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Die Fürsten von Catan

Finstere Zeiten

The principality of each player with two settlements, 6 landscapes and 1 road is laid out. You roll 2 dice for resources and event, valid for both players. Then you use cards from your hand for actions or development of the principality. Settlements and cities earn victory points. This expansion can only be used together with the core game and introduces three new theme-sets: Zeit der Intrigen / The Era of Intrigue, Zeit der Handelsherren / The Era of Merchant Princes and Zeit der Barbaren /The Era of Barbarians.

New types of cards are Road Complements, new Center cards Metropolises, Marker Cards and Region Expansions. Metropolises are part of the draw pile, but cannot be destroyed or attacked. Marker cards show player status and can only be influenced directly and can be relocated to other landscapes. Foreign Cards introduce a new game concept, they are placed into your rival’s principality, but remain your property; only you can use or destroy it. For each of the theme sets there are special features:

 In Era of Intrigue the Religious Dispute can cause loss of cards, churches and temples can mitigate this end end the dispute when used to build the Great Thingstead. Era of Merchant Princes focuses on Commercial Harbors and Merchant’s Residences, trade ships gain importance due to Maritime Trade Monopolies and some Master Merchants. Era of Barbarians demands the construction of Castles and Border Fortresses, fortified by the Strategist and the Caravel and by new heroes with interesting abilities.

This expansion is a must for fans of Catan, if you own and play the Rivals, you cannot pass up on the Age of Darkness.

Players: 2

Age: 10+

Time: 75+

Designer: Klaus Teuber

Artist: Michael Menzel, Michaela Kienle

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2011

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Card game

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Expansion

Needs core game to play

Revised and augmented theme sets

Compares to:

Die Fürsten von Catan

Other editions:

The Rivals for Catan: Age of Darkness, Mayfair

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0