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Catan : Base Game
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Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the race to settle the island has begun!
The women and men of your expedition build the first two settlements. Fortunately, the land is rich in natural resources. You build roads and new settlements that eventually become cities. Will you succeed in gaining supremacy on Catan? Barter trade dominates the scene. Some resources you have in abundance, other resources are scarce. Ore for wool, brick for lumber - you trade according to what is needed for your current building projects. Proceed strategically! If you found your settlements in the right places and cleverly trade your resources, then the odds will be in your favor. But your opponents are smart too.
To begin the game, we build the game board with hexagonal terrain tiles. Catan is now born - a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields, and forests, surrounded by the sea.
We each place two small houses on spaces where three of these terrain hexes meet, as our starting settlements.
And so it begins. I roll two dice. An “11”! Each terrain hex is marked with a die roll number. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a terrain hex marked with the number rolled receives a resource produced by this hex. Hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool.
We use these resources to expand across Catan: we build roads and new settlements, or we upgrade our existing settlements to cities. For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 lumber. If we do not have the necessary resources, we can acquire them by trading with our opponents.
Each settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. If you expand cleverly, you may be the first player to reach 10 victory points and thus win the game!
Reviews (5)
★★★★★
4.8 / 55 reviews★★★★★
A solid family favourite. It's quite a long game but makes a great introduction to serious gaming when your regular players are ready to move on from annoying rubbish like Monopoly
★★★★★
A great game, bought as a family present at Christmas. The play is very interactive and brings out the competitive side of people! The games last around an hour, which is perfect for a family game.
★★★★★
What is there to say about Catan that hasn't been said? Fantastic game for hardcore
★★★★★
Bought this for my husband as a gift for our first wedding anniversary (paper) he loves board games. I ordered the game 1 week before and it a rush on it to make sure it was here in time which it was. Phew. I have to say the game is brilliant. I am not a fan of board games normally but this one really held my interest. Considering the quality of the game, it's really great value for money. It's fun to play and has a good level of complexity. I didn't realise you needed 3+ players so my husband and I played 2 hands each at the same time which works quite well. Really glad I got it for him and he is already looking at buying the expansion packs.
★★★★★
Great game, really fun. Quality of some parts of product a bit questionable (e.g. corners of cards snagged off in manufacture as about a dozen have missing corners when opened from cellophane)
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