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The Rivals for Catan
Love playing “The Rivals for Catan,” the comprehensive, revised edition of the successful former Catan Card Game!
- Ten+
- Advanced Catan Players,
- Catan Experts
Strategy, tactical skill, luck
About the game
Submerge yourself into the bustling life on Catan – be the prince or princess of Catan and determine on the fate of its settlers. In addition to settlements, roads, and cities, you also construct the buildings where your subjects work, hire heroes that make your opponent’s life as a gamer difficult, and build ships to boost your trade.
Playing time:
- Introductory Game: About thirty minutes
- Theme Game: About forty five to sixty minutes
- Duel: About sixty to seventy five minutes
“The Rivals for Catan” is a card game. Each player starts with a petite principality consisting of two settlement cards connected by a road card.
Each settlement is diagonally adjacent to a region card. Each player has six regions where – should the dice roll result be favorable – he can harvest resources such as lumber, brick, and ore, just as in the “Catan” board game.
Each settlement is worth one victory point, and if you upgrade a settlement to a city, you receive another victory point. The easy-to-play Introductory Game, “The Very first Catanians,” takes about thirty minutes and is exclusively played with the cards of the Basic Set. The very first player to have seven (or more) victory points wins the game.
Simply using the resources you harvested to build roads and settlements or to upgrade settlements to cities won’t be enough to come out the winner. It is also significant that you place heroes, buildings, and trade ships above and below the settlements and cities, because these cards are significant in the competition for the trade advantage and the strength advantage, both of which give you extra victory points and pave your road to victory.
Once you have mastered the Introductory Game, fresh challenges await you in the three Theme Sets of The Rivals for Catan. Each Theme Set takes about forty to sixty minutes and is played together with the cards of the Basic Set, which you are already familiar with at that point.
In the set “The Era of Gold,” the fight for the trade advantage becomes more intense, and the resource “gold” gains in importance through fresh buildings. In “The Era of Turmoil,” Traitors, Archers, and Arsonists make the competition inbetween you and your opponent a little tougher. The set “The Era of Progress” is more peaceful again; if you rely on the University, cards such as Three-Field System or Mineral Mining permit you to love the fruits of progress and leave your opponent behind.
Once you have played all three Theme Games and are familiar with the cards, you should go for the Duel of the Princes. In Duel mode, you play with all Theme Sets, that is, with a slimmed-down version of them. This version of The Rivals for Catan offers you and your opponent even more strategic and tactical possibilities and thus, even more titillating and sophisticated games.
