Yellowstone is a less complex game dealing with moving your herd from Winter Pasturage to Summer Pasturage back to Winter Pasturage. Players control one of the following herds: bison, elk, sheep, or mule deer. Along the way, you try to pick up Food Points and avoid predators. You can move the animals in your herd a certain number of hexes in a turn; males are the fastest, females are a bit slower, babies are really slow and should be accompanied by females. However, when you finally get back to Winter Range, you score more for babies and females than you do for males -- so you may find it necessary to sacrifice a male or two to predators. Predators are controlled by your opponents, but you get to control them on your turn. They are not major threats, but inducement to keep moving. Collect those food points! You'll need them for winter.
The game's map centers on the Yellowstone Park area and some of the land south of there.
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