As more and more settlers head west, new cities pop up like mushrooms. Due to the distances between them, these new cities quickly come to rely on new railroads for the transport of vital goods. Trails become rails and create great wealth. Soon, a complex railroad network develops, and steam belching iron horses connect the thriving cities.

Come meet some of the most influential and helpful people on CATAN tan. They are offering their skills and experience to help you with your building plans. This small expansion is suitable for use with the CATAN base game and "CATAN - Seafarers." If you have played the PC/Mac game " CATAN - Cities & Knights" or the latest release, the " CATAN - Creator's Edition," you have met the Helpers of CATAN as computer opponents: good-natured Marianne, conceited Sean, or brazen pirate Jean. Perhaps you have chafed at some of the helpers, because the computer opponents are quite strong and sometimes give even seasoned Catan players a hard time settling. In the new, small expansion " CATAN Scenarios - Helpers of CATAN," Marianne, Sean & Co. are no longer your opponents but help and support you and the other players while playing " CATAN" sitting around the table. With the helpers the base game becomes even more diverse.For example, Candamir makes it easier for you to buy development cards, Louis allows you to move a road, and Lin sends the robber back to the desert. Adepts say that this small expansion adds a touch of "Cities & Knights" to the CATAN base game but doesn't make it more complex.

Now up to 6 players can share the very rich set of 4 variants and 5 scenarios in Catan: Traders & Barbarians! Infuse even more fun and excitement into your Catan games without sacrificing ease of play. Add 1-2 more friends and family for more interaction and more drama! NOT a complete game! You need a Catan game (aka The Settlers of Catan), a Catan: 5-6 Player extension, and a Catan: Traders & Barbarians expansion in order to play with this great game extension!

Was it too windy on the beach for a game of Catan? Was the table too small to set up the island? Were you unable to settle Catan because there were only two of you? Or did you always have to leave Catan at home because there was no room left for it in your suitcase? Catan - Traveler would have prevented all this from happening. All of the game components fit in a case that occupies half the space required to store the Catan base game. The game pieces are stored in drawers. During play, you can take the pieces directly from there as needed, and you can put them back into the drawers after the game has ended. Roads, settlements, and cities have small pegs that allow you to securely plug them into the holes in the game board. That way, gusts of wind or an accidental jostle won't jumble up the pieces you have placed on the game board. The two dice are stored in a dice shaker with transparent cover, which is why they practically can't be lost. You can roll the dice everywhere - even if no flat surface is available or there isn't enough space to throw the dice with your hand. It takes only a couple of seconds to set up the game board for Catan - Traveler. Open the case and place the 6 double-sided game board pieces. Since you can randomly combine the board pieces, there are hundreds of different ways to set up the island. As with the Catan base game, besides completely balanced terrain hex distributions the compact version also allows for set-ups containing very few hexes of a particular terrain type, for example, mountains or hills. People frequently travel in pairs. In order for you to settle Catan together with your partner, the compact version includes the tried and tested 2-player rules and the corresponding game components.

Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your cards to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, resource combinations, and trade to develop your domain. Expand your settlements and cities, recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Your cunning and a dash of luck decides who will be the ruler over Catan.

Adds up to two additional players to CATAN – Starfarers for an even more epic race to explore and settle the galaxy. This extension not only adds new player pieces, motherships, and additional space sectors, but also introduces the mysterious alien civilization — The Travelers. Players can strike up trade alliances with the Travelers to benefit from their super- natural powers!

Additionally, the new Pilot 1/Pilot 2 turn-taking system ensures that players stay more engaged by allowing building and moving in between active turns.

Contents:

• 2 motherships
• 8 cannons
• 8 boosters
• 8 freight pods
• 14 colored balls
• 20 fame medal pieces
• 12 number discs
• 40 resource cards
• 46 player pieces
• 3 new space sectors
• 3 new markers
• 2 new special markers
• 5 new friendship cards
• 14 new overview cards
• 1 sticker sheet
• 1 rule booklet

Celebrate 25 years of exploration and discovery! The CATAN 25th anniversary edition contains the classic CATAN 3-4 player board game, PLUS 5-6 Player Extension, Helpers of CATAN Scenario, special iridescent anniversary wood pieces and dice. Also includes resource card sorting trays and card sleeves!

