Catan

Board Setup

• Connect blue pieces (ocean) with numbers aligning.
• Shuffle the inside pieces
• Tokens
  • have letters on the back
  • Start with upper left corner with A token spiral in placing tokens in counter-clockwise
  • Desert hex does not get token
• Robber piece
  • Goes on Desert

Game pieces

• Each play selects a color
  • 5 settlements
  • 4 cities
  • 15 roads

Cards

• Separate resources in 5 piles
• Shuffle development cards
• Largest army & Longest road next to the board

Starting

• Each player starts with:
  • 2 settlements
  • 2 roads

When placing 2nd settlement we you resource that are next to 2nd settlement.

Phases

Resource Production Phase

• Role the dice.
• Adjacent settlements to number rolled get resources:
  • Settlement gets 1 resource
  • City gets 2 resources
• 7 rolls: robber activated
  • any player with 7 or more resource cards looses half of them (rounded down)
  • Whoever rolled can move the robber, stopping the resource production of that square.
  • And steals one card from the an adjacent settlement.

Trade phase (after resource production phase)

• Player whose turn it is has to be a part of the trade with other players
• 4 cards can be traded for a single resource
• settlement next to Harbor can trade using that harbor

Build phase.

• Players builds

1 development can be played anytime during the turn (as long as it wasnt bought during this turn)

Knight card

• Move robber
• Steal 1 resource card (from adjacent settlement, 1 total)
• 3 knights card played -> largest army.
  • If more knights are used by another player the card is given to other player.

Longest road

• 5 adjacent road pieces
• can be passed to someone other if someone has longest road.
• Someone can break the road by building a settlement.

Resource pile is low

And multiple players are owed the resource -> Nobody gets the resource