Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan. Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities. Acquire your resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice. But beware! Someone might cut off your road and you never know when the robber might steal some of your precious gains!This new edition keeps the same core mechanics and features updated and upgraded components designed to offer greater ease of play. The rulebook has been revamped with additional images and examples of play to streamline the learning process for new players, and the artwork has been redone.-Civilization-building board game of harvesting and trading resources-Players control their own civilization and look to spread across a modular hex-board in a competition for victory points-The modular board ensures no game will ever be the same-Multi-award-winning game! Awards: Spiel des Jahres 1995 (1995 Game of the Year) [Germany] Deutscher Spiele Preis 1995 (1995 Award for Best Adult and Family Games) - 1st place [Germany] Essener Feder 1995 - Beste Spielregel (1995 Award for Best Rulebook) [Germany] NOTE: This is the base game in the Catan universe. It can be combined with expansion or extension sets to add more players or more advanced game play. Recommended for ages 10+. For 3-4 players.
