

This is one of many Catan custom, extra-large boards seen during demonstrations and tournaments at Gen Con. The players in the game represent settlers establishing settlements on the island of Catan. Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The game board, which represents the island, is composed of hexagonal tiles ( hexes) of different land types, which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game. Newer editions of the game began to depict a fixed layout in their manual, which has been proven by computer simulations to be fairly even-handed, and recommend this to be used by beginners. In 2016, editions of the game were released with a conventional fixed layout board in this configuration, the hexes of which cannot be rearranged. Players build by spending resources (wool, grain, lumber, brick, and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. On each player's turn, two six-sided dice are rolled to determine which hexes produce resources. Players with a settlement adjacent to a hex containing the number just rolled receive one card of the corresponding resource cities produce two cards of the corresponding resource. For example, if a player has one city and two settlements adjacent to a grain hex, that player would take four grain resource cards if the corresponding number was rolled. There is also a robber token, initially placed on the desert if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again. Each player may recruit up to seven brothers from the prisons of Westeros to don their specific color and man their section of the Wall. Players who arent still learning the rules may feel tired, waiting for resources to come into their hands. That player may also steal a resource card from another player with a settlement or city adjacent to the robber's new placement. A Game of Thrones: Catan Brotherhood of the Watch Board Game is available right now Find the best board games at the Dice Owl. Catan occasionally takes a while to pick up once the game has started. In addition, when a 7 is rolled, all players with 8 or more resource cards must discard their choice of half of their cards, rounded down.

For example, If a player has 9 resource cards, and a 7 is rolled, the player must get rid of 4 cards.
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On the player's turn, the player may spend resource cards to build roads or settlements, upgrade settlements to cities (which replace existing settlements), or buy development cards. Players can trade resource cards between each other players may also trade off-island (in effect, with the non-player bank) at a ratio of four-to-one resource for one of any other. By building settlements adjacent to ports, players may trade with the bank at three-to-one (three of any single resource type) or two-to-one (two of a specific resource) ratios, depending on the port's location. The goal of the game is to reach ten victory points. Players score one point for each settlement they own and two for each city.
