- Full Color Rules Book
- New Graphics!!
- New Card Art!!
- New Packaging & Tiles!!
Product Description
In The Seafarers of Catan you control a group of seafaring settlers exploring and taming the uncharted Isles of Catan. Embark on a quest to settle the island, build ships, and chart the nearby waters. Guide your settlers to victory with clever trading, cunning development, and by establishing the most productive sea lanes. Acquire your resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Discover far-off mines and use gold and combinations of resources–grain, wool, ore, brick, and timber — to develop your ever-expanding empire. Of course, the best strategy and a dash of luck decides who will be the undisputed ruler of the Isles of Catan. You need The Settlers of Catan board game to use this expansion, sold separately.
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We purchased this from Amazon for our son who loves the Catan series. We were very disappointed to discover that this version does not work with the Catan that we purchased 18 months ago. We contacted the manufacturer several times via email and asked them to remedy the problem, but were told that we had to purchase another product that was not yet available. Thank you Amazon — they made good on the return since it did not work.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
I was very excited to get this expansion since I am a fan of Catan as well as the Cities and Knights expansion.
I was hugely confused when I opened this box, not realizing that I had a new edition, and that they drastically redesigned the cardboard tiles. The red brick pieces now look like little hills, and the desert pieces look tan, rather than the darker shades of it’s predecessor. The ocean pieces look light blue rather than the dark blue they used to be. This is all very nice for a redesign, but you will need to combine the pieces from the original catan game with these pieces, and if you have the old game, the combination of different looking pieces can get absolutely confusing. I think they still sell the old version of seafarerers.
Also, they indicate that the edge pieces should be combined with the edge pieces from the original catan game. I don’t remember ever getting edge pieces with the original. Maybe they include edge pieces with the new edition catan game? From my memory, the edge pieces I got came from the cities and knights expansion. Any way, these new light blue edge pieces did not seem to connect in any way I could figure out with my old cities and knights edge pieces, so I had to go without. All in all, extremely upsetting.
So far, I have played one of the scenarios. A scenario is a set up of islands. There are lots of scenarios with different layouts for different sized islands. They all look very cool. There is even one scenario which allows you to build major monuments like a “great wall”, etc.
It’s important to note that certain scenarios are larger than others and require certain expansion packs to have enough tile pieces to create the scenario.
This addition can be played with the cities and knights expansion, but only with certain scenarios. The scenarios which work are the ones with the big islands surrounded by smaller ones. The instructions indicate that it is too hard to defeat the barbarian attacks with certain scenarios.
I played my first game without including cities and knights in order to keep it simple for the first time. It was a remarkably simple addition to the game. I played with the 4 small island scenario, and the game seemed to move along faster than normal. We were done in only a few hours, compared to the unbelievably long games I am used to. It’s basically the catan game with some sea trading routes (symbolized by little ships) added on to it. You get bonus points for creating settlements on islands you have not yet populated. For the first new settlement on a new island you get one additional victory point (a marker is put under the settlement to indicate this added point). Each additional settlement put on an island you have not populated yet is 2 pts added to your settlement (3pts total, 4 pts if it turns into a city).
A barbarian ship is also added to the game. If a 7 is rolled, the player has the choice of moving the robber, or the barbarian ship. The barbarian ship prevents people from moving or continuing to build their trading routes, and the person who moved the ship to that tile is allowed to take one card from a player (similar to how it works with a robber), from anyone who has a trading route touching the tile.
There is a new tile piece which is a gold tile piece. If your settlement is adjacent to this tile, you are allowed to take your choice of any of the resource cards. This tile is not used in all of the scenarios, only certain ones.
All in all, I liked the seafarers expansion and would have given it a high mark except for the fact that I felt so upset that the redesign messed up the whole layout.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Fantastic addition to an already fantastic game. Game board pieces get a little unwieldy to manage and are a bit flimsy. Also, would have been nice if they created a tray specifically for this game addition vs. using the existing Catan tray — some of the board pieces you just cram in, nowhere in particular.
Fortunately these have no bearing on the actual gameplay, which is great.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Very fun game expansion for Settlers of Catan. If you are wondering if it is worth it…don’t. It is in no way a gamble. While you’re at it, buy Cities and Knights too.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
We recently started playing Settlers of Catan and my kids, 10 and 7, LOVE it! So much so that my daughter wanted all the expansion packs for her birthday. I went online and read the reviews and Seafarers was recommended more highly than the other expansion packs so I decided to start with it first. I agree. It is a great addition to the original game. Lots of fun, but definitely adds more challenges to the original game. Of course, like the original Settlers, the initial setup takes a while, especially reading through all the instructions and scenarios, but once you get going, it’s hours of fun. We’ve only played once but the manual has many different layouts for 3 and 4 players so we are looking forward to many more hours of family play. I highly recommend this if you like Settlers and want to add more dimensions to the game.
My only gripe with both games (more so with the original) is the pieces sometimes don’t stay flat so we have to bend the pieces a little to make them fit.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5