![]() ![]() I’m going to assume you read or will read the rules and not explain much past this, but we usually play that the last settlement you place, you get those resources to start. ![]() Finally, choose who goes first (I recommend Chwazi) and play your settlements.In both of these, you’ve got either a hot spot (too many high-probability numbers) or a dead spot (too many low-probability numbers), which can make the entire game a bit irritating. Do not switch them up or shuffle them, or you’ll get situations like this: Lay the number tiles (shown) IN ORDER.This means, as shown, you want the desert either on the coast or in the center. You can go across or around, it doesn’t matter, but try to avoid having the desert in the middle ring.There are a surprising number of ways to set this up, but I’ll leave you with some personal suggestions: Please leave vitriolic feedback in the comments. The one that’s clearly a desert? That’s the desert.The ones that look like wheat fields? WHEAT.The red-brown looking ones? Those are BRICK.There are plenty of disagreements surrounding this, so, just call it what you want. Before that, I am going to make some enemies by establishing a clear and consistent way that I’m going to refer to the resource tiles. I have a strong recommendation / strong opinions about this, so I’ll make those clear from the writeup. ![]() Now, a nontrivial portion of the game is actually just assembling the board, which is locking the 6 ocean tiles together and then shuffling / laying down the resource tiles and then laying down the number tiles. If you find that you’re getting overwhelmed by the sheer number of sides of these tiles, you should sit down, breathe into a paper bag, and try something more like Carcassonne, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, or Betrayal at House on the Hill, whose square tiles can make you feel whole again. I’m at least 35% sure this is the game’s backstory, so that’s what I’m going with.Ĭatan is played with hex (short for hexagonal, from the Swiss “hexagon”, meaning “a shape with six sides” or “you shouldn’t trust etymologies that you get from a board game blog”) tiles, which may be a shock to anyone who hasn’t played a game like this before. So, if you’ve never seen or heard of Catan before, basically you’re playing as a set of intrepid explorers who happen across an island and then have no choice but to plunder its literally five resource types in the hopes of one day claiming the island for your own. ![]()
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