Settlers of Catan has been the flagship of German-style Designer Games for many reasons, some of the key being its elegant simplicity and its depth strategy. Your choice of influence strategies of initial and final configuration of the game. The separation of the strategies described in this series is a bit artificial, but it is useful to understand the concepts underlying them. In practice, players can use a combination of these strategies during the game. In this article, the second of this series will discuss the strategy of the wood-brick.
The strategy of brick to wood is a strategy to get lots of wood and brick early in the game, building settlements and roads.
A shipment of wood / brick is very useful in this strategy, seeking a way to get ore / grain will be important for the construction of cities for the middle to the end game
Many people believe that this strategy is less effective in a small dish or congested, you need room to grow. In fact, it may be more effective as your ability to build road gives you the advantage increased to reach limited number of points in the first overtime. A player of mineral grains worst nightmare is playing in congested by a board or two players on the brick.
This strategy naturally lends itself to getting the longest road.
For this strategy, it is very important to build new settlements around open grain and spells minerals, or if you have a very difficult time building cities later in the game (which may be crucial for victory.)
Optionally, with its production higher resolution, you can bet on a number of ports to get ore and wheat.
With its ability to build the roads has increased, you must build its roads cut other players expand. This can help negate Ore / Grain players acquire enough building sites they need to win the game. This leads us to the next variant, which has more than one end:
The "Way Chico" variant works building roads to block the expansion of other players. This strategy focuses on building roads first, rather than production. Only when you are done blocking people you work on getting win enough points to win the game. It takes a lot of wood and bricks, so your first cities to be placed on them instead of ore. An aggressive policy wood and brick, before it is clear you can be a threat. It is an interesting twist, because it violates my general philosophy of the construction of first production. It might work better on smaller maps with fewer people, so do not miss blocking anyone. In addition, it may not work properly in many scenarios for seafarers, while only could build islands.
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Dan Kozarchuk is a self admitted board game junkie who has an obsession with designer board games, particularly the Settlers of Catan.
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