Catan STRATEGY and Playstyles / 6 Archetypes for Veterans and 6 Playstyles for New Players
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- The more you play Catan, the more you find there are very definite styles of play or Archetypes that players assume. So which of these types are you, and which one has the highest chances of success? We’re going to break this down into two groups. The first set of Archetypes illustrate how newer players tend to think and execute. The second group of Archetypes are the battle seasoned veterans who have definitive strategies in mind.
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0:00 Introduction
New Players:
0:44 Road Warrior
1:08 The Rookie
1:47 The Shepherd
2:12 The Analyst
2:33 The Naval Officer
3:03 The Diplomat
Veterans:
3:40 Resource Specialist
4:29 The Saboteur
5:30 The Builder
6:11 The Developer
6:50 The Mayor
7:40 The Imperialist
8:00 Overall Strategy
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In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.
Setup includes randomly placing large hexagonal tiles (each showing a resource or the desert) in a honeycomb shape and surrounding them with water tiles, some of which contain ports of exchange. Number disks, which will correspond to die rolls (two 6-sided dice are used), are placed on each resource tile. Each player is given two settlements (think: houses) and roads (sticks) which are, in turn, placed on intersections and borders of the resource tiles. Players collect a hand of resource cards based on which hex tiles their last-placed house is adjacent to. A robber pawn is placed on the desert tile.
A turn consists of possibly playing a development card, rolling the dice, everyone (perhaps) collecting resource cards based on the roll and position of houses (or upgraded cities-think: hotels) unless a 7 is rolled, turning in resource cards (if possible and desired) for improvements, trading cards at a port, and trading resource cards with other players. If a 7 is rolled, the active player moves the robber to a new hex tile and steals resource cards from other players who have built structures adjacent to that tile.
Points are accumulated by building settlements and cities, having the longest road and the largest army (from some of the development cards), and gathering certain development cards that simply award victory points. When a player has gathered 10 points (some of which may be held in secret), he announces his total and claims the win.
CATAN has won multiple awards and is one of the most popular games in recent history due to its amazing ability to appeal to experienced gamers as well as those new to the hobby.
Die Siedler von Catan was originally published by KOSMOS and has gone through multiple editions. It was licensed by Mayfair and has undergone four editions as The Settlers of Catan. In 2015, it was formally renamed CATAN to better represent itself as the core and base game of the CATAN series. It has been re-published in two travel editions, portable edition and compact edition, as a special gallery edition (replaced in 2009 with a family edition), as an anniversary wooden edition, as a deluxe 3D collector's edition, in the basic Simply Catan, as a beginner version, and with an entirely new theme in Japan and Asia as Settlers of Catan: Rockman Edition. Numerous spin-offs and expansions have also been made for the game. - Ігри
Love these videos! Make more! A complete master course!
You're very kind. I'm far from a master, but I do enjoy thinking about strategy for this game. Thanks for watching.
Killer production value. Sounds and looks amazing - tight editing. Really good stuff, man.
So glad you liked it. We haven't done a lot on Catan yet, but it's been a fun game to explore. We really try to deliver top notch audio quality on all our videos. Thanks for noticing!
What you call the resources really doesn't matter much if everyone understands what you meant. If you're playing with anyone who cares, you're playing with the wrong people.
Here here.
I’m grandmaster and call ore stone
In my first game, I had a monopoly on sheep. Had almost 8 sheep in my hand. I traded all of them for other resources. When I ran out of sheep, I pulled out the monopoly card.
Lost the game, but it was a really great one.
That is the ultimate jerk move.... But I love it!
Also, "Who's got some [resource] they'll trade me? Wow, everyone? Ok, hand it over."
Noobs: Do stuff
Pros: Do same stuff, but better.
Lol, nice summary.
Your summary is even more succinct and accurate.
Great information as well as enjoyable to watch! Great work guys
We appreciate the time you took to watch and comment. Thanks!
I've been told off for calling ore stone before but the official names for the resources are lumber brick grain wool ore and I've literally never heard anyone call wood wheat or sheep lumber grain or wool
You're right. That's what the official rulebook says. But try to tell my kids that it's wool and not sheep.
@@LegendaryTactics Well, the "wheat" I call "barley" :P
we always call them wood sheep and wheat and stone lol
I'd like to see this for the expansions as well.
