Various expansions have added to this short catalogue. Legend of the Sea Robbers repeats the units, adds outposts, and allows upgrading the military power of the fleet buying incendiary kegs. Knights (directly rather than via development cards) and city walls in Cities and Knights).Įxplorers and Pirates adds port settlements and transport ships, units and settlers. Later expansions added other things to spend resources on:īridges and wagons in Traders and Barbarians (plus knights errant via development cards), These resources can be spent on building roads, settlements or cities, or on the purchase of development cards. Production in Settlers of Catan knows 5 regular resources ( grain, sheep, wood, bricks/clay and ore) for the 5 regular hex types. Whenever a new resource, commodity or ingredient is introduced, whether as hand card or as a token, it ought to serve a purpose, and be it as a secondary currency that allows to buy the regular currency through trade. The purpose of any of these currencies in Settlers of Catan is to purchase game board elements, actions, development cards, improvements, prestige points or prestige objects, or victory points. These are some thoughts about the various currencies used in the games of the Settlers of Catan family, and their purposes and possible variations. (This draft has been lying inactive for quite a while, so I gave it a short makeover.) By maintaining this file, I can keep up to date with my collection of variants. I am going to use this blog for a couple of posts stating the obvious in order to get a good overview over available variants.
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