In Seafarers you get a bonus victory point for the first settlement you build that’s not on your original island, which is quite exciting. In original Catan each settlement gains a player one victory point, and a city is worth two. There is also the new resource of gold, which allows a player who has a settlement built on one to claim one resource of their choice every time its number is rolled. In addition to those the expansion also includes a large number of sea hexes and extra sea edge pieces to make the board bigger. Because several islands are involved in playing this game there are extra Catan Chits, with numbers on them to produce resources. Seafarers is obviously set over multiple islands, so each colour player is provided with 15 ships of their colour, which can be built by spending one sheep and one wood resource cards on your turn, and can then be used to travel to new places. All clear? Excellent! Without further ado: What’s New? Instead all I’m going to do in these posts is to say which pieces are added to the base game to play the expansion and then review the differences in game play and give my opinion.
BATTLE OF CATAN BOARD GAME FULL
Okay, these Catan posts are going to be a little different to the normal reviews as I’ve already done a full review post on the original Settlers of Catan I’m not going to do the “What’s In The Box” photos for any of the expansions or extensions, but instead only for the spin-off editions, like Starfarers of Catanor Star Trek Catan as those games are very different to the original. However, the island proved to be too small to sustain multiple civilizations, so some of the people took to the seas to find new places to settle, and they became known as the Seafarers of Catan! Was the island of Catan, and on that island small groups of people settled and expanded, becoming farmers, miners, shepherds and lumberjacks.
Year of Publication: 1997 In The Beginning…