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Catan (Tabletop Game)
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CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan) is a multi-award-winning Eurogame by Klaus Teuber, first released in 1995. The competing players are settlers attempting to colonize the island of Catan and must collect and trade resources to build roads, settlements and developments. As they do so they accumulate Victory Points, with additional points being awarded for achievements such as building the longest road or having the largest army. The first player to reach a certain number of Victory Points (usually ten) wins the game.Because of its very unusual non-zero-sum game mechanic, many economics professors use this game to teach concepts of comparative advantage and other economicsIn addition to the original game, there are also the following expansion packs: Seafarers Legend of the Sea Robbers: An expansion created for use with this expansion. Cities and Knights Legend of the Conquerers: An expansion created for use with this expansion. Traders and Barbarians Explorers and PiratesThere are also different scenarios that change up how you play the game and are less sophisticated: Crop Trust (in partnership with the group of the same name) Frenemies of Catan Helpers of Catan Oil Springs Treasures, Dragons and Adventures (a scenario pack that utilises the Seafarers and Cities and Knights expansions)Since its original release, several related games in the Catan universe have been released, including Starfarers of Catan (later republished as Catan: Starfarers), Catan: The Settlers of the Stone Age, Catan Histories: Settlers of America, a couple of Themed Stock Board Games (Star Trek Catan based on Star Trek: The Original Series, A Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch based on A Song of Ice and Fire) and The Moral Substitute, Settlers of Canaan (not that its creators, who licensed the game legitimately, think the original is immoral; they just wanted to play on a map based on The Bible).Big Huge Games collaborated with Klaus Teuber to develop the Xbox Live Arcade version of Catan. Asmodee Digital released versions for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X and VR headsets. | |
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Unstable Equilibrium | |
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Unstable Equilibrium: Averted to some extent. As described above under the Dark Horse Victory trope, one of the worst things you can do is get an early solid lead, as that will just make the other players gang up on you. Typically, the trick to winning is to not look like you're winning. | |
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The Quisling | |
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The Quisling: Sometimes encouraged in Cities & Knights when the Barbarians come calling, if it lets you push weaker players under the bus. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: If you've got a lot of a given resource, and it's coveted enough, and you've also got a "Monopoly" development card, you can obtain this effect by trading a lot of goods for that resource, no matter the price, like there's no tomorrow, and then have it all back. Pulling this is guaranteed to grant you the ire and defiance of all the other players, but that's the price for quite literally having your cake and eating it too. | |
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Command & Conquer Economy | |
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Command & Conquer Economy: Roads, settlements, cities, etc. do not appear by themselves. | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer: Magistrate William, author of the famous treatise "The World as a Buildup Strategy Game", which proposes that reality is nothing more than a bunch of hexes, cards and dice. | |
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Gang Up on the Human | |
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Gang Up on the Human: Very badly in the first computer game, to the point that all of your opponents will sometimes simultaneously refuse to trade with you when you haven't even had time to make an offer. It's also not uncommon for them to refuse to trade when doing so would clearly be in their best interest, and would even benefit them more than you. The computer also focuses a lot more on Development cards than the average human player. As a result, expect a lot more Robbers being moved as the AI will place Knight Cards like there's no more tomorrow. A play style focused around Development Cards is a lot riskier than typical expansion and city-building, but when all 3 AI do it, there's an increased chance one of them will be successful (and thus you, the human player, will lose). Note that computer opponents will refuse to trade with anyone if that individual has 8 or 9 points (on a 10-point game). They will not accept your trade requests, nor accept your offers for when they are making their requests. This can lead to Artificial Stupidity if they refuse to make a trade with you on their turn that would allow them to immediately win. Even the most recent computer/phone-based game is really bad at this. The AI players will not only turn down your trades, but they will also even refuse the exact offer that they themselves made just seconds before, even if they made multiple attempts to get the resource in question, even when you offer more resources to still get only one. Basically, the computer will make offers to you, but you cannot make offers to the computer. | |
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G-Rated Sex | |
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Carries over into other languages, too! In Spanish, "paja", the word for hay, can mean... ahem, something else. This leads to exchanges like Te doy una paja por piedra, "I give you one hay in exchange for rock", which can also mean "I'll give you a handjob for crack". | |
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Junior Variant | |
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Junior Variant: Catan Junior removes the colonialism themes, replacing it with a pirate theme, and has a non-modular board that is easier to set up. | |
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Expanded Universe | |
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Expanded Universe: There is currently a novel, a computer game with a story, characters with personalities, and a lot of minor characters who appear in the card game and adventure games. Even the robber was made into three characters with their own comics. | |
