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My friend had a house warming today. I had attended despite the fact that I had quite a bit of wok to do. I tried to do some of it there, but so many things proved to be distracting.
It started with Tropic Thunder playing in the background. Such a hilarious movie, and then another friend mentioned that he had brought "Settlers." As I filed through my memory, I remember where I had heard that before: Chill's Livestream. I remember Chill playing that game, and I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
They had played one round, in about half an hour, and by that time the movie was over. I had gotten up, determined to figure out how to play it.
It was slow at first, barely understanding the rules, having no idea what to do during my turn, etc. The people that I was teamed with (to teach me how to play) had left, and I was there alone.
While it progressed slowly at first, another guy I knew sat down next to me, and proclaimed himself to be my partner. When I started to understand the game, it got so much more entertaining.
Before I knew it, it had turned into a nearly *three* hour brawl, containing embargoes, terrorist/insurgent groups, war mongrels, monopolies, and a cutting-edge fight to earn the 10 points.
After all the time had passed, my teammate and myself had managed to conjure up two roads, taking the longest bridge, while conjuring up the last points needed for victory. It was my affirmation into the game, and it was good.
Afterwards, we proceeded to watch the Redskins lose, and caught up on a few other things, while enjoying the other aspects of company, television, and card/board games.
I finally get home, while it is way too late for me to finish all my work, until I am brought upon the realization that the due dates were delayed, thus not requiring me to finish them tonight.
Conclusion/tl;dr: Settlers of Catan is now my new favorite board game.
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yea, i recently got hooked on that shit too.
playcatan.com
its a little too random for my tastes. but still quite fun if everyone playing understands strategy.
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Most. Frustrating. Dice Rolls. Game. Ever.
Played it all summer on asobrain and with friends.
I still rage when I think about it.
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On January 04 2010 13:06 chrisSquire wrote:
yea, i recently got hooked on that shit too.
playcatan.com
its a little too random for my tastes. but still quite fun if everyone playing understands strategy.
Yeah, it is the most frustrating game to watch people make ridiculous trades for though. Unless you are the beneficiary :p
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protip: your starting two settlements are 90% of the game, and you almost always want to put them next to the best rock source. Rock is imba.
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nice~ i got hooked on this game this winter break as well
won my first game on my third game, and felt gooood~~
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great game but if you like it, seriously buy the expansion cities and knights (the other expansion, seafarers, is not that good, but you might like it if you like settlers)
cities and knights makes the game a lot more complex but a lot more fun too =) i mean in settlers there are very few complicated rules and everyone shares a very small number of objectives/styles, which cities and knights addresses. plus there's a barbarian horde and lots of opportunities to screw every other player!
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Calgary25954 Posts
Yea it's super easy to learn and really fun. I actually prefer vanilla to all the ridiculous addons.
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COOL STORY BRO!
Jk, I've heard that the game is really fun from all my friends but when I tried to play it I was way too tired to get too involved with it so I had my partner do everything.
Thanks, maybe I'll try it again.
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Canada5565 Posts
I played this game quite a bit in a past, I like it but not as much as many people do.\
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Baa?21242 Posts
Catan expansions are ridiculous, vanilla's the way to go ;O
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I've only got vanilla, actually played it today wtf haha. I've never found it fun to play a lot but its a decent game.
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United States12607 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:27 Chill wrote:
Yea it's super easy to learn and really fun. I actually prefer vanilla to all the ridiculous addons.
+1, the addons ruin the game's beautiful simplicity.
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Yea it's an awesome game. I used to play it during lunchtime at work. As well, it doesn't get as heated as Monopoly or Risk (I guess the level of hostility is proportion to game duration), which is always good.
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bah cities and knights is the shit. don't you get tired of always competing for longest road or largest army?
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Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
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Played it a few times with the Knights add-on and the Seafarers add-on and it's pretty fun. One thing my friends and I don't really like is that there isn't much you can do aggressively against someone. We would come up with rules to be able to fuck each other up but we're too lazy, maybe we can look it up on the net sometime for alternate rules.
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:36 JWD wrote:Show nested quote +On January 04 2010 13:27 Chill wrote:
Yea it's super easy to learn and really fun. I actually prefer vanilla to all the ridiculous addons. +1, the addons ruin the game's beautiful simplicity.
I'll trade you beautiful simplicity for two sheep
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On January 04 2010 15:34 HonestTea wrote:Show nested quote +On January 04 2010 13:36 JWD wrote:On January 04 2010 13:27 Chill wrote:
Yea it's super easy to learn and really fun. I actually prefer vanilla to all the ridiculous addons. +1, the addons ruin the game's beautiful simplicity. I'll trade you beautiful simplicity for two sheep
Ahahaha.
I'm not really good enough to know, but it seems like there are a variety of viable strategies. I like Catan a lot. It's kinda like monopoly with skill.
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