Ice Age Wars

Back when Ironhide was a little green around the gills. And everywhere else.

TheIce Age Warsis a sub-conflict between theAutobotsandDecepticons,waged onEarthduring a pre-humanIce Age.To survive in the cold, they take alternate forms based onquite randomthe most powerful local creatures!

Fiction

Hearts of Steel

The combatants in the Ice Age Wars fought brutally and tirelessly in the increasingly hostile environment. Eventually fighting became impractical as the local temperatures continued to drop and reserves of fuel ran low. Both sides found underground shelters where they powered-down, hidden from their enemies, waiting for the climate of the planet to change.

Thousands of years later, representatives from both camps were awakened to find conditions much more favorable for fighting on the planet the local population calledEarth.Hearts of Steel #1

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Primeremarked on the Ice Age Wars ofPrimax 706.05 Gammaas an event in which theDinobots—amongst others—took on the forms of Ice Age creatures.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/25

Ask Vector Prime

During the Beast Wars ofAurex 615.03 Epsilon,the Ice Age War was fought on theBlizzard Planet,where theMaximalsandPredaconsadopted the forms of mega-fauna.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/03

2005 IDW continuity

Hey kids, if you thought Ask Vector Prime did some continuity hoop-jumping, you ain't never readJohn Barber!

A team ofMaximalexplorers underDomitius Majormade a detour to Earth to pick up energon supplies. Unfortunately for them, they were shot down byShockwaveto protect hisexperimentsand the last thing they saw before crashing was a stray transmission fromOptimus Prime.This gave Shockwave the idea of making the Transformers think theywereOptimus Prime and other Cybertronians, to see what would happen.Strange VisitorsWhat happened was identical to the Ice Age Wars inHearts of Steel!Isn't that odd?Strange Visitors

See also

• TheBeast Wars,a conflict also fought on pre-modern Earth by Transformers utilizing beast modes.