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Die Siedler von Catan

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THE QUICK CARD GAME

A card game for The Settlers of Catan without die or trade: As usual you build settlements, cities, city extensions, roads and knights, all in a card display. The building cards for the options are sorted and stacked. The resources cards are stacked in a draw pile, 5 cards are laid out for the market and each player is dealt 3 resources. You start with a settlement and a road, A-side up. In your turn you can first exchange resources, then build and then draw cards. The number of cards you can exchange with draw pile, market or another player is equal to the number of roads A-side up in your display. When you build roads you alternate them A- and B-side up If you have now road you can exchange one card. If you exchange several cards you can mix the sources of the cards. Knights are also displayed with alternating A- and B-sides. For building costs you discard resources cards from your hand. Any one resource can be replaced by three other resources of the same kind. Each city extension can only be built once. If you build knight or road and the building cards are finished, you take road or knight from the player next to you in the direction indicated by the Fate Card. If you own 10 victory points in your turn you win the game.

Just as the title promises, this is quick! And challenging and attractive! The chance mechanisms have been nicely varied, the robber appears via building of a city and negotiation has been replaced with swapping cards with your neighbor - a nice light game for in between or as an introduction into the family of Catan games.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Klaus Teuber

Grafik          : Michael Menzel, Fine Tuning

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 8 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2011

                     www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : Card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Language                        : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : yes

Kommentar:

Card game based on the board game

No negotiation on resources

Good introduction into the world of Catan Games

Chance mechanisms nicely varied

Vergleichbar:

Basically Settlers, but also all card games with card exchange for set formation and card discarding for buying other cards

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