It has an innovative Nexofyber surface and a soft, silver fabric inner lining. The premium materials ensure a comfortable touch-and-feel experience and dice-rolling is enhanced by a pleasant sound.
The surrounding flap, held safely closed by strong magnets, can be removed and sticks to the side of the Hexatower to create a dice-stopper at the gaming table. Dice are not included. The Trading Post can be used for card storage and to hold the cards for easy access during gameplay. Cards and dice not included. Game pieces not included. Just follow the link. Settlers has become so popular in Silicon Valley that it's now being used as an icebreaker at some business meetings.
Over the past few years, Settlers of Catan has transformed from an activity enjoyed by a small niche of gamers into a mainstream hit. Settlers has spread from Stuttgart to Seoul to Silicon Valley Settlers manages to be effortlessly fun, intuitively enjoyable, and still intellectually rewarding, a combination that's changing the American idea of what a board game can be.
Settlers has its own elegant economy, in which the supply and demand for five different commodities are determined by tactics, luck and the stage of the game. Base Game. About the Game. Probability of Rolling Certain Numbers If you roll 2 dice 36 times, the statistical distribution of the results is as follows: 2,12 - 1x each 3,11 - 2x each 4,10 - 3x each 5,9 - 4x each 6,8 - 5x each 7 - 6x This shows that the closer the numbers are to 7, the more frequently they are rolled.
Diversity of Terrain Hexes You should make sure that your first two settlements are adjacent to all terrain types if possible. Diversity of Numbers A broad distribution of numbers is also beneficial. Harbors Harbors are of particular importance if you can expect a good production of a particular resource. Trading If you trade cleverly, you improve your chances to win the game.
Complaining A little bit of complaining at the right time often works wonders. Variants The following variants are highly recommended: 1. Trade and Build in Any Order The "first trade, then build" order is no longer observed. Downloads for the Game. You can settle Catan with up to 6 players. Visit Extensions. Seafarers Build ships, set sail, and conquer the magnificent island world of Catan. Nine voyages of discovery are awaiting the settlers.
View product. However, all this wealth also attracts barbarians. The knights of Catan are needed! Looking for players? Hexatower Trading Post Hexadocks Sleeves. The game has been translated into 30 languages.
A American documentary film titled Going Cardboard featuring Klaus Teuber is about this game's impact on American gaming communities and what came of it. The game involves large amounts of strategy, while still being fairly simple to learn, making it perfect for those who wish to enter the world of strategic boardgames. The players in the game represent settlers establishing colonies on the island of Catan. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island.
The game board representing the island is composed of hexagonal tiles hexes of different land types which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game; new editions of the game also depict a fixed layout in their manual, which has been proven to be fairly even-handed by computer simulations, and recommend this to be used by beginners. Players build by spending resources brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore , represented by resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource.
On each player's turn, two six-sided dice are rolled to determine which hexes produce resources. Any players with settlements or cities adjacent to hexes marked with the number rolled receive resource cards of the appropriate type. There is also a robber token, initially on the desert; if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again; the player may also steal a resource card from another player.
In addition, when a 7 is rolled, all players with more than 7 resource cards must discard half of their cards, rounded down. However, the player gets to choose which half of their resource cards they must discard.
For example, a player with 11 resource cards must discard any five cards when a 7 is rolled. Players can trade resource cards among each other; players may also trade off-island in effect, with the non-player bank at a ratio of four of one resource for one of any other. By building settlements in certain spots on the edge of the board ports , players may trade with the bank at three-to-one 3 of any single resource type or two-to-one two of a specific resource ratios, determined by the port's location.
The goal of the game is to reach 10 victory points. Players score one point for each settlement they own and two for. Various other achievements, such as establishing the longest road and the largest army by playing the most knight cards , grant a player additional victory points.
Resource cards can also be spent to buy a development card. Three types of development cards include cards worth one victory point; knight cards or soldier cards , which allow the player to move the robber as if they had rolled a 7 but without the remove-half rule ; and a third set of cards which allow the player one of three abilities when played. After releasing the card game, Teuber began to publish expansions for the base game.
The first, Seafarers of Catan , was released in ; it was later retitled Catan: Seafarers. Every hex then gets assigned a number between two and twelve; these numbers are evenly distributed across the board.
By collecting various combinations of resources, you can build roads and settlements around the borders of these hexes, placing little wooden houses on the board to mark out turf. More resources allow you to build more or to upgrade your settlements into cities.
The robber is crucial: it forces players to trade with opponents instead of hoarding goods. A board game with economic theory, land development, and cute little buildings: one is naturally reminded of something else.
In , Hasbro published Tropical Tycoon Monopoly, in which the original Atlantic City layout frames the perimeter while Rich Uncle Pennybags erupts from a volcanic tropical island in the center. Still, Derk Solko, a co-founder of the popular gaming forum Boardgamegeek. Teuber himself is more sanguine. Competition, Teuber believes, makes Catan better, for players and for him. Strategy and inventiveness are required in order to keep up. Teuber was born in in Rai-Breitenbach, a small village tucked beneath Breuberg Castle, in central Germany.
As a child, he set up miniature fighters and ancient Romans on the floor, using strings to create mountains and rivers and to build routes through the terrain. He rediscovered games during his mandatory military service, when he needed something to entertain his wife and young son in the barracks. The game won the Spiel des Jahres award, the most coveted prize in the board-game world.
According to Stewart Woods, a communications professor at the University of Western Australia, a successful game typically sells about ten thousand copies in Germany; a Spiel des Jahres winner can expect to sell between three hundred and five hundred thousand.
After Barbarossa, Teuber designed several other games and won two more Spiel des Jahres awards, but he was still working fourteen-hour days in the dental lab. In , after reading histories of Viking life, he became fascinated with Iceland and the age of discovery.
Eurogames—also called German-style games, because most of them originate in Germany—have fairly simple rules and are intellectually demanding but not overly complicated. The rise of Eurogames parallels the rise of digital games, but Eurogames are insistently analog.
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