Choose well, and you’ll reap the rewards with each roll of the dice choose poorly (or unluckily) and you’ll quickly be cursing those choices. For example, if you choose a spot surrounded only by hills (which gives you brick), then you won’t be able to get the resources necessary to advance your gameplay later on. You need to strategically place your settlements in spots near a variety of resources on the board. Once the last player places his or her first settlement, that player gets to then place his or her second road and settlement, followed by the remaining players in reverse order. This creates a unique terrain that looks like a map for each game. The strategy and tactics components come into play during setup: Each player takes turns placing two settlements (little houses) and two roads settlements may be placed anywhere on the board as long as there is no other settlement within one road segment. We often play two games back to back, usually at my insistence, so I can have another (usually fleeting) chance to best my kids. It takes about five minutes to set up the board for each game and then around an hour for each match. The Spruce / Sarah Vanbuskirk Setup: Fun to switch up
We are members of Asmodee UK Blogger Board Game Club. If you click on this and buy, we may earn a small commission. We have included an Amazon affiliate links to the product. You can also read our past Asmodee UK Blogger Board Game Club’s review here: Colt Express, Dobble, Splendor & Pandemic!ĭisclosure: We received the sample for the purposes of writing this review, however, all thoughts and opinions remain our own. Catan is available to buy from good toy retailers, online including Amazon. I find the game is very appealing to play provided it is played amongst peers. This game is a challenging strategy game that requires plenty of thinking, bartering and trading. If you expand cleverly, you may be the first player to reach 10 victory points and thus win the game! Do be careful and not roll a 7 or you may get robbed! Each settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. To begin the game, each player gets to place two small houses and roads on spaces where three terrain hexes meet. The whole idea of the game is to trade, build and settle. Anyway, that is the first challenge out the way! It would have been nice if they had a board that allowed me to place the terrain hexes into the grooves instead. Constructing the frame and placing the hexes into the frame is a bit of a drag. It is very easy to follow the tutorial and it is very detailed.įor the first few games, we simply followed the set up for beginners. You can use their digital dice & event cards to play and many more.
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So before you play this game, set yourself plenty of time to get ready! It is also best to download the app for the instructions which I find is an easier way to learn the game, than trying to read through the instructions! In the app, there are tutorials for three or four players and also for game set up.
It then took us another 40 minutes to learn the game through the app. Inside this game, it comes with 19 terrain hexes, 6 coastal frame pieces, 9 extra harbour pieces, 20 wooden settlements, 16 wooden cities, 60 wooden roads, 95 resource cards, 25 development cards, 4 building costs cards, 2 special bonus cards, 18 number tokens, 2 six-sided dice, a wooden robber pawn and instructions.īefore your first game, you are required to remove the die-cut components from the cardboard holders, which took us at least 10 minutes and for us, there were a lot of cardboard shavings to clean up. It is suitable for three to four players and aged 10 and above. You will use your natural resources to build roads and new settlements that eventually become cities. Catan is a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields, and forests, surrounded by the sea.
Catan is a very challenging strategy game where you take the role of a new settler who has reached the coast of an uncharted island along with other fearless seafarers.
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