Whats this Dark clouds gather over the once peaceful landscape. I love Seafarers, and find Cities and Knights nice too, but combining them would just add too many extra things to think about, and too many confusing interactions (like this one) that need to be answered in separate rules, FAQs, and the like. Settlers of Catan Expansion Cities & Knights 5th Ed. I find that in general, combining too many expansions makes a game bog down too much. In the Catan: Cities & Knights 5-6 Player Expansion you control a group of settlers who must defent Catan from raiding barbarians. When the barbarian army strike, the sum of all knights every player has has to. I have never tried this, as I tend to prefer not to combine expansions in games. The number of barbarians always corresponds to the number of the towns in Catan. The knights with the number 1 are the weakest and the ones with number 3 the strongest. Choose youreself which one you want to print) 24 x knights with numbers from 1 to 3 (6 knights for each player needed: 2 x nr.1, 2 x nr.2, 2 x nr.3). Ore, sheep and wood get more importance relative to the base game as cities only produce one of these, leading to scarcity. There are two types of city-walls in the files. However, this seems to be the best answer that is available so far to add two victory points to the conditions listed in the Seafarers scenario. Answer (1 of 7): Ill discuss mostly how the strategy deviates from basic Settlers, which it does a lot Relative resource values 1. If you improve your culture muster your knights and enrich your cities you will be the master of the great realm of Catan.
Sadly, the site linked to seems to have been reorganized, and that link just redirects to the home page of. The victory point goal should be 2 more than in the Seafarers scenario. According to Daniel Johnson:Īlso, Klaus Teuber's website has a FAQ at with a few questions that might not be answered by the Almanac.Ģ. There is a thread on BoardGameGeek about combining the two expansions, in which two separate people mention that the official rule is to add 2 victory points to the Seafarers scenario if you're playing with Cities and Knights. The FAQ on combining the two expansions addresses a few questions, but not the victory point question. They do not, however, specify how many victory points to play to.
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The rules for Cities and Knights (pdf) do address combining the two games (page 13), warning that only certain scenarios work well, and providing rules for things like how to treat ships as roads and how a knight can chase away the pirate. The rules for Seafarers (pdf) do not address combining the two expansions.