![]() Game Overview: The Settlers of Catan is a game about area control, resource management and negotiation.Įach player starts the game with two roads and settlements on the board. The Settlers of Catan plays in about 90 minutes and is best with 4 people. The Settlers of Catan is an award winning, 3-4 person dice rolling and hand management game designed by Klaus Teuber. Players take the role of settlers to a new land and try to become the most successful civilization on the island. This idea is what the Settlers of Catan emulates. Imagine what it was like for any group of people that decided to go and settle in a new world. But when I step back and think about it, we have it easy compared to what others have endured to change locations. Packing everything up, changing addresses, and meeting the new neighbors. If the players are successful – the player with the largest knight count gets a victory point (see where the deeper strategy comes in to play?).Whenever I move, I think it’s the biggest hassle in the world. The Barbarian armies are fought by the collective Kinghts of all players. They can be used like soldier to fend off the robber, attack other players knights and importantly – to defend against the Barbarians. Knights become active when a player uses one wheat resource. Knights are actual pieces which are placed on the board on any empty corner of a road and can be upgraded. The knights defend the Island of Catan and attempt to thwart the Barbarians before they reach any of the Island cities. The aim of the players is to amass an army of knights (which replace soldier cards) before the Barbarians reach the shore. The event dice offers the chance of gaining progress cards (explained in the commodities section below), but it comes with the risk of progressing the barbarians ship towards Catan. The expansion adds another dice to the game called an ‘event dice’ – players roll 3 dice instead of 2 each turn. This is represented by a boat that starts on a special game tile off Catan’s shores. Your job is to prepare before they do!Ĭities & knights introduces the mechanic of a barbarian invasion. The barbarian hordes have been watching you closely. You didn’t think you could build an empire on the Island of Catan without the rest of the world paying close attention did you. ![]() In this article, I am going to go through each of these expansions – and rate them from best to worst based on my experience with the game and how each of them changes the core mechanics. It is a game that even today I still break out often during one of our fortnightly game nights. I have played countless rounds of the game and each of its expansions. ![]() It is no wonder then that countless expansions have been released over the years to extend, expand, or simply change the way the game is played.Ĭatan for me (like so many others) was the game that got me hooked on board games. The game has maintained its popularity for over 24 years – and has earned its place in the board game hall of fame as one of the best ‘gateway’ games of all time.Ĭatan helped pave the way for modern board game mechanics and was a catalyst for the current ‘golden age of board games’ we are experiencing now. It is a game that anyone who is familiar with board games knows intimately. I recently wrote an article about why Catan is one of the most popular board games of all time.
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