard wood and stone resources to upgrade tools such as the scythe or millstone. A significant action is building the cabin's roof, which, once constructed, allows players to recover up to two wounds. These recovered wounds can be distributed among different characters in the tribe, providing crucial healing after challenging encounters.

While the video does not explicitly detail a scoring system for the expansion, the gameplay mechanics suggest that success is measured by the tribe's ability to thrive and meet mission objectives. This includes maintaining a healthy population, accumulating resources, domesticating animals, and constructing key improvements. The ultimate 'score' is likely tied to the successful completion of the chosen scenario, signifying the tribe's advancement and survival.

The game concludes either when the tribe successfully completes all objectives of the chosen mission, indicating a successful transition to the Neolithic era, or when the tribe fails to meet its basic needs, such as feeding its members or suffering too many casualties, leading to a game-over scenario. The new elements introduced by the expansion, such as animal domestication and agriculture, add new layers of strategy to achieving these end-game conditions.