How to Play CATAN - The Most Adorable Overview Ever

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One reason CATAN remains a perennial favorite is because it takes just minutes to learn the basics. In this short video, our ridiculously cute resource Catanimals will guide you through an overview of the game.

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this is very cute and really nicely animated video. It would be nice to have a slower longer one explaining everything. It wasn't explained what the development cards do or how trading with the ports or the bank works. If I wouldn't have played the game before I think this tempo would have been too quick for me to pick up much of the rules.

Lucalaurin

I've been trying to learn how to play this game for months and after her come acrossing this video I have to admit not only it taught me a bit how to play the game but this video was just purely amazing. Wonderful job!

lganeshan

The two improvements to Catan that I wish for would be for it not to be about cutting down forests (that age of exploitation is over) and for it not to take so long. This suggested version of Catan- Ecological Wonders would solve both issues.

All turns could be taken simultaneously (or not to make it more competitive) to speed up the game. If the simultaneous turns are chosen a round of everyone's turn would consist of a trading phase and an action phase (just like individual turns are now in Catan).

Instead of destruction of forests to build cities, the game would be about and score taking desolate areas and making them forested.

One could make it this simple or encorporate additional rules (for replayability and complexity for hobby gamers) or leave it simple as above.

1) The forests could all be the same or different types. Like a 4-tierred jungle canopy (forest) could score more than a regular deciduous forest and both more than an evergreen forest. That is, more points when they support more diversity and quantity of life.

2) If one wanted to make it more competitive, the person who did more of the levels of a 5-point jungle could win the points for making that jungle and second place much less points and third and subsequent places, no points.

3) In addition, like in Catan where one collects knights to make a set of 3 (I think it is 3--I haven't played in a while), collecting a set of cards that make a forest be an World Ecological Wonder Site and score an additional point per hex or something. One could collect 4 cards, 3 cards, or have a rule of 1 card per hex in the forest to make it harder to score these additional points, but probably not this latter (third) option as there were not be enough cards for all the players to go for this making it not worth pursuing, so 3 or 4 cards would be my suggestion unless the number of cards in the game increased somehow and got mixed in the deck, but I'm not a fan of the idea.

4) ... more brainstorming needed.

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