There are a lot of expansions to get to know! That would likely take a year or so to get qualified, and then to make that video!
It depends on the resource and number placement at the end of the day. If there is just 1 good ore tile, dont be shy to take it and go all out on cities and development cards.
I am the marine officer and it is hard to build up the infrastructure, but as soon as it stands, it works very good. The last game I tried the developer style and I love the randomness of dev cards. Wonderfull!
Awesome! It's always good to mix things up - not only to keep the game interesting for yourself, but also to keep your opponents guessing!
I just recently discovered Catan and it’s good stuff.
It seems to be going through somewhat of a Renaissance lately.
@@LegendaryTactics I’m digging through your videos now trying discover more game communities.
@@spearshaker7974 Awesome! I'm glad you found it. I am fond of the placement puzzles. It's a great way to compare your decision making against some high level players.
@@LegendaryTactics thinking about jumping into roots I like the depth with the different play types.
@@spearshaker7974 Root is brilliant. The Digital version is definitely the way to learn that one so that the rules are enforced, and you're given a range of options. We've got a full set of strategy guides on how to play each faction in the digital game to help you along as well.
Good video!
We appreciate you watching and letting us know.
So true about the Mayor archetype. I just played a game earlier with that strategy and was handcuffed by the robber constantly blocking my 6 ore, my only ore. Would've been a different game if it wasn't blocked for half of it!
That can make this game really frustrating. I like playing Catan as a fun social game rather than as a competitive game for that very reason.
Wouldn’t a winning strategy be one that requires you to adapt to the board and position? I can’t say I’ve seen many of these play styles... the video is well produced and fun, just not what I expected when reading the title.
The adaptive role is what we called the Imperialist. I hope the video didn't let you down. Thanks for your feedback.
@@LegendaryTactics thanks for the reply and taking time to engage with me as a viewer. Wouldn’t say I’m entitled the right to be let down lol. Only recently discovered the channel (mostly diplomacy related) and have enjoyed / appreciated the content. Thanks for the time and effort!
@@zherenhu4162 Our pleasure. We're just rediscovering Catan like a lot of people out there. Diplomacy is definitely one of my personal passions though.
I see some back settle placement at 5:45 around the 5 tile there are 2 red settlements one road apart
Ignore the man behind the curtain..... Good catch. Missed that in editing.
Rookies call wheat "hay" and ore "stone"? I call brick "chocolate".
Beginner:
The Cowboy- This guy plays by the seat of his pants. He has no plan. He just wings it.
Veteran:
Macgyver: His motto is: "improvise, adapt and overcome." "No Plan" is his plan.
Yee haw! Pass the duct tape.
I always thought the Mayor was the best strategy... until I met the Imperialist.
Indeed. The truly adaptable player is the best.
The Roadblocker. They get enough brick and wood to cut you off from the best spots.
You got that right!
Whoever gets the best ore spot seems to have excellent advantage.
It's pretty valuable.
In this video there is a settlement one road away from a city for red, there has to be two roads between settlements, is this rule then negated when you build a city???
Good eye. That was a mistake by my editor who put together some of this footage. My apologies for the error.
Video and sound quality is really good! The type of players are funny but don't really make sense. I feel that the differences between 'The Shepperd' and 'Naval Officer' and between 'The Developer' and 'The Mayor' are not significant. Those are Harbormaster players and Tall or O/W/S players.
'The Saboteur' definitely is a thing but don't deserve the label 'veteran' haha, if you are still holding grudges and are basically just trolling you don't belong with the veterans. Sure you block the strongest player sometimes, or you do a bad trade to help another player so the leader doesn't win the game. But all those thing you do because you still want to win yourself. Just playing to make other players life misserable isn't really a thing among the veterans. Sabotage isn't the goal, winning is.
Overall a cool video though and hope you will do some more on Catan! Sorry for my comments but that were just some things I had to vent after seeing the video haha
Your thoughts are absolutely on point. No need to apologize. There's a huge difference between experienced and casual/social catan players. As you rightly point out, many of these roles just don't happen at the more experienced tables. It's comments like these that really help us reconsider how we script and present our videos, so we're very appreciative for the suggestions. Thanks for taking the time to offer a measured response.
love your video, but there is a error at 5:37 there is a city one away from a settlement, witch is not a legal placement. oups
Good catch. Sorry. I'll give my editor a swift reprimand! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I was thinking the same thing, also looks like red already won with the assumption they have the longest road
Me and My friends we have many classic expansions and Catan Game of Thrones. Our favorites are Catan GOT and Catan Cities and Knights.
