Round up your knights to protect the settlers and align yourself with other players to combat the hordes of barbarians — the only way to survive is by banding together. Thee commodities can be used by the builders of CATAN to expand cities and purchase powerful development cards.
Strengthen your production to secure the best trade or protect your settlements and cities. Commodities and development cards are the key to victory. Support politics in your city with coin, strengthen trade with cloth and foster education with valuable paper.
With increasing city improvements, the odds to obtain new progress cards become more favorable. Get used to a tougher life on Catan — and a longer but also more exciting game. The first player to reach 13 victory points is the winner. Considering this circumstance, it may take only 3 or 4 turns until the barbarian ship lands on Catan. Therefore, it is important to start building knights early in the game and to activate them. Such preparation will help you avoid being the target of the barbarian army, i.
Grain is very important for defending Catan. Knights are of no use as long as you don't have grain to activate them. You can, for instance, declare the first barbarian attack void or allow each player to have one activated knight at the beginning of the game.
Personally, I am not a big fan of such variants. One major appeal of the game is attributable precisely to the threat of the barbarian army,which you have to prepare for as early in the game as possible and include in your strategic planning. The exploratory scenarios and all other scenarios with many smaller islands are unsuitable.
When playing with the Seafarers Expansion , you must ensure that certain actions applying to roads are also possible for ships. Rules for Cities and Knights with the Seafarer Expansion. A knight can also be moved across the sea if the intersection he starts from is connected — via roads and ships or via ships only — to the intersection he ends up on.
You may move an active knight to an intersection between three sea hexes if one of your ships is adjacent to this intersection the knight is then assumed to be on the ship. If a knight stands on an intersection bordered by the last ship of a shipping route, that shipping route is closed. If you interrupt a foreign shipping route by means of a knight or a settlement , that shipping route is considered interrupted in terms of the "Longest Trade Route.
If you deactivate an active knight adjacent to the sea hex occupied by the pirate, you may move the pirate. The rule according to which the robber must not be moved until the barbarians have reached Catan for the first time also applies to the pirate who is obviously not in the desert , provided that he is included in the scenario. Theoretically, it is possible to combine the two expansions and thus create a game that provides an even larger variety of strategies and possibilities to win.
If you want to combine these two expansions, you should be aware that the resulting game is rather complex and perhaps even a bit confusing.
However, a group of players who know both expansions well may definitely give it a try. At least for the first attempt, scenario 4 with its Fish for Catan and Spice for Catan missions should be used. You are allowed to upgrade settlements to cities. You can choose whether to upgrade a coastal settlement to a city or to a harbor settlement. Subsequent conversion of a city into a harbor settlement or vice versa is prohibited. Instead of building a settlement, each player builds a city and thus begins the game with 1 harbor settlement and 1 city.
Knights cannot be transported by ship. Therefore, they stay on the island where they were built. Unlike crews, knights you have built on an island occupied by a pirate lair are not allowed to participate in the battle for the pirate lair. In addition to a tutorial and a quick guide in each scenario, the program also includes a comprehensive user's guide as a PDF file. You can also download the current version of the guide here:.
You can find out about the type of processor you are using by clicking on "About this Mac" in the "Apple" menu. Afterwards, the program will also run with Java 1. Please note that the optimal program execution is only possible with Java 1. If, subsequently, you want to deactivate the compatibility mode e. Released in Pictures from the game. You can also download the current version of the guide here: Download User's Guide.
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