Catan Players

Last night Ken “Red Shirt” Gillum hosted a special game of Catan. It was the first time for some of us to play Seafarers of Catan. Quite enjoyable actually. Although there was some period of adjustment for us as now we had to worry about island jumping, a pirate ship, ships, and gold. Other things to adjust to was not having the luxury of the second 12-sided dice we use for our regular games of Catan. Resource production seemed painfully slow at times. Our first adventure had us using one of the pre built scenarios. The 4 Island scenario victory went to Ian as he had the Longest Trade Route. Second game was “Ultra Random” scenario in which I won. We ended up with just 2 islands and 1 of them had a very odd shape as it had some weird land bridge look to it.

Can’t wait to do it again and I would recommend it as a purchase for those who are on the fence about it. It’s a great was to break up the traditional look and feel of Catan. Not sure when we will combine Seafarers and Cities & Knights.