Catan Histories: The Struggle For Rome
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In this game you play as barbarian tribes invading the collapsing Roman Empire. You go through two stages in the game: first plundering, then conquering. Many of the mechanics still exist from Settlers that make it recognizable but there are many new additions as well making it a great new experience with a mix of elements you are familiar with. We finished our first game of Catan Histories last night with some friends. This first full play through took quite a bit of time as we were still ironing out the rules as we went but Settlers was the same way. I expect that the more we play it the shorter the games will get.
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How does The Struggle for Rome compare to that?
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In the beginning of the game you spend your time plundering. Your ability to plunder is limited by the size of your army as compared to the defenses of the city. By doing this you gain gold and resources that enable you to travel and plunder more cities.Once a city has been plundered it cannot be plundered again. I would say that this phase is based more on luck than the second phase as you don’t know what you will gain or lose by plundering and resources are harder to come by. But I also think this makes sense according to history. This phase is kind of a race to plunder the number of cities needed to start conquering. It might seem like there is no strategy involved but that is not the case. You can cut off your opponents by plundering cities before they can and you must be prepaing for your next phase
Conquering is a much more strategic portion of the game but this makes the first phase strategic also becuase of the planning you are doing for this one. The first city you conquer becomes the base of operations from which you conquer all subsequent cities so this is an important choice. The cities you conquer determine what kind of resources you will produce (very similar to Settlers). You are limited to what you can conquer by distance from a city you own and you can use this to cut off your opponents by boxing them in. Resource production is much quicker in this phase of the game. The game seems to take a much quicker pace.
Development cards are important as always and there are several types of victory point cards (similar to longest road, largest army) that you can acquire. I really like the turn flow in this game. It keeps people more engaged in the game. You will definitly feel that you are playing a catan game. I hope this helped.