I don't think Catan is as popular here in South America as it is in Europe :/
Need to try Mayor tactics looks simple, yet not sure how profitable it is.
The sabatour also likes to take down the diplomat that got everyone against them.
Ha ha, so conniving!
Is the music from Monster Hunter?
Played for the first time ever last night
Nearly won! Is there a strategy that is usually considered the “best”. Obviously this will change with the board but, im just trying to learn as much as possible
We have put together a playlist to teach people how to get better! Here is
a good place to start: ua-cam.com/video/ZrZlMtHf6Yw/v-deo.html
everyone does a bit of each. each aren't one type, just one aspect.
There can be benefits to knowing specific ways to focus your approach, though, and being a generalist isn't always the best best path.
I know it's wheat, but imma call it hay til the day I die. Yall know what I mean. And idk. I'm the see how things roll and build what feels right type of dude. I'll pick what I think is the best starting spots I can get and roll with it from there.
I'm with you. Gotta make the game your own!
Is it a Canadian thing to pronounce the word resource... Rezourse or even worse rizzorse? Then I would imagine if you said "the source of the problem" it would also be "the zorse of the problem?".
Lol. We're an odd bunch in Canada. Now that you mention it, I do hear myself saying it work a z. Iz that not normal?
He really took your Shepherd strategy and renamed it lol
Lol
@5:26 shows two settlement near the desert that are too close together. Lol
Good catch. My editor messed up on that one.
5:45 red has an illegal placement ?
My darned editor messed up when he made the visuals. You just can't get his help these days!
Yeah, I've detrimentally been the resource veteran many a time
Lol.
anbody noticed the impossible placement at 5:51
Yes, someone caught that a while ago. We have reprimanded the editor. :)
lmao dealing w a saboteur atm
Well that can certainly get annoying.
I intentionally call Ore - stone, brick - clay, wheat - grain, and sheep - wool.
You'd be amazed at how irritated this makes people.
I do the same. Great fun to be had at the purists' expense.
What?! You can't place a settlement less than 2 roads away from another?!?!?!
Yes, that was a mistake made in filming it... You are correct!
no one else calls the gray stuff rock? -.-
I don't, but my guess is that you're not the only one...
Ah, yes. I am a developer 😁
Ah, nice!
Great video!
I just learned this game about two months ago for the first time and I'm completely hooked now.
I did have the misfortune of playing once against "the analyst" who also revealed himself to be a communist during the course of gameplay..
He didn't have any resources any one wanted, so instead of moving on to the next person's turn, he kept begging for wheat "because you guys have so many," and was wanting to trade one of his unneeded resources for two wheat cards.
If no one accepted his lopsided trade offers he would stare at the board like he was trying to figure out some kind of complicated math equation.
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Lol. Awesome storytelling. I can picture it vividly and feel like I may have played that exact player.
@@LegendaryTacticshaha, thanks!
very informative video. I'm noticing that most of your advanced players are white and beginners black.. something to think of for future video, to take out racial bias :)
It's important to us to represent a diverse range of players so it's not simply a homogenous group. It's certainly problematic if people are always characterized the same way or if some groups are excluded or systematically selected against. However, we believe it's fair to show that players can occupy both advanced and beginner roles regardless of their skin colour. In this video for instance, we actually have more white players representing new players than we do players of colour. I'm glad you mention it though, because it's something important to think about. The final shot of the Imperialist for instance, wasn't chosen based on skin colour, but rather, it was the shot in the stock footage that had a person spreading their arms to a valley, which was the look we wanted for that last role.
Grow up Karen
-_-
@@LegendaryTactics on this topic, featuring a Black man as "the Rookie," then ending that segment with "use them like chattel"..... is..... an (egregious) oversight? hopefully. I did notice a Black man as diplomat, too.
In your efforts to erase race from people's perspective, you draw more attention to it. I didn't notice the skin color differences, and it's ridiculous to believe that the creators did this to spite black people. Your obsession with race sees issues where there are none, like seeing faces in campfire smoke and bickering that the guy who started the fire is conjuring ghosts.