![]() ![]() Notable name changes between the two versions The last aesthetic change of note that they did was that they turned all the spaces into planets, with the difference only being the colours, and the frequency markers, which are now of different sizes based on how frequent they appear in the dice as opposed to being represented by pips below the number, and while the size change may help with communicating the different frequencies better, the same can’t be said for the planets, because with the only difference between them being colour, this could potentially hinder colour-blind fellows from easily identifying the differences between each planet. The funniest aesthetic change for me was the robber, who is now a Klingon battle cruiser, which means that whenever this spaceship lands on a planet adjacent to your starship or starbase, flavor-wise, you’d have an entire crew of Klingons travelling for how many lightyears to try and intimidate you with their big floating hunk of metal, which is a lot of work on their end to obtain a single resource from you. Speaking of which, the buildings have also been renamed, going from roads, settlements, and cities to starships, outposts, and starbases, with all new plastic figures instead of the old wooden pieces, making for a prettier board if you like the look of plastic more than wood. If you’ve played a lot of Catan before, these changes might sound confusing at first, but Star Trek: Catan also includes a building guide to help you remember, especially since the buildings listed on the building guide are listed in the same order as the original’s. Turns are pretty straightforward: you roll two dice, and you get resources if you have settlements or cities adjacent to the space of those numbers, then you choose to construct buildings or get development cards if you have the required combination of resources to spend.īuilding roads allows you to expand your network and build settlements, which would help you gain more resources and gives you 1 point, potentially turning them into cities, which are then worth more resources and now gives you 2 points, and both of these buildings also allow you to trade with any of the ports for a nice discount on the trading ratio, going from the usual 4 for 1 ratio to an incredibly cheap 3 or 2 for 1 ratio, depending on which port you choose to settle in.ĭevelopment cards are mostly Knights, which lets you move the robber around to potentially make the other players discard cards and steal resources from one of them, but also contains other kinds of cards, like hidden victory points, getting 2 resources or building roads for free, or stealing all resources of one kind from the other players.Īnd while all these sound like the farthest thing from spacefaring adventures, Star Trek: Catan actually trades the original’s agricultural theme to a more space-centered venture, changing almost everything about the original game’s theme into a galactic version of the game, which would be perfect for you if you love spacefaring.įirst, we have the resources, where the functionality of wood, brick, sheep, wheat, and ore are the same, but they’re all renamed to dilithium, tritanium, food, oxygen, and water, respectively. Players are constantly trying to gather up resources so that they can spend those resources later to build various roads, settlements, and cities across a small island, trying to develop a foreign land for glory and, most importantly, points, and the first player to get 10 points wins the game. ![]() Star Trek: Catan is a reimplementation of the original Catan’s mechanics but now with a space theme and additional abilities based on various Star Trek characters.Ĭatan is already considered by many to be one of the best board games ever created, and all for good reason, with its easy to understand mechanics, and an accessible theme. But is this something that you necessarily need? If you like trading and building structures in Catan and also like the lore and the characters in Star Trek, then this may be the box that you’ve been waiting for. ![]()
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