In Catan, take the role of an exploring settler carving out a home for your people.

3-6 players. Ages 10+. 45-90 minute play time. Contents:

• 30 unique hexagonal terrain tiles
• 10 coastal frame pieces
• 28 number tokens
• 11 harbor markers
• 120 resource cards
• 34 development cards
• 8 building costs cards
• 2 special bonus cards
• 1 simple rules and almanac book

ONLY IN THIS EDITION

• Custom-colored playing pieces
• 30 wooden settlements
• 24 wooden cities
• 90 wooden roads
• 1 wooden robber pawn
• 2 custom 6-sided CATAN dice
• 10 CATAN–Helpers
• 2 card sorting trayds
• 180 CATAN clear card sleeves

Defend CATAN! 570 years after the arrival of the first settlers on Catan, an enemy army lands on the northern shores. Knights from every region must join together to defend the island. Equipped with cavalry and cannon, your knights fight back. Only together will you be able to stop the onslaught. Can you save Catan from destruction? The three scenarios tell an interwoven story and gives experienced players new challenges as they consider new strategies for victory. It is the most intense challenge for Catan ever designed. This not a complete game. Requires CATAN Base Game and CATAN - Cities & Knights expansion.

The Catan 5-6 Player Extension expands the base gameplay of Catan to enable up to six players to vie for control of the bountiful island. Play has never been more nuanced in regards to trading and building that when six players compete for valuable resources and prime building sites. Take your games of Catan to the next level with the 5-6 Player Extension and leave no player behind!

Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the race to settle the island has begun!

3-4 players. Ages 10+. 1 hour play time

In Catan: Cities & Knights you engage in the defense of Catan and compete to build the three great metropolises of Catan. Each of these magnificent urban centers is even more valuable than a city. They’re also immune to the dangerous barbarians. Invest in city improvements, which you acquire using three commodities of trade: coin, paper, and cloth. If you improve your culture, muster your knights, and enrich your fine cities, you will be the master of the great realm of Catan! A game expansion for 3-4 players ages 12+.

You need a Catan base game in order to play with this expansion.

Begin a quest to settle the island of Catan! Guide your brave settlers to victory by using clever trading and shrewd development. Use resources—grain, wool, ore, lumber, and brick—to build roads, settlements, cities and key cultural milestones. Get resources by rolling the dice or by trading with other players.

But beware! You never know when someone will block your way or if the robber will strike and steal your hard-earned goods! Are you the best trader, builder, or settler? Will you master Catan?

3-4 players. Ages 10+. 60 minute play time

A Catan adventure for fledgling swashbucklers, Catan: Junior introduces a modified playing style of the classic game giving younger players the opportunity to experience the world of Catan. Designed for players as young as five, Catan: Junior is a perfect introduction to the Catan series of games for kids and families. Catan: Junior takes place on a ring of islands where two to four players build hideouts, avoiding the mysterious Spooky Island, where the Ghost Captain lives. Each island generates a specific resource: wood, goats, molasses, or swords and players can acquire gold. Each player starts with two pirate hideouts, then builds ships in order to expand their network. The more hideouts you build, the more resources you may receive. You use your resources to build ships, hideouts, or get help from Coco the Parrot. Just watch out for the dreaded Ghost Captain! Be the first player to control seven pirate hideouts and you win the game.

2-4 players. Ages 6+. 30 minute play time

Now five to six players can sail into the wild, uncharted seas and explore and settle the many mysterious islands near Catan! Add one or two more opponents without sacrificing ease of play. Try one of nine new scenarios! This rich extension adds even more drama to the award-winning game of seafaring, discovery, and trade. Settle islands, build ships, and chart the nearby waters. Discover far-off mines and use your gold and resources to become the undisputed ruler of Catan!

NOT a complete game! You need a Catan game (aka The Settlers of Catan), a Catan: 5-6 Player extension, and a Catan: Seafarers expansion in order to play with this game extension!

