Plane Sailing
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So, I play and enjoy Settlers of Catan.
There are a few expansion sets available. which is the best and why?
Thanks!
There are a few expansion sets available. which is the best and why?
Thanks!
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Best expansion for Settlers of Catan?
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robotsinmyhead
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If you get them in some sort of order, definitely start with Cities and Knights. In my opinion, it adds the most interplay. Aadd in the 5-6 player extension for it and the base game and it really takes off.
Seafarers is more of a mini-expansion and doesn't make any serious game-changing play, but it's a nice addition either way.
Traders and Barbarians is more of a scenario add-on and doesn't mix as well with the other two, but is fun nonetheless.
Seafarers is more of a mini-expansion and doesn't make any serious game-changing play, but it's a nice addition either way.
Traders and Barbarians is more of a scenario add-on and doesn't mix as well with the other two, but is fun nonetheless.
Seafarers is my favourite by a long way. Its main bonus to to make sheep a lot more useful, so that the resources balance out more. And it has a number of scenarios in it to widen the game experience.
Cities & Knights is a game-changing expansion. It ramps up the complexity a lot, adding three new resources (commodities), technologies, a bunch of new cards, and requiring you to protect your cities from barbarian invasions. I haven't found it that great. In my opinion, it detracts from the chief point of Catan: trading. With eight things to trade rather than five, it's just that much harder.
Cheers!
Cities & Knights is a game-changing expansion. It ramps up the complexity a lot, adding three new resources (commodities), technologies, a bunch of new cards, and requiring you to protect your cities from barbarian invasions. I haven't found it that great. In my opinion, it detracts from the chief point of Catan: trading. With eight things to trade rather than five, it's just that much harder.
Cheers!
Jan van Leyden
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QfT. While Seafarers extends the game, C&K changes it into a new game. Trading is actually reduced, thus increasing the danger of being left behind early on. And a round of C&K takes so much longer, without any new quality, just adding MotS, instead.
Plane Sailing
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Thanks, that is useful advice.
Since I mostly play with my children (8 & 6), I think that Seafarers sounds like the better expansion to go for at the moment.
Since I mostly play with my children (8 & 6), I think that Seafarers sounds like the better expansion to go for at the moment.
robotsinmyhead
First Post
Oh definitely. While I like C&K better, Seafarers doesn't change the game much in difficulty or overall gametime.
Holy Bovine
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MerricB has the right of it. If you enjoy the gameplay of Settlers for what it is (a trading game) C&K will alter that almost to the point of it being a completely new game. I've played with C&K a few times and did not care for what it did to the game. Overly long and complex it ground on for over 2 hours after we got the 'practice rounds' out of the way to learn the new rules. That shocked us as Settlers is one of those games we finish in 1 hour maybe 90 minutes tops.
Seafarers and the 5-6 players expansions are all we use now. They work beautifully together and give us plenty of options and 'replayability'.
dreamchaser214
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I also like the Seafarers' expansion. It's not that complex and it have wider range of strategies that players can pursue. I think the game plays best with only 3-4 people. The Cities & Knights expansion is good too, but makes the game much longer more complicated. I've just finished a game with my bro yesterday..haha. 
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