Dark clouds gather over the once peaceful landscape Wild barbarians lured by Catan&s wealth & power maneuver to attack Their massive warships loom against the bright orange horizon You must be strong! Barbarians attack the weakest targets & the victim of their onslaught will be the player who contributes the least to the defense of Catan Don&t take any chances! Field your knights! In Catan Cities & Knights you engage in the defense of Catan & compete to build the three great metropolises of Catan Each of these magnificent urban centers is even more valuable than a city They&re also immune to the dangerous barbarians Invest in city improvements which you acquire using three commodities of trade coin paper & cloth If you improve your culture muster your knights & enrich your fine cities you will be the master of the great realm of Catan! Expansion requires Catan Board Game to use Learn in only 15 minutes Play in only 60 minutes Create knights to protect the land from invading barbarians & build city improvements that confer benefits Ages 12 Box Contains 36 Commodity Cards 54 Progress Cards 6 Victory Point Cards 3 Wooden Metropolis Pieces 1 Wooden Merchant Figure 1 Custom Event Die 1 Wooden Barbarian Ship 24 Wooden Knights 12 City Walls 4 Development Flip-Charts 1 Sea Frame Piece 1 Rulebook ...

The Catan Dice Game is a fast fun way to experience Catan on-the-go anywhere & anytime Discover explore & settle Catan in only 15-30 minutes It&s a great casual introduction to the world of Catan with six colourful high-quality embossed 16mm plastic dice a generous pad of full-colour double-sided score sheets featuring two maps for alternate play You can roll
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- your way to victory So get ready to toss & challenge the odds to discover a fresh way to master Catan! Roll Play Settle Fast fun way to experience Catan on-the-go anywhere & anytime 15-30 minutes playing time 1-4 Players Ages 7 Like all the other games of the " Settlers of Catan" series this game is about building settlements roads cities & hiring knights This time there is no board on which to place little figures Every player has his own score card called the building sheet which depicts a mini Catan (compare with Die Siedler von Catan Paper & Pencil) You build by drawing the settlements & roads on your score card To build you still require resources These are collected by a Yahtzee-like mechanism that involves throwing six special dice (depicting the different resource symbols) up to three times After each roll the player can select which dice to keep & which to roll again In the end he may build using the thusly determined resources & is awarded victory points for any finished buildings which are recorded on the score card The game lasts fifteen turns or about 15-30 minutes after which the player with the most victory points wins Note that the game has been designed for 1-4 players meaning there is a solitaire version of the game as well

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Now 5 to 6 players can explore Catan’s wild unknown seas in search of fish spices or rich new lands for settlement! Catan Explorers & Pirates 5-6 Player Extension™ means that you can add 1 or 2 new opponents without sacrificing ease of play As in the Catan Explorers & Pirates expansion you’ll build harbor settlements ships settlers & crews & set out across mysterious seas in search of new lands spices fish & gold fields So get a team of 5 or 6 together for an adventure in Catan Challenge pirates on land & sea as you seek to win renown Use your ships to carry loyal settlers & claim faraway territory Expansion requires Catan Board Game Catan Explorers & Pirates Expansion to use Add up to two more players to your Catan Explorers & Pirates Game Ages 12 Takes the Catan Explorers & Pirate Expansion up to 3 to 6 players 60 minute playing time Box Contains 1 rulebook 8 harbor settlements (wood)18 Crews (wood)6 ships (wood)4 settlers (wood)6 markers (wood double cubes)2 pirate ships (wood)2 fish (wood)12 spice sacks (wood cubes)2 pirate lair hexes 2 pirate lair tokens 3 terrain hexes & 6 number tokens (green backs)3 terrain hexes & 6 number tokens (orange backs)4 sea hexes 1 Large Council of Catan tri-hex piece 1 Large Sea tri-hex 3 Number tokens (orange backs)3 Number tokens (green backs)2 building cost cards 2 player piece manifest cards 1 new piece manifest card ...