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Dark Horse Victory | |
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Dark Horse Victory: The game has a tendency to end in this. Especially if a game has been going on for a long time, you had better watch who's in the running for the longest road or the largest army, or if anyone has been hanging on to some unplayed development cards for a long time. If one player approaches 10 points while the others are lagging behind, usually the players start helping each other to get points away from the player in the lead. In fact, it's probably best to say that one of the worst things you can do in the game is getting an early, solid lead and become the focus of everyone's wrath for the mid-game. | |
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Plunger Detonator | |
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Plunger Detonator: In the Xbox Live Arcade version, one of the emote animations shows a player using one of these to blow up the dice. The AI sometimes uses it when it has a run of particularly bad rolls. | |
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Kingmaker Scenario | |
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Kingmaker Scenario: The end-game is often a duel between two players, so the other two players are basically deciding which one wins. | |
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Artificial Stupidity | |
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Note that computer opponents will refuse to trade with anyone if that individual has 8 or 9 points (on a 10-point game). They will not accept your trade requests, nor accept your offers for when they are making their requests. This can lead to Artificial Stupidity if they refuse to make a trade with you on their turn that would allow them to immediately win. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: In Cities & Knights, players have the option of trying to tie or win the war with the Barbarians. Intentionally losing the war becomes a viable option, however, when trying to prevent other players from gaining victory points or progress cards, or causing the player(s) with the least amount of knights to lose a city. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Mary-Ann has the lowest stats (individual and as a whole) of the computer opponents in the official video games. However, she is one of the toughest opponents thanks to a development-card-heavy strategy that often gets her the largest army and a host of victory card points. | |
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Anti-Hoarding | |
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Anti-Hoarding: You can hold as many resource cards as you want in your hand, but if anyone at the table rolls a 7 (which is the single most likely roll on a 2d6) when you have more than 7 cards (8 or more cards), you have to discard a full half of them (rounded down). This encourages the players to spend their resources on buildings quickly or to trade them for others they need. The Cities & Knights expansion allows building ramparts around up to three cities, each adding 2 cards to the maximum. Given the greater number of different resources in this game, building at least one is indispensable. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Siegfried, even though he is supposed to be some sort of medieval knight. (Not that the two are necessarily incompatible.) | |
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First-Player Advantage Mitigation | |
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First-Player Advantage Mitigation: Initial placement of one's first two settlements can make or break an entire game, as they will determine what resources and how many one has in the early game. And a good first placement can lead to exponential growth in terms of resource yield in the late game since cities (which doubles the yield of resources the city is adjacent to) can only be built on top of existing settlements. Thus, in the placement phase, the sequence goes clockwise from the player who placed their settlement first until the last person, and then it reverses. This allows for the last person to place two settlements simultaneously and forces the player who got the first settlement on the board to place their second settlement after all other players, balancing out their first-mover advantage. | |
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Euro Game | |
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Euro Game: This game was first published in Germany, Europe. When it was imported into America, it popularised the medium of hobbyist board gaming. Many elements of the game were adopted by many board game designers and are still used today. | |
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Patchwork Map | |
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Patchwork Map: Built randomly from interchangeable hexes. | |
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Literal Wild Card | |
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Literal Wild Card: The Settlers Of Catan Dice Game has gold as a sixth resource, due to the geometry of the dice. Unlike the other five resources, gold is not useful in and of itself. However, players may trade two gold for one of any other resource, providing more flexibility in development decisions. | |
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Technicolor Magic | |
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Technicolor Magic: In the card game, the magic-related expansion (Wizards & Dragons) is very purple, the magic resource is purple, and all magic items (e.g. spellbooks) are purple. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: Pretty much any trade request or statement involving the wood resource. Like, "I have so much wood in my hands right now", or "I have wood for sheep". (Or not innocent... If you actually use the resource names the game provides, that line would be "I have lumber for wool." This is a key reason nobody ever uses those names.) Carries over into other languages, too! In Spanish, "paja", the word for hay, can mean... ahem, something else. This leads to exchanges like Te doy una paja por piedra, "I give you one hay in exchange for rock", which can also mean "I'll give you a handjob for crack". | |
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You Require More Vespene Gas | |
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You Require More Vespene Gas: Roads need wood and brick, settlements need wood, brick, wheat and sheep, cities need two wheat and three stone, and development cards need wheat, stone and sheep. | |
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