Kosmos Catan

The men and women of your expedition build the first two settlements. Fortunately, the still uninhabited land is rich in natural resources. You build roads and settlements, which eventually become cities. Will you succeed in gaining supremacy on Catan? Bartering dominates the scene. Some resources you have in abundance, other resources are scarce. Ore for wool, bricks for wood - you trade as needed for your current building projects. Proceed strategically! If you have founded your settlements in the right places and trade your resources skilfully, the odds are on your side. But your opponents are clever too. First published in Germany in 1995 as The Settlers of Catan, then in English in 1996 as The Settlers of Catan , Catan celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020. At the start of the game, you build the game board from hexagonal terrain tiles. Catan is born - a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields and forests, surrounded by the sea. Each of you places two small houses on fields where three terrain tiles meet. They are your starting settlements. And so it begins. The starting player rolls two dice. An "11!" Each terrain space is labelled with a number. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a terrain tile marked with the number rolled receives a resource produced by that tile. Hills produce bricks, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain and pastures produce wool. You use these resources to expand throughout Catan: you build roads and settlements or expand your existing settlements into cities. For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 wood. If you do not have the necessary resources, you can acquire them by trading with your opponents. Each settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. If you expand skilfully, you can be the first player to reach 10 victory points and win the game!