Catan: Steden & Ridders (NL) - Board game Expansion

Catan: Steden en Ridders

Build prosperous cities and protect the island from approaching barbarians in Catan: Steden en Ridders. This expansion offers new ways to strengthen your position on Catan. Develop your cities using commodities, pursue valuable metropolises and deploy knights to defend your holdings.

As you improve your cities, the barbarian ship draws closer. Players need enough active knights between them to repel the attack, while still competing for individual victory. Will you invest in city development or strengthen your defences first? That decision shapes your progress towards thirteen victory points.

Key Features:

• Build metropolises: Develop your cities in three areas and pursue a metropolis worth four victory points.
• New commodities: Use goods such as coins and paper to improve your cities.
• Deploy knights: Recruit and activate knights to protect Catan from barbarians.
• Approaching barbarians: The barbarian ship brings a recurring threat to the island.
• Additional symbol die: Determines whether cards are awarded or the barbarian ship advances.
• Thirteen victory points: Combine city development and defence to claim victory first.
• Dutch-language edition: For three to four players from age twelve, with approximately 120 minutes of play and updated artwork and playing pieces.

Why Choose Catan: Steden en Ridders?

Steden en Ridders suits Catan players looking for more planning and strategic options. Commodities and city development provide additional ways to earn points, while the barbarians keep defence important. You must repeatedly weigh which investment will help you most.

The shared defence makes relationships around the table especially interesting. You need other players to help protect the island, but making the largest contribution can also earn you a victory point as Catan’s defender. Cooperation and competition become intertwined with the familiar trading and building of Catan.