Catan, lets settle this.

One of the more popular game series, The Settlers of Catan, has been seen at every game store. This resources gathering game is filled with hours of laughs, everything from gathering wood and sheep to building roads out of wheat. Catan has lots of jokes with every die roll.

 

The Settlers of Catan is a simple game to play.  The map is made of several hexagonal pieces, each of which has a different resource (wood, wheat, sheep, brick, and iron) and a number (2 through 12). The goal of the game is the first person with 10 points wins. How do you make points? There are several ways, each Settlement is worth 1 point, each city is worth 2 points, the person with the longest road is worth 2 points, and the person with the largest army is worth 2.

 

 

Each player takes a turn rolling the dice and handing out the resource to anyone that has settlement or city on the location with the same number as the rolled dice. The active player, the one that rolled the dice, can build and/or trade with the other player. Quite simple, right? Well, this game has to deal with luck. This game can turn on a dime.

 

The Settlers of Catan is such a great game for everyone in the family because, it has an easy to read rules, has simple rule that everyone can understand, each game usually doesn’t last more than an hour, and no two games with play the same.

The Settlers of Catan is:

Luck: 9.5 out of 10

Strategy: 6 out of 10

Skill: 4 out of 10

Complexity: 4 out of 10

Player size 2 to 4 (6 w/ expansion)

I would have to give The Settlers of Catan a 9 out of 10

 

All right and images of The Settlers of Catan belong to Mayfair Games.

Welcome back

First off, I would like to apologize for the long wait. I will be posting again starting today. I have several games to report. Many of which are classics, which you may have played. Other that are new and people may had reservation to play.

I know it be over a year, but I though with the year starting so great, I would start up again.

To hit the ground running, I have two classic games to report. First, a lovely classic that everyone loves or have never played. If you guessed Catan, you right. Almost everyone has played it and loved it. It was even shown on the Big Bang Theory. This resource management game is fun, but is more luck then skill. I will be posting it around 6pm tomorrow.

Also because of the long delay I will also post a new game that I have come to love. Mansions of madness, based off of Lovecraft’s New York Mythos, is a fast pace RPG board game which involves a Gamemaster “KEEPER” and up to 4 players “INVESTIGATER”.

Hope to see you later, until then

Paul Latona