Description
You have already settled Catan, and with your ships the surrounding islands too. The expansion Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers brings six scenarios and the components for them: undiscovered islands with treasures, dragons gathering in the desert and a great canal that brings water back to dry fields. To play, you need the base game Catan and the expansion Catan: Seafarers, and for two scenarios also Catan: Cities & Knights.
How to play Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers
You play by the rules of Catan and Seafarers, and each scenario adds its own rules and its own victory point goal. In two scenarios, the hexes of unknown islands lie face down. When you bring a ship or a road to one, you flip the hex over and get a resource for the discovery. On a desert or sea, however, you find a treasure: resources, a development card or free roads and ships.
The other scenarios are more demanding. Dragons from the desert move onto the hexes whose number is rolled on the dice and cut off their income, so you have to sail to a safe neighboring island in time. Elsewhere, knights dig a canal together or sail to an enchanted land, where they fight the dragons.
Why you will like it
- You never know what lies under the hex you flip: new land, sea or a treasure.
- You can use a treasure right away or keep it: with several treasures you get a special harbor and victory points.
- When dragons take over your home island, moving to a neighboring island becomes a real race against time.
- In the scenario where you move numbers from the old island to the new islands, each player gets 4 extra cities, so they can build as many as 8.
Who is Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers for
The expansion is for 3 to 4 players aged 8 and up, and a game takes about 90 minutes. It is meant for players who already know Seafarers and Cities & Knights and want more demanding scenarios. If you prefer to explore islands at a calmer pace, start with the two treasure scenarios, which are simpler. This is the Slovenian edition with Slovenian rules.
What you might not like
You cannot play the expansion without Seafarers, and two scenarios also require Cities & Knights. Setup takes longer than in the base game, so it may not suit those who prefer a quick setup.
What's in the box
- 12 terrain hexes
- 6 sea hexes with desert on the back
- 2 sea frame pieces
- 9 canal tokens
- 16 cities in 4 colors
- 19 dragons
- 12 number tokens
- 20 treasure tokens
- rulebook with scenarios
