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Catan: Seafarers Game Expansion
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List Price: $42.00
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Manufacturer: Mayfair Games
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Amazon Maximum Age: 99
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 99
Amazon Minimum Age: 120
Binding: Toy
Brand: MayFair Games
EAN: 0029877030637
Feature: Full Color Rules Book
Label: Mayfair Games
Manufacturer: Mayfair Games
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 120
Model: 4102481
Publisher: Mayfair Games
Release Date: 2007-11-08
Studio: Mayfair Games
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Features
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Full Color Rules Book
New Graphics!!
New Card Art!!
New Packaging & Tiles!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Summary: The best of all Catan exansion sets
Comment: The Settlers of Catan won board game of the year in 1995 for a reason. I'm not sure if there is an 'expansion pack of the year' award, but if there was, Seafarers would win hands down. I've played a lot (and I mean a LOT) of strategy board games in my time, and Seafarers combined with Settlers of Catan is the best over all strategy game I've ever played.
If you're looking at this expansion, you likely already are sold on Catan (or addicted!) and are looking to expand your game. You have a good number of options, including the 5-6 Player Extension, Seafarers, or Cities & Knights. All of them are solid, but if you were going to just get one, it would have to be Seafarers. Here is why:
1. Diversity of maps
The 5-6 player expansion allows you to play with more players, but it is basically the same game as the 3-4 player version. You don't get the addition of over a dozen different maps like you do with Seafarers. Knights and Cities is more of a different game altogether, and will be more unfamiliar than Seafarers. Don't get me wrong, the other two expansions are fantastic, but get this one first.
2. Strategy
Seafarers unlocks a whole new realm of strategy. You can now build boats, discover islands, expand outward, control the pirate (like the robber, but used on water hexes), and generally play the game a few new and unique ways that are extremely satisfying. Whether you're playing "Into the Desert," with its fantastic static map that forces very careful placement, or "Four Islands," with its emphasis on resource management and aggressive island expansion, or just the basic Seafarers map (a new twist on the standard 3-4 player map) the level of strategy has been increased over all in a fantastic variety of ways. You can play longer maps that penalize 'lucky' players who choose bad numbers, or maps with exotic things like the Gold resource hexes (which produce a resource of your choice!), or maps that reward a conservative or aggressive style: you have so many options you will never get bored!
3. Replay value
With so many strategies available, and with potentially millions of variations on the maps, Seafarers never gets old. Just the "Into the Desert" map kept me busy for months. All of the maps are great, unique, and a whole lot of fun to play.
A few caveats:
1. This is an expansion. It is not playable without The Settlers of Catan. Also, make sure you are buying an expansion of the same edition as your 3-4 player board!
2. I have both the 3rd and 4th generation boards, and I actually prefer the 3rd generation with its more subdued graphics. That is a matter of preference however, so if you have the 4th generation 3-4 game and like it, you will like this expansion's aesthetics just as much.
3. Some of the maps in the map book also require The Settlers of Catan 5-6 Player Extension. You don't NEED to have the 5-6 player expansion, but be aware that about 20% of the maps require Seafarers, the 3-4 player game, and the 5-6 player expansion.
Built on a masterpiece of a board game like Settlers of Catan, it's no wonder this expansion is simply fantastic. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It deserves 7 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Expansion, it just takes a while to set up.
Comment: My friends and I had played Settlers of Catan about 4 times before I bought this expansion. It is really fun and doesn't change the game that much. The ways it does change it are all good in my opinion. There is a new tile added called a gold title. Whenever the gold tile yields a resource you get to pick your choice. They also added boats. Boats work like roads but have to boarder a sea tile on at least one side. They count towards the longest road card as well. Another change that would work in the original game as well is the idea of exploring tiles before you know what they are. So these tiles are left face down and when one of your roads or boats touches a corner of the tile it is flipped and you yield whatever resource it is. The only draw back is that it takes a really long time to set up and the board does not hold together as well as the original game, which is why I gave it only 4 instead of 5 stars.
If you have bought the original within the last year don't worry about compatibility. (IE: the bad reviews)
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Summary: Wonderful Expansion to the Best Game Ever
Comment: The frame to make the older and newer versions compatible is available from Mayfair Games on their site for about $10. If you buy the 4th edition of Settlers and Seafarers together, you have nothing to worry about. And I strongly recommend it. Seafarers adds some nice new wrinkles to Settlers while preserving the spirit of the original game. You, your neighbors, and your kids will get hooked! But remember, you have to start with Settlers!
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Summary: A Great Expansion to a Great Series
Comment: I found this expansion to be a great addition to the Settlers series. It adds much game play value to the original base game (Settlers of Catan) and it allows for even more creativity in creation of your own game maps.
Durability-wise, this expansion is the same as the other settlers games--the board pieces are on nice quality cardboard and the pieces are made of painted wood. The box this expansion comes in is of very high quality as well.
Again, this game has lots of little pieces so be aware of that (though they do all come with storage baggies, and everything fits nicely and securely in the box.
Make sure that you have the 4th edition of the original expansion set, as this one is incompatible with the 3rd edition. If you have the 3rd edition you need to purchase the 3rd edition of Seafarers as well.
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Summary: BEWARE - Does not work with the old Catan
Comment: 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.
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