Traders & Barbarians is the third expansion for The Settlers of Catan. It’s independent of the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions, but can be combined with them. Traders & Barbarians contains four large new scenarios and four variants.
All of the variants and three of the scenarios have been available from various sources in Europe and the United States or through official websites. The Great Rivers and the Fishermen of Catan have been expanded somewhat for this expansion through extra tiles and player pieces.
In the fourth scenario, Barbarian Invasion, barbarians are invading Catan and the players have to try to stop them with new knight pieces. This plays very similarly to the flood mechanic in the Atlantis scenario from the Atlantis and Das Buch scenario packs.
The last scenario, Traders & Barbarians, you get new hexes, one for the castle, one to produce glass, and one to produce marble. You try to rebuild Catan after the invasion. You get gold and victory points if you finish tasks in the castle, but to do so you have to travel back and forth to the castle on roads and undeveloped paths. There are still some barbarians around who interfere with trade routes.
Overall, this expansion includes:
This game can be expanded (in Germany) with a 5-6 player expansion, which will be available in the United States by Christmas 2008.
This game belongs to the Catan Series.
Expanded by:
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