Catan Explorers & Pirates

Includes:: 5 novel scenarios each of which builds upon your previous experience

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In Catan Histories Merchants of Europe you are a powerful merchant! Start your trading posts in three cities Recruit new merchants & send them to distant cities to establish trading posts & expand your interests The more trading posts you have the more commodities are at your disposal which you can sell profitably in foreign cities To ensure that your commodities arrive safely at their destination you must open up trade routes & equip caravans You win the game if you are the first to deliver all of your commodities to foreign cities Catan Histories Merchants of Europe is a twist on the 2010 release Settlers of America Trails to Rails Game play is similar in both games Players start with three locations on the game board collect resources depending on a die roll spend resources to move & build & branch out to new locations with a long-term goal of delivering goods to opponents& cities The first player to deliver all of his goods wins the game Instead of being played on a fixed game board showing a Catan-ified map of the United States the game is set on a Catan-ified map of Europe Instead of moving from east to west to mimic the settling of the US by Europeans players start in the middle of Europe namely Germany Box Contains 1 game board (double-sided) 120 wooden trade routes (in four colors) 48 wooden trading posts (in four colors) 8 wooden caravans (in four colors) 8 wooden merchants (in four colors) 1 robber (in black wood) 95 resource cards 25 development cards 40 commodity tokens 68 coins (in denominations of 1 & 3) 15 resource number tokens 4 building costs overviews 2 dice Rulebook ...

Explore the seas! Catan Junior introduces a modified playing style of the classic Settlers of Catan giving players as young as five a perfect introduction to the Catan series of games Catan Junior takes place on a ring of islands where 2 to 4 players build hideouts & encounter the mysterious Spooky Island where the Ghost Captain lives Each island generates a specific resource wood goats molasses or swords & players can acquire gold Each player starts with two pirate hideouts on different islands & they can use the resources they acquire to build ships hideouts or get help from Coco the Parrot By building ships they can expand their network; the more hideouts they build the more resources they may receive Just watch out for the dreaded Ghost Captain! Be the first player to control seven pirate hideouts & you win! Contents 106 resource tiles 4 player cost boards 1 two-sided game board 28 Pirate hideouts (7 each of 4 colors) 32 Ships (8 each of 4 colors) 1 pirate ghost 1 die 1 tray 1 box 1 rule book ...

Catan Crop Trust is an engaging & fun game experience for the family that may lead to thoughtful understanding about the importance of crop diversity to our food supply Here we introduce simple semi- cooperative rules that enliven & educate the Catan experience Players must weigh their need to harvest crops against a collective goal to store & preserve seeds in the seed vault ...

Hark friend! Let us help each other We live in a time of altruism on Catan We give away resources to help lagging players We move the robber to isolated locations to ensure the safety of our fellows We even go out of our way to connect our roads with our neighbors& networks Has everyone gone nuts? Ah! Thanks to their beneficence Catan&s guilds reward such noble-minded behavior by handing out " Favor Tokens" (FTs) Each guild helps us in different ways granting us roads development cards random resources preferential trades or even Victory Points In Catan Scenarios Frenemies of Catan everyone is still just in it for themselves as there is an ulterior motive for everything In fact sometimes you can "help a friend" while making things far worse for them Sigh If goodwill really exists it&s not part of this scenario ...

Catan Scenarios Helpers of Catan is a mini-expansion for The Settlers of Catan that&s compatible with Catan Seafarers & both The Settlers of Catan 5-6 Player Extension & Catan Seafarers
- 5-6 Player Extension – consists of ten character cards each of which has a different special ability that the player can use once or twice before trading for another For example Marianne lets you take any one resource card if you rolled something other than a 7 but didn&t get resources from that roll As each player builds her second settlement she takes a specific card based on player order with approximate utility increasing to help combat earlier player advantage A player must use her card&s ability before she may turn it in but she may choose which card to take adding a level of strategy Age 10 Players 3-6 Play Time 90 Minutes
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Eureka! Oil has been discovered on the island of Catan The great engineers of Catan have learned ways to improve production using this valuable new resource both by converting it into other materials & enabling the upgrade of cities into metropolises But oil is scarce & its use does not come without cost Using oil produces pollution as well as climate changing emissions which bring with them the threat of coastal flooding?and absolute disaster With the discovery of oil on Catan the Settlers face a new challenge deciding whether the common good is worth limiting oil usage or whether the pursuit of victory is worth the risk of ruin Number of players 3 to 4 Play time 90 ...