Can A Total Newbie Learn How To Play Catan In 2024? [AD]
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- I've always wanted to learn Catan but it always seemed so daunting. Check out Catan yourself: bit.ly/CATANGamerZakh Thank you to Dovetail Games and Catan for sponsoring. Now is the time for my first ever game of this legendary board game with the Console Edition! It also got a new DLC called Cities & Knights, but I'll have to try that expansion next time.
Acquire resources, master new strategies, and build your settlements across a board in Catan, which is that famous board game that everyone keeps talking about.
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Intro | 0:00
What is Catan? | 0:49
Basics & Resources? - Tutorial 1 | 2:53
What Is The Robber? - Tutorial 2 | 9:07
How To Trade? - Tutorial 3 | 16:19
How To Build? - Tutorial 4 | 21:40
What Are Development Cards? - Tutorial 5 | 25:46
First Ever Catan Gameplay | 31:59
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Regarding the math of dice:
Any 6 sided dice, also called d6, has an average value of 3.5 for each roll: (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6=3.5. That allows us to easily get the average number of dice in combination.
For two dice, 2d6, the average rolled number is thus *7* , for which there are 6 valid combinations to achieve it with distinct dice, and the number should come up with about 16.7% of all rolls.
6 and 8 both have 5 combinations, making them the most common *other* than 7. In total, 6 to 8 make up roughly 44.5% of all 2d6 thrown!
5 and 9 have 4 combinations. Those come up with a probability of 11.1% each, resulting in 2/3rds of all rolls being 5 to 9.
4 and 10 have 3 combinations. They appear with 8.3% each, and 83.3% of all rolls are 4 to 10.
3 and 11 have 2 combinations. With a 5.6% chance for either, 94.5% of all rolls are a 3 to 11.
2 and 12 have single combinations and show up at a chance of 2.8%. All rolls are 2 to 12.
(There're tiny rounding errors in the percentages here, resulting in a sum up to 100.1%)
Catan is an easy game to learn and play. I don't know where you got the impression it was complex. I enjoy catan, but I find it relying to much on luck. Everything is about luck. From the tiles placement to your choosing position to every single roll. Vey little strategy involved.
@@salvadorpalma8173 When not a player and not knowing much about it, a lot of stuff muddles what it actually is. I think the variants and custom rules confuses what the game actually is. For example the Cities & Knights DLC for this makes it almost a completely different game, so not knowing it's a game mode you start to hear there's all these rules and mechanics and you get the sense that they're all for a single game. Then you hear there are championships and tournaments, which makes it sound intimidating because people play this professionally at that level.
@@GamerZakh ok, i see what you mean.
In my case, I bought the boardgame many years ago, the base game, so when i think of/refer to catan i mean the vanila version.
Nice and entertaining playthrough.
About rolling 2 dice simultaneously: Create a 6x6 table, rows 1 to 6 for die one, columns 1 to 6 for die two. Now sum both values for each cell. There are 36 possible outcomes, lowest is 1+1=2, highest is 6+6=12. There is only one way to get 2 or 12, 2 ways to get 3 or 11, 3 ways to get 4 or 10 and so on.
All cells along the diagonal are of sum 7, so 7 is the most common outcome of the 2D6 roll.
To calculate the probability, divide the possible ways for a certain result by 36. The probability for 7 is 6/36 ~ 1/6 ~ 17%. On average, 1 in 6 rolls result in a 7.
It is absolutely possible, though, to roll any outcome multiple times in a row without reducing the probabilities in following rolls. This is true randomness.
I have played the board game for many years, with most additions. Base game is easy to learn, but the more you add the more tactics there are to handle of statistic outcome. EDIT: The rules have variations between the digital one and physical one, along newer editions can have changes. An advantage with physical play is the option of "house rules", where tweak some rules.
Dude, I've just started playing as well with the physical version. I'm glad I'm not the only one :D
Thx for the recommendation! Played it in Physical Form but did Not know that a Videogame Version exists!
Omg this is perfect, I’ve been wanting to learn how to play Catan for a while now but never got to it, hopefully I’ll have a small grasp of the game by the end of the video!
That is the charm and genius of the game, it is so quickly learned and simple yet hard to master :). They could have started with the 2 D6 explained, but looks like good interactive tutorials. On Steam, Catan Universe is probably the best official copy, for most features, but I'm quite fond of the first release (only in Germany) "Catan: Die erste Insel" from 1999, it had the best AI characters. Made by Funatics, the Studio behind Settlers 2!
