Hi - I'm trying to figure out what the basic placement of the board is for the 5-6 player Cities and Knights expansion and I'm stirking out online. Anyone know a good site for images of Catan boards? I want to set one that makes it fairly even for everyone.
Any help would be much appreciated, we're about to finish Yahtzee!
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
When I've played the 5-6 player version we go pretty free-form. You usually get a pretty even game if you distribute the numbers so that the 6's and 8's are far from each other and there aren't too many pairs of adjacent numbers that are equal.
Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :
Ooh, thanks Mike!
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Now, I know how regular Catan works for board placement:
You shuffle the resource tiles and create an island with random resource placement.
Then the dice number tabs are ordered sequentially, and placed the same way each time -- starting in the center and being laid out in order in a spiral. It's the same in the 5-6 person expansion.
I imagine that the same rules apply to cities and knights, though I don't know. But there's an order to the number distribution. If I'm not crazy.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
Speaking about regular Catan now: there is an order, as you explained, but I usually don't follow it when I set up the board. Makes the game more interesting and usually more even.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Hmm. I thought the game was organized so it would be even.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
It is, mostly. But sometimes the positioning of the desert throws things off.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I believe it DOES come with a model setup, which you can follow for a fair game... but I could be wrong.
Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :
Oooh, where? There's a model set-up for regular Settlers , , , but does such a thing exist for the Cities and Knights expansion? or just regular expansion, I guess.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Oh... for that, I'm not sure. I've only played the regular game. :/
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
IMO, the randomness of the board IS the fairest implementation of the game. It's also one of the most attractive features.