Description
Catan: The Fast Card Game brings the familiar world of Catan to a single deck of cards. Instead of a board and dice, you build roads, settlements, cities, knights and city improvements in front of you, and every building brings victory points or a special advantage. This is the Slovenian edition of Struggle for Catan (originally Die Siedler von Catan: Das schnelle Kartenspiel) with Slovenian cards and rules.
How to play Catan: The Fast Card Game
The goal is to be the first to collect 10 victory points. On your turn you first trade resources: with the draw pile, with the five face-up cards of the market, or by taking a card from an opponent's hand and giving them another one back. How many cards you may trade depends on how many of your roads show side A.
Then you build, each type of building once per turn, and finally you draw two resource cards, plus one more for each knight on side A. When you upgrade a settlement to a city, you read the event on the back of the card, for example a robber attack, when everyone with more than seven resources must discard the excess.
Why you will like it
- You place roads and knights alternately: side A gives an advantage, such as more trades or an extra card, while side B gives a victory point.
- When the pile runs out of roads or knights, you take your new road or knight from an opponent, and the arrow on the fate card shows from whom.
- City improvements bring 3 or 4 points and a lasting advantage; one, for example, protects your first knight from being stolen.
- No dice: you get resources by drawing and trading, so you decide a lot about your progress yourself.
Who is Catan: The Fast Card Game for
The game is for 2 to 4 players aged 8 and up, and a game takes about 30 minutes. The rules are simple, so it suits families and everyone who loves Catan but would like to play it faster and on a smaller table. Players like it best with four. With two copies of the game you can also play with five or six.
What you might not like
Because opponents can take your roads, knights or a card from your hand, the game may not suit those who prefer peaceful building without losses.
What is in the box
- 67 resource cards (11 brick, 11 lumber, 15 wool, 14 grain, 16 ore)
- 42 building cards: 9 roads, 15 settlements/cities, 5 knights, 9 city improvements and 4 building cost cards
- 1 fate card
- rules in Slovenian