Good board game, ive taught a many newbies how to play base game and cities and knights. This looks good
I did actually think it was going to be way more convoluted. Turns out it took me about 40 minutes to get it.
@@GamerZakh yeah it's not too complicated, I highly recommend cities and knights once you've played few games, it's alot more strategic and more fun in my opinion.
I played the board game a lot with family. When you reached 9 victory points I thought the console game was way too fast/easy, as we used to play a game well above an hour. But then the last 10 minutes really showed how similar it is with the board game :D
The move orange did to cut your road has been discussed a lot in our family and especially when we were playing with friends. I think the rules allow it, but we agreed every time before a game to not allow it.
That's cool to know it does work the same in a family game. I think custom rules are very normal for Catan like Monopoly haha. But also Catan seems to have a lot of official variants and game modes, so I guess it's kind of built for custom rules.
Ok, on the first tutorial I've already failed. I don't have a sheep to stroke with...
Aww soo sorry @GamerZakh. This seems very complex in its own way. Valiant effort!! Fun to watch it evolve
Hard to see the difference between empty edges /intersections and red pieces, when you look at the board from a top down view.
the game has unintentionally the look of a typical mid to late 90s render, haha. Thats nostalgic
Wow that one 7 really wrecked you, you got Cataned bad on your very first try!
Haha it was before I knew 7 is the most common roll, so really it's bad planning on my part.
@@GamerZakh Not necessarily. Knowing 7 was the most common, I would still have done the same in this situation, it was a good plan. In a 2d6, 7 has an outcome probability of 1/6, which is the highest, but still, any other outcome would roll in 5/6 cases. You basically rolled a natural 1 several times...
thanks for teaching me catan
I've been a long-time fan now, watching most of your AoE series, Caesar 3 and Emperor series on UA-cam. I have an idea I want to discuss with you, where is the best place to reach you for a steady 1 on 1 communication?
You can DM me on Discord but as policy I can't promise anything.
Pretty sure the development deck is filled with knights most, so it's not too uncommon to get one of those. To my recollection anyway.
46 percent are knights
seven is the most common number that can be roll. Six and eight are the second must common, and so on. This game works under the same probability as craps.
Thanks, I never actually did the math of 2d6 probabilities.
To me the 3D board is hard to read and UI and tutorials seem less than ideal (especially the trade menu).
Much prefer the HD version on iPad.
I used to have the board game. An ex stole it.
That sucks, what a weird thing to steal from someone.
"I was so close!" spends all resources on 3 development cards when one wheat off
Where are my Ceasar videos??
I'm working on one for next week.
Is there also a PC version?
Yeah there is Catan on PC.
How could the AI dice roll me 6 7s in a row?
See my explanation above.
What.. no PC version?
Yeah there's Catan on PC too.
what's this ?
It's Catan on console. Catan is 'that' famous board game, used to be called The Settlers of Catan. This video is my first time playing Catan ever to see how hard it is to learn.
Zach - Someone is straight-up ripping off your content! He's slowed your voice down, but it's definitely your voice. I'm not on any social media, but wanted you to know. Channel is called The Hard Games & he's presenting the Top 15 Tycoon Games of 2024. I don't think I can share the link here.
Thanks for the heads up! People always try that kind of crap. You can help report it.
yeah, great Imperor Augustus, conquered the Isles of "S"ATAN^^
=( Console, I'm all PC.
There are PC versions of Catan too.
Make new populous game 😅😅
Stroke a sheep 😮🐑💀 never say that to a kiwi
Video tutorials are ... absolutely awful. No game should ever rely on those.
It doesn't rely on those, I play the interactive tutorials right after. What kind of tutorials do you like?
Yes, I've seen that, but the video tutorials are the first in the menu, so like you did, most players will assume that's where you should start.
Games should make use of their interactivity to teach you how to play.
And they absolutely must be concise and optional (Catan seems to get the optional part right).
That being said I tend to ignore them. I'm not sure when I last played a tutorial I found useful, but that's obviously not saying there shouldn't be any, just that I rather prefer exploring a game on my own (sometimes you get those first-time-playing-context hints, that's fine too depending on the game - if they can be turned off).
@@_SpamMe The interactive tutorial covers the exact same stuff as the video tutorial. The videos are just faster. Multiple teaching methods are important for the variety of different learners out there. Speaking as an ex-teacher, having both as an option is great.
I don't really see it being listed first as any kind of issue. If someone doesn't like video tutorials, they'll just skip it like you. You easily skip it and don't feel any compulsion to watch them, and that's how it is for everyone else. They do what they want. Many skip all tutorials and just try playing.