Catan vs Pandemic

I actually thought it was boring at first as I didn't have a clear grasp of the mechanics yet. After re-reading the rules and playing games a couple more times I slowly came to realize this game is deep in strategy, and even if you're dealt the same set of cards you can approach the game from different angles.

Your bad thing to save. There are seven unique roles that players can play, which means there's lots of replay value. The game is particularly challen...

Get the extension if you want five or six players. The game involves the strategic gathering of resources and trading with opponents. Instead of traveling across a board to reach the end or a certain destination, Settlers of Catan involves building roads and settlements which eventually lead you to victory.

Also - are you shuffling and randomly distributing the characters at the beginning of the game? This way every game becomes a new challenge on how your given characters can work together to solve the game.

If you like strategy games, you will like this. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is there are often times where it is not going well for at least one person in the game and this can be VERY frustrating. If your family is overly competitive, you may want to consider a different game.

Grinning. Writing your orders on a notebook you're, not even on the board. The only time you appear on the board as a bioterrorist is when somebody ha...

All this, and then of course, young people. 8-16 year olds adore the Munchkin system. One of the best parts of playing board games for them is ruining someone else's plan, or stopping a friend or parent from winning. That is the fun part, and they aren't thinking even a little about the mechanics involved

I envy people who bought it in 2013 from before Z-Man started showing up in Walmart and Meijer. I knew something was up. It might be a gamble when you get it on Amazon, but I wouldn't risk it. Make sure you date your game and buy accordingly

Good, but half of the pieces had some black stuff on them that wouldn't come off. We didn't know what it was and even cleaned them in a bleach solution. Still stained. But other than that everything was perfect!

We do actually love the new expansion pack but I refuse to give it 5 stars when the directions reference pieces that do not come with it or the original game. There are even spaces in the box for the petri dishes that do not even come with it. We spent a good 20 minutes searching for them and then blaming each other for losing pieces already only to find out that they don't even come with it. The directions also mention 24 purple cubes

don't say you weren't warned. ○ Short Synopsis : Way, way, way too much luck for such a long, laborious, & way overpriced game (for $68+ w expansion, you can get one or more games that are way, way, way more fun.) ○ Why This Review : Pre-pandemic, I ran the largest irl board gaming group in NJ

I just picked up Pandemic yesterday from Target and played it once. I enjoyed it, although it hits a little close to home.

Ever version of Catan has gotten worse and worse in my opinion. And not just the board pieces. Renaming the soldier to knight after already having a different knight piece with a different mechanism of play in Cities & Knights expansion was such a poor decision.

I recently moved and took it as an opportunity to redo all of the shelving in my game room/office - in my old place I had a dedicated game room with a table (RIP) and housed my collection on some decade+ old bookcases from Staples + a KALLAX. I was getting bored of the KALLAX (sorry KALLAX, you're still great) and wanted something different so I painstakingly assembled a crapton of IKEA EKET shelves and I'm really digging the results!

We're not exactly dummies in my house but we couldn't figure out after two nights the rules of the game. My brother and his wife enjoy the game so much that we gave it a try. It's in the garage to go off with the next load to Goodwill. Hopefully to a family smarter than us will get it

You can only have seven cards in your hand and the card deck once it runs out. You lose the game. Still doesn't sound that difficult, but there's a pr...

I love it! It looks true to the natural theme of Catan and doesn't go too far out. Quality looks fantastic as well!

Next is the main purpose of this expansion, the lab board and sequence cards. This introduces a new way to cure diseases by maneuvering and manipulating the disease cubes within the lab (the lab board) instead of using just 5 cards of the same color to discard at a research station. I won't get into the details of how this works as the instructions span over 2 to 3 pages but just search for Pandemic In the Lab rules and you can review for yourself or just search YouTube and you can see the Gen Con review video. I do enjoy curing diseases this way as it adds more of a thematic approach and makes it more engaging while playing vs

As for the game itself, Catan offers a great balance between strategy and competitive gameplay. While luck is almost always a factor in boardgames and Catan is not the exception (dice rolling involved), the game feels more guided and affected by your strategy and decisions rather than by luck, which is good, since this makes the game more compelling and adds weight to the decisions that you make throughout the game. There is also a trading component that allows you to interact with the other players, which is great for stirring some fun arguments and debates. While this game has a competitive approach, it doesn't pit the players against each others through direct confrontation (which is welcomed if you are not looking for an aggressive game where everyone ends up mad at each other), it plays more like a race in which you need to focus on your strategy while keeping watch of the opponents and overall it is extremely fun

I’d say we are looking for something just a bit heavier than the splendors/carcassonne but id really like something that still plays in under an hour, or even better, 45 minutes.