In Catan: Seafarers you control a group of bold seafaring settlers exploring and taming the wild, uncharted Isles of Catan. Each game brings you to new seas and new lands. You might even discover the precious gold fields (a very valuable new terrain). Every game is unique and full of fun! Embark on an epic quest to settle the home island, build ships, and chart nearby waters. Guide your brave seafarers to victory through cunning trades and wise development. Be first to create new sea lanes and settle the newly-discovered isles. The best strategy and a nice dash of luck decide who will be the undisputed ruler of the rich Isles of Catan! A game expansion for 3-4 players. Capture the adventure of seafaring, exploration, and trade. Catan: Seafarers is a 3-4 player expansion for the best-selling Catan board game. Share some fun at sea!

Traders & Barbarians is distributed as the third major expansion for The Settlers of Catan, although it is actually a compilation of small expansions and variants. (It is independent of the Seafarers and Cities & Knights expansions, but can be combined with them.)

Well-tried variants such as “Catan Event Cards,” “Harbormaster,” and “Catan for Two” offer alternatives for customizing the game to your own needs. In addition, the 2-player variant allows you to play the Base Game as well as all scenarios of this expansion against only one opponent.

It’s the year 2700 and you’ve been selected to compete for the prestigious title of Ambassador to the Galactic Council.

Not just anyone can become Ambassador—you must earn fame and glory by leaving the known universe behind. Delve deep into the unknown, discover new solar systems, meet new extraterrestrial lifeforms and use your diplomacy so they will aid you with their powers. As you explore the space in between, you’ll encounter wormholes, merchants, pirates and more. All of this is made easier with the right upgrades to your ship.

Discover the joy of building your own mothership. Add boosters to fly faster, lock on freight pods to increase your bargaining power and diplomacy, and outfit cannons to fend off pirates. Each mothership also has a unique shaking mechanism to determine your moves and encounters in the game.

3-4 players. Ages 14+. 120 minute play time

Age of Enlightenment includes three new theme sets: The Era of Explorers, The Era of Sages, and The Era of Prosperity. In all, Age of Enlightenment is a 125-Card Expansion for the two player card game, The Rivals for Catan. It picks up where the first expansion, Age of Darkness, left off. The Era of Explorers Set sail from Catan! Explore! Discover new lands! Your Explorer Harbor serves as a starting point for your exploration of 9 adjacent sea cards. Pirates, islanders, and Shipwrecks await across the waters. Embark on missions and try to be the best explorer. Ship tokens chart your position. Victory awaits the most skilled and intrepid sailor! The Era of Sages Influence events! The wisdom—currency—of the many and varied sages gives you the opportunity to influence the strength and frequency of events. Fend off famines! Deflect attacks. Promote peace. Connect with nature and balance prudence, power, foresight, and vigilance in a your noble struggle! The Era of Prosperity Be a good prince. Govern wisely. Build schools, a Hospital, even promote the arts. Raise your people's spirits and spur expansion. But beware Discontent dooms prosperity! Requires Rivals for Catan to Play.

This expansion includes three new Theme Sets, "The Era of Intrigue," "The Era of Merchant Princes," and "The Era of Barbarians," which add more variation to the existing game. In addition, the Tournament Game is introduced. The Era of Intrigue! Determine Catan's spiritual balance! A Religious Dispute causes both players to lose cards. Churches and Temples minimize losses. Temple cards strengthen your access to your own draw stacks. Church cards lure opposing heroes and earn gold. With a Church and a Temple, you may build the Great Thing stead and end the conflict. The Era of Merchant Princes! Control Catan's commerce! This set focuses on the Commercial Harbor and the Merchant's Residences, decisive buildings in the struggle for trade advantage. Maritime Trade Monopolies and the Master Merchants enhance trade ships. The Shipbuilder reduces the building costs of ships. Dominate trade using clever card combinations! The Era of Barbarians! Barbarians invade! Both players must muster and fend off their attacks. Employ Castles, Border Fortresses, the Strategist, the Caravel, and new heroes. Will you prevail or be ransacked? Requires Rivals for Catan to Play