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DIE FÜRSTEN VON CATAN          

Theme Sets show you Catan’s History

auf bgg ist nur die deutsche packung zu sehen, bei mayfair kommt „The Princes of Catan“ nicht vor

The Settlers of Catan the Card Game has been given a relaunch,  a new name and a few new rules for the 15 year jubilee of the board game.

Each player lays out his principality with 2 settlements, 6 landscapes and 1 road. You roll 2 dice for raw materials and an event for both players. Then you use cards from your hand for actions or upgrade of the principality, settlements and cities earn you victory points. There are additional rules for playing with the theme sets: The event cards from the base set and the theme set are shuffled together, all other draw piles remain separate. The starting cards are not dealt randomly, but from one of the draw piles of the base set each player chooses three cards. When doing so you may not change the order of cards in the stack, but afterwards you can rearrange your principality. The stacks of upgrade cards are available to both players, each upgrade may be used only once in a principality. City upgrades have been moved from the basic set to the theme sets. Landscape upgrades and conditions that must be met to use some of the cards are new features. You can also demolish buildings already built, returned cards must be placed underneath stacks with the same backside.

The introductory game “Die ersten Cataner” uses the base set and is won with 7 victory points, the theme set scenarios with 12 points. These sets are called “Zeit des Goldes”, “Zeit der Wirren” und “zeit des Fortschritts”, each of them introduces additional cards. In “Duell der Fürsten” you use all sets to win with 13 points.

Still one of the best games for two ever made!

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : variable

Autor           : Klaus Teuber

Grafik          : Michaela Kienle, Michael Menzel

German Title : Die Fürsten von Catan

Preis            : ca. 16,00 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2010

                    www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : Card placement game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Place and use cards

Kommentar:

New edition under a new title

Revised rules

Theme sets come with the base game

Vergleichbar:

The Settlers of Catan Card game, collectible card games for resources from landscapes

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