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Catan: Cities & Knights (German: Städte und Ritter), formerly The Cities and Knights of Catan, is an expansion to the board game The Settlers of Catan for three to four players (five to six player play is also possible with the Settlers and Cities & Knights five to six player extensions; two-player play is possible with the Traders & Barbarians expansion).
Released in 1999, Cities & Knights vastly changes the original design of the Catan rule mechanics to expand the role of the cities. It adds barbarian attacks, metropolises, a merchant, commodity production, and physical knights to the primary rules.
Helpers of Catan is an expansion released in 2013. The computer opponent characters from the PC/Mac game Catan – Cities & Knights return in this scenario as "helper cards", which can be used during gameplay; for example, the helper card for Candamir allows the player who uses it to substitute any one resource when buying a development card. [27]
Catan Barbarians and Traders combined with Cities & Knights. The red city now earns 5 points and the road bricks are counted two times when the camel caravan is present. The Caravans is a variation, originally released as a separate (German-only) mini-expansion, which introduces three caravan routes heading forth from a desert oasis. Whenever a ...
The expansion also provides numerous scenarios, some of which have custom rules. The Seafarers rules and scenarios are also, for the most part, compatible with Catan: Cities & Knights and Catan: Traders & Barbarians. The concepts introduced in Seafarers were part of designer Klaus Teuber's original design for Settlers.
This category organizes games in the Catan family of games - a series of games (some board games, some card games) created by Klaus Teuber, distributed in German by Kosmos and in English by Mayfair Games. The best known game in this series is The Settlers of Catan and its various expansions and spinoffs.