Build your domain to best your Rivals. The Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your under card mix to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, response combinations, and
Build your domain to best your Rivals. The Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your under card mix to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, response combinations, and trade to develop your domaine. Expand your settlements and cities recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Your cunning and a dash of luck decides who will be Prince of Catan. The Rivals for Catan contains:. 180 Cards. Production Die. Event Die. Commerce Token. Knight Token. Rules and Card Index.
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The enemy within: A review of The Rivals for Catan The game plays like a mix between Settler of Catan: Cities and Knights and any combo-card playing game. In order to be victorious you will have to manage your resources/trades efficiently but more importantly you will have to get to know the deck. This aspect of the card game differentiates it significantly from the board game, which requires very little memorization of cards going into the game. In Rivals, knowing whats out there and how cards build upon each other to help your principality or…
It would be nearly impossible for us to play this more often than we already do. We received this as a gift while we were waiting for our kids to be old enough for Settlers. We’ve had it for about a year now and we’ve easily played at least 3-5 times a week in that year. So it suffices to say that we like Rivals.
Epic Fun, But There’s a Learning Curve Well, let me first say my friends and I are Catan addicts! We aren’t the standard “Settlers of Catan” board game players. We play with “Seafarers of Catan”, “Cities and Knights of Catan”, and “Traders and Barbarians of Catan” all together. (Yes the official rules exist for that.) We play every Sunday. I say all that in a way that kind of gives you my credentials. We know Catan inside and out. When I heard the card game was getting rebooted, I thought it seemed intriguing. The more blog…