The Settlers of Catane

socralynnek · 18-04-2013, 04:36

I'm a big fan of 'Die Siedler von Catan' and I already had it when the German was the only version...

I think the first two expansions ( Seafaring and 'cities and knights', just translated from German) are also very worth it.

'Tedious' endgames? I once competed in the regional preliminaries of the German Settlers Championship... there you had exciting endgames...

Matrix · 18-04-2013, 11:59

Haven't played it for quite some time, but it's a fun game! Simple indeed, and I never experienced it as too long. The card game Catan is even more fun, but only for two players. My ex and I have played that countless times.

Really useful as there aren't that many good games suitable for just two people.

socralynnek · 18-04-2013, 17:22

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Originally Posted by Matrix

Haven't played it for quite some time, but it's a fun game! Simple indeed, and I never experienced it as too long. The card game Catan is even more fun, but only for two players. My ex and I have played that countless times.

Really useful as there aren't that many good games suitable for just two people.

My wife stopped playing the card game against me after about 30 games.
So I can still say, I won every game I played the card game ;-)

Lt. Killer M · 19-04-2013, 08:03

the boardgame is great, especially with the 6 player expan and seafaring.
We always used a map with a small starting island and a large unknown area, and we never had boring endgames. And sometimes the long-time straggler won!

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Matrix Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 4,828	Haven't played it for quite some time, but it's a fun game! Simple indeed, and I never experienced it as too long. The card game Catan is even more fun, but only for two players. My ex and I have played that countless times. Really useful as there aren't that many good games suitable for just two people. __________________

19-04-2013, 08:03	#4
Lt. Killer M Emperor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: HAWK!. Posts: 4,365	the boardgame is great, especially with the 6 player expan and seafaring. We always used a map with a small starting island and a large unknown area, and we never had boring endgames. And sometimes the long-time straggler won! __________________ One more turn..... just one more turn... one MORE!