![]() No matter your strategy, you’ll likely need 4 total settlements/cities to win. Minuses: Only two numbers/resources per settlement/city. Pluses: Build multiple times on a single abundant resource on the board + 2:1 port, trade for what you need Pluses: Monopolize a single resource on the board = high trade value with other players trade for what you need Minuses: more concentrated = vulnerable to robber Monopoly Strategy Pluses: multiply earnings from early settlements benefits from development cards Use roads early both to expand and to cut off your enemies. Works well for late-placement if there are wide areas with few settlements. Your crops will lose value over the course of the game. Minuses: Potential to get frozen out of city-building materials late. Pluses: Quick access to many resources, ability to cut enemies off from territory early Minuses: no particular plan for getting victory points Wood-Brick Fast Expansion + Longest Road Pluses: get a little of all resources, maximize numbers 5-6-9 is killer combo (& not always present). ![]() 5-9-11) get mixed up by random placement of the desert. if the 4 is getting rolled a lot, you should build toward a 4 instead of a more statistically probably number. Gambler’s fallacy: the idea that a certain number is “hot” during a game. How often a specific number will be rolled in 60 rolls (roughly one typical game): ![]() What do the dots mean? Dots = average number of rolls out of 36 Here’s the final video we produced (in a hurry): These are the notes from Blake’s 5-day project on Settlers of Catan strategy at Not Back to School Camp 2012.
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