Кто лучше освоит остров Катан?

Перед вами настоящая живая классика настольных игр. Приятный и увлекательный игровой процесс и несложные, но глубокие правила прекрасно подойдут для разновозрастных компаний и долгих игровых вечеров.

Вам предстоит стать настоящим колонизатором и развивать территорию острова. Поле собирается из отдельных элементов случайным образом. Каждый из играющих начинает с двумя дорогами и двумя поселениями, расположенными по желанию игрока в любой части поля. Главная цель - получить десять призовых очков. На строительство поселений, дорог и городов тратятся ресурсы, которые игроки собирают с близлежащих территорий, на которых ваши постройки. Но если на территории есть разбойник, ресурсы собрать с нее не получится. За разные созданные объекты колонизаторы получают разное количество призовых очков.

Таким образом, застраивая земли Катана, игроки применяют мастерство тактики и стратегии, стараясь опередить друг друга. Кто же станет лучшим колонизатором? Давайте узнаем!

In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.

Setup includes randomly placing large hexagonal tiles (each showing a resource or the desert) in a honeycomb shape and surrounding them with water tiles, some of which contain ports of exchange. Number disks, which will correspond to die rolls (two 6-sided dice are used), are placed on each resource tile. Each player is given two settlements (think: houses) and roads (sticks) which are, in turn, placed on intersections and borders of the resource tiles. Players collect a hand of resource cards based on which hex tiles their last-placed house is adjacent to. A robber pawn is placed on the desert tile.

A turn consists of possibly playing a development card, rolling the dice, everyone (perhaps) collecting resource cards based on the roll and position of houses (or upgraded cities—think: hotels) unless a 7 is rolled, turning in resource cards (if possible and desired) for improvements, trading cards at a port, and trading resource cards with other players. If a 7 is rolled, the active player moves the robber to a new hex tile and steals resource cards from other players who have built structures adjacent to that tile.

Points are accumulated by building settlements and cities, having the longest road and the largest army (from some of the development cards), and gathering certain development cards that simply award victory points. When a player has gathered 10 points (some of which may be held in secret), he announces his total and claims the win.