Mayfair Games Catan Scenarios Frenemies of Catan Board Game

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Product Feature

• This is an expansion, you need Settlers of Catan in order to use the expansion
• Adds depth and complexity to the base game
• Help a friend while making things far worse for them

Product Description

By Mayfair GamesPlayers: 3 to 6Playing Time: 45 to 60 minutesAges: 12 and upContains:1 Guild Hall Board (with 5 Guild Halls). 8 Victory Point (VP) Markers. 58 Favor Tokens (FTs)(remove the dotted FTs with 3 players). 8 Trader Guild FTs (Wagons). 8 Merchant Guild FTs (Ships). 8 Road Builder Guild FTs (Shovels). 7 Scholar Guild FTs (Books). 17 Master Builder Guild FTs (Compasses).Hark, friend! Let us help each other. We live in a time of altruism on Catan. We give away resources to help lagging players. We move the robber to isolated locations to ensure the safety of our fellows. We even go out of our way to connect our roads with our neighbors networks. Has everyone gone nuts?Ah! Thanks to their beneficence, Catans' guilds reward such noble-minded behavior by handing out Favor Tokens (FTs). Each guild helps us in different ways: granting us roads, development cards, random resources, preferential trades, or even.Victory Points.Everyone is just in it for themselves. There is an ulterior motive for everything. In fact, sometimes you can help a friend while making things far worse for them.(Sigh)If goodwill really exists, it is not part of this scenario.

Mayfair Games Catan Scenarios Frenemies of Catan Board Game Review

I really like these short Catan expansions, such as the Fishermen's of Catan, Harbormaster, Event cards in the Traders and Barbarians of Catan expansion. And now this Frenemies. They add a small addition of options to the game without the feel of dumping a boatload of new rules onto the game and making it longer and complicated. In Frenemies, you help your opponents by not attacking them when you roll a '7', connecting your road to theirs, offering them a resource card. They will love you, until they see you leapfrog past with your collection of favor tokens. Oh the favor tokens... they allow you to trade a resource (up to twice per turn), take a free resource, build a free road, grab a development card, even pick up a VP along the way. This is something we will incorporate in our games, along with the variants I have spoke of in my other reviews (Tournament Set up, Welfare variant, Fishermen's, Event card, Harbormaster, etc).

I'm sure as long as Settlers of Catan has been around, for some, the game has grown a little stale. Try this or any of the other variants I listed. They may freshen the game play again. As I stated earlier, these short expansions/variants help speed up the game and/of give more interaction during game play. In the base game, often there may be players left behind, little you can do if the die does not roll your way or if you end up with poor locations, but these expansions/variants give more choices in the game.

UPDATE 7/11/13: Gaining 3 favor tokens when you connect to another color road is strong. We had a 3 player game where my wife connected to both the other colors. She won rather easily. Also, to be clear, you only can exchange the tokens once, so either 2 tokens for a victory chip or a development card, or 1 token for the others. For clarification, it is still 1 token to perform the 2 resource exchanges and not 2 tokens to perform the 2 exchanges. Great addition because the expansion is so simple, it easily comes out at every Catan game. For those that like a quick game, you know what I mean, no needing to set up any special scenarios by referring to the book and text, or get reaquainted with additional rules, then having to explain the additional rules to other players, etc.

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